Addons: Long Live wMarker

Addons: wMarker
Current Wowcraft build: 4.0.1

LuckyCharms2 is dead. Long live wMarker!

I am sad beyond words that I did not find this addon months ago (although to be fair, it appears to have been uploaded the first time on Aug 20, so... two months?).

Nearly a year ago, I made a post in the WowInterface forums, asking for recs for a good LDB raid-icon marking addon. I got six replies, but sadly, none of them worked out. One was flat-out broken, one was not a click-to-assign-icons at all, and 3 appeared to do exactly what LuckyCharms2 did, only less well. The sixth was an addon called OPie, the coolest-looking addon that does not fit my playstyle in any way I could think of. And I tried so hard to make myself find a reason to keep it, but for me, it was more of a hassle than a help.

I really just need to click a mob, and click a skull, and the mob will have a skull. Click a mob, click the x. And ideally, this dream addon would fit into my ChocoBar.

When 401 hit and LuckyCharms2 became Do Not Resuscitate, I wondered how long I could last without a raid icon marking addon. The answer: about three minutes of combat. So I dug up my old thread and prepared to edit/bump it with a new impassioned cry of "help!" But something in the back of my head said, 'go check out those old recs.' So I did.

They still didn't look like they were going to work for me. But then the little voice went, 'well, before you post, look through the Raid Mods category. maybe you'll get lucky."

I got lucky. Ecstatically lucky.

Meet wMarker (Wowi).

wMarker frame locked from moving.

wMarker frame unlocked and ready to move.

wMarker by itself doesn't plug into an LDB frame. In fact, I had to go into ChocoBar's settings and reassign it's strata to be 'Background' (or 'Low' or something like that). Once I did that, wMarker 'rides over' my ChocoBar, and kinda pretends it's an LDB addon. Kinda.

wMarker with no border, top and center of my screen, with ChocoBar strata set to Background.

If you DL wMarker from Wowi but you don't have 'load out of date addons' checked, you will need to toc-cheat it to make it work. Don't worry, it won't break anything. And wMarker does not appear in your Interface Addons list, you will need to use the '/wm options' command to open the options box.

I could break into all-caps right now and start exulting about how freakin' happy I am that this addon exists, and that I found it and it works and YAY. But you can just imagine me over here, squeeing over a simple raid marking addon. I'm happy ^__^.

Addons: Four Point Oh Point One

Addons: Many!
Current Wowcraft build: 4.0.1!

Ohsnap! It's 4.0.1! All the addons are brokeded! So are my post-making skills, seeing as how I've lost the previous two drafts of this post. So! Since the InternetDeity seems to want me to dispense with the talkytalky, here's a list of the addons I lurve (or use anyway *looks at Pitbull4*), and links to their 401-ready builds. (Yes I will be editing this post frequently over the next few days. Bolded names just means I've gotten their links all done.)

ARL (StaW | Curse | Wowi) and Collectinator (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - Collectinator is "ARL for pets/mounts". A.K.A.: yay!
Altoholic (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - delete your old folders and SV files (alto.lua and all datastore.lua) first
Atlas (StaW | Curse | Wowi) and AtlasLoot (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
Auctioneer (As of this posting, it is only available at http://auctioneeraddon.com/dl/ - Select AuctioneerSuite if you want everything, and skip over the other 3.) - yes I know it's bloated. I suffer with it anyway b/c I don't want to lose my BeanCounter file : p
Bartender4 (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - complete with funky new darker-edgier look.
Broker_Equipment (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - Now that the Blizz EquipManager saves 'don't save this slot', I can use it now. It's not quite as shiny as ItemRack, but it does what I need, which is letting me change sets from my ChocolateBar. While this project has 'a' Curse page, it has not been updated for 401 there, last I looked.
Broker_repair (lovely edition) (StaW | Curse | Wowi) an LDB dura/repair mod. As of this posting, my overall dura-% will display in ChocoBar, but mousing over the addon throws an error.
Chatter (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - there is 'a' Wowi page, but it's not updated.
ChocolateBar (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
CurrencyTracker (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - LDB replacement for CurrencyFu
DeadlyBossMods (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
DropTheCheapestThing (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - LDB and memlite version of GarbageFu.
Elk's Buff Bars (StaW | Curse | Wowi) man I forgot how much I hated default buffs. (exists on Wowi but out of date there)
GatherMate (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
GnomishVendorShrinker (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - Love this addon, but check the StaW page for directions on how to fix that fuglay number font
GuildBankList (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
Healbot (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - because Grid and/or Clique never seemed to speak my language....
Heatsink (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
Lightheaded (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - because the only thing better than Wowhead is not having to tab out of Wow to get there
Mapster (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
Mik Scrolling Battle Text (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
Omen (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
OneBag (StaW | Curse | Wowi) + OneBank (StaW | Curse | Wowi) + OneRing (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
PallyPower (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - so technically I've reinstalled this, but I think the pally changes have rendered this almost unnecessary, except for maybe 25mans. Included here anyway.
PitBull4 (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - Love the way it looks, hate having to open the config. Much less... actually config.
Postal (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - I underestimated how useful this is for my bankalt. I wish I'd gotten it a long time ago.
Quartz (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
QuestGuru (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - As of 10/16, the onscreen tracker is still somewhat buggy.
RaidBuffStatus (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - I think this addon guaranteed I will never be made Main Assist in a raid again >_>
Recount (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
TidyPlates (StaW | Curse | Wowi) and ThreatPlates (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
TomTom (StaW | Curse | Wowi)
TourGuide (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - a Tekkub addon. Questhelper is dead, long live TourGuide!
Volumizer (StaW | Curse | Wowi) - from the ARL guy; an LDB plugin to change your in-game volumes without getting into the big sound menu.

I will edit this post and add in updated-for-401 addons as they become available. Ones I'm still missing, personally: Overachiever, Livestock, ORA3, RatingsBuster, and Xparky or some other LDB xp display. But wow! This list is so much smaller than it was on Wednesday, haha.

Side note! I successfully toc-cheated Teksloot (StaW) and FactionsFu (StaW). Toc-cheating is when you go into an addon's Name.toc file (teksloot.toc or factionsfu.toc) and edit the first line to read Interface: 40000 instead of whatever other numbers might be there. WHY THIS IS DANGEROUS: toc-cheating makes the game think that the addon is up to date, which mostly just allows you to not check 'load out of date addons'. The game will try to load the addon and process its code according to current API specs. Some addons don't actually 'break' when a big patch goes through; all the code they use to do their stuff still works fine, and so toc-cheating doesn't really hurt anything. But if an addon really did break with the patch, toc-cheating can, at least, give you one or more (or thirty, or three hundred) Lua errors... and at worse can crash your game. I tried to toc-cheat Elk's Buff Bars and Overachiever and uh... it ended poorly. I'll just say that.

Use this information wisely, my friends, and be prepared to suffer the consequences of poor toc-cheating decisions : p. On the other hand, my lovely FactionsFu may you live forever is still functional. Now if I can just get Fubar2Broker to work, I'll be a very happy little Sanna. Well, that, and a raidicon marking addon. LuckyCharms2 is deader than a very dead thing.

(Edited in, a few days later: I went to edit this post and somehow it got... removed from the main post listing? I'm still learning the Blogger ropes, but if this looks like the second posting of this same post to you... it is! +1 Blogger xp for me : p)