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- Addons for Healers are listed here.
This page contains suggested addons for general UI modifications.
Contents
Unit and Raid Frames
Xperl
(Download)
Xperl is a highly customizable set of raid and group frames that let you show buffs, debuffs, and just about anything else. However, it does not let you use the smaller “raid frames” when you’re only in a 5-man group.
Pitbull 4
(Download)
Highly customizable, but difficult to set up unless you are tech-savvy with programming. No viable range checker.
Shadowed Unit Frames
(Download)
An alternate to the above. It has the easy configuration of AGUF but is updated more often.
Name Plates
Tidy Plates
(Download)
This is a replacement for the Blizzard name plates. It is configurable to warn you about aggro (or losing aggro, depending on if you’re in tank mode) and has a cast bar. You can set configurations based on spec.
Heads Up Display
I’m going to save myself flailing on this topic by directing you to Grimmtooth’s 5 part series.
Buttons and Action Bars
Bartender
(Download)
Highly customizable. Includes “paging” for druids, stances, etc. Can hide certain bars out of combat, and fade them out unless you mouseover. Easy keybinding interface. Keybindings can be saved per character. However, setting up the bars the first time is a pain.
Dominos
(Download)
It is very similar to bartender. The setup interface is less complicated which can be good OR annoying, depending on your personal preferences.
- Guide to Setting up Dominos (Jaded Alt)
Macaroon
(Download)
A popular bar addon I have yet to try
- Huge Macaroon Setup Guide (Druid Main)
Opie
(Download)
This is good for out-of-combat stuff (food, crafting, rezing, hearthstone) that you don’t want cluttering up your bars. These items will appear on a popup “ring” that you activate only when you want to use them. Otherwise, they stay hidden.
Cast Timers
Quartz
(Download)
This cast bar timer is great for chaining together your casts. It shows your latency and when it’s “safe” to start casting the next spell. It has a “GCD ticker” which isn’t great.
GCD
(Download)
GCD shows a rotating spark or, if you prefer, a circular casting bar around your cursor for your GCD and for your spells. This is useful since your eye will be there anyway as you select your healing targets. (Guide)
Cast Donut
(Download)
Similar to GCD, with a circular cast bar.
Timers: Bars and Icons
For Buffs, Debuffs, Dots, Hots, Crowd Control, and Cooldowns
Dotimer
(Download)
This times your cooldowns and dots/effects. It is easily customizable so you can hide things you don’t want to see. Announce feature “CC will break in…. However, all timers are in the same spot, even if you may want to separate timers relating to your target versus timers relating to your focus.
- Dotdododotdot..dot…dot… Dotimer? (Amerence Love Wow)
Classtimer
(Download)
Similar to Dotimer, except you can put each timer wherever you want. It does not time cooldowns or have an announce feature.
Needtoknow
(Download)
This mod creates timer bars, similar to dotimer and classtimer
- Addon Guide: Need to Know (pally centric) – (A Healadin’s Tear)
- Addon: NeedToKnow (Rapid Fire)
ForteXorcist
(Download)
It has timer bars and a sliding cooldown monitor. This addon is particularly good for Warlocks and Shadow Priests.
- Guide (Tales of a Priest).
- Clones and Linking in ForteXorcist
Raven
(Download)
This mod creates customizable timers (bars or icons) for your buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, and debuffs on the target, target-of-target, focus, and just about everything else.
- Why is a raven like a writing desk? (Leaf Head)
Satrina’s Buff Frames
(Download)
They are very customizable, but can also look like the boring old blizzard frames if you’d like. They do notifications
So Much Wow, So Little Time: Configuring Satrina Buff Frames:
Aura Frames
(Download)
It does buffs and debuffs in icons or in bars. The setup is pretty intuitive and it’s easy to separate buffs into long and short duration.
OmniCC
(Download)
Omni CC puts a numerical countdown for the cooldown on your action key.
Notifications
Buffs, Procs, and other assorted goodies
Power Auras
(Download)
This mod is great, and highly customizable. It’s a bit difficult to set up and it’s possible to overload your screen with too many glowy statuses around your toon.
- Tankspot Guide to Power Auras
- No Stock UI detailed Guide
- Updated Guide (and video) to setting up power auras – (Tales of a Priest)
- Wow.com’s guide
Weak Auras
(Download)
This is an alternative to Power Auras with an easier configuration. It also incorporates elements of Tellmewhen (see below).
- Guide to WeakAuras (Leaf-Head)
- Guides by Rhii at Oh My Kurenai:
Tellmewhen
(Download)
This mod is now being updated again, and shows icons as notifications of events. It is slightly more “user friendly” than power auras, but more limited.
Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text
(Download)
It’s just awesome. You can filter out things that are TMI and add sounds.
Raiding/Instances
Deadly Boss Mods
(Download)
Everyone needs a boss tracker for raiding. It warns you about standing in the bad, upcoming boss abilities, and range check.
BigWigs
(Download)
Very similar to DBM, but with a few extended features.
Omen
(Download)
Make sure your threat doesn’t exceed that of the tank or your face gets bitten off.
Skada
(Download)
This is a damage meter. You can download modules to track lightwell clicks and healing and absorbs.
Raeli’s Spell Announcer
(Download)
This announces all cooldowns to the raid. Good for managing tank cooldowns and interrupts.
Managing In-Game Stuff
Outfitter
(Download)
I can create outfit sets, just like the in-game manager, but it has a slightly better interface. Also, you can swap your outfit automatically with your spec swap. That will prevent embarrassing snafus.
ArkInventory
(Download)
This lovely addon organizes inventory based on “rules” you create (like “put all my leatherworking stuff in section 5″) and it also lets you search for items that might be on an alt or in the guild bank. (Pictures)
Combuctor
(Download)
A bag addon that works completely fine right out of the box. It has a search bar to find items by name, and a color filter to find items by quality (purple, etc)
Trade
Auctioneer
(Download)
If you’re going to play the auction house at all, you need this. It’s a resource hog, so I only enable it on my bank toon.
Gatherer
(Download)
This addon keeps track of all the nodes that you’ve ever used. You can also import the wowhead database of nodes. There is a heads-up display that tracks where you’ve been during that gathering session, but I find it to be scary.
Chat
WoW Instant Messenger
(Download)
I love this because it separates out my tells, so I never lose a tell. And, hopefully, it cuts down on mistells.
Chatter
(Download)
With the new wow chat features, you might not need a chat mod. But it auto-populates alt names from the guild notes, so you know who is talking!
On-Screen Real Estate
TipTac
(Download)
Tooltips! Customized, but mostly you can move them and resize them so they don’t take up as much space.
Chocolate Bar
(Download)
I hate crappy icons surrounding the minimap. Chocolate bar allows you to put it in a neat overhead bar.
CTViewport
(available here)
If you want to be able to see if you’re stepping in the lava and still have room for all your stuff, this can tweak your screen so that your health bars can be front and center but not block the view of what your character is doing.
Sunn Viewport Art
(Download)
An alternative to CTviewport and “prettier”.
Managing Addons
Addon Control Panel
(Download)
This allows you to enable or disable addons from within the game with a /reloadui. No relogging required. Very useful if you need to turn off a buggy addon mid-raid.