• Buffet – I replaced AutoBar mostly just with this, along with QBar. Automatically updates a pair of macros for getting up your health and mana, shows food out of combat and pots or bandages in combat.
• FriendsWithBenefits – Sync my friend and ignore lists between my various toons.
• HatTrick - Super simple: gives me checkboxes on my character sheet to toggle my helm/cloak on and off.
• Kennel – automatically summon your minipet, selected randomly from a configurable list.
• Panda – really deserves a post all on its own. Really an incredible tool for anyone looking to make money with their professions, but especially helpful to Inscriptionists and Jewelcrafters, whom it was originally written for.
• StealYourCarbon – I replaced FreeRefills with this, but they both do the same thing; each automatically restocks configurable items (i.e. spell reagents, routinely-used mats, etc.) from any vendor who happens to sell them. Also works with your bank, but that behavior has been quirky for me the last time I tried it.
• tekJunkSeller – automatically sells your greys to vendors, and knows about the one or two grey quest items and keeps them.
• tekKompare – probably the one most people have heard of or used. This allows you to automatically view a comparison tooltip on items in your bags or chat links versus your equipped items.
• teksLoot – attractive, compact and movable, highly useful group loot rolling frames that change color by item quality as well as counting up and displaying who rolled Need/Greed/Pass.
• TourGuide – also deserving of its own post. Step-by-step interactive leveling guides, currently covering up through the mid 70s or so for both Horde/Alliance.
• VendorBait – highlights the quest reward with the highest known vendor value.

As you can see, there are many very useful addons here, and they all tend to be very focused in purpose as well as very gentle on your memory usage and CPU cycles. That’s the mark of a great coder. There are a few more that I use that are only available from GitHub, which is a little advanced for most users, so I won’t go into detail yet.

For more info, you can view Tekkub’s personal website, his GitHub profile, or his WowInterface listing.

• Unitframes: Haste’s oUF and oUF_P3lim, and oUF_Perfect for party frames but tweaked to not display raidframes
  What can I say, I’m a sucker for attractive, lightweight, and expandable unitframes. P3lim does some great work!
• Actionbars: Bartender4
  Hands-down the best actionbar addon IMO, though prior to 3.0.x I used Dominos.
• Chat: I prefer PhanxChat over Prat, etc.
• Map/Minimap: Mapster and pMinimap
• Auction House: Auctioneer Advanced
  Let’s face it, folks. You’ve heard this spiel before. If you like making money on the AH with whatever you can gather or make, I highly recommend AucAdv.
• Equipment Management: Outfitter
  For a hybrid class who keeps multiple gear sets and needs to switch on the fly, Outfitter is a major boon. It even makes it easy to pop items in and out of your bank.
• Leveling Help: A combination of LightHeaded, Tekkub’s TourGuide, and Carbonite.
  Now I know many of you swear by QuestHelper, but as a programmer, I am horrified every time I look in the general direction of QH. It causes crashes, huge framerate drops, DCs, etc. I just prefer the look, usability, features and general stability of Carbonite. The only one of these I keep enabled on my 80 is LH, though.
• Visual Customization: ButtonFacade with the Caith skin, Tekticles for my fonts, TipTop for tooltips
• Raidframes: Grid for the frames and Clique for click-casting goodness
• Meters: Omen3 for threat, Recount for damage, healing, etc. although I may replace with Skada as it matures
• Other: QBar for an Autobar-style set of buttons for my Usable quest items.

Well, this definitely turned out to be longer than I planned or expected, but I hope you enjoyed reading and maybe saw a few new addons to try!

By following the excellent El’s Inscription Guide, and hitting the Auction House with Auctioneer Advanced, I was able to acquire all the herbs I need for the jaunt from 1-100.

Invaluable to my plans was Tekkub‘s fantastic Panda add-on.

This tool allows me to launch a window displaying rows of pigments and the herbs each comes from. You can then click on an herb’s icon to mill that herb for pigments. It will also hook into Auctioneer Advanced to display market prices for each. This lets me see, at a glance, what herbs I should be shopping for to grind out all that milling for all the ink I’ll need, and then to get that milling done in a hurry.

The Glyphs and Minor Glyphs tabs do the same thing, showing pigments and the glyphs that can be crafted with each. When I have several to choose from for the grind from level X to level Y, that lets me gauge which will earn me the most money back from the AH later.

Finally, my crafting tool of choice is Skillet. It lets me queue up a list of tradeskills to perform, in order, displays quantities I can craft, levels, difficulty, and more. It even lets you make a shopping list for mats! See the gallery below for screenshots of Skillet.

By following the guide and using Panda and AucAdv, I was able to go from 1-100 in about an hour for a little over a hundred gold. While that’s pretty easily obtained with a main in the Outlands, I’ll still be farming at least half of the next batch to save some money for Wrath.