Essential WoW Lich King Addons

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Wolvie56X

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After a year and a half, I'm playing again. Just got to Borean Tundra and starting to lvl my Warrior and Pally. Seems fun and interesting so far.

What addons am I gonna need?? Got Healtbot, Deadly Boss Mods and FuBar so far. But the game has changed, so I'm just wondering what else is there that I should get to help lvl and raid.

Lvling is completely different and just about idiot proof. So I'm not worried about a quest helping addon. Once I get a few lvls, I have some friends who are gonna run me through some instances and get gear.

And how fast is lvling in here?? Not too impressed with the amount of XP per quest right now. 15-20k a quest but you need 1.3 million XP to lvl kinda sucks.
 
Blizzard's quest helper thing is just fine now. I used to use questhelper. PallyPower for blessings and Decursive unless you set it up in healbot to cleanse.

lvling sux but if you're going through dungeons that is great.
 
I don't know that any mods are essential. There is just what you feel you need and what you don't.
I personally don't like healbot and use grid instead. I use shadowed unit frames. Bartender 4, questhelper, lightheaded, sexy map, sexy cooldown, _cursor, auctioneer, ackis recipe list, AVR, bagnon, cartographer, chatter, combo points, class loot, fubar, msbt, omniCC, postal, quartz, satrina buff frame, recount and skada, ratings buster, stunwatch, tekompare, tidy plates

I'm always testing new mods. These I have found give me the information I need in the easiest way for me to assimilate it. Some mods are specific to my rouge. But I also play a priest, warlock and pally. Or rather used to play, just cancelled my account last week.
 
carbonite
omnicc

thats all i used when lvling. (there was no blizzard quest helper but i still think carbonites minimap is much better)

and after i turned 80 i ran no addons. thats how the pros do it. sure healing raids is a pain in the a$s without addons but i dont raid much.
 
xperl for a slightly prettier party/player/etc window setup.
I still use Omen even though its a little out dated and it's built into wow now.
DBM as always
GryphonRemover or you can manually edit out the stupid gryphons to each side of the action bar at the bottom if you dont use a bar mod. (I dont, I'm OCD and can *never* get the damn things set up just right so it bothers the hell outta me..)
pallypower for my tankadin. Necrosis for my lock. Dont use decursive or anything for my priest/mage, I do all healing/dispelling/decursing manually. Nothing for my rogue, but if anyone knows a spiffy mod for rogues, I'd love to hear about it and give it a try.
 
As a paladin mods you must have for raiding are:
DBM
Pallypower
Decursive
and healbot if that's your spec

So just get palypower and you're set.
 
aintz said:
carbonite
omnicc

thats all i used when lvling. (there was no blizzard quest helper but i still think carbonites minimap is much better)

and after i turned 80 i ran no addons. thats how the pros do it. sure healing raids is a pain in the a$s without addons but i dont raid much.
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Carbonite used to be good but it's bloated shit now. Not too fond of them after they wanted to charge for it anyway, Blizzard shut that shit down fast.
 
Forgot about Pallypower. The UI mod I was using before Lich King came out was Mazzles UI. That thing was great but I don't see it anywhere

Fubar doesn't seem to wanna work. I'm gonna try a bar mod and maybe baggins again.

What's the good battleground mod that shows the timers and stuff??
 
I try to keep my addons as few as possible--so for me it's (in order of importance) Titan Panel, CTMod, Healbot, PallyPower, Recount, VisualHeal, and Omen. That said, the combination of CTMod's raid frames and Healbot makes for a crowded screen...
 
The only 'required' pally addon is PallyPower, everything else is pretty much optional. Though, a type of boss mod addon is highly recommended (and probably required) by your guild if you do 25 man raids with them.
 
I like DBM, recount, Grid and Omen for groups

I also use TitanPanel, XtoLevel, and questhelper for soloing.

on my main (hunter) i also use FloTotem and FloAspect

oh and a few macros.
 
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I haven't found the need for that many mods, but I'm running dbm and recount and thats it!
 
Torquemada XP said:
I NEED your UI theme/skin. What is it?
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I'm going to guess he's using pitbull, sexy cooldown, fontain, chinchilla maybe for the map?, miks scrolling combat text, satrina buff frame, maybe sldata text as well. Maybe KG panels. Cowtip? Tiptac? Am I right?

It looks similar to one posted on wow.com reader UI of the week a few weeks ago.
 
The only essential addon I use so far is Recount. I feel really blind when not knowing how well I'm doing, or everyone else for that matter. Another one, in a bad way, is Gearscore. People will be using the numbers this addon spits out, and whether you like it or not, you're gonna need to know it when interacting with other players. Of course, you can just check your own score at wtfismygearscore.com, so you can avoid using it as an addon. Another way is to play exclusively with a guild, or group of players that don't really care.
 
