[0:04] hey guys what's going on it's Kodiak
[0:06] here and we have a very special top 10
[0:08] for you guys today today we are going to
[0:10] be covering the top 10 add-ons every
[0:12] Wild player needs to know and I say we
[0:15] because we have a very special guest
[0:16] with us today my man Republic yeah my
[0:19] name is Republic uh I'm one of the
[0:21] officers in exiled power and looking
[0:23] forward to go over and going over some
[0:24] of these add-ons with you all right Sean
[0:26] so kick us off what's number 10 all
[0:28] right so number 10 mostly in worlds of
[0:30] dra War I focused on being the healing
[0:32] officer and that kind of thing so the
[0:33] first thing we're going to cover is
[0:36] healbot and those kinds of things so
[0:38] there's kind of a plethora of these
[0:39] right now um we got healbot we have
[0:42] Voodoo with grid there's also stuff like
[0:44] click so in general just to keep healers
[0:47] sane and making it easier than the
[0:49] default raid frames um I highly suggest
[0:52] using one of these guys I know lvi kind
[0:54] of has some of this stuff in there too
[0:56] but um it's just kind of a personal
[0:58] preference every healer should be
[0:59] running something other than the default
[1:01] raid
[1:02] frames and what do you think why why is
[1:04] this such an advantage for players to be
[1:06] using something like this yeah I mean
[1:08] you kind of get more customization you
[1:09] get more feel of it um so like with the
[1:11] default raid frames like position can be
[1:13] kind of weird and things like that so
[1:15] using these custom solutions kind of
[1:17] gives you like a a tailor made raid
[1:19] experience it's not like super crucial
[1:21] that's why it's kind of starting off our
[1:23] list you know but um it's definitely
[1:24] something that'll help you become a
[1:26] better player by using it effectively I
[1:28] think and so if you're on the fence say
[1:29] if you're looking for the the most basic
[1:31] introductory on say You're A Healer that
[1:33] you want just a little bit better which
[1:35] which one would you go with um so again
[1:37] it's all kind of personal preference um
[1:39] kind of thing so I started out using
[1:41] healbot I've used healbot since like uh
[1:44] I first started healing and like burning
[1:46] Crusade you know so it's like the the UI
[1:49] and the graphic elements haven't changed
[1:50] like at all so it's very simple very
[1:52] easy to use um you can get pretty heavy
[1:54] with it so personally I would say start
[1:56] off with healbot um with that being said
[1:58] though grid offers a lot of very
[2:00] simplistic tools as well um Voodoo is
[2:03] kind of giving you a best of the best
[2:05] worlds it's kind of in the Middle with
[2:06] those guys um but honestly like they're
[2:09] all going to give you the same
[2:10] functionality and things like that so
[2:12] I'd say pick one that suits you the best
[2:14] or think that you can get the most help
[2:16] on for example so like if you have
[2:18] another healer in your team that also
[2:19] use healbot maybe go to that one or if
[2:22] your team all uses Voodoo go to f one
[2:24] because they can actually help you
[2:26] configure it and mess around with it so
[2:28] awesome all right number nine iscar
[2:31] assist thogar assist any of these assist
[2:34] add-ons um this is kind of a cool one
[2:36] guys because what we're basically saying
[2:38] is there's a plethora of resources out
[2:40] there for you guys to look at um iscar
[2:43] for anybody that knows me anybody in
[2:44] Exile power knows me I hate that boss I
[2:47] think it's a terrible boss yeah it's a
[2:49] terrible boss and what the community did
[2:52] was they created uh an add-on and
[2:54] basically a small little module that
[2:56] said hey let's let's help our Raiders
[2:58] Let's Help the whole Community um um
[3:00] beat this boss and so what we're saying
[3:02] is be on the lookout for these really
[3:04] awesome small package add-ons that are
[3:07] going to help you defeat bosses that are
[3:08] tough um we said iscar already thogar
[3:11] had another one Hans and Fran had
[3:13] another one and they're all very simple
[3:15] things that are just going to give you
[3:17] the edge and that is so important in a
[3:19] raid environment guys you want the edge
[3:22] yeah and like I can't read I mean like
[3:24] these have been around for a long time
[3:26] right we had weak ores all that kind of
[3:28] stuff before this is just kind of a more
[3:30] packaged version um let's say you have a
[3:32] Raider on your team that's like I don't
[3:34] like using weak Wars it's not my thing
[3:36] I'd rather not um using these add-ons
[3:39] instead sometimes simplifies that
[3:41] experience a little bit um so it kind of
[3:43] helps you get that next step up even if
[3:45] your raid team isn't quite on the weak
[3:47] Ora hype train so to speak because I
[3:50] mean you'll see some weak Ora encounter
[3:52] specific ones as well so kind of look
[3:54] for those two but we just wanted to call
[3:55] out these because they have been popping
[3:57] up without wad so probably the same will
[4:00] happen in Legion as well so
[4:02] absolutely all right so the next thing
[4:04] we're coming is number eight this is
[4:07] quarts this is one of my personal
[4:09] favorite add-ons I've used this for
[4:10] quite some time um and again this is
[4:13] another one of those components that's
[4:14] part of Lui and similar UI packages but
