Add-On Spotlight: Proximo

by Gamer at March 31st, 2008 in General | No Comments »

The first arena add-on to highlight the players on the opposite team was ArenaMaster. ArenaMaster was first released in January, 2007 right after The Burning Crusade was released and before arenas were popular. But 6 months later, Proximo was released in June, 2007 and quickly began to surpass ArenaMaster in features, quality, and ease-of-use. Recently Proximo has become even better by displaying the specs of your opponents even before you engage them in combat.

I don’t know how Proximo does it, but being able to see your opponent’s specs (even if their of the opposite faction) being engaging in combat is extremely helpful. For example, you can now easily spot Elemental/Enhancement/Resto Shamans, see if the Warlock is Soul Link or Unstable Affliction, see if the Rogue is Shadowstep, and more. It’s the single most important piece of information you can have and Proximo gives it to you.

While some purists may say that ArenaMaster and Proximo negatively affect the fairness of arena, I say you have to fight fire with fire and if other people are using these mods, you should not put yourself at a disadvantage and you should use them too. The other benefit besides seeing your opponents and their specs is also being able to quickly reference their health points as well as mana. Being able to quickly switch to new targets for a kill or just seeing your opponents mana without having to have them targeted makes for a huge advantage in arena. No hardcore or casual PvPer should be without ArenaMaster or Proximo.

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