As soon as I get home, I’ll add an image of me on the turtle mount, Yes I finally got it. All it took was disabling all my addons, which I cheated in doing. I have all my addons setup just how I want them and I have many in the directory that are not enabled, so I would have had to make a list of all the addons I had and then disable all, get the mount and then go down the list and enable just the ones I was using or I could have made backup copies of the Interface and WTF directories and deleted the originals, got my mount and then copied the directories back over, But I chose door number 3. A laptop that I use for traveling has a copy of Wow on it with no addons installed (since it doesn’t have enough memory to run them) Boot up the laptop, get my mount and I’m all set. I now have my Turtle Mount! yeh for me! All is good in my world, or so I think.

   While walking around in IronForge with my turtle, showing it off, someone walks up to me and ask if I can unlock a box for him. Being a Rogue I have this ability but have never done it for someone else, but I’m a nice guy so I say ok. Correct me if I’m wrong but I figured he trades the box to me, I unlock and then he opens it, Correct? Well he starts the trade, I see our trade windows and his lockbox, it turns green, I accept and nothing happens (just like with the turtle). Thinking it was because I was mounted, I dismount and try again, still doesn’t work. Ok, Houston, We have a problem.. It seems that one of my addons is stopping trades, I can buy, sale and buy back from vendors but I can’t trade. The loot vendor in BB must trade the item to you instead of “sell” it to you.

   I love addons, they bring so much to the game, but I understand why many don’t use them or only use a couple, because when things go bad it can be a pain to figure out. When something like this isn’t working, how do you know which of your 20 addons is causing the problem? When a new patch comes out and suddenly only part of the addons work, you have to find all the updates, many devs stop working on their addon and you have to find a replacement and many times there are just objects sitting on your screen that you have no idea what they are, what addon created them or even how to move them. Do you feel addons are worth the troubles? I must because I keep debugging them.

   Now on to my problem, how do I test each addon? I can’t ask someone to stand there while I disable 1 addon, logon, try a trade with them, it doesn’t work, logout, reenable the last one, disable another addon, logon, test again… 20 times. I wouldn’t even do that.