[4:17] if you're one of those people that kind
[4:19] of like to take a bigger customization
[4:21] role in your UI like me uh quartz is
[4:24] something you need to have um this
[4:27] replaces your default casting bar so um
[4:30] instead of just giving you just a normal
[4:32] bar that goes from Left Right with
[4:34] quarts you can track uh track your lag
[4:36] timing stuff like that you can track
[4:38] your Global coold down as well which is
[4:39] really helpful on like Melee classes and
[4:41] things like that where it's like um you
[4:43] don't want to get too far ahead of
[4:44] yourself pressing buttons before gcd
[4:46] comes back off so something like quz is
[4:49] really easy to set up um for your
[4:51] personal uh casting bar something else
[4:54] that a lot of people don't take
[4:55] advantage of with their casting bar is
[4:57] like okay I'm focused on my account
[4:59] casting bar and where it is what it
[5:01] looks like that's great something else
[5:03] that quartz does it lets you control
[5:05] other casting bars around you um
[5:08] including your target your focus your
[5:10] pet anything like that as well the best
[5:13] part of that is they actually have a
[5:15] special module in there that will track
[5:17] any Targets around you so let's say
[5:19] you're doing aramon for example and
[5:22] there's a specific ad that you need to
[5:23] interrupt but you don't even know that
[5:25] it's out to see that it's interruptable
[5:27] quartz actually gives you a cast bar
[5:30] that you can display of all ads around
[5:32] you that have interruptible casts so
[5:34] it's like easy to pick and choose like
[5:35] oh something need interrupt is happening
[5:37] right now even if you're not targeting
[5:39] that mob so that's so cool I didn't even
[5:42] know that existed yeah yeah so there you
[5:43] go learning something new every day
[5:45] there you go and that's cool so I mean
[5:47] Sean the the two that you've talked
[5:48] about healbot Voodoo grid and then
[5:50] quartz now um they're for the players
[5:52] that may not have played around with
[5:54] their UI too much and now what we're
[5:56] basically trying to tell you guys is
[5:59] that you don't know these great tools
[6:00] are out there until you try them for
[6:03] sure you know and they're so easy
[6:05] they're so easy to set up especially
[6:06] courts especially you know the grid and
[6:08] whatnot a lot of this stuff comes right
[6:10] out of the box ready to go um and you
[6:12] guys do not understand how valuable it
[6:15] is to play until you have it yep it's
[6:17] and yeah like I said and it's really
[6:18] easy to go to like curse.com their
[6:20] add-ons page to World of Warcraft
[6:22] there's new stuff there going all the
[6:23] time lots of updates just go check stuff
[6:25] out see what Pops to you and try it out
[6:28] um I know if you're on Windows it's
[6:29] pretty easy to install add-ons the their
[6:31] curse client they have um if you're
[6:33] rating on a Mac I'm sorry first of all
[6:35] cuz it's not very updated and things
[6:38] like that but um you can use all these
[6:40] add-ons with Mac as well it's just you
[6:42] kind of have to do a download drag and
[6:44] drop put it in your add-ons folder kind
[6:46] of thing but um yeah there's lots of
[6:48] things out there guys nice all right
[6:50] number seven Scot in parenthesis not
[6:54] recount and Sean's going to talk about
[6:56] that because I don't have as much hatred
[6:57] for recount but I will talk about SC
[6:59] we'll talk about Scotta so so as a raid
[7:01] leader Sean and I are constantly um
[7:03] we're constantly talking with each other
[7:05] we're constantly looking at numbers um
[7:07] and in one of our other videos You'll
[7:08] see as in our top 10 tools you'll see
[7:10] that we're talking a lot about logs and
[7:12] um what that information can give you as
[7:14] a Raider and as a raid leader or whatnot
[7:16] but when I want a snapshot of what's
[7:18] going on when I want to be in game I
[7:20] don't want to pull my head away I need
[7:21] to see what's going on very quickly and
[7:24] I need a quick breakdown of it I'm going
[7:25] to Scotta so for you guys who don't know
[7:27] Scot is a damage meter healing meter it
[7:30] tracks a lot of different aspects of the
[7:32] game um and it does a really good job of
[7:34] doing that but that is an essential tool
[7:38] as long as you're looking at it from a
[7:40] purely subjective and objective
[7:43] standpoint you're looking at it saying
[7:44] okay I want to know how much damage this
[7:46] person is dealing I want to know how
[7:47] much healing this person is doing that
[7:49] is not the end all Beall I want you guys
[7:51] to get that through your heads that is
[7:53] not the end all be all and you'll find a
[7:55] lot of people out there that say I'm
[7:56] doing this much damage I'm so much
[7:58] better than you because all I'm doing is
[8:00] damage or I'm all I'm doing is healing
[8:02] that is not the case and you will see a
[8:04] lot of the professionals a lot of the
[8:06] the top tier guys will say that is
[8:08] totally
[8:10] right no for sure it's like
[8:12] it's it's not numbers that kill a boss
[8:14] at the end of the day it's how you
[8:15] handle the mechanics numbers should be
[8:18] like the easiest part of a boss is being
[8:20] able to pull numbers right that's just
[8:21] an afterthought that's a guaranteed if
[8:23] you're a Mythic Raider or any Raider you
