Possibly the nicest thing that Blizzard has ever done was give us the ability to play with their toys. That's right Blizzard was humble enough to realize that they didn't have all the answers and smart enough to except that their players might. To that end Blizzard allowed the creation of MODS (short for modifications) also called add-ons. These as the name implies are things that modify some of the games functions. Not to the extent that it gives someone an unfair advantage, more in the realm of creature comforts. Now I know what your thinking, this seems like a little bit of an advanced thing for a beginners guide. However I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to reference certain MODS in upcoming posts and it would be completely unfair for me to talk about those MODS and not tell you how to get or use them. The first thing your going to want to do is go to;
http://www.curse.com/client from their your going to want to click the register button in the top right corner of the screen and set up an account. Just so you know their is a paid premium account but it's not necessary, a free account will do just fine. Now that you have an account you're going to
download the client. Once that's done you're going to click on the deck top icon and that will pull up curse. Log in and select what games you want to find MODS for. Now that you've done all that you will be brought to the main screen. In you're main panel Their are two tabs, "My Addons" and "Get More Addons" Click the get more addons tab. If you know the name of the addon you're looking for you can just type it in here and hit enter. It will pull up the addon and you can just hit install and it will automatically add it to your game the next time you log in. If you don't know what your looking for specifically, but you know what sort of MOD you're looking for you can click the category tap and scroll down to the right one and click on it. It will bring up a series of Addons that you can scroll through. Click on the description button for the MOD read what their all about. If it sounds like what you want download it. Go ahead and try out the Addon and if you like it great if not go ahead and remove it the next time you pull up curse. It's important to know that every time theirs a patch to the game you will have to update all of your Addons by clicking the "update" button. You may also want to keep the amount of Addons that you use to a minimum as they can consume a fair bit of memory and slow down the game. Some MODS work great right out of the box, so to speak. Others will
require some set up. For the more complicated ones I would suggest that you go to youtube.com and type in the name of the Addon and "How To" and you will most likely be met with a resource on how to set it up. If you need to deactivate any of your Addons you can do that from your character log in screen. Just press the Addon button and deselect the appropriate Addon. If you need to adjust any of your Addon settings in game you can either access them via icons surrounding your mini map or you can press the "esc" key and then press interface, and click the Addon tab and their you go. These are the basics of getting addons. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me on twitter @morisonwow and I'll do my best to answer them. Normally this is the part of the blog where I make a witty joke, but I got nothing so fill in the blank and tell me if it's a good one.
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison
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