Icesnake’s Add-on Emporium #2: Carbonite
This week we’re going to take a look at a “one-stop shopping” addon called Carbonite. This is a single addon that will perform the functions of several others. It will also integrate with other addons to add their functions into itself.
First, you need to know that Carbonite used to be a paid-subscription addon, but when Blizzard announced that paid addons were no longer acceptable, rather than abandon development like so many other addon authors, the Carbonite developers switched to a donation model. You don’t ever have to donate, but if you use Carbonite and appreciate what it does for you, throwing the guys a bone from time to time will encourage them to continue working on this awesome mod.
Carbonite replaces your main map and your mini-map. The Carbonite map gives you Google Earth-style zoom and pan features as well as a waypoint feature.
Carbonite includes a replacement for your Quest Log with built-in quest tracking and a Quest Helper-style guide. It will announce in party chat when you finish a quest requirement. It also gives you a guide and heads-up display to find that elusive mailbox, trainer, flight point, vendor, and other points of interest.
There’s a warehouse function, so you don’t have to switch toons to figure out which one has the boar meat or titanium ore you need; just search the warehouse.
In battlegrounds, knowledge is power, and the extra power you will get from Carbonite might make the difference between victory and defeat. Carbonite also keeps a detailed PvP event log with time stamps.
Carbonite integrates with Gatherer and Atlas Loot to give you herb and ore locations right on your map, and detailed dungeon maps. It also works well with Lightheaded to give you community commentary for quests.
Carbonite can be downloaded from http://www.carboniteaddon.com/ where you will also find demos and detailed descriptions of the various features.
Music for this segment is provided by Amazon.com, and the track is “Dead Sound” by The Raveonettes.
Carbonite is the add-on I use for leveling my toons. It does leave something to be desired in terms of UI, but overall it’s a solid add-on in my opinion especially compared to other quest add-ons (coughquesthelpercough)
But you’re right, it includes several important bonus on its translucent maps (which are Godsend btw) and makes playing more fluid without stopping and going to a map or switching between tracking.
Get piece…I have only been using Questhelper and a few small addons. Embarassingly, I will confess that I didn’t even find out about such things as addons until I was level 70 on my first character! I have heard of carbonite, but have been with my staple. Thanks for telling how green the grass is on the other side..
No extra charge, it’s all part of the service! It remains to be seen how much of Carbonite has been rolled into vanilla Wow with 3.3 – stayed tuned to this podcast!
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