[8:25] know it's like the the the way you kill
[8:27] a boss is to handle mechanics properly
[8:29] not pull numbers so these aren't again
[8:32] the this is what you look at to see
[8:33] who's doing well and who's not doing
[8:35] well it can kind of guide in where
[8:37] improvements can be it's kind of similar
[8:39] with like logging stuff um and the
[8:41] reason why we kind of say let's use
[8:43] Scotta and probably not the other
[8:46] options um with my personal experience
[8:48] with uh you know not only like helping
[8:51] leader raid but also participate in
[8:53] raids recount has seen terrible drop
[8:56] offs and updates and lots of bugs with
[8:58] their
[8:59] algorithms and where they pull their
[9:01] data Scot is just typically better
[9:03] updated better handled it looks better
[9:06] in my opinion and the coolest thing that
[9:08] I like about Scott is you can actually
[9:09] have multiple windows so as like a a
[9:11] healing officer I like to look at the
[9:13] healing meters and the Damage meters so
[9:15] with Scot you can have separate Windows
[9:17] you can also track things like
[9:18] interrupts all that good stuff so I
[9:20] think it's better to start with scata I
[9:22] think you'll just get better results out
[9:23] of it um I know like I think it was like
[9:26] Panda's uh expansion there was like a
[9:28] huge bug with recount that like screwed
[9:30] everything up um and that's when I kind
[9:32] of started switching over so I suggest
[9:34] you do the same if you're currently
[9:35] using recount it's just generally a
[9:37] better uh solution in my opinion so and
[9:40] like they said they track a lot of
[9:42] really cool stuff more than just damage
[9:43] and healing um once you you know install
[9:46] it throw it in a corner and just play
[9:48] around with it a little bit see what you
[9:49] like to track um obviously the two big
[9:51] ones are damage done and healing done
[9:53] but there's like Sean said there's
[9:55] interrupts there's mitigation uh modules
[9:59] spells a lot of really good tools and if
[10:01] you break it down even further you can
[10:02] click on things and you can really see a
[10:04] full breakdown of what's going on and
[10:06] that's a really great snapshots a really
[10:07] great tool and add-on to have in the
[10:09] game yep and again we want to reiterate
[10:12] that nothing is going to be perfect so
[10:14] the way that these uh programs all work
[10:16] is all kind of it's a little different
[10:17] and how they calculate things so it is
[10:20] completely normal for any like Scot we
[10:23] or you know what whatever uh meters that
[10:26] you're using in game they are going to
[10:28] show different results than logging does
[10:31] it it just happens um there's some you
[10:34] know range issues that the log can see
[10:37] but Scotta can't see so kind of keep
[10:39] that in mind when you're looking at this
[10:40] it's not 100% accurate all the time but
[10:43] it gives you a really good picture of
[10:45] where you're sitting um and where your
[10:46] rate is sitting as a whole
[10:49] so all right so we're going to go ahead
[10:51] and move into art number six this is lvi
[10:55] and similar UI components so as a Raider
[10:59] we've kind of started touching along
[11:01] this a little bit we're going to hit it
[11:02] pretty hard right now um the default UI
[11:05] is generally speaking not very good for
[11:08] a rating scenario in most players
[11:11] opinion you can play with the default UI
[11:13] if you like it's totally your choice in
[11:15] a lot of players Minds customizing your
[11:17] UI lets you see more of the raid um the
[11:21] the default UI can kind of clutter up
[11:23] your screen a little bit so using Lui or
[11:26] like dominoes bartender this kind of
[11:28] stuff to move your s around gets you a
[11:30] better picture of the raid encounter
[11:33] this is going to be a really really
[11:34] crucial part in Legion 2 because they're
[11:36] actually if you haven't seen it yet
[11:38] they're reducing the max camera distance
[11:40] in
[11:41] Legion which mean yeah which means
[11:44] you'll be closer to your character than
[11:45] you are right now in wad um so what that
[11:48] really means is you need to really
[11:50] conserve space because you'll be closer
[11:53] more clutter around you that kind of
[11:54] thing especially if you're a melee um
[11:56] you just kind of get the Clutter away so
[11:58] you can actually see like the ads are on
[11:59] the boss and different mechanics and
[12:01] stuff like that so using lvi using
[12:04] dominoes can help you generally speaking
[12:06] people like to Center their UI so you
[12:08] can actually see like um you're always
[12:10] looking at the center of your screen as
[12:12] opposed to oh my bar is down here at the
[12:14] bottom left of my screen so I'm going
[12:16] look at that while I'm doing my rotation
[12:17] but oh there's a mechanic way off over
[12:19] here that I missed because I was staring
[12:21] at the wrong part of my screen right and
[12:24] it's the control it's the control that's
[12:26] that most Mythic Raiders and even heroic
[12:28] Raiders normal pvpers we want the
[12:30] control of um what we're seeing and what
[12:32] we're doing and one of the things that
[12:33] you may you guys may not you know consci
[12:36] consciously think about is that there's
[12:37] a lot of artwork that clutters up your
[12:40] screen just in the the default UI and
[12:42] blizzard has done an okay job of
