Project Lore: Five dudes. Four cameras. One World of Warcraft.

Posted by Dorkins on Friday, July 18th, 2008 - 63 Comments

Tags: addon, Addons, beast, Dorkins, jimmy

Comments

By Comacow on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

Thanks for the mods. I’m always stressing when the tank in my group pulls right as my trap disappears.. makes it very hard to chain trap, which will make Cooldown Timers2 very nice.

Also, Beast Training just looks awesome, so I’m getting that too.

Thanks for the mods!

By d on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

My only problem with this website… you guys are supposed to be showing us strategy, how to kill bosses, eventually show us “raid content”… yet I don’t feel as if you guys are qualified enough to be “teachers”. People who teach others at something are generally experts in their field. Just like this post, basically saying “you suck”.. why would I want to take your advice? Sure I can watch you guys implement some strategy, but come on? Just being critical.. I think the format of the show is great. But I want experts to show me how to play, people that are “better” than me at the game.. SSC/TK has been out forrrrrrever now, and from watching diggnation/reading twitter I know Alex has just now got there…

If you want to have people listen to you, you’re gonna need some cred to back yourself up.

By Infinite on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 12:46 am

@ d - the point of this article is to share his favorite addons that makes it easier to play his hunter [and since these helped him, they could help others too which seems to be great advice to me] . damn you dont need to bring your cocky self in here and say you’re better and you want the effing master of world of warcraft to show you something you dont know already.

gtfo

By cubita305 on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 1:37 am

i think this website is well made ,keep it up guys ,!i liked it

By Rugi on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am

Love this, absolutely love this. After I saw your guys’ video I the first thing i wanted to know was your addons. I’ve got a hunter which is a pain to play because all the skills, I’ve got all the bottom and right bars, but it is just slow to move the mouse to the right and then back to the center, repeating all over again.

My opinion is, every player sucks, the variable is how much. you can’t measure your “skills” in a game that has a “random” element, such as critical chances and all.

But I want to thank you once again; THXXXXX!

By Jules on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 7:31 am

@d,

Nobody is forcing you to the watch content here. If you really feel that way, head on over to warcraftmovies or something.

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You guys might want to check this out http://files.wowace.com/cat-hunter.html. It’s the hunter section of ace addons. The whole ace community is great (located in irc.freenode #wowace) and the ace updater pretty much keep all your addons updated in a few clicks.

The whole point of ace is to slowly replace all your fragmented addons into the whole ace alternative. I guess you won’t see a huge benefit, like ram usage, unless you were also an addon whore like me.

By Tim on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am

Add ons were the first thing I looked for after watching the episode. What general add ons do you all use?

I’m currently checking out a few HUD ones, and noticed you all use different ones.

By Matt on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I also do not think you are qualified to deliver the tutorials etc.

You seem to just be branching out into as many online shows as you can do Alex. You do not however have a good knowledge of most of the content and barely get by on your general I.T. knowledge.

You are a very funny guy though and your personality will hopefully make this into something FUN.

good luck.

By Matthew J on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

I think one of the most important bits of information to share about WoW is addons. I see tons of screenshots and have no idea why the UI looks like it does.

As much as I love hunters, I’d love to see all the guys do an addon post, especially Juggynaut. I’d love to get some more shaman-specific addons going.

Thanks guys! Keep up the awesome work.

By david on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

i agree with matthew J. My main is a hunter but i also play a shaman and would love to see some shaman specific addons.

Great job on the show and everything on the site guys.

By Daedlock on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Most classes i believe are hard to play, Especially a Hunter. Having all the Aspects. But, having a whole new UI, kinda pointless. Ive tried to download a few but when basically done i find out the 20mb.. just a we bit too much.

Well, Great show guys, really helpful. And will the next Instance be ‘Hellfire Blood Furnace’?

By contra on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Wowace was mentioned earlier in the comments, I just wanted to point out that the updated has been killed off for now and will be replace by the new Curse client in the future.

