Tank like a girl

I discovered AutoBar when I was looking for a better way to set up consumables aside from having a whole action bar devoted to consumables and such. I was looking for something more dynamic. Enter AutoBar. It’s a dynamic popup bar. It will only show the buttons you want it to show. I use Hearth, Healing Pot, Healthstone, Battle Elixir, Guardian Elixir, Buff Food, normal food, Quest items, etc. as example. In case of healing pots and bandages the best ones will be shown in the button. To use an old example, if I went into Tempest Keep, it would show the Nethergon pots, and outside would switch to normal pots instead. If you move your mouse on a button, a menu will popup and show what else you have got in your inventory.

I just find it extremely handy to have access to all consumables with a quick click.

AutoBar also offers the same concept for class bars. I don’t use that at all as warrior, but on my shaman I have a classbar for all my totems, for specific shaman buffs, for the elementals. Incredibly handy. For warriors you get buttons for stances, shields, Charge, and an emergency macro which I haven’t looked at yet.

You can use keybindings for every single button, and as I am a keyboard-heavy player, I have most of the important buttons bound.

All in all, it’s one of my must-have addons, I feel it makes managing consumables and even class-specific tasks a lot easier.

4 Responses to “Addon corner: AutoBar”

1. Khrushchev says:

   January 14, 2009 at 1:53 pm

   I’ve used Autobar since early TBC. It can be a bit buggy at times, but so can all addons I guess. My biggest complaint about it now is that even into early December (haven’t checked for updates in a while) it wasn’t recognizing any Northrend items. No quest items, no Frostweave bandages, no Runic potions, zip.

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   admin Reply:
   January 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

   That’s all fixed by now in the latest beta, all Northrend items and about 90% of all quest items are in. I’ve added a link to the latest version.

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2. Hulan says:

   January 14, 2009 at 5:16 pm

   I’ve used it since even before tBC, I love it!

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3. Kelsin says:

   January 21, 2009 at 6:55 pm

   Yeah, I love having “Insert” be Food and “Home” be water no mater what food and water I have. “Shift-Del” is Healthstone and “Del” is health pot and “End” is mana pot. It’s wonderful.

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