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World of Warcraft has an extremely flexible interface designed to allow users to customize it in a multitude of ways by creating their own addons. While writing an addon is quite complicated, installing and using addons is very simple. Addons are not cheats or hacks, they are condoned by Blizzard, and there are hundreds of them available for WoW. Most people find them so useful that once they start playing with them, there’s no going back. Here’s a quick guide to downloading and installing addons for WoW.

Downloading Addons They typically come compressed in Zip format, although some sites now offer software that manages and updates addons automatically. To work with Zip files, you will need a program like WinZip, WinRAR, or 7-Zip. These are a few of the more popular sites where you can download WoW addons:

• Curse.com
• WowMatrix
• IncGamers

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