Cosmos Tips

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Please put your favorite Cosmos Tips here:

CharactersViewer: This addons allow you to see equipment, inventory and stats about all your characters on the same server.
EquipCompare: This addons allow you to see a tooltip comparison whenever you mouseover an object. This allows you to compare the item with your equipment, or even your other characters equipment when used with CharactersViewer.
MobileFrame: This addons allows you to make most thing moveable in the UI. You can also reset the element position if something went bad. (ex: bag positions)
BadRep: This addons allow you to see your reputation progress, and see numeric values in the reputation tab.
DivineBlessing: This addons allows you to easily setup a buff set. Originally done for paladins, this now works for everyone. Behavior can be done via the cosmos menu, buff set can be set via an icon in the earth menu next to the minimap.
CensusPlus: Allows you to take snapshot of your faction's population on your realm. Do it often over a long period of time to have a better idea of what is happening.
BetterKeyBinding: This addon allows you to bind your keyboard more efficiently. Use by clicking on the button in the Earth menu, next to the minimap.
AssistMe: This addon allow you to make your "assist" job easier. Every configuration can be made in the cosmos menu. Check the Tooltip when you mouseover an option.
AutoBindOnPickup: This addon allow you to auto accept bind on pickup item when you are not in a group, can be enabled/disabled in the cosmos menu.
BarOption: Allows you to customize the blizzard bar in every way. You can have up to a 6x12 button bar visible. Configuration is made from the Cosmos menu.
MobileFrame: If something is out of the screen, or looks like giberish, you can try reseting is potion via the MobileFrame section of the Cosmos menu.

Bhaerau's Tips

Hold shift while dragging any button placed on the minimap to move it around.
Type /tloc to get your location.
WorldMapInfo will tell you the location of your character and your mouse when on the World Map.

Guillotine's Tips (More coming very soon)

Should you have any errors, type /console ReloadUI and they will usually be fixed.
Just after a Bliz Patch, it is safer to use the Alpha release, but a Normal release is safer at any other time.
Be sure not to have PopBar enabled if you are using the default Bliz bottom right bar. They will overlap with the Popbar ids going in the opposite way of the default ones.
Delete SavedVariables.lua (make a copy first) to reset all of your Cosmos (and any other addon) data.
Mark any quest locations with MapNotes. You may not see the reason at the moment, but you will likely need it later.

Chris's Tips

'/st lock' and '/st unlock' allow you to move your shardtracker buttons.
The WTF folder contains your configuration settings.
The SavedVariables.lua file contains variables like your map notes that is read when you load the UI and written when you logout.
Cosmos cannot and will not interact with an outside application.
Mobile frames is a good place to start looking if something in your UI seems to have gotten horribly misplaced.
Using the built-in (to WoW) UI scale leaves more room for your bags and extras. Try something around .8 for starters.
The developers of Cosmos are not paid, and, in fact, have other things to do. This should be kept in mind.
/reloadui will relaod your UI as well as current addons.
You can see if other people are using Sky by the small icon to the lower left of their player portrait.
Click on a player while thottbot is collecting data to add their profile to your target data collection set.
Copying the macros-local.txt file from one computer to another will preserve your macros if you play on more than one computer.

Ingold's Tips

When entering a new area and interested in questing, collect every quest in the town/area. Then look them up on thottbot and get all the coordinates. Then using /mntloc x,y on the main map, double click and add a note. Fill in the quest name in the first field, then mob name to kill or talk to in the second field. Do this for all the quests. Have another look at the map, and work out the start cycle to complete all the quests. I have found this to be the most efficient and quickest method of getting xp and great rewards.
This is not a Cosmos tip, but if you're a rogue, bind the sneak key from Ctrl-F1 to ` insted of using a valubable slot, then when ever you want to sneak its just a pinky tap away.

NilAdmirari's Tips

When using Monitor Status, that wonderful addon that helps healers keep a better eye on their party and especially their parties pets, you can access the toggle options through these macro commands.

To toggle MS on and off: /script MonitorStatus_Toggle_Enabled()

To turn MS on: /script MonitorStatus_Toggle_Enabled(true)

To turn MS off: /script MonitorStatus_Toggle_Enabled(false)

Got Cosmos Questions? Got Cosmos Answers? See the Discussion Page!