Garbage ? We don't need no stinking garbage !

After a long day farming solid stone to get a few points in engineering, I was oh so excited to look in my bags and see them full of what looked like good mats. Half of the lot was not only not what I needed, but was nothing more than vendor trash.

/begin rummage

The annoying part, the bad bits look way too much like the good bits.

/commence clicking
Whoops... thank God for buy-back.


Ever wish you didn't have to do this ?

Now you don't. Vendor addOns make the end of the day a breeze by simply selling everything you don't need with a single button click. Some even offer customization by letting you add / remove items from a list so you never have to dig around in your bags again (except for quest items /sigh).

For me the hands down winner was Junk! Go to a vendor, hover over the mote of mana icon in the top right and Junk! will tell you how much your junk is worth. Click and everything is sold. Type /junk and link an item to add it or remove it from the sell list. Don't want fish oil, ever ?
/Junk [Fish Oil]
done.
Want your favorite über mace to not be sold
/Junk [The Stoppable Force]
done.

Junk! also has the option to auto-repair you when you open a vendor that can do so. You can also set Junk! to auto-sell as well.

Junk Manager, AutoProfit and, GarbageFu* all do the same and also have the bonus ability to drop the lowest value grey item with a single click. Need a bag slot free for that BOE epic ? done.

The conclusion:
If you want dirt low memory usage; Junk! Want drop lowest item; AutoProfit.

If you want sound sleep, knowing your bags are clear of garbage, give Junk! a try and you too can say, "garbage ? We don't need no stinking garbage".


AddOns tested:

AutoProfit (39k)
GarbageFu (771k)
Get Vendored (97k)
Junk! (16k)
Junk Manager (1.79m)
Sell Junk (394k)

*GarbageFu requires an additional addOn, GarbageFu prices , in order to use the drop lowest item feature.

open casting today !

Jim: So I hear Tommy's back in town (grinning)
Joey: Yea, and he ain't happy neither
Jim: Meh
Joey: Meh ?
Jim: Look if that stooge wants to duel he won't know what hit him.
Jim: Besides, I heard he ain't half the gnome he used to be.

(from behind a very small garbage can appears Tommy and he looks angry)

Tommy: JIM!!!
Joey: Oh heya Tommy, long time no see (Joey takes off running)
Tommy: So i hear you've been talking smack in /trade again ?
Jim: naw Tommy, I'd never (cowering)

(Tommy begins walking towards Jim and pulls out a verry large stick)

Jim: (begging) Tommy this is just a misunderstanding.
Tommy: Jim, I like you, really, that's why I'm gonna leave you a few teeth.

(huge stick flies)

Fade to Black

What's that ? Wrong kind of casting ? Oh. Oh, you meant the casting bar ? My bad.

Well the best is AZCast Bar. What you want proof ? Since when ? Oh alright.
AZCast Bar will let you show player, target, pet, focus, and mirror. You can even move, resize, change texture, AND you can add in new timer bars with plugins ! So far there's plugins for BG timers and Flight timers. AZCast Bar also gives you visual feedback on your latency to your server helping you to know how long you actually have to wait before casting your next spell. And all this while still only taking 73k ?

Ok, so you need some comparisons.

eCasting Bar is pretty lightweight, but only handles player, target, and mirror bars. It does have a lot of textures and you can add in new ones (which you can do with any of these addOns in my opinion).

Casting Bar++ handles player, target, and mirror too, but also does focus. It allows different skins and textures, and alpha blending (transparency level).

Huh? These aren't doing enough ? Ok ok.

Try Natur Enemy Cast Bar (NECB). Here's how it describes itself.
"Shows Debuffs (e.g. Sheep timers), Casts, Gains, Stuns, DoTs, BossTimers, Cooldowns, Diminishing Returns by lovely colored CastBars - Supports 'target' and 'focus'. Recognizes unknown spell casts, stops and delays!"
Sounds like a DOT / HOT timer to me, but I won't be picky. Just beware, if you're a warlock, or a healer, you're going to have a LOT of bars (unless you disable a lot of function). Don't say I didn't warn you.
Also, an early warning. I actually like NECB and have used it for a while in the past... but... the author has stated that this addOn will break with 2.4 and he doesn't have time to fix it. So don't get too dependant. (2.4 is going to change a LOT of the combat system. A lot of addOns may break)

A little simpler (but somehow more memory intensive) is Quartz. I've used Quartz quite extensively and do like it. With a lot of cool features like global cooldown, swing timer for melee weapons, tradeskill casts are merged (create 28 bandages becomes 1 cast bar showing total time), and interrupt recognition. Quartz also watches your buffs and displays buffs on your target, so you can hide the default ones if you like the more compact display. Everything is adjustable to your liking but takes a little bit to get the hang of finding what does what.

All in all there's a few good addOns here so play and find what does everything you need. While some do take more memory, they may fill the place of more than 1 addOn so the memory could be justified. If you however find yourself just disabling a lot of features you may want to try something new !

AddOns tested:
AZCast Bar (73k)
Casting Bar++ (215k)
eCasting Bar (186k)
Natur Enemy Casting Bar (422k)
Quartz (1.56m)

Aimed Shot the Unbound

/vacation off
/sigh

well, I hope you've all had a great holiday, but I really hope you're ready to start trying some new addOns !

If you are THE point & click king you will not want to continue reading.

I try to bind absolutely everything. But, just because you want something bound doesn't mean you actually need to see it. And there's the problem.

Even some of the popular action bar addOns won't let you use a hotkey for a button that's not visible. So someone did something about it... ok a few people. That's a good thing.


Spellbinder is pretty simple. Open the menu pick an ability / spell, pick a key / mouse binding and, go. Want to bind polymorph to mouse button 5 ? Want to bind frostbolt ... rank 1, you can. You can even bind macros, items from your inventory, trinkets, anything you like.


BindPad chooses a more drag & drop approach but gets all the same things done, and takes less memory. Also having a choice to assign a binding to the current character or to everyone is really nice. /inspect macro, everyone. /cast Misdirection ..... maybe just this guy.

Either way, there's no reason to waste good action bar space on your first aid or Goblin Hand Grenades anymore. Give them both a try and let us know what you think !

addOns tested:

BindPad (84k)
SpellBinder (377k)