Often used with AtlasLoot Enhanced, which provides information about boss loots, crafted items, Badge/Emblem rewards, and other like these. Atlas - An open world & instance maps atlas.Screenshots: Standard, Mulgore, Transparency 0%, Nagrand, Map selection/Location Menu - Warsong Gulch, Instance Map: Naxxramas.
Cartographer - A very detailed and thorough map addon that includes maps of zones and dungeons, boss loot, some quest information, locations of trainers and profession masters, and few nifty world map settings, like full transparency of certain areas, and a mini version of the world map, visible at all times on your screen.Screenshots: Omen3 Config + Threat window.Supports 110% melee/130% ranged warnings. It's small, easy to configure and readily provides you with information about how threatening you are towards the targeted monster. Omen - A threat monitor, useful for DPS, Tanks and Healers alike.Screenshots: Noth the Plaguebringer, Boss options menu, Options.BigWigs - BigWigs is another addon that supplies your raid with information about bosses' specific spells.Screenshots: Bars in action, Raid warning.It is additionally customizable to provide timers for manually added spells.
Screenshot: A simple setup, with ButtonFacade*, A clean install with frames and panels visible, The options menu.Dominos - Dominos is a stable and easy to use lightweight addon that manages up to 10 action bars (maximum of 12 slots in each) and offers movement of default frames like the Minimap, the Casting bar and the Roll panel.Screenshots: Typical configuration, Configuring Indicators, Configuring a status, Configuring the layout.Grid - Grid creates a raid frame with various options for displaying different types of debuffs on the target.I personally have had problems with its configuration, but I hear a lot of good things about it. AG Unit Frames - ag_uf is another replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, with features similar to X-Perl, but more lightweight in my opinion.Screenshots: Main Frames, Options, Item Checker.X-Perl - A complete replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, including raid frames and raid tools.Note: Many healers will choose a Unit Frames addon that allows them to see the whole raid in a small panel, and complement it with Clique, to allow quick single-button heals or debuff removers. So let's take a closer look at some of the addons (I think) every raider should at least consider getting: They are by no means mandatory, but a lot of them make the game more enjoyable improve the efficiency of the individual player. In this blog I am going to list some of basic addons every raid should consider downloading.
Sometimes it is those little things that really can make or break a raid.
When I am not doing stuff for Wowhead or playing, I spend some of my free time browsing random addons with the hope that I will find something I and my guild may find useful. I need to know what's going on around me, and be able to adjust accordingly. I can't raid if at least 10 addons are not monitoring various aspects of my game - raid status, deaths, heals, positioning, cooldowns, buffs & debuffs, damage output, disconnects, enrage & spell timers, adds. You ever found desktop so full of icons that you almost need to use a search engine to find the folder you need? Or your desk/working place literally hidden by mountains of papers, hole-punchers, sticky notes, staplers, folders, binders, pens and other office tools? Well, things like that can happen in WoW too, and I am an unfortunate victim of Addon addiction.