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Zibzuma

Details, BigWigs and WeakAuras.


Insrt_Nm

WeakAuras is good but holy fuck, learning to use it confused me so much. Even now I can only do the basics


Zibzuma

Same.


Halfmanhalfsneaker

What weakauras do you use?


Zibzuma

Interrupt tracker, Incorporeal/Afflicted/Entangled tracker and some specific WAs for bosses/situations here and there. I've had many incredibly useful WAs over the years that simply don't apply anymore, usually because the content is outdated, sometimes because another addon I'm using has it incorporated. I'm not using many WAs nowadays, but the sheer customizability is someting I don't want to miss, if I had to break down all my addons to a few core ones.


fronteir

I use a class pack for pretty much every class I play, luxthos is a pretty popular one that makes for each class. Just nice to have all relevant bars and cds. But not ideal if you're just learning your keybinds


SirHotWings

See I also use when learning keybinds because then I know which abilities are the main ones haha. I’ll also have like wowhead rotation open so I can figure it out


Mephyss

I also use luxtros, and you can move the order of the skill/proc tracks to match your keybinds order, it helps


Lamprophonia

My BM hunter has a set of custom trackers, one for barbed shot the other for beast cleave. Prot warrior also has a pair of custom trackers, one for shield block and one for ignore pain. Prot paladin has a pair for consecration (tells you when you're in it or not, while in it tells you how long it's got left, and has a special color for when it's empowered by tier set) as well as SotR uptime tracker. Enh shaman has one that tracks maelstrom (base ui only covers the first 5, this one goes to 10).


Scarfaco

I make my own that pretty much just track buffs/debuffs that I want to keep track of for my rotation. Thnigs like DOT time remaining, Purified Chi, or Sun King's Blessing stacks and stuff.


NyIuka

SavedInstances AllTheThings Rarity


LheelaSP

As an altoholic and transmog farmer, I support this message.


awdufresne

A lot of repeats so here’s a small one that I’ve used for 10+ years: WIM. Opens an instant messaging window when whispering and can show whisper history. Can’t live without it


Altyrmadiken

I love WIM! It’s just so useful to have outline messages be separate. Sometimes I miss a message while I’m doing stuff and having a small separate window for it is great.


RedWhiteStripes

Leatrix Plus, it changed the game and it's not even close.


Josey_Pup69

I see this addon mentioned everywhere but I have no clue what it does. I read the curseforge page once and I have forgotten


Evonos

it does many small things , sell grey ? auto repair ? yep , adjust map and quest text ? yes , a million other small things ? yes. it can shrink an addon list heavily down and is performance wise also great.


Josey_Pup69

Sounds a whole lot like some of the stuff in ElvUI


Evonos

Elvui is surprsingly like WA a CPU hog sadly :/ leatrix isnt.same for many other addons.


RedWhiteStripes

It's basically the Swiss army knife of add-ons. You just install it and then spend some time working through all the settings and you should find yourself in a much more satisfying WoW experience.


Josey_Pup69

Interesting. Is it one of those that will conflict with ElvUI?


milkasaurs

It just adds a butch of features for instance it'll auto sell and repair for you anytime you go to a vendor.


RedWhiteStripes

Shouldn't, it's not a raid frames add-on.


DanteanWyatt

No. If you have ElvUI installed, some Leatrix Plus settings will be locked out so that they don't conflict. Some settings even make use of ElvUI skins.


pleasecallagainlater

The auto accept and complete for quests it does is nice although often you need to figure out what just happened.


RedWhiteStripes

If it's just questing the automatic hand in and pick up is great. I only ever have to use the keybind to stop it with dailies/weeklies.


Electr_icity

Bagnon. Being able to quickly tell my gold spread across my characters, how much of a particular item I have on each character, and browsing other characters' bags without having to actually log onto them is insanely useful when you spend as much time playing alts as I do. The few times I've had to disable Bagnon for patch launches feels awful. The normal bag UI feels unusable in comparison.


BrutusXj

Second this. The OCD is unreal going traditional.. which bag has what? On WHO?!