Some mods I use are:

Deadly Boss Mods
Recount
Grid (Raid frames)
Gearscore (Not a fan, but when I pug, I will get asked what mine is.)
Mage Nuggets (Mage stuff)
MIK scrolling battle text
Bagon (combines all bags into one and does other useful things with inventory)
Omen (Threat meter)

Pally Power for your paladin blessings
 
DXE (Deus Vox Encounters) > DBM for boss mods imo. I made the switch a few months ago, and I haven't looked back since.

Another cool addon that my guild has been messing around with for raids is called AVR (I believe that stands for augmented virtual reality or something). It allows you to draw things on the screen and share it with others using the mod. It is quite useful for designating spots to stand or run to and the like.

Skada is another performance meter mod that is a good replacement for Recount that is much lighter weight.
 
Yea AVR is a recent addition. People in my guild have been heavily recomending AVR for boss encounters in addition to DBM.

It bascily paints where all the safe/hazard zones are, and helps you see when its time to "run away little girl" just exactly how far you need to run. Its still kinda beta and doesn't have every event in every enounter, but for when it does, its invaluable for positioning.
 
Blizzards UI is actually really good. There aren't many addons out there that add functionality to anything. More or less everything is just a reskin or adds minor conveniences to things. I know a lot of people that run almost completely stock ui's and do more than fine.
 
uh... stock ui covers most things now...

that being said... any boss mod addon.

prob recount just to see how you're performing and flexing epeen if you're on top

if you're a paly, palypower makes organizing multiple paly blessings in a much easier fashion.
 
Before going all gung ho and loading up your screen space and memory with tons of mods, think about what you are looking to have the mods support / do for you. the best rule of thumb is to start with the few you need and expand as needed.
too many ppl overload with too many mods, duplicating features and causing conflicts.

are you looking for event warnings?
do you need combat information?
are you going to be raiding?
do you want to make the ui pretty?

> For boss / event warnings: Deus Vox Encounters / Big Wigs / or Deadly Boss Mods.
they all do pretty much the same thing slightly differently. tells you when somethign is going to happen, ie: boss attack, enemy captures, flag returns, etc.

> For combat info: Scrolling Combat Text / MiK's text / Blizz Combat text.
these will show you info on incoming dmg-heals / outgoing dmg-heals. blizz built one into the ui, but it is pretty basic and not many options to configure, sct and mik are highly configurable.

> For raiding info: Grid / Xperl / Vuhdoo / Healbot and a few others.
these provide you a group layout for parties larger than 5 members. some autoscale group size, some have built in click casting integration (nice for healers). essentially the prime reason is to show you a visual indication of the total number of players in the raid and thier current status (hp).

> For beautification: damn, theres tons, look up ui forums, see what ppl are using, try some for yourself.
 
Xeero said:
uh... stock ui covers most things now...

that being said... any boss mod addon.

prob recount just to see how you're performing and flexing epeen if you're on top

if you're a paly, palypower makes organizing multiple paly blessings in a much easier fashion.
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Recount is mandatory if you ask me. You need to know how damage you're doing and how much damage everyone is doing.
 
SixtyWattMan said:
Carbonite used to be good but it's bloated shit now. Not too fond of them after they wanted to charge for it anyway, Blizzard shut that shit down fast.
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It was always bloated shit and they had a payed for version for a really long time. Blizzard took forever to shut them down.
 
So far I have healbot, Titan panel, pallypower, DBM and itemrack.

Seems like a good combo to me so far. I'd like one to add more action bars or one that switches to main spec or off spec spells flawlessly though.
 
seiferoth10 said:
The only 'required' pally addon is PallyPower, everything else is pretty much optional. Though, a type of boss mod addon is highly recommended (and probably required) by your guild if you do 25 man raids with them.
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clcret is nice for a pally as well.

For me, I can't stand the default unit frames and the in game bars, so shadowed unit frames, grid & bartender are musts for me. Then something to keep track of timers & procs (scorchio) plus raid encounter timers (DXE). Everything else is just cosmetic (bagnon, sexymap etc etc).
 
Check out CLCRet. It lets you set up your rotation with strongest attacks getting the highest priority and displays what your strongest attack available is for you to use when you are in battle.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/clcret.aspx

edit: ah hell, was reading another post and didn't realize this was mentioned directly above me. Oh well, more info for you ;)
 
When I played healing classes, Clique & Grid was absolutely mandatory. Screw Healbot.
 
For leveling a couple toons with refer-a-friend I currently am using:

TomTom
LightHeaded
TourGuide (AMAZING!!!!!) with RAF version quest guide modules
QuestHelper (integrates well with TourGuide, not really needed but nice enough)

Other than that I normally use:

Recount
Deadly Boss Mods (DBM)
LightHeaded (gives wowhead info in-game)
BarTender 4 (so I can move my hotbars and configure them)
ClassTimers (easy bars to see what effects are on you/your target, and their duration with a timer on it as well)
 
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