[0:00] Hello guys, and welcome to my new video
[0:02] and today we're going to be talking
[0:03] about my updated add-on list. This is
[0:05] something that I get asked all the time
[0:08] about what are my favorite add-ons. I've
[0:09] been testing add-ons for the last couple
[0:11] of months and this is going to be my
[0:13] updated list of some of the favorite and
[0:15] most important add-ons that I am using.
[0:18] I'm going to start off with something
[0:19] simple, boss mods. I've been using
[0:22] Deadly Boss Mods or DBM for the last
[0:24] couple of weeks because honestly
[0:25] throughout the beta of Midnight, these
[0:28] boss mods were not able to do much. They
[0:29] were glorified skins to the default
[0:33] Blizzard boss notifications, but over
[0:35] the last couple of patches and add-on
[0:38] restriction changes, DBM especially has
[0:41] some really nice default notifications
[0:44] that you don't have to do much in order
[0:46] to get them. Notifications like these.
[0:50] Hear me roar.
[0:53] Heal the friend. for your crimes.
[1:00] Dispel.
[1:03] Of course, Big Wigs and add-ons like
[1:04] that can also do voice notifications,
[1:06] but they have more generic or at least
[1:08] last time I checked they had more
[1:09] generic notifications and if you want to
[1:11] change them, you have to go and manually
[1:12] change it yourself, which is absolutely
[1:14] fine. I just feel like out of the box
[1:16] DBM voice notifications are really
[1:19] really good, especially for players who
[1:20] are not sure about some of the boss
[1:22] mechanics or things like that. And if
[1:24] you're not sure about some of the DBM
[1:25] features, you can /dbm,
[1:28] you can go into the general options. You
[1:30] can go and test your bars. You can see
[1:32] this is how I have them set up right
[1:33] now. If for whatever reason you don't
[1:35] like these bars and you want to use the
[1:37] default stuff, you can go into disable
[1:39] DBM features and you can take disable
[1:42] DBM timers entirely.
[1:43] For example, maybe you want to use
[1:45] Blizzard's timeline instead. You can go
[1:48] into block Blizzard's features and you
[1:49] can untick hide the Blizzard's raid
[1:52] timeline during boss fights. So, you can
[1:54] mix and match in terms of which features
[1:56] you want and of course the voice
[1:58] notifications I think are very very
[2:00] good, especially if you're someone who's
[2:01] new. Now, in terms of some of the main
[2:03] add-ons, one of the biggest add-on that
[2:04] I'm using right now that basically
[2:06] covers most of the things you you see
[2:08] here is going to be Enhanced Quality of
[2:11] Life.
[2:12] This add-on right here started off as
[2:14] Quality of Life add-on. It had bunch of
[2:16] these little features, but now it
[2:18] basically has pretty much everything.
[2:21] So, if you go to for example, interface,
[2:23] you can go to EQL unit frames and you
[2:25] can add all the unit frames you want.
[2:27] You can have raid unit frames, you can
[2:30] have again, your party, your target of
[2:32] target, your focus, all of those things.
[2:34] And the main feature of EQL in the way
[2:36] that it does its editing is edit mode.