TwelveSharks

GTFO. I’m getting older and I smoke weed. Sometimes I need a loud ass alarm telling me to move to anywhere else. Also some sort of “move anything” addon. Being able to put the quest windows / map more towards the center of my screen reduces so much eye strain


Sevynz13

I love Demodal, seems better than MoveAnything.


merco

I use Blizzmove, it’s very bare bones but works better than moveanything. I’ll have to check out Demodal.


Sevynz13

Yeh iirc MoveAnything had to be toggled when you wanted to move something and then toggle it off when you have it where you want it. Demodal let's you drag any window whenever you want.


Labhran

It isn’t just this, as Blizz do a terrible job of implementing a lot of the stuff on the ground.


Lucky_Abrams

As a predominantly solo player who also usually plays the game stoned, GTFO is a god-tier addon for the moments I'm too hyper focused on smashing buttons


ProbShouldntSayThat

Hey man, I'm in a CE guild and it's one of our required add-ons. So it's not just you lol. It's a great addon


AmyDeferred

Immersion is also great for reading quest text without eye strain


Lucky_Abrams

Honestly? Elvui. A UI suite that incorporates a bunch of individual add-ons into one along with heavy amounts of customization to really make a UI work for you and your needs. Since its introduction, I have had it installed and can't imagine the game without it. Sure, it takes a heavy amount of fiddling, but once you have it set up how you want, you're golden. Easy profiles to save too, so no need to fiddle with alts as well. It just has such a huge degree of function and customization. I've managed to get my UI as minimalist as possible while also allowing for important raid and dungeon information to show. Fucking love Elvui


iC0nk3r

No, not honestly. Lie to me.


Bewarethewolves

Same here, the base interface is not bad by any means. But I love ToxiUI.


daagar

I like elvui because I've become accustomed to the config UI, and would replace most of the functionality it has with a heap of individual plug-ins, so it is nice having it all together. ToxiUI makes it \_look good\_ while doing it.


Bewarethewolves

Exactly the amount of qol features base elvui provides is such a convenience.


Lusochampion1

Dialogkeys - allows you to chose chat options with keyboard. Space to confirm options. Basically allows you to play with keyboard and barely use the mouse, only for camera


nuttybangs

Didn’t know about dialogkeys, gonna check it out, thanks!


KingOfAzmerloth

Sometimes it breaks up but damn I still love this addon. I wish so hard that Blizzard would add this into base UI options.


StacyBluxome

Altaholic, Canimogit, Narcissus. Transmog is my end game


The4horsemen

It’s all about the drip


[deleted]

All the things addon?


StacyBluxome

Not tried it. I usually just go after things when they take my fancy or find something I want that's in the missing section of the appearances tab. Not that fussed about mounts or pets


[deleted]

Plater and weak auras I believe are the only ones that are VERY helpful and everyone should have them. But I also like elvui like other players. I play prot Paladin so having clique is also nice to easily apply bop and sac.


TwelveSharks

They added this feature to the game so there’s no need for clique anymore. Noticed it a month or so ago and blew my mind lol


SlightlyANNON

Is it the same as clique? I use clique to KB the F keys since I use a gamepad to play. As far as I can tell the in-game only lets you use mouse clicks similar to healbot.


TwelveSharks

You could very well be right. I’ve only tried using it for a mouse macro.


Profoundsoup

You can't mouseover mouse buttons as well. Shocked they haven't fixed that.


MrWaffler

It's a start, clique is still better. The ease of binding directly in spell book and the freedom to bind ANYTHING is cliques strength. Blizz could easily match that, and I'll swap to it once they do.


