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title: 'My Addon List for Midnight | Best Addons (UPDATED)'
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# My Addon List for Midnight | Best Addons (UPDATED)

> Source: [My Addon List for Midnight | Best Addons (UPDATED)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HXYyJcUwjyU)

## Summary

The video presents an updated list of the creator's favorite and most important World of Warcraft add-ons for the Midnight expansion. The focus is on performance, customization, and ease of use, covering boss mods, UI suites, raid frames, cooldown managers, and various quality-of-life tools.

### Key Points

- **Boss Mods: DBM vs BigWigs** [[0:18]] — Preference for Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) due to improved voice notifications that are effective out-of-the-box for new players. DBM settings allow toggling features like timers and blending with Blizzard's UI.
- **Enhanced Quality of Life (EQL) as a UI Suite** [[2:11]] — EQL now covers unit frames, raid frames, cooldown manager, and hundreds of QoL features. It heavily integrates with Blizzard's default edit mode for customization, allowing users to build a full UI.
- **Party and Raid Frames: Danders Frames** [[4:04]] — Danders frames are preferred due to frequent updates, bug fixes, and robust customization. Notable features include buff color-based frame changes and the ability to track 'secret' buffs, plus a built-in testing feature for boss debuffs.
- **Cooldown Manager: WeakAuras vs AJC DM** [[6:45]] — While WeakAuras is the most powerful OG add-on, the presenter is currently using AJC DM for its easier layout, sufficient customization, and surprisingly good performance. AJC DM allows grouping buffs and placing them precisely without the complexity of WeakAuras.
- **EQL Cooldown Panel Update** [[12:46]] — The latest version of EQL adds a cooldown panel that can import CDM, buff bars, and specific buffs, allowing flexible positioning. This feature is new and still being tested.
- **Horizon Suite for Questing and UI Skins** [[16:01]] — Horizon Suite provides customizable quest frames, zone entrance text animations, minimap changes (Vista mode), and more. It adds a polished look without being resource-heavy.
- **Waypoint UI and Dialogue UI** [[16:35]] — Waypoint UI adds a text guide to quest objectives, and Dialogue UI provides a immersive, configurable quest dialogue experience. Both are described as feeling like default features that should be in the base game.
- **World Quest Tab (WQT)** [[17:35]] — A replacement for the buggy World Quest List add-on. WQT adds a dedicated tab in the default map, showing all world quests and rewards with minimal tooltip errors.

### Conclusion

This updated add-on list prioritizes performance, customization, and integration with Blizzard's default UI, especially for healers. The creator continues to test addons regularly and values community suggestions for further improvements.

## Transcript

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