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Shifting Perspectives: Some handy addons for your druid


Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them, brought to you by Dan O'Halloran and David Bowers.

Two weeks ago we had a look at how macros could make your druid lifestyle a little easier, and today we're going to look at some addons which were specially made for druids. These addons help you solve a couple problems that many druids are likely to face, helping you get at important druid information that isn't easily available in the standard interface.

First is the problem of druid mana while in feral forms. It's tricky to keep track of this without any addons; you have to remember your mana in your mind while you look at your rage or energy bar and do other things. Sometimes you might shift out of a feral form to cast a heal only to find yourself without enough mana to do what you had planned. There are actually several addons which can help you with this, and we'll take a brief look at each of them so that you can choose which is best for you.

The second problem has to do with comparing the best druid gear without having to shift out of World-of-Warcraft form and into Browse-the-internet-for-15-minutes form. Several addons are out there which can give you the lowdown on gear quality right in your item tooltips.

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AddOn Spotlight: EquipCompare


From the "Should-be-in-the-default-UI" department, I humbly present to you: EquipCompare. This is one of those addons that I've been using for so long, and that feels so natural, that I honestly forget it's a mod at all. What it does: every time you mouse over a piece of equipment, the mod displays a tooltip next to the item's tooltip showing what you're currently wearing in that slot. That sounds a bit complicated, but trust me, it's totally not. (In the screenshot, for instance, I'm mousing over a Twilight Cultist Robe while wearing a Robe of Volatile Power (because Golemagg just refuses to drop my Robes of Prophecy).) As soon as you start playing with it you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. It's updated for WoW 2.

Download it at Curse or your favorite mods site.

[Thanks, Ethan!]


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