WoW Interface Mods Continued

I’ve found a few more World Of Warcraft interface mods that are super useful.

• bc Tracking Menu saves a lot of precious button space by attaching a nice menu to the mini map that allows you to switch tracking modes. A hunter must have.


• Reputation is handy for those who just have to have all the information. It makes the reputation fame show your reputation points rather than just a bar. Also every time you gain reputation it prints the change to your chat window along with the points needed to get to the next reputation level. I like more information, so I found this handy.


• Enhanced Trade Skills is so damn useful for anyone who uses trade skills. With this mod your normal trade skills windows now also show you want could be made with items in the bank, your inventory and a quick trip to a vendor. Way useful for quickly knowing what you can actually make without having to pick through every recipe.


• Gypsy BagFix is a really simple addon that just moves your bags up 110 pixels so they clear your Gypsy hot bar. Just a small tweak that makes a pretty big difference.

And once we put this and my previous post together we get the interface I use today

Gladwell on SUVs

While not a new article, it is a good one. Gladwell writes about the miss perceptions that cause people to buy SUVs. The primary one being the perceived safety advantage over regular cars. This perception is completely false. Not only are most SUVs less safe for their drivers, most cause many more fatalities for those poor souls unlucky enough to be in the path of that 5000 pound Ford Explorer.

Of every 1 million Volkswagen Jetta drivers, 47 will die in an accident and 23 people will die due to accidents with a Jetta. Ford Explorer drivers die at a rate of 88 per million and they will kill 60 people. Nearly 3 times as many people will die because someone else chose to drive a Ford Explorer. Yet the reason for all of this is perceived safety.

The reality of automobile safety is that the way you drive and your ability to avoid an accident is much more important than how much steel you have around your self. The fact is, this false sense of safety leads SUV owners to pay less attention to where they are going and to drive faster. Even when these drivers are paying attention they have far worse handling and breaking, so they are less likely to avoid an accident even when prepared.

Even more saddening is the conclusion of industry research on SUV buyers:

”...internal industry market research concluded that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills.”

Lets not even get into fuel efficiency…

Making Cosmos and GypsyMod play nice

Disable MooBuffMod, PopBar, PopNUI, SecondBar.

Disable or do not install Tello’s Bottombar.

Ohh the pain that I once endured

A picture of my suffering, circa July 10th, 2001.

You only live once...

If everyone really thought you only lived once…. This is the only chance you get. Is it really worth dying for your country, your religion or what ever your cause is?... What if everyone thought this was the one truth.

If everyone really thought you only lived once. Would we have such wars? Such killing? The disregard for life?

Someone dies a hero, there is no saying “Well she’s in a better place now.” We would just know they were gone. Then what cause is worth dying or killing for?

There is no life after this one. This is the only chance you get. Is it really worth dying for your country, your religion or what ever your cause is? You have but one chance at this.

I guess I only have questions about this, I don’t really know, I only suspect. I don’t understand enough about human nature to even pretend to know these answers.

But what if everyone thought this was the one truth? I think this would be a much different world.

The WoW Interface Mods I Use

Of course I’m still spending most of my free time playing World Of Warcraft and any serious player has to get into Interface Mods. I’m not writing my own mods, at least not yet, but I’ve tried several and I regularly use quite a few. I figured It would be nice to share the ones I’ve found most useful.

• GypsyMod is so good! It removed all the extra bits from the interface that are not needed and then manages to give you more information while taking up less of your screen space. Plus it lets you move nearly every interface bit around to where ever you want. Must have.


• Cosmos is big, it does a lot of stuff. I don’t need all of it, but some features have just become key. It lets me put even more button bars on my screen, see the levels of all characters, and well, tons of other features that are just nice. The QuestMinion is especially nice. It gives you a little window with the current status of any quests you want to show. Yes I do use Cosmos and GypsyMod together, and I even recommend it, but if you try it, make sure you follow the instructions in the GypsyMod Forums or really bad things happen.


• Auctioneer provides all sorts of great info about the costs of items, and even lets you collect info at your auction house on current selling prices!


• Quest History is pretty useful, but I don’t use it all the time. It keeps track of all the quests you’ve accepted, abandoned, completed and failed. Also what level you were at when you accepted them. Pretty nice. Worth having.


• Tooltip Placer was really needed to get my interface just how I wanted it. Cosmos and GypsyMod provide some flexibility in tooltip placement, but just not enough. This mod lets you put them anywhere you like. The interface is very bare bones, but it gets the job done.


• BlackList gives you some extra icons above nearly every character you target. They let you mark everyone as either love or hate. This really comes in handy on a PvP server for marking those ass holes who kept ganking you, and the nice guys who helped you out.


• Tracker Assist is so damn useful. My main character is a hunter so I always have some sort of tracking enabled. With this mod I can click on the little dots on the minimap and it targets them. That lets me know exactly who or what it is. So I can tell if that dot behind me is a Horde 20 levels above me about to get his gank going.

Really good stuff out there. Now I wonder how I even played without these!