For this exciting role-playing game World of Warcraft there are many different addons or mods. Addons are small improvements or additions for the game.

For the inclusion of an addon in the game World of Warcraft, you go first in the directory where you have installed World of Warcraft. From this folder, click on "Interface" and then finally "AddOns". In this folder you must now add the World of Warcraft addon. Now you have to start the game only and sign. After the hintre has is, bottom left a button called "Addons" to see. At the top click opens a window where you can enable or disable add-ons or his. But the installation of addons is sometimes not quite as simple as some add-ons get a configuration menu with it. To access these addons, you have to start WoW and open the console by pressing Enter. Now are you "/" without spaces and then the name of the addon.

Some addons depend on which version of World of Warcraft. This means that not necessarily every add-on you can be inserted into the game.

The World of Warcraft addons can be divided into different categories. First there are the action bars / bars. Such add-ons to allow a sample to know how many and what monsters you have to kill for, to get to the next level. Then there are the chat addons, they allow one to scroll in the chat or watch the leaves a timestamp of the sent message. Next come the class-specific addons, it can be applied only to certain classes. As a magician can an addon to show what magic you used on the weapon and when. Also useful are the combat addons, they show an example, statistics that are made of PvP, PvM and defeat enemies. Or they can see how much energy the one monster that you attack just (still) has. From the interface addons but there are at most, they allow, for example, the substitution of "?" On each opponent and monsters by the respective level, moving all the windows and let the value of one of the items you have in your inventory to see. Then there's the inventory addons. With them you can see the entire contents of its inventory, including bags. Now the famous map mods are tuned, this one you can look at a small card during the race and can adjust their transparency and, What's not in the standard map. Finally there is the quest mods. You can rattle off when picking up the quests faster than usual way you can save yourself unnecessary waiting. These addons are written by players of World of Warcraft, but Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft WoW update times and thus also make a new mod.

The above add-ons are of course legal and perfectly acceptable by Blizzard, and is even desirable. But it is also not allowed modifications. These modifications are referred to as "hacks". Usually they allow you actions that other users of World of Warcraft seem unfair. These include faster running and the ascent of mountains or walls. This gives you a certain advantage, what Blizzard did not like it. The other mods foothills also provide some benefit to you, but that focuses on the impact on the mechanics of the game. This is definitely forbidden. That is punishable by banishment from WoW, so that they can not log in anymore. Of course, they must be able to prove it.

In order to prevent hacks in WoW, Blizzard of people use the so-called "Warden". Warden is scanning the computer from the users of World of Warcraft, called the program looks for familiar patterns of Cheaterprogrammen. It controls the CPU memory and other processes that run concurrently with the WoW game.