[12:44] tweaking over the years um but there's
[12:46] still a lot of stuff on your screen and
[12:48] what lvi does and for those of you who
[12:50] don't know lvi is ready to go right out
[12:52] of the box it gives you a nice little
[12:54] startup wizard you click a few buttons
[12:56] and boom you are Off to the Races but
[12:58] what it allows you to do is it really
[13:00] allows you to get full control over your
[13:02] screen and like Sean was saying you can
[13:04] move things to the center you can move
[13:05] things off to the side you can get rid
[13:07] of a lot of elements um and that's
[13:09] really really really important
[13:11] especially if you want that kind of full
[13:13] screen look you want to be able to see
[13:15] your Corners you want to be able to see
[13:16] your quote unquote peripherals in game
[13:19] um most of us use it I think lvi is one
[13:21] of the best ones out there but if you
[13:23] want um different kinds of controls you
[13:26] know do Sean said Domino's bartender I
[13:28] don't even know what updated anymore
[13:29] yeah shout out unit frames is another
[13:31] one sexy map is one that's pretty
[13:32] popular I think at the end of the day no
[13:34] matter what you do the best piece of
[13:36] advice that Cody and I can give you
[13:38] because this has happened several times
[13:41] within our team usually right before
[13:42] raid starts back up your add-ons we're
[13:46] going to say this a couple more times
[13:47] before that we're done here but like you
[13:50] can go to your add-ons folder go to your
[13:52] you want to copy your add-ons WTF
[13:54] interface just copy it all and back it
[13:56] up somewhere because if UI decides it
[13:59] wants to explode for some reason or
[14:01] let's say you even switch computers for
[14:03] whatever reason you want to have a copy
[14:05] of that so you don't have to spend you
[14:07] know the time to recreate it how you
[14:09] configured it um very very important
[14:12] piece before you start you know mixing
[14:14] this up oh yeah and I'm guilty guilty as
[14:16] charged there's been multiple night
[14:17] where I log on I say well guys I can't
[14:19] raid because everything blew up yeah
[14:21] give me like right 30 minutes to figure
[14:23] out what happened and then you're
[14:24] scrambling and then you're it's just
[14:26] it's just a not not a good situation so
[14:28] that's a free advice for you guys there
[14:30] you go all right we're moving on number
[14:32] five RC loot Council okay so this one
[14:36] clearly subjective um if your guild is
[14:39] not a loot Council Guild you can just
[14:41] fast forward on but wait a second
[14:43] because we're going to tell you guys why
[14:45] this is such a cool add-on um so what
[14:47] this does we decided a little while ago
[14:49] that we were going to switch to a loot
[14:50] Council system um if you watched one of
[14:52] our other top 10 videos you'll know that
[14:54] in my opinion I think loot is evil I
[14:56] hate loot I think it is the the main
[14:59] problem of a lot of arguments and raids
[15:01] so we decided to take that aspect out of
[15:03] it and said look we elected these four
[15:04] officers we're going to do a loot
[15:06] Council um we're going to be as
[15:07] impartial as possible what the loot
[15:09] Council system does it allows us to push
[15:10] gear to the players that will help the
[15:12] guild progress the furthest but we won't
[15:14] get into that too much what RC loot
[15:16] Council does is it gives a nice pop-up
[15:18] window shows all of the items that
[15:21] dropped off a boss and then gives a lot
[15:23] of Cool Tools it shows what the player
[15:25] currently has equipped it it shows um
[15:28] adds a section for notes it allows the
[15:30] player to say need greed minor upgrade
[15:33] all these really important um things
[15:35] that raid leaders need to know about at
[15:38] a at a glance right and it puts in a
[15:40] really convenient window so we can go
[15:42] through loot especially when Legion
[15:44] drops this is huge when expansions first
[15:46] come out because there's a lot of gear
[15:47] that's getting upgraded really quickly
[15:49] so when we're going to you know five 10
[15:51] people are going to need a piece of gear
[15:52] I'm going to be able to see what they
[15:53] have equipped I'm going to be able to
[15:55] see a note from them that says oh this
[15:57] is a major upgrade this this is my best
[15:59] in slot things like that and that's
[16:00] really important to keep that line of
[16:02] communication open um yeah and we
[16:04] recently just switched back to this so
[16:06] I'm very excited to try this out for the
[16:07] start of an expansion because we we
[16:09] switched to it in the middle of it it
[16:11] was okay we switched to something else
[16:13] and now we're going back to RC loot
[16:14] Council yeah I want to add the little
[16:16] caveat too because right now we're still
[16:19] under the impression that Master loot is
[16:20] still going to be the default go-to for
[16:22] progression rating um they have made
[16:25] considerable changes to the way personal
[16:27] loot works so so personal loot might
[16:29] actually end up being a better solution
[16:31] for us we're not quite sure yet we're
[16:33] kind of have to play it by ear they're
[16:35] adding some things like being able to
[16:36] trade loot that's been dropped from
[16:37] personal that kind of stuff so we'll see
