Flux

Describing where things are can be difficult. This is partly because you can’t reach your hand through the screen and point. Everything from where something is on the map, where you are when your friends aren’t in the same area, or just describing where to stand during a boss fight can all be deceptively difficult. Fortunately with mods, macros, or even some special items you can make things easier.

Let’s take a look at some.

Flare Marking

There are four different color smoke flares that you can buy or create. What makes these useful is that you can throw them on the ground up to 50 yards away. This is can be helpful for various fights where you need to point out exact placement positions before starting but you can’t get too close. They can all be made by engineers. The red, white, and green ones can be bought in limited quantities from vendors. For the purple one, you’ll have to find an engineer. They can’t be used in the cities but they can be used in battlegrounds where people have been known to make walls of smoke to hide behind.

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Marking with the game UI can be a monumental pain. For those who aren’t into hotkeys or want some extra features let’s go over the various mods out there for marking creatures with raid targets. Consider one of these mods essential if you are regularly marking in raids or instances.

Previously we talked about marking with hotkeys.

The Ace mods listed below can be installed by getting WoWAceUpdater.

Button Bars

There are several flavors of mods to help you mark. But by far the most popular ones are the button bar types. You click on a creature and then click on a button bar to mark it. This is infinitely better than the default Blizzard interface. It saves you from having to click through two menus for every mark, making it quite simple. Two of the more popular ones are LuckyCharms2 and Krom, but they are essentially the same. If you are a FuBar fan you can combine LuckyCharms2 and FuBar using FuBar-LuckyCharms2. Let’s take a look at a couple other button bar mods with some interesting or unique features.

RaidMobMarker has the ability to raid warn and whisper people their targets. To assign a symbol to a mob, select a creature and then a symbol button. To assign a player to symbol, select the player and then right click the symbol button. The abiliy to automatically tell the group their targets is especially useful for those groups that keep forgetting what their target is supposed to be.

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