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February 27, 2008

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Yet another way to keep WoW add-ons updated

Posted Feb. 27, ’08, 5:50 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Games

WowMatrix World of Warcraft is a well-designed game, but as you reach the end game, add-ons are nearly required for effective gameplay. Whether it’s a threat meter to keep from stealing aggro, a damage meter to show that you’re the damagiest of them all, or something to simply improve button layout, there’s one that will help you to accomplish your goal.

However, they’re not published by Blizzard. They’re not even stored in a central place. This makes keeping up to date difficult. I previously told you about WowAceUpdater, which still works wonderfully for plugins using Ace.

I use add-ons that aren’t always Ace plugins though. WowMatrix aims to fill in that gap, updating even more add-ons. I tried it last night. It showed me a series of updates I had no idea about. So far so good. It updated them. I started WoW and… I lost the settings for nearly all of my add-ons. The add-ons were updated, but I think I’ll stay away from it for now and go back to the manual method.

[via BigRedKitty]


2 Comments

Xaqtly said:

I tried WoWMatrix and updated most of my mods with it and I didn't lose any settings. Not sure why you lost yours.

February 27, 2008 11:28 AM
BigRedKitty said:

Yeah, we didn't lose any settings either. WoWMatrix has been wonderful for us. Sorry to hear your results were less than stellar.

BRK

February 27, 2008 2:11 PM

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