Useful Addons
UI Addons
UI addons alter the entire look and layout of your screen. Some of them come packaged as a set layout, others allow you to move virtually anything on your screen to a different location.
One of the more popular UI addons is Elvui. You can see various examples of the possible layouts on their forums here: https://www.tukui.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3&start=190
You can download Elvui here: https://www.tukui.org/welcome.php
Raiding Addons
Some raiding addons, such as Deadly Boss Mods, are almost considered mandatory for raiding - to the point where Blizzard tune their content based on the assumption people will be using them. The following are a selection of the more useful addons.
- Deadly Boss Mods - Shows timers for upcoming boss moves, tells you about interrupts, when to move, etc.
- Skada Damage Meter - Shows you output, number of interrupts, dispels, etc.
- Decursive - For classes that can remove debuffs from others, compact and easy to use.
To a lesser extent, and a more specialised use:
- Auto Combat Logger - Automatically starts and finishes combat logs, so you can upload to a combat log site.
- Angry Assignments - An in-game "note-keeper" where you can add your own notes for any content.
- Weak Auras - actually an addon that does nothing until you install plug-ins that can help do virtually anything in-game, but most often used in raiding.
- Weak Aura plugins - anything from class rotation addons to boss tactic reminders.
- Raid Icon Bar - easily place raid markers.
Questing & Achievements
- Handy Notes - this addon is, again, something that also caters for plug-ins. Primarily used for tracking down treasure chests and rares.
- Handnotes Shadowlands - a plug-in for Handynotes specifically for the Shadowlands areas. Other areas have their own plug-ins.
- NPC Scan - will keep an eye out for rares and let you know when it spots one.
- Rarescanner - another rare tracker.
- TomTom - adds an arrow onto your screen to give you directions to your current target (quest, dead body, etc).
- World Quest Tracker - allows you to easily see what World Quests are up, along with the ability to filter them.
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