[16:40] how that plays into it but regardless if
[16:43] you're on the leading team with your
[16:45] raid have a conversation about this you
[16:47] want to make sure that you're doing
[16:49] everything you can to be as transparent
[16:51] as possible with your team on how you're
[16:53] Distributing Loot and making sure that
[16:56] the community agrees with how you're
[16:57] doing it otherwise you're just going to
[16:59] cause crazy drama issues that don't need
[17:01] to exist that's
[17:03] right all right so we're going to go
[17:05] ahead and move on to number four this is
[17:08] ask Mr Robot and pawn um these are two
[17:12] add-ons and kind of tools as well
[17:15] they're kind of a little bit of
[17:16] combination so um kind of going along
[17:18] with like put your theory Craft on
[17:19] Theory craft hat on for a second um
[17:22] let's say let's say you really want to
[17:25] get nitty-gritty with your class and you
[17:27] don't just want to look at it best
[17:28] thought list posted on Icy Veins you
[17:30] want to go the next step further my my
[17:33] initial suggestion is to find those
[17:34] Theory crafting websites usually we have
[17:36] them linked on our website um try to
[17:38] keep that list up to date um they have
[17:41] they will always post their stat weights
[17:43] for the class this is like intellect is
[17:46] valued at uh one point or like 100% um
[17:50] let's say crit is valued at 75% this
[17:52] kind of stuff and what pawn and asmin
[17:55] robot allow you to do is import those
[17:57] stat weights for your class import the
[18:00] loot that you're currently wearing and
[18:02] then figure out what the best
[18:04] combination of that is to validate those
[18:07] stat weights so this is just one of
[18:08] those tools that not necessarily you
[18:11] need to use but if you want to push
[18:12] yourself to the next level more than
[18:14] just saying oh I know this piece is
[18:16] better I think but just to be sure let's
[18:19] check um this is going to make sure like
[18:21] help you oh is this an upgrade or should
[18:23] I equip this instead of that or what
[18:26] happens if I shift over to Mastery
[18:29] instead what does that look like um so
[18:31] using both these tools will help you do
[18:33] that um I will say Pawn is like a free
[18:36] add-on that you can use asmos robot uses
[18:38] their um uh website for part of this as
[18:41] well as their add-on uh the asmos robot
[18:43] part involves a subscription to get you
[18:46] a lot of really cool features if you
[18:47] haven't checked it out you can actually
[18:49] import your gear from the game into
[18:52] their online website and save it and do
[18:54] all kinds of changes so um kind up to
[18:56] you which one you like but I definitely
[18:57] suggest looking at pawn and ask Mr Robot
[19:01] so and I will say I'm very silent in
[19:03] this one because my advice to you guys
[19:05] is if you don't want to put on your
[19:06] theory crafting helmet I'm G actually
[19:08] going to take my hat off and I'm going
[19:10] to give it to Sean because my advice is
[19:12] to find a friend that's into this find
[19:15] somebody and Sean mentioned the theory
[19:16] crafting websites because there are
[19:18] people that are so good at this and Sean
[19:20] is one of them um I rely on him and the
[19:24] The Raid and the guild relies on him to
[19:25] say what the hell am I doing wrong am I
[19:29] am I because are people that like the
[19:31] number crunching and if you're one of
[19:33] them then Che out those addons if you're
[19:35] not one of them find Theory Crafters
[19:37] find friends that are really into it
[19:38] because they will save you guys headache
[19:40] after headache after headache and
[19:42] they're great tools um when they're when
[19:44] they're used by the right person yeah
[19:46] and this is something that can really
[19:47] set you apart too like if you're let's
[19:49] say you're not in a leadership role but
[19:50] you want to be in your guild this will
[19:52] absolutely set you apart if you're doing
[19:54] this research for your team trying to
[19:56] maximize your class and helping out
[19:57] others in the the process your leaders
[19:59] are going to notice or let's say you are
[20:02] currently a leader but you want to keep
[20:03] your team more focused this is how you
[20:05] do that this is one of the many ways you
[20:07] can do that so absolutely and speaking
[20:10] of raid team we're going to move on to
[20:11] number three Exorcist raid tools now
[20:15] full disclosure we love this thing in
[20:17] our Guild um the power is endless with
[20:20] this add-on and honestly I don't think
[20:22] we've even scratched the surface I know
[20:24] we use a couple modules here and there
[20:26] but the power of this add-on is so good
[20:28] and as the title suggests it is designed
[20:31] for Raiders it is a full tool kit of
[20:34] raid tools um it has an awesome notes
[20:37] feature which we're shifting to away
[20:39] from Angry assignments Into The Exorcist
[20:42] notes feature which allows you to keep
[20:44] that line of communication open with
[20:46] your raid including um assist type
[20:49] modules like we were talking about at
[20:50] number nine um but it's all in one nice
[20:54] package tied with a nice little bow and
[20:56] damn do they do a good job with it
[20:58] absolutely yep it's it's just such an
[21:01] invaluable tool right it's very similar
[21:02] to getting those custom week oras for an
