The Cranky Old Gnome

It’s been quite a while since I started playing WoW.  In that time the way that I interface with the game has undergone some significant changes.  I started out, as most everyone does, just having the default settings on the game enabled.  Over time I discovered there were a number of options I could change.  The day I found out I could have all my action bars displayed at the same time was almost as exciting as killing Kael’thas for the first time.  And when I figured out I could re-size the chat window?  Man, it was like I had lead the Gnomes to victory in retaking Gnomeregan!

Eventually I learned about the glory of addons.  I had started out very skeptical of addons because my roommate was seriously opposed to them.  But I finally got over my initial doubts and took the plunge.  My very first addon was Auctioneer.  It was totally awesome.  I won’t go in to why now, but it got me hooked.  From there I got Questhelper, and Cartographer, and many more.  It really enhanced my game play, and made my game-time much more productive and enjoyable.

However.

Recently everything has become so darn cluttered that it’s been difficult to keep track of which addon is doing what; not to mention all the Lua errors I’m getting.  And I’m tired of seeing this message in the chat log: “Interface Failed Because of an Addon.”  So I have decided to strip out every addon I have ever installed, delete my WTF, Interface, and Cache folders and start rebuilding my UI/addons from scratch.  Well, sort of.  I’m not going to be programming any of these addons, but you get what I mean.  And if I’m really feeling adventurous I might get rid of, and re-do all my key-bindings.  But that’s a separate topic altogether.

Along the way, I thought it might be interesting to chronicle the process and share what I learn about the addons I try.  Cause we learn when we share right?  Sometimes I may review one addon and delve deeply into all its settings and how you can get the most out of it.  Sometimes I may compare a bunch of addons that I’m trying out and talk about their pros and cons.  And if anyone has comments, advice, critiques, other addons to suggest, better ways of configuring, etc, then by all means share them.  Even if you come across these posts months down the road.

But before I do that, I think I’m gonna do a bit of a pre-post.  You know, talk about addons in general, act like I have some sort of knowledge.  I shall wax philosophic in a verbose and pontificating affectation upon the thesis of the variegated methods of managing and customizing the user interface.  (I’m gonna talk about addons & U/I’s.)

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So I’m still getting used to how to post things correctly.  Apparently if I write a post and then save it as a draft, when I then finally post it, the original date and time is the one used.  I don’t know why I didn’t realize that before–it makes perfect sense.  But that means a bunch of posts are out of order and may have been ignored if you have been coming here looking for new posts at the top of the page.  I’m working on re-ordering them.

I promise I’m not usually this stupid….I’ll get the hang of it yet!

“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]“

~Fizz

My apologies for having started up this blog, getting some solid entries in, and then disappearing into the night…I’ve been sick the last week.  But I am returned and ready for more bloggin’!  Stay tuned for an entry later on the Plaguelands as well as the entry on addons I promised.

“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]”

~Fizz

Ok so I know this has nothing to do with WoW, but this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.  I laughed the entire 2 minutes and 56 seconds.

The World’s Most Inefficient Water Drinker!