[2:39] All the things that you do or majority
[2:41] of the things you do with this add-on
[2:43] are going to be visible in the default
[2:45] edit mode that Blizzard provides. So,
[2:47] for example, in this case I'm using
[2:49] Enhanced Quality of Life player frame
[2:51] and I'm using Enhanced Quality of Life
[2:53] target frame. So, I can just right click
[2:55] this and then I have a bunch of features
[2:57] that I can change. It's all done through
[3:00] the default edit mode, which is honestly
[3:01] great. The reason I can't edit my party
[3:04] raid frames right now is because I'm
[3:05] using another add-on for that. So, think
[3:07] of Enhanced Quality of Life almost like
[3:09] a UI suite right now because it can
[3:11] replace most of the things on top of
[3:13] like hundreds of different Quality of
[3:15] Life features. We talked about the unit
[3:17] frames. You can use party and raid
[3:19] frames if you want. There's been some
[3:20] really big changes made to Enhanced
[3:22] Quality of Life in terms of cool down
[3:23] manager. You can now move buffs, which
[3:26] is a big big deal. Outside of that, just
[3:29] look through the feed. For example, in
[3:31] here, you can have teleports, you can
[3:33] have markers, you can have macros. You
[3:35] could you can create a health macro
[3:38] that's going to use healthstone potion
[3:40] and it's going to be
[3:43] in your macro section. You just have to
[3:44] go down to the enhanced section right
[3:46] here and you can see it here and it's
[3:48] going to use it for you. Small things
[3:50] like that and then big things like your
[3:53] unit frames, your raid party frames,
[3:55] your cool down manager. Depending on how
[3:57] much of the add-on you want to make use
[4:00] of, you can honestly build the whole UI
[4:02] out of it. Let's talk about party and
[4:04] raid frames and I've been testing a
[4:06] bunch of those. Right now, I kind of
[4:08] landed on Danders frames and this is
[4:11] something that I've been using for a
[4:12] little while. I also have profiles and
[4:14] things like that for Grid 2. I was
[4:16] messing around with some of the other
[4:17] add-ons. I know there is
[4:19] Sell might possibly be coming back. I
[4:21] know there's ElvUI is going to have raid
[4:23] frames pretty soon. I'm going to test
[4:24] all of those. Right now, I'm using
[4:26] Danders because over the last couple of
[4:28] weeks there's been some really nice
[4:30] updates. It's very important for an
[4:31] add-on to have constant updates and bug
[4:33] fixes and I think Danders has been
[4:35] really good at it. I think the very
[4:37] early iteration of Danders had big
[4:39] performance issues and I think it's
[4:40] gotten a lot a lot better. I've been
[4:43] tracking performance of every single
[4:45] add-on every time I do dungeons. It's
[4:47] very very important for me and Danders
[4:49] has a lot of customization now,
[4:51] especially the latest features and I
[4:53] talked about this before in the aura
[4:55] designer. You can have you can change
[4:57] the color of the frame based on the buff
[4:59] that you have. And you can see all the
[5:01] different profiles that I've made in
[5:04] order where the buffs should be, in
[5:06] order like just everything. And the
[5:08] latest feature is tracking buffs that
[5:12] are still somewhat secret. For example,
[5:14] if we go down to discipline priest and
[5:17] we can go and click add icon, you can
[5:19] add as an icon, you can change the
[5:21] health bar color if you want. Again,
[5:23] multiple different features. Let's go to
[5:25] the icon section and now you can see you
[5:27] can track things like power infusion by
[5:29] itself. That's actually not really
[5:31] possible or you're not able to track
[5:34] just power infusion with a lot of other
[5:36] add-ons. This is doing using Herix kind
[5:39] of logic in order for you to track
[5:42] almost everything or a lot of the things
[5:44] that
[5:44] >> [music]
[5:44] >> healers might need or if you want extra
[5:46] customization. These things right here,
[5:49] these have been unsecreted by Blizzard,
[5:51] so every single add-on can do this
[5:53] really easily. These things right here
[5:56] are using specific logic. It's
[5:59] again a big of magic. So, these kind of
[6:02] features, if you want additional
[6:03] customization is really really nice.
[6:05] Again, it also has its own binding
[6:07] system as well. I'm not really using it
[6:08] right now. I'm still sticking with
[6:10] Clique for the time being, but overall,
[6:12] I think Danders has been improving every
[6:14] single week and the amount of
[6:15] customization you have on top of the
[6:18] really robust in my opinion testing
[6:20] feature.