[21:04] encounter or that kind of thing and it
[21:06] also helps you plan for a rate too
[21:08] depending on the encounter and things
[21:10] like that so like uh qum Rock and hfc is
[21:12] a great example of this um beforehand on
[21:15] the corn Rock fight I think actually uh
[21:17] cromok and black rock did the same
[21:19] similar thing um you actually plan out
[21:21] where your raid will go during the
[21:23] certain phase and as soon as that phase
[21:25] pops up everyone gets an arrow telling
[21:27] them where to go which is super helpful
[21:29] for mechanics it's very very similar to
[21:31] how DPM kind of functions on that level
[21:33] and things like that um but another
[21:35] thing it's like this is crazy it's it's
[21:37] not really like exor raid tools right so
[21:40] it's it's multiple things um another
[21:42] thing that they offer which is super
[21:45] super important for any leader on the
[21:47] team um tanks and I almost everyone
[21:51] really you can actually track raid
[21:53] cooldowns with exorsus raid tools one of
[21:56] their options is you can actually
[21:58] display um like let's say you have three
[22:00] Druids and you can actually check the
[22:02] box that says I want to show Tran
[22:04] essentially it builds like a little we
[22:06] or module that shows you the cool down
[22:08] of those three raid members Tran um it
[22:11] auto Picks Them it finds them if they're
[22:12] in the raid or whatever very very useful
[22:14] to use and then you can see like like as
[22:16] a healing officer oh we have a Tran
[22:18] available we can use that here or let's
[22:20] say you're a tank you can only show the
[22:23] external cooldowns like oh I need um
[22:26] hand of sacrifice right now so and they
[22:28] know it's off cool down because they can
[22:30] see it this is super super important um
[22:33] can't stress this enough and this will
[22:35] continue to be important in Legion don't
[22:37] worry I cannot say enough good things
[22:39] about this add-on they've done such a
[22:41] killer job of keeping this thing updated
[22:43] keeping it fresh with all of the bosses
[22:45] all the important features and tools um
[22:47] for me what Sean was just talking about
[22:49] is is extremely important because I'm
[22:51] looking at a snapshot of everybody in
[22:52] the guild that can provide some benefit
[22:54] to the team um even if you're not in a
[22:57] leadership role you can have that up on
[22:58] your screen say you're seeing that
[23:00] there's something that the The Raid
[23:02] officers or leaders are missing and you
[23:03] just say hey we're not using vigilance
[23:05] or hey we're not using um you know
[23:08] vampiric Embrace and no matter how minor
[23:10] these things may be if you just provide
[23:12] them the tool provide your team the tool
[23:14] you're setting yourself up for Success
[23:16] um and one last cool little feature that
[23:18] I love um I know you can do it in we
[23:20] oras but uh is the battle res monitor
[23:23] nice little box that says you have a
[23:25] battle res available you have two battle
[23:27] res available and then if you don't it
[23:29] gives you a timer so my eyes are
[23:31] constantly flitting up there especially
[23:32] when we're doing some of the more
[23:33] challenging content when I know there
[23:35] are periods where people are going to
[23:36] die I'm looking and I'm making snap
[23:38] decisions about who to Res or who to Res
[23:40] in a minute or how many reses are
[23:42] available and I I mean guys they do so
[23:45] much with this add-on um don't be afraid
[23:47] to say all right everybody download this
[23:49] mandatory because it will save you so
[23:52] many headaches yep all right we're going
[23:55] to go and move into number two and this
[23:57] is one of the the biggies this is weak
[23:59] ores we're also going to throw tell me
[24:01] one in here as well so um throughout
[24:04] World of Warcraft cycle they've had
[24:05] things like power oras and different
[24:07] things like that to do tracking on your
[24:09] screen essentially um so that's what
[24:12] weak oras and tell me when currently
[24:13] occupy that space of tracking cooldowns
[24:16] monitoring Buffs um debuffs on the raid
[24:20] and even crazier stuff than that um so
[24:24] this is such an invaluable tool I think
[24:26] I I really can't stress enough um to
[24:29] where it's like it's kind of hard to
[24:31] this is kind of what we were talking
[24:32] about earlier you want to declutter your
[24:33] screen and make sure you're always
[24:34] focused on the center um weak Wars can
[24:37] really help you do that so let's say um
[24:40] uh let's go with a holy pal example just
[24:42] because that's what I'm used to playing
[24:44] um let's say I get a a proc from my uh
[24:49] my weapon enchant or something like that
[24:51] instead of just like looking at my Buffs
[24:52] and seeing that that proct I can get a
[24:54] weak or that says hey you have this buff
[24:56] available now you're kind of going crazy
[24:58] with crit um and you can do this with
[25:01] all kinds of different things so it
[25:02] really helps you take control of your
[25:04] Buffs and your cooldowns and things like
[25:06] that and help you monitor it in new and
[25:08] effective ways um it's not always visual
[25:11] too because with weak War you can do
[25:13] things like sound alerts so like for
[25:17] instance with my uh crit buff on my
[25:19] weapon enchant I can have like a little
