Prat's menus are subdivided into tabs, as you see here, and that makes things a lot easier to find than Chatter's long list of options. Chatter is not particularly well laid-out in comparison to Prat. Where do Prat and Chatter differ? Well, in the configuration screens, for one. Don't need the Alt Names section? Turn it off! It doesn't run anyhow nibbling at your memory like a hungry rodent.

Prat is clever in its prioritization of memory useage it is built in modules and allows you to disable the modules you don't need, item by item. It can also play sounds to you when you receive messages and various other options. Prat allows you to do almost all the things Chatter allows you to do it lets you set up the font and color scheme of your chat pane, click links from chat, and set up server names, player names, class colors, levels, and the like.

It may well be why the addon's called that! Anyhow, Prat was presented as an alternative to Chatter, and it does serve a very similar purpose. I'm not sure if it translates across the pond, but here, a prat is a bit of a muppet. Prat is a pretty funny name if you're English like me. It's like an Agatha Christie novel 'round here.ĭownload Prat: Curse, WoWInterface, WoWAce Also, too many were suggested as alternatives, so then there were four. Bag addons are a whole different ballgame and worthy of their own column.

'But there were six addons in your original column!' There sure were, dear readers, but nobody seemed to want to suggest an alternative to the fantastic Addon Control Panel, so then there were five. This is just a set of addons that improve your general quality of life within the game. I should reiterate what I said on the previous column, since some might have missed it, that these addons are not for raiding, not for PvP, not for hardcore Auction House play, and not for roleplaying. Like the curious soul I am, I immediately downloaded the alternative suggestions and have been playing around with them since then, and this is the result. They were my personal choices, but some readers seemed worried that I hadn't suggested alternatives and so took it upon themselves to do so. Last time on Addon Spotlight, I wrote about six addons I felt you shouldn't play without.

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