[6:22] You can test every For example, you can
[6:23] test boss debuffs, which a lot of the
[6:26] other add-ons cannot really or they
[6:28] don't really allow you to do that. So,
[6:31] you can actually see where every debuff
[6:32] is going to. By boss debuffs, I mean the
[6:34] private auras. This is something that is
[6:37] quite important. So, good testing
[6:40] feature, a lot of improvements, a lot of
[6:41] customization. I'm liking Danders more
[6:44] and more every single week. And now
[6:45] let's talk about the big cool down
[6:47] manager. There's been a bunch of add-ons
[6:49] that I've been testing for the cool down
[6:50] manager in terms of trying to manipulate
[6:52] the spells and move them and manipulate
[6:54] buffs, which is a very very important
[6:56] feature for me. And we're going to talk
[6:57] about the OG WeakAuras. I have not spent
[7:00] or I I'm not using WeakAuras. I'm
[7:02] currently I'm using a bunch of different
[7:03] add-ons, but WeakAuras is the OG.
[7:05] WeakAuras is doing somewhat hacky
[7:07] things, but Blizzard doesn't seem to
[7:08] mind and I feel like a lot of add-ons
[7:11] are going to go down the route of trying
[7:13] to do what WeakAuras is doing because
[7:15] Blizzard is allowing for it, which means
[7:17] again, in this case, WeakAuras has a
[7:20] bunch of features. It has a lot of
[7:22] things that you can tinker with and this
[7:24] is why for a lot of the casual players
[7:26] or people who are just not really that
[7:28] versed in add-ons are going to find it a
[7:30] little bit difficult. But, if you know
[7:32] what you're doing, WeakAuras is very
[7:35] very strong and I think one of the
[7:36] latest features is to do with like mass
[7:39] master exports in terms of profiles.
[7:41] Profiling for cool down manager in all
[7:44] of the cool down manager add-ons that
[7:45] I've seen is a big issue to deal with
[7:48] because cool down managers you have to
[7:50] manipulate the cool down manager spells
[7:52] and things like that. So, just keep in
[7:53] mind, WeakAuras is very good, but I'm
[7:55] not using it right now, but I have to
[7:57] mention it. What I've been using
[7:58] recently is going to be and I've been
[8:01] pleasantly surprised by this, by the
[8:02] way.
[8:03] And that is AJC DM. This is one of the
[8:06] add-ons that popped up a little while
[8:07] ago and I it's been on my list to try
[8:10] and mess around with it. The best way I
[8:12] can place AJC DM is that it's not really
[8:15] WeakAuras in terms of customization, but
[8:17] if you don't need all of that,
[8:19] the layout of the menu, the
[8:21] customizations are more than enough. And
[8:24] most importantly, based on my
[8:26] performance testing of add-ons, this has
[8:29] been doing re-surprisingly really well
[8:31] in terms of performance. So, this is a
[8:34] bit of an underdog that I had to talk
[8:36] about. So, let me show an example of my
[8:38] preservation evoker. I'm going to open
[8:39] the menu and again, we talked about the
[8:41] fact that by default it's going to add
[8:43] some skinning to your cool down manager.
[8:45] It's going to change your bars, but if
[8:46] you want to add additional buffs, for
[8:48] example, in my case, I can click
[8:50] settings here and you can see that I'm
[8:52] going to be tracking stasis
[8:54] uh the number of abilities right here.
[8:56] I'm going to be tracking essence burst
[8:58] here. I'm going to be tracking twin
[8:59] echoes here and it's very very easy to
[9:01] do. You basically again, you have this
[9:03] group of ungrouped buffs and then you
[9:05] can create a new group and in my case
[9:06] it's going to be main buffs. You can
[9:07] click into it and then you can change
[9:10] the icon width, you can change the X and
[9:12] Y offset, you can anchor it to a
[9:14] specific ability and then that's that's
[9:17] basically it. Now, you have a separation
[9:19] of buffs and you can place them whenever
[9:21] you want. And if you want to use the
[9:23] same kind of again, the group, you can
[9:26] right click it and copy it to any spec
[9:28] that you want to again, reuse it.
[9:31] So, you don't have to redo all the
[9:33] groups all the time. It's very
[9:34] simplistic. It makes sense. It's basic.