[25:21] ding play every time my crit buff goes
[25:23] off so again that doesn't add any color
[25:25] to my screen but I get like an audio cue
[25:28] that hey you have this crit buff active
[25:30] do something about it um and you can do
[25:33] this with all kinds of different stuff
[25:34] yeah and this is one of those great
[25:35] tools that the community is really
[25:37] involved with if you guys are on Discord
[25:39] they're already talking about stuff for
[25:41] Legion and how to make we goros better
[25:44] um a simple Google search will get you
[25:46] everything you need to know about your
[25:48] class and a specific patch um I know
[25:50] Shawn always helps me out with my week
[25:52] Wars he'll give me he was just talking
[25:53] about audio cues I play a marksman
[25:55] Hunter right now and every time I throw
[25:57] all the h procs I get a big explosion
[25:59] sound and I get a big graphic and then
[26:01] blizzard did adopt a little bit of this
[26:03] you will notice that in the default they
[26:05] give you a few visuals but we're talking
[26:08] about control again guys we're talking
[26:09] about in a raid environment I want to
[26:11] have the control to see here um all of
[26:14] the things that are important to me as a
[26:15] Raider that is going to make me
[26:17] successful going to make the team
[26:18] successful um and it doesn't just stop
[26:20] with our class it actually goes further
[26:23] to allow you to weak or encounters
[26:25] encounter IDs boss mechanics I mean
[26:28] literally the possibilities are endless
[26:31] yeah just to give you kind of an example
[26:33] so I mean let's take um Tyrant for
[26:35] example um if any you guys have ever
[26:37] healed Tyrant on Mythic before Tyrant
[26:40] she has a mechanic that essentially puts
[26:42] a shield on a player and they will
[26:46] continue to take damage until this
[26:47] Invisible Shield or Whatever Gets healed
[26:50] off um but it's kind of hard to track
[26:53] this with all the other debuffs
[26:54] happening in that fight so there's a
[26:55] weak or that someone made in the
[26:57] community and you can just Google and
[26:58] find it that shows you the amount of uh
[27:02] healing left on their bubble that you
[27:04] have to heal off and also gives you the
[27:06] name of the player and things like that
[27:08] and these are all over the place I mean
[27:10] I think over the course of hfc as a
[27:11] Healer I use them for almost half of the
[27:14] fights I had custom weak ores just to
[27:15] help me play better and help the team
[27:18] play better um so I mean yeah we really
[27:20] can't stress this enough um and if you
[27:22] go ahead and check out our tools video
[27:24] coming soon uh might already be up
[27:26] depending on when this goes up um we're
[27:28] also going to cover a new website that
[27:30] just came out uh this actually I found
[27:32] this on the week or Discord um you can
[27:35] probably just type in like we or Discord
[27:36] to get the invite link for that they
[27:38] actually are developing a new tool right
[27:40] now that is it's just a web interface so
[27:43] you can go to it's
[27:46] wo. is the
[27:48] website um this is essentially a big
[27:51] repository of a bunch of week oras from
[27:53] community members um like Cody was
[27:56] saying I mean there are resources all
[27:58] over the place for you to find weak oras
[28:00] and things like that so I can't stress
[28:02] enough how important this is now if
[28:04] everything that we just said kind of
[28:06] went whoa what's happening this sounds
[28:08] really complicated I don't know how to
[28:10] code I don't know how to program this is
[28:13] crazy don't worry too much um weor
[28:16] really doesn't have a whole lot if you
[28:17] just want the basic cool down tracking
[28:19] and that kind of thing you can generally
[28:21] speaking make a week or to track that
[28:23] within five or 10 minutes depending on
[28:25] your familiarity with it mhm most likely
[28:28] most likely somebody has already done it
[28:30] yeah yeah so don't feel like you have to
[28:32] always make something custom there's
[28:33] usually already a solution out there but
[28:35] if you kind of feel the need to like say
[28:37] you found a custom solution weor but
[28:39] you're really kind of scared to edit it
[28:41] or like mess with it um there is an
[28:44] alternate that I mentioned earlier this
[28:45] is called tell me when um this is used
[28:47] by a lot of people as well um if you're
[28:50] ever familiar with uh preaches videos on
[28:52] YouTube he's a huge advocate of tell me
[28:54] one um and we ORS as well but I think he
[28:56] uses tell me one uh more which is kind
[28:59] of where I heard of it it's essentially
[29:01] a simpler version of weak wars in the
[29:03] sense that you can still do everything
[29:05] that we Wars can pretty much um but it's
[29:08] easier to use so it kind of has a much
[29:10] more like wow blizzard is interface um
[29:14] with adding new weak or or adding new uh
[29:17] tracking stuff and that kind of thing so
[29:18] if you're kind of new to the scene and
[29:20] you want to get started with this I
[29:21] would recommend either starting with we
[29:24] or telling when whatever you're most
[29:26] comfortable with but as long as you
[29:27] doing it that's the important thing so
[29:29] possibilities are endless guys you just
[29:31] got to explore you got to do your Google
[29:33] searches um there are videos out there
