Addons
Wondering what addons I use or recommend? This page has everything that I use along with links to download them. Also included are profile downloads so that your HUD can literally look like mine.
BigWigs / LittleWigs
The good ol BigWigs vs DBM debate. I've used DBM since TBC and finally switched over to BigWigs midway through DragonFlight. I will not go back!! The best comparison I can give here. DBM just yells at you to do something with no information on what's actually happening. BigWigs will make a noise of something happening and let you decide how to handle it. LittleWigs is the same as BigWigs it's just specifically for dungeons. BigWigs covers all raid bosses, LittleWigs covers all dungeons!
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Details
This is the damage meter! But it's so much more than that! Details gives you all kinds of information to help improve your gameplay. DPS, HPS, overhealing, damage taken, deaths, cooldowns used, damage avoided, interrupts, and more! It's truly a great tool to examine your gameplay and to see what is going on! Details also examines every other player in your group as well, so if you feel like you did everything right but can't figure out what happened. You can check everyone else's information and see if they were the ones that messed up. Not to cast the blame, but to at least reassure yourself that, Hey I did everything right!
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WeakAuras
This is one of the most advanced addons you can download and it has many many uses. WeakAuras allows you to customize your user interface by adding buttons, bars, and text alerts. My heads up display is one complete WeakAura package made by Luxthos. I highly recommend this for everyone as it tracks every crucial aspect of your rotation and cooldowns. With the Luxthos package you can completely minimize your HUD to the point that it's clean and everything is easily visible. Check out my picture for reference. I cannot recommend this enough.
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WeakAuras Download Here
Luxthos Download Here
Plater Nameplates
Nameplates are the bars above an enemy and friendlies character. While the standard Blizzard plates are okay, this addon allows big customization and can eliminate the debuff/buff bloat that appears when you're raiding or doing dungeons. Instead of seeing 30 different icons, you can customize it to only show the 5 most important ones. The best thing about this is that it allows you to take someone's profile and use it as your own. I personally use and highly recommend Quazzi and his plater profile. It shows the most important debuffs and alos is color coded depending on the type of attack the enemy is using and whether or not it can be interrupted.
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Plater Download Here
Quazii Plater Download Here
Premade Group Filter
This is an addon that will appear when you are searching for groups! It allows you to filter all of the results by specific metrics. Want to see groups that don't have tanks? Don't have healers? Have less than 10 DPS? Maybe you only want heroic raids, or to find a raid that has defeated at least 5 bosses., or maybe you only want to find 3 different dungeons. It also shows if a group declined you, or if the request just timed out with different colors. This thing is a lifesaver!
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Auctionator
This primarily gives you more customization over the standard auction house. However the main appeal here is that now your tooltips will also show you an items worth on the auction house. Head over to the auction house, navigate to the auctionator tab and hit full scan! This does a complete scan of all items on the auction house and logs their prices. Now when you're doing content, every item that drops you'll be able to instantly tell if it's valuable or should just be sold to the vendor.
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Prat 3.0
This replaces your Blizzard chat window with a new one. This allows a bunch of extra customization. Create different tabs - I use general, combat log, guild, raid. Each tab is locked to display only specific chats for each tab. You can also change the color of the text! Another main appeal here is that you can now copy and paste links right from chat. So if someone links a WeakAura or anything else you can just click on it and access it, whether ingame or by copy/pasting to your browser.
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Cell (Healer)
This is by far the best healing unit frame addon I've found and used. I have used Vuhdo, and Healbot. Once I switched over to Cell I won't go back. It uses very little resources and it has a lot of customization options! If you aren't diving into mouse over casts yet, Cell also has it built in mouse-over keybinds allowing you to customize what you want to use.
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