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Jan 12
Grab Bag 7, probably the best grab bag
Each week, WoW Insider’s Mathew McCurley brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs as well as Addon Spotlight, which focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond — your addons folder will never be the same.
Do I need to remind you again that right now is the perfect time for you to tinker with your user interface? WoW feels much more relaxed now. A second cataclysm has been averted, Deathwing has been defeated, and life is feeling pretty good right now. Sit back, relax, and clean up your interface. You’ll thank me when Mists of Pandaria comes out.
Grab bag Addon Spotlights are some of my favorite editions of the column because the regular format means a lot of words about just one addon. That’s great and all, but what about those addons that just don’t have many words worth saying about them? These little guys fall through the cracks and land in my grab bag collection sack, thrown into the back of a shady-looking truck and taken off for “processing.” It’s totally painless — no one complains too much.
LightMyMacro
LightMyMacro is an ingenious little addon from Adirelle that allows Blizzard’s action button glow effect to activate on action buttons that contain a macro. My Revenge macro on my warrior, for instance, will not light up with it’s traditional I’m available! glowing alert because it is buried in a macro. Now, with LightMyMacro, macros with abilities that will notify the player of activation with a lit border. Good times.
I used to think that the whole macros not lighting up thing was a bug and was going to be fixed. Has it been fixed? This problem could very well have been fixed a long time ago, and I’ve just been using an addon for over a year to fix a problem that didn’t need fixing. Interesting. Very interesting. If this is still an issue and macros are still not properly displaying the glowing action bar effects, then this is the addon for you.
Yes, yes, it’s an old addon, but it works. Like an old Zippo.
Download LightMyMacro at [Curse].
Who Taunted?
Our next addon is finding out who That Guy is. You know who I’m talking about — the tank with Taunt in his or her rotation. Yes, there are tanks who do this. Yes, they need to stop it. Don’t be rude about it; kindly let this taunter know that Taunt should be saved for actual tank swaps and not as a threat gain. Just because you can’t miss with it doesn’t mean it should be on cooldown permanently.
Who Taunted? simply lets you know in the chat window who taunted what mob with what ability. It is super-simple, works out of the box, and quickly identifies losers in raid groups who steal your aggro with taunts or announce to you that your off tank just screwed up. Wait and see if he says anything about it. Just go on and wait, then move on to the checklist below.