Breakfast Topic: Desert island mod
by Paul Sherrard 
May 17th 2007 at 7:45AM
A few days ago, 1up was asking readers about their "desert island game". You know the scenario, you've probably done this with friends before. It's usually books or CD's or movies, but 1up's article got me to thinking.
Let's say you're stuck in a desert island, you have a gaming laptop powerful enough to play WoW well, and have rigged up solar power and wireless internet. Unfortunately, for the sake of our conversation, your internet and power only work to get your laptop playing WoW, no other outside communication, and you inexplicably forget to ask your guildies to send a rescue plane to your island. Oh, and your account is free.
Hmm, come to think of it, why would anyone WANT to leave this situation?? Great weather, we'll pretend there's ample food, and all the WoW you can handle! It's like a little gamer's paradise there, just hanging out, getting tanned, swimming with little Nemos in the nearby offshore coral reef, finding new and interesting ways to cook fish in coconut milk. Wait, where was I?
Oh yeah, so you're on this island, with your WoW laptop and all that goodness, but you can only bring 1 addon/mod with you (no compilations). What would your addon/mod be, and why?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Add-Ons
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ellure050 May 17th 2007 7:51AM
WoW Nekked patch!
Tuwori May 17th 2007 7:53AM
Spam Sentry....even in that kinda isolation they'd find me.
coconut May 17th 2007 7:55AM
Clearfont2.
Makes even the worst UI look good and clean.
I really don't like the fonts Blizz use.
ellure050 May 17th 2007 7:57AM
SpamSentry sucks ace. IMO: it spams you! "___ has sent you ~this message~."
Use SpamMeNot instead. Works VERY well. All it says is... "Goldspammer ___ has been blocked."
Nogun May 17th 2007 7:58AM
Grid
Septih May 17th 2007 8:08AM
#4 or you could just turn off the alerts that spamsentry puts out.
I'd take trinity. I need bar mods to live!
bonse May 17th 2007 8:09AM
Tough question, as much as my immediate response would be to say Auctioneer or my beloved Sorren's Timers (have to admit for my hunter I still use the old style one that is now better know as KHT) The addon I rely on most for *all* my chars is KTM. I may not refer to it as much as others during the course of a week, but in a group I know its the one that's most significant, on my tank I know how good or bad i am doing compared to the dps, on my hunter i know if a FD is gonna wipe the group or set the mob back to the tank, on my casters I know when to hold back for 5, and on my priest...? happy knowing its working in the background letting all the other tanks hunters and dps know the score
The one major drawback with the addon is easily solved....make it mandatory for all accounts to use on all chars at all times :)
Chives May 17th 2007 8:11AM
bongos.
I can't live without my keybindings.
And I absolutely loathe the wow interface. I need my own bars.
Another thing: this would totally not be a paradise without women. Can I bring my girlfriend?
Tuwori May 17th 2007 8:14AM
Lol....MonkeyQuest :-D
Thijz May 17th 2007 8:14AM
W00T! Play WoW nekked without your mom coming in to clean your room!
nubular May 17th 2007 8:24AM
Bongos. I hate having bars all over the place and love just having a big chunk in the lower middle part of my screen. And it makes keymapping so much easier, I used to be a pure clicker but once I purchased a Nostromo and downloaded Bongos I find myself using hotkeys more and more.
RogueJedi86 May 17th 2007 8:39AM
Probably TitanPanel, even if no Titan Plugins could be gotten later.
Chris Sutherby May 17th 2007 8:44AM
I looked into the future, and found that this is a question with an answer, not opinions.
The answer was Titan Panel. Congratulations #12!
Sofun May 17th 2007 8:46AM
Gotta be Bongos. I absolutely cannot play w/the wow bars...
Silverbolt May 17th 2007 3:51PM
As a warrior, I could adapt without any mods except ItemRack. Manually swapping between my different sets of gear all the time again would drive me insane!
Kingfox May 17th 2007 9:05AM
While TitanPanel and Auctioneer are both excellent choices and are things I'd be miserable living without, I think I'd have to go with EngBags/EngInventory or Necrosis.
The times I've had to live without the former, life has been miserable. Where are those vendor trash items? Where's that random green I just got? It's a clear and powerful inventory management tool.
Necrosis, meanwhile, saves me a massive amount of screen real estate space and gives me a number of features that I've come to rely on as my main, a warlock.
Elra May 17th 2007 9:16AM
Map notes. i so cannot live without map notes. marking all those annyoing rare mobs when u pass through an area, flowers, mineral nodes, chests etc.
oh yeah, and the possibility to sell them when someone whisps for help with a q.
Chip May 17th 2007 9:11AM
I could learn to live with just the standard interface, but I don't think I could live without Wowecon.
Thalor May 17th 2007 6:06PM
A mod that allowed me to find all the hatches on the island and avoid the Others. :P
Seriously, it would be Auctioneer.
ben1778 May 17th 2007 9:48AM
Auctioneer.
I make a lot of money from the auction house and that addon is key. I make way more money in the materials market on the AH than I ever did questing. Yes, I know how much money is available through questing at lvl 70 - I saved both Netherstorm AND Shadowmoon for after lvl 70 for the cash. They still don't compare to what I can make on the AH with Auctioneer.