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This is a World of Warcraft mod recommendation site. It lists popular mods, mods I currently use, mods I thought others may like, tutorials, links to mod sites and general mod information. Mods are broken down into categories on the right side of the page. Each mod is listed with its Title and Author. I also note if a mod requires Lua editing to set it up.

Added: AddonManager, AllStats, Ancillary, BakorsDebuffWatch, bChat, ChronoBars, CurencyReminder, Elkano's ItemDB, ExperienceJunkie, GearWizard, GoGoMount, GTFO, HerbivOre, HudMap, ICDBars, iGratz, ImpIgnore, Karma, Mountiful, MySales, Reminders, TinyPad, ToolTipTabs, Wanderlust, XToLevel

Added: AdiBags, dNamePlates, gBags, ICCLichKingAddonPack, MidgetMap, nibMicroMenu, OnlySkillups, PhanxBuffs, TinyDPS

The FAQ thread by Cairenn on the WoW forums will answer just about any question you have about mods. A guide to installing mods can be found here. A guide to troubleshooting mods under Vista is here. If a mod requires in game set up it will usually include directions either on the website you got it from or there will be a read me file included in the download. Many mods have a configuration screen that you can access in game by either clicking an icon attached to the mini map, by typing a command or by accessing the in game addons panel.

When you leave a dungeon before finishing you get a debuff that wont allow you to use the dungeon finder again for a certain amount of time. Unfortunately this debuff has a habit of not showing up either in your debuff list or on the dungeon finder panel so you have no idea how much time is remaining until you can re-queue. I have been solving the problem by reloading my UI, but Magss posted this macro you can run to print out the time to your chat:

/run local expires=GetLFGRandomCooldownExpiration()print(("Dungeon Cooldown Expires: \124cff00FF00%s"):format((expires and SecondsToTime(expires-GetTime())) or "Now!"))

Want to learn how to make your own mods, or modify some of the mods you use? This book teaches you Lua using the WoW interface. Its written by two mod developers: Cladhaire (LightHeaded, Clique, TomTom, PerfectRaid) and Fizzwidget (Feed-O-Matic, FactionFriend). Check it out

Posted by Cogwheel, one of the authors of World of Warcraft Programming(First Edition):

Unless you are an addon developer, you generally don't need to concern yourself with addon memory usage. In and of itself, memory use says absolutely nothing about how an addon impacts WoW's performance. WoW itself uses an order of magnitude or more RAM than even the most memory-intensive UIs.

Data mods like Auctioneer will always show HUGE numbers compared to other addons but they don't do any processing whatsoever unless you're actively using them (scanning the AH). By the same token, many memory-efficient mods can use up an extraordinary amount of CPU time (damage/threat meters, for instance).

As a user, you should never judge an addon's worth by the amount of memory it uses. For a real test, use CPU profiling which is also included in PerformanceFu. Another mod I like for this purpose is AddonManager.