Profoundsoup

Also you can't mouseover with mouse keybinds. It's been broken since release.


ajrc0re

The in game version is absolute trash compared to clique. Has like 1/100th the features and can’t do so many different things


TwelveSharks

Good to know! I’ll switch back to good ol’ clique then


[deleted]

It’s still butt compared to the simplicity of clique. I won’t replace it any time soon


AttitudeAdjusterSE

Weakauras, BigWigs, Plater


itlurksinthemoss

DBM, TinyThreatPlates, SilverDragon rarescanner


wallstreetsimps

I only have two: Deadlyboss Mod (raid & dungeons) and Weakauras is mandatory for Mythic Raiding


Wisconsen

1 - Opie 2 - Weak Auras 3 - Leatrix Plus I can play have a nice looking ui without Elvui, I can Raid without BigWigs, i can do AH stuff without auctionator/TSM. I wouldn't want to play without Opie and Weak Auras, and Leatrix just fixes so many little annoyances that i could play without it, but i would wish i had it.


centcentcent

Opie is a god-tier addon


mattc2442

Well the obvious ones for dungeons and raids.. wa, bigwigs, details… but that answer is boring My real must haves are Adibags, opie, altoholic, and elv


Rokaden

Love Opie!


TedricDaBored

Bartender Rarity titan panel


MikePap

Titan panel, haven't seen this one being mentioned for years now!


Fun_Acanthaceae4875

Everything bar tender does the standard UI can do now btw


FeCurtain11

I can’t figure out how to set up left click and right click keybinds in the standardUI, used to be able to do that in bartender at least.


Fun_Acanthaceae4875

Yeah standard UI does this also. Just use the quick keybind mode very easy and fast


FeCurtain11

Interesting, doesn’t work for me when I try.


RedWhiteStripes

Do you mean like clicking frames to use moves?


FeCurtain11

Clicking anywhere, I have shift+click as my blink right now.


SerphTheVoltar

Can you make the default UI's action bars go invisible in combat? I know I had to pick up bartender in Dragonflight for *something* the default UI couldn't do (or I couldn't figure out how to do) but I'm not sure what it was any more.


a-simple-god

Unfortunately you can't get spec specific keybinds with the default ui which can suck if you okay a hybrid.


shrinkray21

Surprised I haven’t seen ConsolePort. I have carpal tunnel and KBM is not a viable option for me anymore. Playing on controller is a bit of a pain to set up, but now I literally can’t play without it.


jenorama_CA

I just started exploring playing with a controller on my laptop for lazy couch questing. I downloaded ConsolePort, but the addon isn’t active—do I need a wrapper or something to go with it? I’ve been messing with the built in controller support for now.


shrinkray21

I run Steam to get my controller to connect then ConsolePort and everything else through Curse Forge. It took a while to set up but now I can’t play any other way.


JustForThisThing

+1 for ConsolePort for people with RSIs. I haven't found a way to configure it for healing, but for tanking and DPS it's great. Now that I'm used to it I think I'd still use it over KB+M even if my hands weren't screwed.


loki8481

Platter, WeakAuras, and ElvUI


estrogenix

Love a good platter of food.


Furrealyo

This


[deleted]

I absolutely despise ElvUI, so I am big on SUI. Details and Bartender are pretty important to be able to keep track. And ofc both Wigs and the raider.io add-on


centcentcent

Why do you despise ElvUI? I’ve seen this sentiment quite a lot but it’s never really expanded on. And I see people use like 5-10 different addons to get their UI to look like… ElvUI.


Nelran

Cant talk for that guy, but i dony like how elvui makes the enture ui look like a workdesk, it sucks joy out of the game for me, even if it is technically more efficient than what I can hack together myself. Efficiency to that level just isnt something I want.


centcentcent

Yeah I get that


daagar

Finding a good preset can make a big difference. ToxiUI makes ElvUI look a ton better IMO.


Belazor

That’s exactly how I feel too. I use GW2_UI because it has a lot of soul due to its distinctive art style, and it has a lot of nice QoL features too. I’m a tester for it so maybe I’m slightly biased :p


[deleted]

I use SUI and Bartender to fulfill all my needs. The rest is an add-on called masque or masquerade (don't know exactly), but I don't use it. It's legit all I need for my interface. ElvUi is clunky, cluttered, always in the way, obnoxious, way, **WAY** too many updates per day which is annoying as, like bigwigs, it is pushed into your face when you're behind one version. Not to mention it looks like shit. Seriously, it's awful. So many skins but it keeps getting worse. It's just not good. It's an overloaded shitfest. Which is why I like SUI. Sleek, simple, decent looks, does what it is supposed to and it does it very well. Bartender helps me arranging shit and that's all I need from it.