[9:37] And this is exactly what I needed
[9:39] because for example, right here, if I'm
[9:40] going to be pressing my again, twin
[9:42] echoes, it's going to show up here. If I
[9:43] press stasis, you can see here that I
[9:46] have three abilities that's tracking it
[9:47] for me. So, I can clearly see what I'm
[9:50] adding and taking away and then it's
[9:53] showing me that this is going to go off
[9:54] in 26 seconds. And I also got two twin
[9:57] echoes. So, you can see that anytime I'm
[9:59] going to be playing preservation of
[10:00] evocer, I'm going to be looking in terms
[10:03] of my eyes, I'm going to be looking here
[10:04] to see if I have essence burst, I'm
[10:06] going to be looking here to see if I
[10:07] have my twin echoes, and then if I press
[10:10] my uh
[10:11] again, stasis, I can see how many
[10:12] buttons. So, this is how I'm doing the
[10:15] UI in terms of this specific spot is
[10:18] going to be a proc. And I'm doing the
[10:19] same for almost every other healer. For
[10:21] example, for holy paladin, if I'm
[10:23] getting my hand of divinity, it's going
[10:25] to show up here. If I'm getting and I'm
[10:27] going to try and get infusion light
[10:29] procs, I don't think it's going to
[10:30] happen. You can see here, I can use my
[10:32] big holy lights, I'm pressing my holy
[10:34] shock.
[10:35] Let's get infusions. It's not happening.
[10:39] Again, my bar changes. This resource bar
[10:41] is coming from enhanced quality of life.
[10:43] So, my bar changes when I have five holy
[10:45] power.
[10:46] Again, I got my infusion. So, now
[10:48] there's a specific spot. If I get in my
[10:50] infusions here, they're always going to
[10:52] appear here. If I'm getting my hand of
[10:53] divinity, it's always going to appear
[10:55] here. So, that means I'm not going to
[10:57] miss them in the sea of buffs that you
[11:00] get with the default cooldown manager.
[11:02] And for the last example, I don't want
[11:03] to bore you. This is my resto shaman.
[11:05] I'm going to see my tidal waves right
[11:07] here. I'm going to see my unleash life
[11:09] always here. And if I press my
[11:10] ascendance, I know exactly how much
[11:12] ascendance I have left. Or if I get a
[11:14] proc of ascendance, I know exactly
[11:16] that I got a proc. So, this is how And
[11:19] again, you can also add your trinket
[11:20] procs using this add-on. And the latest
[11:22] feature is to do with layout. So, now
[11:24] you can actually create a bunch of
[11:28] other layouts outside of your essential
[11:30] cooldowns. And it's super easy. You just
[11:32] create a group, you add your buttons
[11:34] there, and you can click into those
[11:35] buttons, you can add glows to it. Again,
[11:38] you can go back to the buff bar, you can
[11:39] click into each ability, you can enable
[11:41] glow, you can hide the icon. For
[11:43] example, my resto druid, okay. We'll go
[11:45] down and showcase resto druid. On my
[11:47] resto druid, for example, I'm tracking
[11:49] soul of the forest right here.
[11:51] And uh you'll see also I'm tracking
[11:53] abundance stacks because especially in
[11:55] raid, you need to make sure you know how
[11:56] many abundance stacks you have. And I
[11:58] need to wait for the swiftment to come
[11:59] off cooldown because I'm also tracking
[12:01] reforestation. You can see here, these
[12:04] are two stacks. And the way I'm doing
[12:06] it, it's not showing an icon. You can
[12:07] open, you can go into buff groups, and
[12:09] you can see my
[12:11] reforestation right here. I can click
[12:13] into it, and I just hit the icon, and
[12:15] I'm just showing the stacks.
[12:17] And again, you can just drag and drop
[12:20] anything that you want to track. Keep in
[12:21] mind, the list of the spells that you
[12:23] can manipulate is going to be the spells
[12:26] that you also have in your default
[12:29] cooldown manager. So, you have to edit
[12:31] your default cooldown manager, then you
[12:32] have a access to those icons, and then
[12:35] you can do a bunch of different things
[12:37] with this add-on. You don't have to use
[12:39] AJ CDM, you can use RUI, you can use a
[12:42] bunch of things because there is a new
[12:44] change made to enhanced quality of life.
