Ace Alternatives to Common Addons

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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 2.1 Decursive / SmartDebuff 2.2 Casting Bar 2.3 NeedyList 2.4 SelfCast 2.5 SmartBuff 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 4.1 Advanced Trade Skill Window 4.2 Auctioneer 4.3 CT_MailMod 4.4 Enchantrix 4.5 Fishing Buddy 4.6 Gatherer 4.7 IgorsMassAuction 4.8 Reagent Data / Reagent Info 5 Class Specific Addons 5.1 Damn Windfury (Shaman) 5.2 Totem Timer (Shaman) 5.3 Necrosis and similar

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

• EgoCast by Ammo - Deuce'd SuperSelfCast

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

• See : Category:Action Bars Addons

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 Satrina@Stormrage - 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

• WitchHunt by Ammo - Simple Spell Alert

Square Minimap

• Squeenix by Tekkub Stoutwrithe - Square Minimap and more ~ Also allows mousewheel zooming of minimap

TheoryCraft

• DrDamage by Gagorian - TheoryCraft light for all class

Titan Panel

• FuBar 2.0 by ckknight - A panel that modules can plug into.

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

• Fence by Neriak - An acution house AddOn to make the life of each fence easier.

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)

• Cyclone by Skyboat - Displays your Windfury crits on screen.

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.