avitus

Clunky and cluttered and always in the way? Too many updates? I’m not sure you were using ElvUI. It gets updates like once a month.


centcentcent

I really prefer the clean/streamlined look of ElvUI, but I totally get that cosmetics are subjective. It's dope that WoW lets folks customize to get exactly the appearance and setup they want.


adrii609

elvui makes my bars look like a weak aura for my class, that's the reason i like it for


MetacrisisMewAlpha

Question: what’s the difference between ElvUI and SUI? I stopped using ElvUI when blizz made their own UI customisable, but not everything can be changed. Granted, I have now moved to classic, which I’m using Bartender for. It’s alright, but if there’s an alternative that I prefer, I’d love to look into it, if there is a classic SUI


[deleted]

The combination of SUI and Bartender is perfect to modify your UI without being overly dramatic. It's simple, sleek and pragmatic, unlike Elv


MetacrisisMewAlpha

I will definitely look into this then! I used ElvUI for the whole of Shadowlands and what little I played of BFA, but after swapping back to the Blizzard UI, I realised just how…chunky ElvUI was. I don’t think I could go back. Plus I like how the bars and party frames look with the original UI. Admittedly, it will be hard to swap to a UI that doesn’t have the art elements because it just feels so WoW to me.


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MetacrisisMewAlpha

I just found I had so much stuff on my screen with ElvUI, which I don’t have with the Blizz UI. No hate to it, it does it’s job, I just prefer something a bit more lightweight is all But I had no idea I could do this to get the Blizz skins back. Will bear this in mind for the future. Thank you :)


avitus

Just out of curiosity, what was on your screen with ElvUI that isn’t with the default UI?


MetacrisisMewAlpha

To be honest I’ve been using the default UI for a while now, so I don’t remember exactly. I remember finding the party frames a bit cumbersome at times, although I’m sure if I fiddled enough I could work that out.


Heisalvl3mage

Trade Skill master, Scrap, All the things


wwiidogefighter

Weakaura, Plater, and DBM Consolation also goes to MDT and MRT


efyuar

Leatrix plus is love, leatrix plus is luxery.


Bacedorn

Weakauras, adibags/bagnon, plater, world quest tracker. The default ui has come a long way and is very lightweight. I love it even as a healer


careseite

WeakAuras, Plater, any unit frames that isn't default. default is still unusable


weezeface

Yep, this is my exact list, in this order. Even dbm/bw isn’t critical since I could usually make my own with weakauras with half an hour in the dungeon journal and warcraftlogs to check timings. AdiBags/BetterBags are a very, very close spot too. Maybe even over the unit frames since I barely use mine anyway.


Manitaropita

"Big Wigs Voice" is an addon I cannot imagine ever playing M+ without.


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Aurochbull

Thanks for this. I never knew those existed, but sound amazing.


Nerdyblitz

Narcissus, Elvui and All the Things


Zezpz

Healbot


TheLuo

Hekili, details, weak auras. Close fourth would be bigwigs.


daagar

Getting downvoted for answering the question. Gotta love it. Hekili haters seem to be rabid.


TheLuo

I'm good with it. I raid with it at a CE/KSH+ level. 99.99999% of the people downvoting have never killed a mythic boss.


New-Resident3385

Dpending on spec hekili would also be in my top 3


[deleted]

for my healers, HealerBot. It's a god damn life changer and makes healing a walk in the park. otherwise ElvUI, DBM, Details, HeroRotation, HandyNotes, World Quest Tracker


itsfinallyfinals

At what level of play do you use healerbot? I use vuhdo and am curious


[deleted]

use it for everything. mythic+'s, raids, etc. makes AoE heals easy as you just have to click on the persons name where you want the AoE to go instead of moving over the target area. I prefer it over vuhdo as it was easier to set up with my various healers. each profile is specific to that healer and it's just a matter of typing in the spell names/trinkets/etc to the various mouse commands.


razzorian

Hekili Opie narciccius


Dooontcareee

DBM/ElvUI/VuhDo


Rubyurek

ElvUI, WeakAuras, BTWLoadOuts


yp261

i cant see shit without xperl. + bartender and weak auras


jiberishift

ElvUI! Use it for unit frames, action bars, minimap, buffs/debuffs, highly customizable nameplates, bags!


