I’ve been using this mod myself for a very long time now. Its use is very simple which is to tell you where gear is from. Everytime I saw someone with a nice looking epic or a piece of armor that had stats I needed I used to always have to ask them. With this mod when I’m inspecting them or hovering over a linked item it shows me its source location.

InspectEquip by author Emelio attaches a panel to the inspect window that shows a list of the character’s equipment sorted by source (i.e. Raid: Dragon Soul, Vendor, Crafted…). This gives you a quick overview of a character’s equipment.

InspectEquip also adds detailed item source information (including boss names, item prices for vendor items etc) to all item tooltips.

Currently supported items include (no green items):

• All raid items with detailed boss information, including Cataclysm raids
• Dungeon drops for all instances
• Quest rewards for dungeon/raid quests, including legendary items
• Justice/Valor Point items
• Honor/Conquest Point items
• Reputation items sold by faction vendors
• Crafted items
• Darkmoon Faire items, including the cards and the new rewards
• The Kirin Tor rings sold in Dalaran
• World Event items
• The Argent Tournament rewards
• Guild Vendor items

There are other mods that do this out there such as Atlas Loot Source that can do these things but they usually require me to run another mod such as Atlas as they are plugins. There was a mod called Inspecticles which was created with InspectEquip as its inspiration while Emelio was working on updating the Inspectequip libraries due to some minor errors. Unfortunately it looks like the creator has taken it off curse where its was being hosted.

InspectEquip is a great standalone mod full of useful features. Make sure to check it out if you were ever curious where that other guy got his armor at.

Ok its been a bit since I’ve done a post on useful mod in WoW. Well I’m testing in Pandoria and got an invite to Diablo 3 beta so I’ve been multitasking between games and real life a bit. So this week I figured I’d drop you a line on a couple small mods that can make WoW a bit easier to play.

The first is Molinari by author p3lim. Molinari is an addon designed to make [Milling],
[Prospecting], [Disenchanting] and [Pick Lock] a bit easier. Instead of doing it the old fashion way, by clicking the spell first, then selecting the item(s), you can hold the <Alt> key and click the item(s) instead. This is extremely usefull for my enchanter and I highly recommend if you are playing WoW with a character that has one of the four listed professions to check this mod out.

The second is Social Tabs by Ennie. This AddOn will combine Social, Guild, LFD, LFR, PVP, and GuildFinder windows into common one with tabs at the right side. A very simple concept but it pays off in spades saving you time of trying to remember a key bind for say finding a pug DS raid and then deciding you want to check a reputation level with a faction you can now just click a tab and get there quickly. Also If you need to open more than one windows at the same time (i.e. Social + Guild), hold Ctrl key and click on the tab.

Ok this time around I’m going with a  very simple mod that can make a huge difference in your game play. By its very definition all ncCamera by nightcracker does is it allows you to zoom out your camera to the maximum amount(further than found in the Video options).

Why is scrolling your camera angle back further so important? It’s very simple in the newer instances and raids movement of the group members during an event from a boss is essential. Using Obsidium Sanctum 10 or 25 man raid as an example the wave can be tough to spot that the boss generates. However it can do alot damage or knock you out of range of the healer.

Scrolling your camera way back beyond what blizzard built into the game options lets you see a wave starting and where the hole is to avoid the hit alot sooner giving you and members of your group better situational awareness and  thus a much higher percentage of achieving a defeat of the boss your at.

There are many bosses where this is useful in Cataclysm instances and raids also in fact blizzard keeps making the fights more movement oriented every expansion making seeing whats going on around you even more important than maybe you even realize until you try a mod like this one.

BadBoy: Anti Spam Automatic Reporter by author funkydude is great little addon that automatically filters out those goofy gold spam ads in various WoW chat channels. It not only blocks them but it automatically reports its to blizzard. This of course can be configured not to report but blizzard has a report feature built into the game we might as well use it.

The following are not scanned and cannot be reported/blocked by this addon: Friends, Real ID friends, Guild, Party, Raid, GM’s.

The following channels are monitored: Public Trade/General/etc, Say, Yell, Whisper.

Also it as just not cleaning up public chat channels funkydude has made several plugins for the mod that can stop even more from appearing in these channels such as guild advertising.

Available Plugins:

Whispers by level blocker BadBoy_Levels.
Anti anal/etc spam BadBoy_CCleaner.
Remove guild advertising BadBoy_Guilded.

Auctionator is a mod I have been using since near its initial release from mod author Zirco. The main reason I started using it was back in the early days of WoW we only had Auctioneer which was a bit memory intensive. Since I ran the game on an old pc that barely met the requirements to run WoW at the time memory was an issue as far as performance went.

Most of the time I went without an auction house mod but it came at the expense of spending large amounts of time at the auction house searching the item I was posting and figuring (or guessing in my case) out what was a competitive price for items I wanted to sell. This saved me the time of running full auction house scans to maintain a database a couple times a day which really burns up alot of time when you add it all up.

Then I saw Auctionator listed as new or maybe updated on wowinterface.com. I was curious to see if someone had cloned auctioneer. Instead to my delight Zirco had built a great mod of its own. While you can scan the entire auction house if you wanted it also had a sell tab that automatically looked up the price of items I wanted to sell and suggested a competitive price.

Well needless to say it saved me huge amounts of time and while there are other features to this great modification, the Sell tab is the most used by myself. I still use this mod to this day and hightly recommend it to anyone looking for an auction house aid.

it is still maintained by Zirco and can be found up to date on at this Curse page. He also hosts a site for it Auctionator-Addon.com.