[29:35] on YouTube that will show you how to
[29:36] make complicated things simple things
[29:38] it's an awesome tool and it's only going
[29:40] to get better in Legion absolutely and
[29:43] uh let's let's cap this one off with our
[29:45] number one uh add-on that we think
[29:47] everybody should use no matter what the
[29:49] situation and I think you guys probably
[29:51] know this uh it's the most popularly
[29:53] downloaded add-on on curse and it is
[29:56] deadly boss mods
[29:57] Andor Big Wigs um as Raiders we know
[30:01] that uh deadly boss mods has been around
[30:03] for a long time and it is still
[30:07] invaluable I cannot stress it enough how
[30:10] much success we owe to this add-on
[30:12] because what it does for you guys who
[30:14] may not have downloaded it um is it
[30:17] basically breaks down um the mechanics
[30:19] in each fight and it'll give you
[30:21] auditory cues it'll give you visual cues
[30:23] it'll give you um it'll kind of break
[30:26] groups apart it do display things it'll
[30:28] do all sorts of really great things
[30:30] that'll bring your attention to a
[30:32] specific mechanic um phase of an
[30:34] encounter and and there's not that much
[30:36] to say about it because everybody uses
[30:38] it and it's so essential and ptim we
[30:41] can't forget ptim wouldn't exist without
[30:43] dbm I mean you could type it in the chat
[30:45] I guess but I don't know mean take it
[30:47] for granted it seems like rating without
[30:49] dbm is just just weird you know like
[30:51] there's so much that it does like in the
[30:53] background and what you see while you're
[30:54] rating it's like how did people put play
[30:57] these bosses without dbm and this kind
[31:00] of stuff it's it's a lot more difficult
[31:02] is the end answer now you can kind of
[31:04] build parts of dbm with weak ORS and
[31:07] things like that which again goes back
[31:09] to what we were saying earlier is like
[31:11] if the community's already built it and
[31:12] it works just use that you know like if
[31:15] it already exists it's there you don't
[31:17] have to recreate it yourself and go
[31:19] through that pain and struggle so using
[31:21] dbm and and they're really really fast
[31:23] with updating this thing they are always
[31:25] on beta and Alpha PTR testing whatever
[31:28] they can to make sure that as soon as
[31:31] the patch hits or very very soon after
[31:33] they have a release to cover that boss
[31:36] which is awesome one of the most
[31:37] supported add-ons out there yeah now if
[31:40] you're really crazy and you don't want
[31:41] to use dbm that's fine you can use Big
[31:44] Wigs as well fine it's not fine um I
[31:48] think we have a few people in the raid
[31:49] that use Big Wigs or maybe used I to
[31:51] them um it's it's it's there you know um
[31:54] there's also another add-on that's kind
[31:55] of does similar things it's called GTFO
[31:59] um probably know what that means uh it's
[32:01] like a add-on that just yells at you
[32:03] when you're standing in fire or similar
[32:05] things also very very helpful but I mean
[32:08] at the end of the day it's the same
[32:09] thing that we've been saying you want to
[32:12] make sure what you're seeing on your
[32:13] screen is valuable and it's easy to see
[32:15] easy to understand and that's what dbm
[32:18] does in one package um but however
[32:21] you're doing it getting these is it's
[32:24] crucial that's this is how you you know
[32:26] you raid if you want to be a Raider you
[32:28] need to have dbm installed just flat out
[32:31] yep I mean there's so many you can get
[32:33] away with never opening the actual
[32:35] settings for dbm or you could go into it
[32:38] you know especially if you're into lvi
[32:40] and into fully customizing your UI you
[32:42] can move things around you can make
[32:44] things bigger smaller um you they
[32:46] actually have a ton of features per boss
[32:48] that you can instantiate or you could
[32:50] take away it's very customizable but if
[32:52] you just again another add-on right out
[32:54] of the box is good to go yep but it's
[32:57] essential we've been using it for
[32:58] expansion after expansion I know the
[33:01] support's going to be there in the next
[33:02] expansion we're all still going to use
[33:04] it because it's that big of a tool um
[33:07] absolutely I you just can't you can't
[33:09] forget about it all right so that was it
[33:13] top 10 add-ons I feel like those are
[33:14] some really good ones Sean yeah and and
[33:16] let's not forget there are so many more
[33:18] that we couldn't mention here so if you
[33:21] ever are more Curious of about what you
[33:23] can push your game to do more just check
[33:24] out uh I think it's like mods. Cur
[33:27] or just Google like curse wow add-ons
[33:29] there is a ton for you to explore please
[33:31] go check out anything you can to help
[33:33] you play better as a Raider yeah and
[33:36] while you guys are out there uh make
[33:37] sure to check out our website Exile
[33:39] power.com uh we are working on making
[33:41] that thing fresh making that thing sexy
[33:44] Sean is doing all the leg work I'm just
[33:45] taking all the glory for it um and we're
[33:47] going to keep creating content for you
[33:49] guys so make sure to subscribe to our
[33:50] YouTube channel Sean thank you for
[33:52] helping me out today yep no problem and
[33:54] uh yeah look out for the next video guys
[33:56] take care see
[34:06] you