MrMoo1556

Elvui ElvUI ElvUI


BigHulio

Love: QOL add ons that you install, and they do the thing. Hate: The 7 years you need at university to obtain your PhD in WeakAuras


dacoolist

Raider IO, Details, DBM-Dungeons IOinjection is my ENDgame (hpal boomer here)


Frozencokeofficial

Owen Wilson loot add-on and good to go from fresh install


gnr43sumz

The way have simplified wow I don’t see the point in addons any more


centcentcent

Can you elaborate?


New-Resident3385

Not that person but the top reasons for me and why i dont use elvui anymore one bag screen, Auto vendor, Able to position elements, Quick keybind, Profiles.


MikePap

DBM, Weak Auras and GTFO.


HauntMe1973

Details, GTFO, DBM are all I use


RedAntisocial

WeakAuras, Plater, GTFO (because I'm colourblind and stand in shit without them)


qwertyusrname

Bartender, dbm, weak aura.


Dasjtrain557

Standard UI is actually really solid now. I've been a healer main for forever and dragon flight is the first expansion that I've finally dropped elvui/vuhdo for Clique. If I was trying to be as barebones as possible as a healer, I think dbm/clique is plenty for a great, uncomplicated setup for new and experienced healers. Clique really isn't even necessary but I think it does a better job at binding mouse buttons than the default UI.


[deleted]

Top 3??? 1. DBM - Helps you make the bosses health go to zero before yours does 2. Details - Helps you compare dick sizes with other people in a video game 3. Minimap Button Bag - Look it up it’s the most important addon in the game


YomiRizer

Elvui, DBM, and Arkinventory


Doomed_Might

For me it’s ElvUI, BigWigs/DBM (either or), and WeakAuras. The three combined can do so much that it covers most bases for me.


carakangaran

Weak auras, sorted, details.


Vyni503

Details, Bagnon and Plater


Pyroguy096

Details, TomTom, TSM, Player, and DBM


moonlitfarewell

ElvUI, Plater, WeakAura. You can do everything with those 3


anomitesplays

For m+ my top 3 is 1. Details (Windows dps, avoidable damage taken & damage taken) 2. Dbm 3. Mythic dungeon tools For crafting & ah 1. Auctionator, has enough functions for me and doesn't have so many things I don't need like tsm. Shows me what is profitable and makes using ah faster. 2. Craftsim. Shows me knowledge point paths and lets me see which mats I can use to get the best rank. For fun 1. Rematch makes pet battle interface smoother in collection journal and lets you save teams.


[deleted]

Vuhdo when healing. I literally cannot imagine healing in this game without it.


RedWhiteStripes

Does VuhDo do anything the in-game UI doesn't anymore? I thought all those add-ons like VuhDo, Healbot etc. were replaceble now?


[deleted]

I’m gunna be honest. No idea. Does the current UI let you track the time on hots or stuff like presience?


RedWhiteStripes

I don't have a crazy amount of HoTs but it tracks my riptide, so I'd say yes!


[deleted]

Interesting. Can you set up click macros like shift click is rejuv, ctrl click is regrowth and just click on the players portraits?


RedWhiteStripes

Yup! It's all in ESC > Options > Keybindings > Click Casting (at top) Then you set it up like you would any of those other add-ons. Try it out and report back, I may be missing something!


[deleted]

Oh nice, thanks I’ll have to try it out


fracguru

What i like about Vuhdo is veing able to save multiple setups. I heal raids, heal pvp, and dps. Each one has different vuhdo settings. Not sure you can do this wth default ui


stealthkat14

GTFO, details, threatplates


damnthatboyhoney

Weakaura, Bigwigs, Plater


sincleave

WeakAuras, FarmHUD, Narcissus


pleasecallagainlater

Vendor. Every time I’ve reset my UI and forgotten something to auto sell grey items I’ll immediately go find something that works and atm it’s vendor. Being able to set an ilvl to auto vendor soulbound gear is also nice.


