Ace Alternatives to Common Addons
It is often asked "is there an ace alternative to this addon", here is a list of Ace alternatives to some of the common addons.
Contents
- 1 Raid Addons
- 2 Party Addons
- 3 Interface / Layout Addons
- 3.1 Action Buttons
- 3.2 All in One Inventory/Bank / EngBags
- 3.3 Combat Log
- 3.4 Confab
- 3.5 CT_PlayerNotes
- 3.6 DamageMeters / SWStats
- 3.7 EquipCompare
- 3.8 FlightMap
- 3.9 FriendsFacts
- 3.10 MonkeyQuest
- 3.11 Move Anything!
- 3.12 Player Buffs
- 3.13 Scrolling Combat Text
- 3.14 Spell Alert
- 3.15 Square Minimap
- 3.16 TheoryCraft
- 3.17 Titan Panel
- 3.18 Tooltip
- 3.19 Unit Frames
- 3.20 Wardrobe / ItemRack / Outfitter
- 3.21 WIM / Chatr / ForgottenChat
- 4 Non-Combat / Trade Skill Addons
- 5 Class Specific Addons
Raid Addons
See Raiding with Ace AddOns and Category:Raid Addons.
Party Addons
Decursive / SmartDebuff
- Detox by Maia - Live debuff display with priority, name and type filtering.
- Decursive 2.0 - Now an Ace2 mod.
Casting Bar
- Quartz by Nymbia - A modular casting bar addon
- Antagonist by Sole - Tracks enemy casting times, buffs and cooldowns.
- oCB2 by Haste - A casting bar replacement (shows your own and your target's castbar)
- otravi_CastingBar by Haste - A casting bar replacement
NeedyList
- FuBar - CorkFu by Tekkub Stoutwrithe - Track needed buffs, debuffs and more
SelfCast
SmartBuff
- ZOMGBuffs by Zek - Buff reminders and auto-buffing of yourself, the party, or the raid. Buffs by a keybind, icon click, or mouse scroll wheel.
Interface / Layout Addons
Action Buttons
All in One Inventory/Bank / EngBags
- OneBag by Kaelten - OneBag is a replacement for the default game bags that combines all the bags into one frame.
- OneBank by Kaelten - A plugin for OneBag to display your bank inventory as an AllInOneInventory.
- OneView by Kaelten - A plugin for OneBag and Bank which saves your character information so you can get your bank contents from anywhere.
- OneRing by Kaelten - A plugin for OneBag to make your keyring the same texture as OneBag/Bank.
- ArkInventory by Arkayenro - Allows viewing of yours and your alts Bags, Keyring and Bank whenever you want
Combat Log
- SimpleCombatLog by Rophy - Suppress default combat messages, display simplified ones.
- EavesDrop by Grayhoof - A simple combat log that displays events similar to SCT
- YurrCombatLog by copystring - A remake of SimpleCombatLog for WoW 2.4 and Ace3
Confab
- Prat 2.0 by Prat Development Team - A framework for chat frame modules. ~ There are a set of modules for this mod that do everything that confab does and more
CT_PlayerNotes
- AuldLangSyne by Kemayo - Should auld acquaintance be forgot, you'll need something to remember them by.
DamageMeters / SWStats
- Assessment - Combats Statitics
- Recount by - Graphing damage meter that is designed to be a raid analysis tool to aide in increasing performance.
EquipCompare
- RatingBuster - Compares the item with the worn item (may in/exclude gems, enchants, ..)
- Mirror by bigzero - Compare equipped inventory items against items in chatframe hyperlink and bags/bank.
- tekKompare by Tekkub_Stoutwrithe - A replacement for EquipCompare and similar addons.
FlightMap
- FuBar - ToFu by Kemayo - A flight path time-remaining plugin for FuBar
- InFlight by TotalPackage - Simply shows a time statusbar for flightpaths.
FriendsFacts
- AuldLangSyne by Kemayo - Should auld acquaintance be forgot, you'll need something to remember them by.
MonkeyQuest
- FuBar - QuestsFu by Kemayo - Keeps track of quests.
- Beql
- nQuestLog by neuron - Questing minion
Move Anything!
- Visor by Tain - Filter your view of the UI.
- VisorGUI by Tain - A GUI framework for Visor.
- EasyVisor by Thrae - Common scripts for Visor and easier syntax.
Player Buffs
- Elkano's BuffBar by Elkano - Shows player's buffs and debuffs as bars
- Serious BuffTimers by Neronix - Because Blizzard's %m/%h format is... sarcastic?
- SatrinaBuffFrame by [email protected] - configurable Player's buffs and debuffs, shown as bars or buttons. Works with ButtonFacade
Scrolling Combat Text
- SCT ~ Version 5 of SCT is an Ace2 Addon
Spell Alert
Square Minimap
- Squeenix by Tekkub Stoutwrithe - Square Minimap and more ~ Also allows mousewheel zooming of minimap
TheoryCraft
Titan Panel
Tooltip
- TinyTip by Thrae - Adds reaction coloring, unit class / classification, race, and optionally pvp rank and guild to your tooltip. Default is stuck-to-mouse anchoring. Also ToT info and more. It's what Thrae wants in a tooltip.
- CowTip by ckknight - A highly configurable tooltip addon, coloring, size, location and custom text to include classification, race, rank, guild, guildrank, sex, spec, and many more using LibDogTag-3.0.
Unit Frames
See : Category:UnitFrame Addons
Wardrobe / ItemRack / Outfitter
- ClosetGnome by Rabbit - A gnome helper that keeps your wardrobe organized. At least tries to.
- Wardrobe2 by Kazun of Warsong - Switch between unlimited outfit configurations.
WIM / Chatr / ForgottenChat
- Cellular by TotalPackage - Simple instant messenger for whispers
Non-Combat / Trade Skill Addons
Advanced Trade Skill Window
- Skillet by nogudnik - A replacement for the default tradeskill window with many of the same features as ATSW.
Auctioneer
- KC_Items .95 by Kaelten - Mod pack that covers (or will cover) just about all possible item functionality.
CT_MailMod
- BulkMail2 and BulkMail2Inboxby hyperactiveChipmunk, Kemayo - Bulk mail sending made easy
- Express Mail by Tekkub Stoutwrithe - Open mail quickly
- Postal by Grennon - Postal: Enhanced Mailbox support
- Postman (also see Forums) by tale - "Building a better mailbox" (yes, it is a bit confusing)
Enchantrix
Enchantrix takes a bit too detailed of an approach to predicting disenchant results. There are generalized formulas that work very well built into GFW_DisenchantPredictor. The Ace crew recommends GFW's mods, he does some good work!
Fishing Buddy
The core casting functionality from Fishing Buddy is now available in Fishing Ace! by Sutorix - Simple right click casting..
Gatherer
- Cartographer by ckknight - Addon to manipulate the map with herb and mining module
IgorsMassAuction
Reagent Data / Reagent Info
- Mendeleev by Rabbit - Adds various information based on PeriodicTable to item tooltips. ~ Displays a plethora of item information, including Recipe source (ala GFW_AdSpace), Item drop rates, faction requirements, and much more
Class Specific Addons
Damn Windfury (Shaman)
Totem Timer (Shaman)
- GotWood by Moonsorrow - A Totem Timer Addon
- Yata - Another Totem Timer Addon, with AutoBar like totem selector
Necrosis and similar
- Warlock: Necronomicon2 by Ammo - Necrosis Ace'd
- Priest: SacredBuff by Eternally777 - Save yourself action bar slots with this simple mod for Priests.
