World of Warcraft Addons: Introduction
In an effort to revitalize this blog, I have decided to write about one of my favorite things: World of Warcraft. (Thanks to Dan for suggesting the topic of my first few posts!) To start off, I’d like to talk about WoW interface addons; this post will be the first in what will probably be a fairly long series describing my favorite addons and how they enhance the WoW gameplay experience.
For those new to WoW, perhaps I should back up a moment and describe what an interface addon is. One of Blizzard’s most interesting and forward-thinking decisions in the design of WoW was to make its client scriptable. Most games let you customize their interface a little by rearranging windows, graphical skinning, and the like, but WoW goes much farther than that by embedding a complete programming language in the client so that its behavior can be drastically changed or extended.
To be honest, the availability of this degree of customization is one reason I keep coming back to World of Warcraft. I’ve been spoiled — every time I play some other game, I keep finding small inconveniences or wishing for new features, and in the back of my head I can’t help but think “if this was WoW, there would be an addon for this”. (And if there wasn’t, I could probably write one.) So, over the next few weeks or months, I’m going to talk about my favorite addons, why I like them, and how to tweak them to your liking. And since I have so many, this will probably be quite a long series of posts…
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