Here’s my list of some of the more popular mods that can help make playing WoW more efficient and, also, more fun.

Auctioneer

Auctioneer is a plug-in that helps you find great deals in the Auction House. It includes a database of vendor buying & selling prices and you can use it to look up trends in pricing. With this information, you can take advantage of opportunities to buy low and sell high. It also provides information on values for a huge list of common items in-game. Auctioneer is one of the first add-ons that any good gold farming guide would advise you to pick up. It will improve your gold making significantly.

MetaMap

MetaMap is a great mod that adds tons of features to the regular World of Warcraft map. It basically allows you to arrange the interface however you prefer it to appear. You can adjust window size, opacity and position on your screen. It also contains databases for bosses and mobs . If you are leveling your character with a leveling guide like Zygor’s Leveling Guides, you can import all of John Cook (of Zygor Guides) waypoints right into the MetaMap module. It is a very feature rich mod.

Gatherer

Gatherer is an add-on designed for the gathering professions – herbalists, miners and treasure seekers. It will keep track of all the different places in game that you’ve found valuable commodities and provide you with the actual map coordinates. It also lets you know whenever this item is in range during your future game play.

All in One Inventory and Bank

So you’ve been out looting and you’ve got gold distributed throughout various bags. Instead of clicking each bag, you can use the All in One Inventory mod to combine your bags together. This is another very popular Warcraft mod that saves you time in-game.

Clear Fonts

Hate the fonts in Warcraft? If you feel like sometimes you are going blind from staring at the screen for hours on end, you can use the Clear Fonts add-on to brighten up all of the fonts so they pop right off the screen.

There are literally tons of World of Warcraft mods and this barely skims the surface of what’s available to adapt WoW to your needs and preferences. So take some time to explore all your options and make sure you have plenty of room to download them all.

Since they are free, I recommend that you go ahead and install each of them and give them a trial run. Keep the ones you like and uninstall the ones that you don’t find useful. You should be able to find all of these at Curse Gaming (Curse.com). Now, let’s get on with the list.

Atlas

You will probably find Atlas to be a crucial map mod that really should have been part of the game in the first place. For some curious reason, Blizzard doesn’t have the instances mapped in Azeroth. Fortunately, Atlas solves this problem. It adds a map for every instance in World of Warcraft and it includes the boss locations too. There are also a variety of map pack plug-ins made for it so you can use those to add additional maps for things like dungeon locations, raid bosses (outdoors) and battlegrounds. This comes in extremely handy and you only have to install the ones that you need.

Cartographer

The Cartographer addon adds coordinates to Warcraft world map, but it also does a number of other cool things as well. You can use it to add notes, or change how the map looks with scale and transparency adjustments, etc. It also keeps track of herbs and minerals. In addition, it also shows unexplored locations on the map, which you may find pretty useful.

MobMap

Looking for lots of easy quest mobs? Then MobMap will prove indispensable. It adds the positions for all NPCs and the known mobs to your in-game map. MobMap also comes with quest and merchant databases. This map mod is also available in German.

QuestHelper

QuestHelper is another map mod that will help you out with questing. It adds all the waypoints for the quests in your quest log to your map and sorts them by shortest distance between quests in order to cut-down on how much walking you need to do between each quest. This will prove to be a real time saver.

MapMod v2 leveling addon

MapMod v2 is the only addon here that isn’t free, but I’m including it because if you are interested in leveling fast, whether for Alliance or Horde, you are going to find it useful. It’s made by the Team iDemise crew. Like Questhelper, it adds waypoints to the in-game map, but it does a lot more than that. It basically provides a leveling walk-through so you can just follow the arrows from one quest to the next. Also installed with it are step by step written instructions and hint and tips that are all accessible from both the Mini-map and the world map.

If you want to get the awesome MapMod v2 leveling addon, you can get it as part of the iDemise leveling guides. iDemise now has two guides available, one for Horde and one for Alliance, and they both come with the MapMod v2 addon.