Addon Spotlight: Grab bag 6, the grabbiest bag
by Mathew McCurley 
Nov 17th 2011 at 4:00PM
It has been quite a while since I've done an Addon Spotlight grab bag article to throw all these little baby utilities and useful addons at you. It's like Addon Christmas and I am jolly ol' Saint Addon, ready to toss presents under your interface folder. Hilarious, I know.
If you've got a recommendation for an Addon Grab bag article or an addon you want to share with the rest of the world, send your recommendations to mat@wowinsider.com with Addon Spotlight in the title. That means it won't get lost in the "buy WoW gold now" or "Mat, why aren't you answering my emails, it's your baby" filters. Recommend your favorite addons!
Show My DPS
Simple and to the point, Show My DPS shows you your DPS. Shocker, right? Slow down, Slick -- let's talk about why you might want to install this addon either as a complementary addon to Skada/Recount or just by itself.
Show My DPS simply shows you your DPS and no one else's. There is a simple interface that runs a lot less hot than one of the bulkier addons like Recount or Skada and saves no data whatsoever. This is the lightest DPS reporting addon you will find out there.
So what's the point? Why would I want a super-lightweight DPS meter when the purpose of DPS meters is to compare, gather data, and analyze that data to make better decisions later? Well, you're right. However, if you're downloading this addon or even working with any high-end DPS guild, World of Logs logs is available to you. If your computer isn't a fan of high-CPU- or high-memory-usage addons, this might be the best way for you to see your DPS and not have to have another addon running that might impact your game performance. You can always check the World of Logs later.
If you need a super-lightweight DPS meter that shows the only important DPS, you, then I'd say check out Show My DPS.
Download Show MY DPS at [WoWInterface].
InspectFix
Sometimes all I have to do is put an addon here and you all will suddenly smile, your eyes will light up, and an exclamatory "Finally!" will leave your mouth. InspectFix is an addon that elicits such a response from people that I recommend it to.
If you haven't already noticed, inspecting someone has the occassional bug associated with it. Sometimes items just lose all their information. Other times, you'll get a completely different item when you mouse over. It's crazy! InspectFix fixes most of the issues with the default Blizzard inspection UI, including gear changing and tooltips suddenly disappearing. InspectFix also keeps the window open if you accidentally remove your target.
Fix your inspect UI with InspectFix. You'll feel good about it.
Download InspectFix at [Curse].
BagSync
I can't believe I haven't talked about BagSync sooner. A while back, I wanted to get the functionality of ArkInventory's "who has what in their bags" while not having to get a robust addon like Altaholic. BagSync does the job wonderfully.
BagSync tracks what items are in your bag, bank, and guild bank and adds who has what to the tooltip when you mouse over that item. It's as simple as that. If I've got 40 elementium ore in my bank and 20 on my person, the addon lets me know where the extra ore is right on the tooltip. This is great for trying to find items on alts or if you have a resource bank alt with all sorts of stuff stuck on them. Personally, I like to mail raw materials and extra gems to my bank alt, and remembering who has what just works with addons like BagSync.
For the addon to work as best as it can, you're going to want to go through and open up all of your characters' banks, mailboxes, bags, and other inventories to let the addon look at what you got for the most accurate information. The more information you let BagSync eat up, the better the experience will be. If you're an altoholic or bankaholic, you'll love BagSync. (If you're any other kind of -holic, we're here for you.)
Download BagSync at [WoWInterface].
Nostromo resources
One other thing I wanted to highlight before leaving you fine people was an awesome resource on YouTube from reader Grendalsh. His YouTube channel The 2 Ring is all about the Razer Nostromo, with how-to videos, addon configuration for the Nostromo, and much more. With new, super-secret stuff coming from Razer for the profile system and new updates to its software, resources like Grendalsh's are going to be very, very important in the future for people who love these devices. I'll leave it at that.
Many people have expressed interest in the Nostromo after my review and seeing it used in some user interfaces on Reader UI of the Week in recent months, so I hope that Grendalsh's videos can help pique interest and show you what the peripheral is capable of.
Check out Grendalsh's Nostromo videos on YouTube. They are really cool.
Addon Mailbag!
Thanks for the email, Dan. I wrote a post yesterday all about the new UI features coming in patch 4.3 that gives you a good idea of the types of quality-of-life changes that Blizzard is making to the UI. Personally, my favorite new change is the facelift of the reforging UI. I hate, hate, hate drop-down menus, and the reforging UI was a mess of drop-downs. The new button model makes it so you can more easily see your options and requires less clicks. I like it. Great iteration on an ever-better feature.Mat,
I was wondering if you could talk about your favorite new UI feature coming with the new patch?