[12:46] Enhanced quality of life, as I
[12:47] mentioned, is being updated every single
[12:50] week. Some really big features being
[12:52] added. One of the big features that been
[12:54] added is the cooldown panel. Now, the
[12:56] cooldown panel
[12:57] existed for enhanced quality of life for
[13:00] a while, but now they've added new
[13:02] things in terms of you can go here.
[13:05] You can actually import your CDM, you
[13:07] can import your buff bar, you can import
[13:10] specific buffs. So, you can actually
[13:13] place them in any direction you want.
[13:15] One of the reasons I'm not really using
[13:16] this right now because it only came out
[13:17] a couple of days ago, and I've been
[13:19] testing AJ CDM for the last week. So,
[13:22] there's bunch of add-ons that can do
[13:24] exactly what I just showcased here. And
[13:27] I think the three add-ons or the couple
[13:29] add-ons that I mentioned so far in terms
[13:30] of RUI, in terms of AJ CDM, in terms of
[13:32] enhanced quality of life, I think these
[13:34] are great options right now. And if you
[13:36] know more, leave your comments. I'm
[13:38] going to check them out. Now, in terms
[13:40] of some of the smaller add-ons that I'm
[13:41] using and I think are great, I've tested
[13:43] them so far a little bit. Uh in terms of
[13:45] skinning, so you can see the little
[13:46] borders around the buffs and debuffs in
[13:49] terms of the skins around the quest
[13:51] frame or objective frame. This UI right
[13:54] here is not using ElvUI. I have another
[13:57] version where I am using ElvUI, I'm
[13:59] testing it and seeing it how it feels,
[14:00] but this is not using ElvUI.
[14:03] I'm using another add-on called MuiUI.
[14:06] I'm not sure sure if I'm saying that
[14:07] right or MUI in order to skin a lot of
[14:10] things. You can change the themes, you
[14:11] can see here. It changes the look of
[14:13] your character frame. This is actually
[14:15] in conjunction with EQL skinning as well
[14:18] to make this look like that. But you
[14:20] also will see the dark borders in your
[14:21] talents and things like that, and it
[14:23] just makes it look a little bit nicer
[14:25] for me. Another add-on that I use is
[14:27] called CD pulse, and this is going to be
[14:30] for the people who used Doom cooldown
[14:32] pulse a while ago.
[14:33] That I don't think that has been
[14:35] updated. I'm not sure. I've just
[14:36] replaced it with this. And basically,
[14:37] it's very simple. I'm going to test an
[14:39] alert. You can see there's an icon in
[14:41] the middle of the screen that appears
[14:42] for split second, and this tell me this
[14:44] ability is available for you to use.
[14:47] And that's all it does. It's very
[14:48] simple. You can just add the spells that
[14:50] you want to track. Once they become
[14:52] available, they're going to pop up in
[14:53] the middle of your screen, and that's
[14:55] it. I find it to be quite good in order
[14:58] to try and see, "Okay, my dispel is
[14:59] available. I can dispel another
[15:00] ability." Okay, my cooldown's become
[15:02] available. Again, in the heat of the
[15:04] moment, this actually is more important
[15:07] for me than I initially anticipated
[15:08] because it just allows me to quickly see
[15:11] what can I do. Let's talk about quest
[15:12] frames and a little kind of toasts and
[15:15] things like that. So, just to showcase
[15:17] it for you. Look when I enter a new
[15:19] zone. Look at the text right here.