Also, I find it funny that people can judge something so early in it’s life cycle. We may know alex some, but we really don’t know what level of knowledge he has, and we certainly don’t know the knowledge level of the rest of the team. Let this play itself out before you judge.

keep up the good work guys.

By Roberto on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am

You forgot to mention a very very important addon for a hunter.. Omen or some kind of Threat meter.

Remember an alive hunter is a useful hunter, never pull aggro off your tank

By skrythevash on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 2:31 am

Sweet bro i have yet to find another site with the quality u have here. I like the movement of the team. Would like to see things slow down a bit, but wut can i say, i love wow,and cant get enough. Keep kickin tail.

By Grant on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 6:16 pm

Hey guys how do I add these mods? I never done this before and I wanna add it.

By Roberto on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm

RE: Grant

the easiest way to add any of these mods without touching your WoW install folder yourself is either using the http://www.curse.com clinet or the http://www.wowmatrix.com/ client which is the one that i use.

By Grant on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 am

Thanks

By Derentius on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 4:15 am

L70 Dwarf Hunter (Survival)
I love that ZHunterMod, that freed up almost 3 action bars (they were quickly filled back up with bombs, potions and quel’danas daily items lol)
I think the content is great this early on, and as you guys said in the beginning that you’d get to the harder dungeons later. The pace at which you guys go is just awsome, I often have to rewind and watch again just to see exactly what happened.

By vinnie_the_cleaner on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Which addon is the one that displays the hunter spells at the top of the screen?

By Stian on Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 4:44 am

Which addon is the one who shows your and the enemy’s health and mana bar in the middle?

By Rafail on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 8:10 am

can anyone tell me about the beast training add on if its available for the UK version of wow?

By Rafail on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 8:16 am

and also can anyone tell me about the cooltimer 2,do i have to install clearfont 2?

By billtony on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Yo Dork, switch to marks once, just to see if ya like it, you can still keep your longer traps and get the trueshot.
It’s more about you than your pet, perfect for the dungeons.
anyway, not for nothin.
do what you do man
also I love my friggin snake, poison spit FTW
you guys are 4 sure a part of MY daily routine
NICE FRIGGIN WORK

By Fernando on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 11:04 am

Don’t try marks in dungeons, its not practical, beastmaster is best spec for raiding and running heroics. Marks is all about burst damage, which is great if your doing pvp.

I think the show is awsome! Luv it!

Having a hunter also I dont rely so much on the addons, its all about the macros. Using macros you can remove alot of buttons from your UI. For example, this is one I love to use:

/use Bladefist’s Breadth
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Intimidation

MACROS FTW!

By Rugi on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 7:44 am

@ Fernando

There are 2 posts for hunter in this site, both about the addons and the macros.

A month ago I made a macro that hasn’t been mentioned in this site (atleast not that i know). So it’s there following:

/cast Raptor Strike
/cast Wingclip

This is a very, very simple macro, but it’s quite useful. My problem was that I had too many buttons on my UI, and I noticed that I never use Raptor Strike due to the fact that it is on my 2nd right action bar, and if I’m on a pinch I don’t have time to click the Raptor Strike button.

Let’s say that you”ve just aggroed a mob and it’s coming at you, using this macro, you can do this on one push of a button:

1. Activates Raptor Strike, using it to “buff” your next melee attack.
2. Before the melee swing, you use Wing Clip to slow the enemy and doing a little damage.
3. Your melee swing hits with the Raptor Strike, doing more damage than you would normally do.

I find this macro very useful in PvP, and I have it on my 5 button so i can sometimes just smash it if some retard comes too close.

But this macro has one bad side: If you activate the Raptor Strike, it will turn off your ranged attack. This would force you to deselect the target, and right click it again or pressing “T” twice to cancel the attack and turn on the Auto Shot again if the mob/player decides to back up instead.

By Daii on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

I was wondering about just this! Thanks Dorkins :]

But Cooldown Timer2 is acting weird on me, the anchor showing the skill icon can’t be unlocked and the time it flashes (1 second) was to little, i tried to change it to a higher amount that 1 second, but nope, and after that i can’t press any button to change anything about the icon anchor -.-’ And thus i can’t move or take it away…

*sigh*

But thanks for posting the list!