Thanks,
Dan
I am also partial to the whole elevation/altitude markers for your minimap targets. There is nothing more annoying than looking for something in a 3D environment (especially in Vashj'ir) and not being able to find it because something is in your way in one of many dimensions.
See you guys next week!
Addons are what we do on Addon Spotlight. If you're new to mods, Addons 101 will walk you through the basics; see what other players are doing at Reader UI of the Week. If there's a mod you think Addon Spotlight should take a look at, email mat@wowinsider.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jerhomie Nov 17th 2011 4:13PM
BagSync sounds awesome! I've been using altoholic just for that functionality but it seems to give me a lot of UI errors. The only other feature from altoholic I like is mousing over recipes will tell you which toon can learn it and at what level, or if they already know it, but this bugs out on me a lot.
A question then, I'm not too fond of the vendor UI in place. It works for a lot of simple things, but especially Honour and Valor vendors it becomes a pain to click through pages of items. Is there an addon that allows me to filter vendors, say by slot, item level, or for normal vendors professions or the like? Or at least does the text search UI function in 4.3 work on vendors?
wowinsider Nov 17th 2011 6:47PM
I use the xMerchant addon to make vendor frames a lot more usable.
Talia Nov 18th 2011 5:40PM
GoblinVendorFilter is what you're looking for. It can reduce the vendor's catalogue to just usable items, just affordable items, specific slots/types, or with/without certain stats (and any combination thereof). Pair it with GnomishVendorShrinker (turns the page into a scrollable one-line-per-item list), and you'll never go back.
Malon Nov 17th 2011 4:15PM
Thank you for InspectFix. Seriously, SO MUCH. I've been seeing Holy Druids and Fire Paladins since before Cataclysm.
mintyfreshj Nov 17th 2011 4:19PM
I, and im sure many players feel your pain, i always thought this was a problem with just my game great addon to have!
Thallium Nov 17th 2011 5:46PM
I too figured it was just a problem I had with my add-ons that I hadn't bothered to fix yet. Already installed it, can't wait to try it out. Thanks!
Blayze Nov 17th 2011 6:58PM
Man, I want to see a Firedin...
Edymnion Nov 18th 2011 8:48AM
I'll third or fourth that. Always thought it was just me and never bothered to look into it. This will be a godsend! Nothing worse than going "Ooh, those are some cool shoulders, what are they" real quick during a raid or a random and having the tooltip vanish on you when you don't really have time to open/close the inspect a half dozen times to make it stick.
Drahliana Nov 18th 2011 11:51AM
That's what happens when you do your Druid training in Stormwind and your Pally training in the Firelands.
Taitle Nov 19th 2011 4:41AM
When I inspected a restoration warrior, I just assumed they made bandage spec viable.
mintyfreshj Nov 17th 2011 4:17PM
I dont have access to my wow for a few days so i was just wondering if Bagsync also tracks all your alts JP/VP etc, and hows it different from altaholic, thanks :D!
Kole Nov 17th 2011 6:09PM
Just want to make sure, but you do know that Altoholic tracks those as well right? If I mouse over my own currency it shows me a list of my alts and how much they have. Or I can check it in the Altoholic UI as well...
mintyfreshj Nov 17th 2011 7:17PM
Ya i know, its just that altaholic can be a bit buggy a lot of the time, so i wanted to see if this one was a better choice
kutterr88 Nov 17th 2011 4:26PM
Is there an addon that tells me what certain items disenchant into?
Brett Porter Nov 17th 2011 4:33PM
If you use Auctioneer, I believe one of the part of the addon does just this, even gives you the percentage of times it disenchants into said material based on what happens when you use it.
Hope this helps!
urahero122 Nov 17th 2011 4:43PM
@Brett Porter is correct. Auctioneer will tell you what items will disenchant into and the approximate drop rates in the item tooltip.
TimR Nov 17th 2011 4:44PM
Enchantrix is the part of Auctioneer that does this. You don't need to run the rest of the Auctioneer suite to get the info.
Khirsah Nov 17th 2011 4:48PM
There used to be one called Enchantrix that would do this, but I haven't used it for a while, so I don't know if it is still available or not. Last time I used it was probably patch 3.2 or so.
I can't remember why I dropped it. Nothing wrong with the add on that I can remember. I probably just wanted to clean up my add on folder, and identified it as not entirely necessary.
I think some of the bigger Auction House add ons also have that functionality.
Pyromelter Nov 17th 2011 5:07PM
Auctionator also shares that functionality.
humperdinck Nov 17th 2011 8:18PM
Panda will do this as well, and gives you a nice disenchanting window.