warcraft @ 80+ Pt 2 of ∞ - Mods wanted
Via popular demand (1 person), we are going to look at installing mods. Mods in Warcraft add additional functionality to the game, but often threaten to bury the player in extraneous information. When you start at level 1, the game already throws way too much information at the player, just ask my Mother-in-law. By the time a player reaches end game, the user interface errs on the spartan side. There are things the game just isn’t telling you.
Here are 3 of my favorite mods, and how to install / uninstall them.
Deadly Boss Mods - Often in a boss fight, a boss will perform an animation before a devastating attack, or say a specific phrase. If that isn’t enough and you’d rather someone hit you over the head with a warning, Deadly Boss Mods is for you.
Auctioneer - This mod installs a lot of additional files. It takes over the auction interface. 90% of what Auctioneer does is a mystery to me, but I find it useful to automate auctions and find deals.
Recount - The most dangerous of all mods, it can turn the game from cooperative to competitive. Recount is useful to see how much damage one does compared to others, see real dps, check uptime of Damage over Time spells, etc. It can help you see which of your spells is doing the most damage over a fight, and which is doing the worst.
To install any of these, click the bright orange download button at the top of the page, then select manual install. They should automatically go to your download folder as zip files.
If your computer cannot open zip files, download StuffIt Expander from the Mac App Store. Once the file is uncompressed, time to move it to the addon folder. Depending on how the addon was made, you may have to move all the subfolders instead of the main folder.
Deadly Boss Mods extracts as one folder containing many other subfolders. Open DBM-4.94… and copy all the files within to:
/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns
Careful not to accidentally drop those folders into one of the Blizzard subfolders. Auctioneer works the same way, think of it as many mods grouped into one. Recount on the other hand is just one folder, not a folder full of folders. Say that 5 times fast.
If you have done it right, at the character select screen when you first log in, you will see an addon button in the bottom left. Click it and you should see the addons you just added.
Maybe a whole lot more. To access the options for these mods, press ESC, then select Interface. Next to the game options is the tab AddOns. Most addon can be accessed from here, but some will instead install buttons that hover around the minimap.
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