By JT on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 4:06 am

How do you get Kharthus’s Hunter Timers to count forward for auto shot? Mine will only count backwards.

By huntard alt on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

What addon dorkings use that shows damage done and how the addons setup ?

thanx

By Kyle on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

hey whats that addon that shows the auto shot?

By Kushiel on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 12:22 am

for the feed pet add-on.. I bypassed any need for that by making a very simple macro..

/feed pet [food item]

just choose the doggy bone looking pic and put it somewhere you can see it… you can ever make more than one if your pet eats a variety of food or you could possibly make a more complex macro. works great for me and when you are out of that item it gives you that highlighted pointer to choose something else to feed him until you get more of the item

By tutoro on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

I was watching the Webisode 1.7 of Utgrade Keep and you guys were using a threat system that popped up words above your heads, i.e. “loosing Threat” and “Lost threat” . What addon is that?

By K1ng.isamu on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 4:53 am

@tutoro: is wrath, exp includes a new threat meter

@Kyle: zhunter

By Thurogh on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

In regards to ppl saying you shouldn’t be a teacher, Ignore em.. I’d raid with you or any of the Lore anyday.. You guys talk about the things and raise the types of questions that alot of ppl want to know about, without being called a noob by some basment dweller.

I’ll take a guy that makes light of his skill over a smug knowitall that wipes the party and blames the tank (me) and healer.

Suffice to say I’d know alot more about Instances if i didn’t put it off because i dreaded the idiots i was bound to deal with.

Thanks a million for the addons section.. sifting through Curse.com for screenshots of what i saw you guys playing with was driving me nuts This is what alot of ppl want to know about.

By Alboar @ Silvermoon on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 10:44 am

I love this show! To all the people who are giving them crap for not being “the best” please keep it to yourselves. These guys may not be perfect but that’s what’s great about it. You’re not just seeing a couple of perfectionists running to a T, you’re seeing the real guys like us who are just playing to have fun. If you see something that you think could have been done better then take note of that. Learn from others wistakes and quit trying to put people down. Better yet make that suggestion on the site, then others can take note of it as well. Keep it up guys! You’re doing what I wish I could get my friends and family to do with me!

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By simon sandilands on Saturday, October 4th, 2008 at 8:37 am

damn it i wish i made a dwarf than a gay nelf hunter grr ./cry lol

By sebman on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:24 am

@ d

prick.

By oldred on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 1:56 am

some of these don’t exsited anymore like Cooldown Timers2. the person run it pulled the plug on the site.
also i can’t find an update for Kharthus’s Hunter Timers for 3.0 kind of sad like that 1 to. simple love ZHunterMod thow was frecking out when 3.0 went live and i didn’t have it thank god they add an update for it the next day

By oldred on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am

forget what i said about cooldown timers2 i found on another site. the site you linked it from is dead thow

By Blood Ripper on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am

Lol DORKINS

By fog4o on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am

hey there I have a question…
in the Karazhan series I saw u have an addon that compares the items or smth. like that… Can u tell me which is this addon..
Tnx

By Amanieline on Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Hey Dorkins,
In one of the recent broadcasts, I remember you still asking about how to fix the bug where you would start shooting the next target after your target dies. I wrote a little addon per a few hunter friend’s request to deal with this problem since no one seems to know how to fix it.

goto wow.curse.com and search for addon AutoShootFTL and you should get the addon.

Amanieline@Stormrage

By chunkymonkey on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 7:56 am

hey i was wondering since i have stopped playing wow till the new exspantion comes out will drathals hud still be compatible as found this the best addon i have ever used fo incombat purposes, i mean it works well no matter what i use my mage rogue or pally.

By Wendigone on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 5:15 am

Alboar speaks true words by noting it’s the human element we should appreciate and not put down. Seeing these guys make mistakes is actually part of the charm, it makes it more realistic. And most of all, they’re portraying a group of friends who have fun together, exploring the content, wiping, recovering together. Sure as hell beats PUGging with a buncha loudmouth know-it-alls.

