Are you a mage who finds himself struggling to keep his teleports and portals together? Do you find the extra action bars intrusive and have been wishing some kind soul somewhere would create a small, simple set of buttons to list all the glorious lands you are capable of transporting yourself and others to?
Well, look elsewhere. I am no kind soul, but I am a merciful lord.
After laying waste to an entire civilization (or several dozens, I forgot to count) I came across an old monk. In his terror he presented me with a strange device that would give any mage the ability to recall their teleports and portal spells, their teleportals, with ease. When asking how such a device came to be, he simply shrugged and said, "A Wizard did it." Naturally, I murdered him and stole it. However, as I said, I am a merciful lord, and I will share this device with you.
To install, I prefer Method #53. Elegant, painful, and leaves only the great smell of Brute.
First, make sure you've got XBar already installed, then unzip the file into your AddOns directory. Next, simply load up WoW, pop on as your mage, and you should be good to go. Your spells will automatically add themselves to the bar as you acquire them, and there are options to disable those that are just a hinderance.
Use it well, puny squishy.
-Vashtal, Lord of the Red Rocks
Author's Note:
This is my second mod, and I'd like to thank Dr Doom for his wonderful Xbar mod that has made my overall experience so much more manageable. Unfortunately, since I only speak English and Japanese, the only real localization you'll get with this pack is English. If there's anyone out there capable of translating for me, you're more than welcome to chime in! I'm going to tinker with it a bit to see if I can further separate the alliance and horde spells in the select box.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