[15:21] See this? This little nice the
[15:23] Silvermoon City entrance. It goes up, a
[15:26] nice little animation and things like
[15:28] that. This is coming from a new add-on
[15:31] called Horizon
[15:33] Suite. So,
[15:36] this is something that's been developed
[15:37] for midnight, and they've been adding
[15:39] stuff almost every single week. There's
[15:42] multiple different modules that you can
[15:43] use. So, one of the modules that you can
[15:45] I'm going to toggle it here is the focus
[15:46] module. And you can see here, it changes
[15:48] how your quest look like, the font, the
[15:50] style, the sizing, the objective. For
[15:53] me, nothing is ever going to beat the
[15:55] default quest frame, if I'm being
[15:57] completely honest. But if you want
[15:59] something different, this is pretty
[16:01] cool. And then outside of that, you have
[16:03] these presents and vista modes. Vista is
[16:06] the mini map, it's going to change the
[16:07] mini map and add a bunch of different
[16:09] things. So, if you want to change your
[16:11] quest objectives, if you want to have it
[16:12] this nice text
[16:14] when you're entering new zone and things
[16:16] like that, and I think this add-on is
[16:18] also working on loot
[16:21] frame in terms of changing that. So, I'm
[16:23] waiting for that in the future. I think
[16:25] this is pretty cool. Let's talk about a
[16:27] combination of add-ons that for questing
[16:30] have been
[16:31] so good. So, if I go to the add-on
[16:33] section right here, you'll notice
[16:35] Waypoint UI. So, this is very
[16:37] simplistic. Very simplistic, but
[16:39] honestly, it feels like it should be
[16:40] added part of the game. If I click on
[16:42] something, it's just going to tell me
[16:44] where to go.
[16:46] And it just adds this text, and I can
[16:48] fly to it, and I honestly feel like it
[16:50] should be part of Blizzard's default.
[16:52] And the same with this add-on in terms
[16:55] of I Again, if you can see dialogue UI.
[16:57] And I want to go to a quest
[16:59] to show you exactly what it is. I've
[17:01] been using this Again, you can see the
[17:02] Waypoint UI, it tells me to go here
[17:04] because I selected it. And I almost feel
[17:07] like it should be part of the game. Like
[17:09] this add-on. If I go to a quest,
[17:12] it gives me this whole experience of it
[17:14] removes everything, and then I get this
[17:16] text on my right-hand side. You can
[17:18] configure that. You can be in the
[17:19] middle, it can be on the left, you can
[17:21] change the size, all of those things.
[17:23] And now I can accept it.
[17:24] I've been running this for the whole
[17:26] quest experience, and I feel like this
[17:28] is the default. This is purely
[17:30] cosmetics, but I think this is really,
[17:32] really well done. Lastly, this is a
[17:35] world quest add-on in terms of tracking.
[17:38] Again, if you go to world quest, it
[17:39] shows you the icons. It shows you the
[17:41] tooltips. I've been using world quest
[17:43] list for a little while, but that was
[17:45] really broken for me. It was giving me a
[17:47] bunch of tooltip issues, tooltip errors,
[17:49] and and things like that. And I swapped
[17:51] away to use world quest tab. So, now I
[17:56] have a specific tab in the default map
[17:58] section. Again, if I go zoom out,
[18:02] you'll see all the world quests and all
[18:04] the all the little loot that I can get
[18:06] as a rewards. And it fits in here, it
[18:08] gives me zero issues so far, which is
[18:10] great, which is very important because I
[18:12] believe these tooltips are little
[18:16] annoying to go around. You can actually
[18:18] read it here, world quest tab or WQT
[18:21] anti-error tooltip. So, I've been using
[18:24] this for questing. Thank you guys for
[18:26] watching this video, and this is a list
[18:27] of all the most important and my
[18:29] favorite add-ons so far. There's bunch
[18:31] of add-ons that I still want to test
[18:32] further. I still want to test more party
[18:34] and raid frame add-ons. I want to test
[18:35] more cooldown manager add-ons because
[18:37] those are the most important parts of
[18:39] the user interface right now. If I have
[18:41] enough customization in those aspects,
[18:43] I'm more than happy. Let me know if I
[18:46] miss out on some add-ons that you think
[18:47] are really good, that you think are
[18:49] emerging, that have good performance,
[18:51] because remember, I'm testing all of
[18:52] these add-ons, and I'm testing
[18:53] performance as well. Performance is very
[18:56] important for me. Let me know which
[18:57] add-ons I missed out. If you like this
[18:59] video, like and subscribe, and I'll see
[19:01] you in my next guide.