Btw I love the UI of Dorkins with all the juicy info spam flying about, but then I love hunters Especially the timers reminding you of what’s up when are a godsend when you’re burning the midnight oil.

By Gorath on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am

I am a lvl 20 draeni hunter with a pet just like dorkin’s in northrend but he doesn’t do much damage so i want a new pet but dnt no which one to have

By Gorath on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am

And i don’t no how to use addons and on’t no which ones but i like tomtom and Zhunter thing

By Supercharger on Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Whats the addon the Dorkins is using in the latest episode of PRL - In the Romeo/Juilet style boss fight, when Dorkins looks the Blue Chest peice, he was using a addon to tell him how it will effect his toon. Like it show. the Aglity going up but his intell and atk power going down. What is that Addon’s name !

By kolthor on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

dorkins i have found one of the best addons for a hunter its called aspected again from curse.com its an addon that will clear up your action bars atleast by 7 because it takes all of your aspects and puts them in a little bar like the palis get for their auras so you no longer have to put them into your action bar

By haymaker13 on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 9:44 am

I use one called FloAspectBar, it clears up alot of room by making a bar just for your aspects. They also have this type of thing for shammys totems. Heres the link

By haymaker13 on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 9:45 am

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/flo-aspect-bar.aspx

By Sean M on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

I would like to kno what addon the cast has i dont kno what toon he plays but its the one with his health and mana bar in the center of the screen

By Ross on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Hey, first of all great work on the site and the vids, I love them.

Second of all, what is the addon that shows Your auto shot and with the two big buttons at the side of your toon. Thanks =)

By Vayder on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 2:00 am

Ello Dr. D. i use a bunch of Adds. but i have few that i truley cant live without. FloTotemBar=for yer traps,FloAspectBar=fer yer Aspects,Titan Panel=alot of info on this little add,Metahud=just like Icehud and ArcHud2. and of course Omen and Recount.

by the way…

FOR THE HORDE!

By Karagh on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 4:05 pm

update your addons m8. for hunters sake

By Дана on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 at 2:17 am

Не могу понять и объяснить - что именно, но что-то ты делаешь неправильно. Хотя.. возможно я ошибаюсь.

By Phukha on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 9:09 am

My question is the same as Supercharger’s…What is the addon to show how a loot item will affect/improve my toon? Among the many aspects of the game where i am still a ‘tard, this one, deciding what is actually useful to my Hntr (Pirojil), really annoys me and I would appreciate any help…Thnx

By Zakilus on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I like these add-ons dorkins personally im a fan of ViperNotify on curse.

I also have the same question as Phukha and Supercharger, but i also would like to know what the Add-on is for dps chart/leaderboard thingy.

thanks, keep Gaming

By Essenji on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 4:57 am

I just gotta add an addon that I personally can’t live without.
Auto Track will automatically change your current track ability to the one of your targeted enemy. It’s really nice for when you’re raiding if the bosses/trash are of different species… Hope it helps someone

By Githill on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 8:20 am

I also like the addon headshot critical killing blow announcer mainly because i like my computer yelling head shot at me when i critically hit… kinda useless but if your as crazy as i am then you should get it… HEAD SHOT

By Ilan on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 8:22 am

Hey what is that thing in the middle of dorkins screen? and what does it do? it looks like 2 circles wth lines coming off of each

By Bry on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am

I’d like to know what HUD addon you (Dorkins) use in The Way of the Pug - Part 1: Emalon (http://www.wowhead.com/?projectlore=soloing-4.1)

It seems much cooler than any hud addon I have seen, unless it is just a really cool skin for one i have seen before. If it is a skin, which one?

Thanks

By Gilanor on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Viper Notify = must have, i cant stress how helpful it is

cool addon Dr. Dork-diddily-orkins, they all sound realy helpful.

ps. i use addons to make myself look 1337 too lol

By Crue on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Kind of trivial but what is the addon that shows a character portrait or icon in the bottom left of screen. I gotta have it.
Thanks.