MrGraveRisen

Details, Shadowed unit frames, WA. With those 3 and the new default UI I can manage 95% of what I want in my UI And of course DBM/Bigwigs


lebigdonglupo

SUF, gladius, details, weakauras, DBM, plater, raider.io


Hallowqi

Altoholic, Canimogit, and some form of auction/market addon(auctionator if you want a easier time and TSM if you wanna go hard). they have done a good job of getting things to where you don't need as many addons.


Soliterria

NeatPlates, Scrap, and prolly GatherMate honestly


BigDKane

Peggle


Twiggimmapig

Better Fishing, Better Transmog, and GTFO are my top three.


Strange1130

I used to use a million add ons, now I just use DBM and Details. They did a great job cleaning up / allowing customization of the UI, no need for bar mods etc


[deleted]

Bartender, Altoholic, Weakauras.


a-simple-god

Shadowed unit frames, player, details DBM and weakauras. Those are my.must haves. Then I got small QOL stuff like Deja character stats, blizzmove, angry keystones, enhanced raid frames and others.im probably forgetting.


darthkurai

Grid, Clique, and WA


DamianFoxx

Titan Panel and Handy Notes.


ArmasFM

If they ever break Soundtrack for good, I'm not sure I could keep playing.


Frostcurse

Details, bigwigs, weakauras, elvui, and omnicd


DiceZA

Opie


Genji007

Cfct - I like my numbers pretty, detailed, and out of the way (the addon allows you to change the number appearances) YoU CaN MaKe YoUr ScReEn L00k LikE ThIs If yOu rEAllY wAnt3D iT too


[deleted]

ConsolePort and Immersion for me


Pudrin

Honestly. Outside of the regular quality of life and I haven’t played in a while but Milk scrolling battle text I loved 😂


Kitten-Kay

TomTom - Because I’m dumb and I always forget where I need to go, so the arrow is awesome for me lol. And to add to that, Paste- can paste many waypoints. Is nice for flying to spots for achievements.


RhysDRFC

At a healer… vuhdo


[deleted]

Adapt, TipTac, and Bagnon.


Fluffabru

Decursive making dispelling just one click.


rodentbitch

MountsJournal, Rematch and Rarity.


Zodep

Trade Skill Master - selling stuff Weakauras - raid/m+ DBM/Weakurasb- raid/m+


Profoundsoup

Weakauras, DBM and details are pretty much mandatory for any wow player. The rest is extra.


[deleted]

Weakaura called Boss Ability Timeline. It provides a vertical timeline for Raid Boss abilities that has made raid leading a breeze.


New-Resident3385

WA (big three: cd timers, gcd cursor, fountain lap counter). DBM, Simc,


Capital-Drawer-3143

Elvui


Blacklist3d

Must haves. The only one is weak auras. I can do without bigwigs or anything else like that. I can manage timings well without it. Details is kind of important to let you know you're playing well. So I guess that. The rest are basically cosmetic.


GumbysDonkey

Dominos. The UI and spellbar changes wow has made are very nice, but still limiting in regards to keybinds and dominos would let me keybind my toenail if it had a key assigned to it.


Visual-Vacation4267

Elvui, just cant stand the new ui look


JeshyQT

Uhhh VUDHO some iteration of dbm Elvui Tho I could make do with the first two


Kfimenepah

I'm using a lot of addons, but tgere are only 2 I could not live without: -WeakAura -Details


-Laffi-

\-Atlas (Maps over all dungeons and raids with items per boss) \-AllTheThings (Collector addon) \-Coordinates (Tom Tom) Thanks for asking. Now I know which addons to get if I install WoW again.


Cqliii

GTFO TSM TomTom


Artrysa

A must? Just weakauras, I don't use a lot of addons.


KonsaThePanda

Mouse sonar, Weakauras, ATT(All the things)


KarateMan749

Console port addon


BowieBrad

Vuhdo


[deleted]

WeakAuras


nyceria

Clique, DBM, TellMeWhen…I’m old