Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Great Mod: Annoying Buff Reminder

What's small, consistent, annoying, and remarkably useful? Annoying Buff Reminder.  You can get it here: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7201.html . 

Designed for all classes, ABR is a simple mod that pops up a box when your self-cast buffs run out. Don't you hate it when you're soloing, and forget to cast Fort or AI on yourself? Isn't it frustrating when you realize you've gone the last 10 minutes without a weapon buff? Levelling a shaman is annoying enough as it is. :P

Of course, this is particularly useful for tanks and was designed at first as a warrior mod. Shouts are such short buffs that it's too easy for them to fall off, yet they provide sufficient benefit that you really don't want to have any downtime on them, whether you're raiding or just questing.

If you're soloing or grouped with no other warriors, just install the mod and leave it as-is. It will remind you when you have no shout up, but you have the rage to cast one. If you're grouped/raiding with another warrior, you can use a simple command to have it remind you for a specific shout. /abr cs reminds you to cast Commanding Shout, and /abr bs reminds you to cast Battle Shout.

Also built into it is a reminder for Victory Rush. I find this useful for questing with others, because I don't always get that killing blow, but when I do I like to make use of my free damage burst. The VR reminder can be a bit annoying though, not because of the mod per se but because Victory Rush is the single most guaranteed way for me to die in this game. Maybe I'm OCD, but I get this pathological urge to make the most use of the things lit up on my screen, regardless of their impact on my health and well being.

I only have 100 HP...but...but...must...use...Victory Rush. Charge! *SPLAT*

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