WoW: Addons and you!

Addons

Addons are a critical component of improving your gaming experience in World of Warcraft. Ruin Gaming has compiled a bare list of essential modifications for all members to take advantage of.

Curse remains the best source of up to date addons for World of Warcraft: http://www.curse.com/client

The Curse Client is an addon manager that allows you to browse, install, and update your addons. It’s free, lightweight, and easy to use!

Click Read More for the full mods list:

Your user interface after installing these mods will look like this. You will notice the simple central location of critical abilities and their key bind designations. Providing the maximum utility and performance for players while displaying critical cast and interrupt information for targets.

Addons for new players:

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/spellflash

This addon is able to make suggestions of what spell you may want to cast next by flashing on top of the spell buttons.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/cooldowns

Standard Issue PvP Addons

These addons are considered “essential” for any Ruin member interested in improving their performance. Expect a learning period of approximately one week to become familiarized with this interface package. Immediate improvements in your input speed (clicks for second) translate into improved damage, survivability and reaction time for movement.

Healershavetodie

Easily the single most essential World PvP and mass PvP tool for any Ruin member. Making it a trivial task to pick out healers for elimination in larger group engagements.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/healers-have-to-die

Healers are clearly listed with red crosses over their name plates:

 http://www.curse.com/spotlight/addons/wow/45369-healershavetodie-wow-mod-spotlight

Finding enemy healers in the chaos of mass pvp can be a daunting task. Keeping track of your healers is also not easy, and detecting when they are attacked even worse. Do you wish there was a simple solution for this issue?

User Interface

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/bartender4

Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/shadowed-unit-frames

The Ruin prefered Unitframes mod. SUF focuses on a simple configuration while maintaining the flexibility that most users will care about, preventing unnecessary bloating of the addon that sacrifices performance. While you aren’t going to be able to set the health bar to be exactly 3.14 pixels outside of the unit frames, you can change options you actually care about such as bar height, ordering, frame height and so on.

Interrupt Addons

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/juked

Juked has ~65 cooldowns being tracked on the main bar and an optional priority bar where higher priority spells are displayed(interrupts by default).

Castbar Addons

Timers and damage over time indicators.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/quartz

Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:

Hardware

Ruin recommends purchasing the following hardware to improve the quality of your gameplay experience. These items are used currently by much of the officer corpse of Ruin and come highly recommended as durable and providing a measurable performance increase for users.

RAZER NAGA

 

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/razernaga

This addon provides a Bartender user interface customized for the Razernaga. The Naga: 17 MMO-optimized buttons allow players to effortlessly access more spells, abilities, and macros with a total of 17 mouse buttons, including Razer’s revolutionary 12-button thumb grid. The new Razer Naga features 2 mouse buttons behind the scroll wheel to deliver better ergonomic control as you game.

RAZER CARCHARIAS

Inexpensive high quality gaming headset. Durable with exceptional sound quality.

Carcharias Information: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-audio/razer-carcharias-for-xbox-pc

The Razer Carcharias Gaming Headset for Xbox 360/PC is a circumaural gaming headset designed for extended hours of gameplay with superior gaming audio, clarity, and bass. Get ready to experience extreme comfort with circumaural ear cups and interchangeable ear cushions.

Just like its ferocious predecessor, the original Razer Carcharias, the all-new Razer Carcharias for Xbox/PC delivers superior, realistic audio with clarity and deep, thumping bass.

The in-line remote control provides fast and easy controls over volume as well as the voice and game volume balance, making this headset perfect for Xbox LIVE gaming. The adjustable, noise filtering microphone is tuned for clear voice communication. A complete and comfortable gaming communications package, the Razer Carcharias is fully geared and ready to plug-and-play with your Xbox 360 or your PC.

RAZER MEGALODON

High end gaming headset.  Provides a variety of audio quality setting improvements. 

Information on the Megaladon: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-audio/razer-megalodon

Purchasing information:  http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-megalodon

Razer Maelstrom Audio Engine

Hear your enemies before you see them with 7.1 channel virtual surround sound. If the sound source  does not support 7.1 or 5.1 Surround Sound, the Megalodon will also perform as a quality Stereo Headset with a deep thumping bass.