My Addon List for Midnight | Best Addons (UPDATED)

[00:00] Hello guys, and welcome to my new video

[00:02] and today we're going to be talking

[00:03] about my updated add-on list. This is

[00:05] something that I get asked all the time

[00:08] about what are my favorite add-ons. I've

[00:09] been testing add-ons for the last couple

[00:11] of months and this is going to be my

[00:13] updated list of some of the favorite and

[00:15] most important add-ons that I am using.

[00:18] I'm going to start off with something

[00:19] simple, boss mods. I've been using

[00:22] Deadly Boss Mods or DBM for the last

[00:24] couple of weeks because honestly

[00:25] throughout the beta of Midnight, these

[00:28] boss mods were not able to do much. They

[00:29] were glorified skins to the default

[00:33] Blizzard boss notifications, but over

[00:35] the last couple of patches and add-on

[00:38] restriction changes, DBM especially has

[00:41] some really nice default notifications

[00:44] that you don't have to do much in order

[00:46] to get them. Notifications like these.

[00:50] Hear me roar.

[00:53] Heal the friend. for your crimes.

[01:00] Dispel.

[01:03] Of course, Big Wigs and add-ons like

[01:04] that can also do voice notifications,

[01:06] but they have more generic or at least

[01:08] last time I checked they had more

[01:09] generic notifications and if you want to

[01:11] change them, you have to go and manually

[01:12] change it yourself, which is absolutely

[01:14] fine. I just feel like out of the box

[01:16] DBM voice notifications are really

[01:19] really good, especially for players who

[01:20] are not sure about some of the boss

[01:22] mechanics or things like that. And if

[01:24] you're not sure about some of the DBM

[01:25] features, you can /dbm,

[01:28] you can go into the general options. You

[01:30] can go and test your bars. You can see

[01:32] this is how I have them set up right

[01:33] now. If for whatever reason you don't

[01:35] like these bars and you want to use the

[01:37] default stuff, you can go into disable

[01:39] DBM features and you can take disable

[01:42] DBM timers entirely.

[01:43] For example, maybe you want to use

[01:45] Blizzard's timeline instead. You can go

[01:48] into block Blizzard's features and you

[01:49] can untick hide the Blizzard's raid

[01:52] timeline during boss fights. So, you can

[01:54] mix and match in terms of which features

[01:56] you want and of course the voice

[01:58] notifications I think are very very

[02:00] good, especially if you're someone who's

[02:01] new. Now, in terms of some of the main

[02:03] add-ons, one of the biggest add-on that

[02:04] I'm using right now that basically

[02:06] covers most of the things you you see

[02:08] here is going to be Enhanced Quality of

[02:11] Life.

[02:12] This add-on right here started off as

[02:14] Quality of Life add-on. It had bunch of

[02:16] these little features, but now it

[02:18] basically has pretty much everything.

[02:21] So, if you go to for example, interface,

[02:23] you can go to EQL unit frames and you

[02:25] can add all the unit frames you want.

[02:27] You can have raid unit frames, you can

[02:30] have again, your party, your target of

[02:32] target, your focus, all of those things.

[02:34] And the main feature of EQL in the way

[02:36] that it does its editing is edit mode.

[02:39] All the things that you do or majority

[02:41] of the things you do with this add-on

[02:43] are going to be visible in the default

[02:45] edit mode that Blizzard provides. So,

[02:47] for example, in this case I'm using

[02:49] Enhanced Quality of Life player frame

[02:51] and I'm using Enhanced Quality of Life

[02:53] target frame. So, I can just right click

[02:55] this and then I have a bunch of features

[02:57] that I can change. It's all done through

[03:00] the default edit mode, which is honestly

[03:01] great. The reason I can't edit my party

[03:04] raid frames right now is because I'm

[03:05] using another add-on for that. So, think

[03:07] of Enhanced Quality of Life almost like

[03:09] a UI suite right now because it can

[03:11] replace most of the things on top of

[03:13] like hundreds of different Quality of

[03:15] Life features. We talked about the unit

[03:17] frames. You can use party and raid

[03:19] frames if you want. There's been some

[03:20] really big changes made to Enhanced

[03:22] Quality of Life in terms of cool down

[03:23] manager. You can now move buffs, which

[03:26] is a big big deal. Outside of that, just

[03:29] look through the feed. For example, in

[03:31] here, you can have teleports, you can

[03:33] have markers, you can have macros. You

[03:35] could you can create a health macro

[03:38] that's going to use healthstone potion

[03:40] and it's going to be

[03:43] in your macro section. You just have to

[03:44] go down to the enhanced section right

[03:46] here and you can see it here and it's

[03:48] going to use it for you. Small things

[03:50] like that and then big things like your

[03:53] unit frames, your raid party frames,

[03:55] your cool down manager. Depending on how

[03:57] much of the add-on you want to make use

[04:00] of, you can honestly build the whole UI

[04:02] out of it. Let's talk about party and

[04:04] raid frames and I've been testing a

[04:06] bunch of those. Right now, I kind of

[04:08] landed on Danders frames and this is

[04:11] something that I've been using for a

[04:12] little while. I also have profiles and

[04:14] things like that for Grid 2. I was

[04:16] messing around with some of the other

[04:17] add-ons. I know there is

[04:19] Sell might possibly be coming back. I

[04:21] know there's ElvUI is going to have raid

[04:23] frames pretty soon. I'm going to test

[04:24] all of those. Right now, I'm using

[04:26] Danders because over the last couple of

[04:28] weeks there's been some really nice

[04:30] updates. It's very important for an

[04:31] add-on to have constant updates and bug

[04:33] fixes and I think Danders has been

[04:35] really good at it. I think the very

[04:37] early iteration of Danders had big

[04:39] performance issues and I think it's

[04:40] gotten a lot a lot better. I've been

[04:43] tracking performance of every single

[04:45] add-on every time I do dungeons. It's

[04:47] very very important for me and Danders

[04:49] has a lot of customization now,

[04:51] especially the latest features and I

[04:53] talked about this before in the aura

[04:55] designer. You can have you can change

[04:57] the color of the frame based on the buff

[04:59] that you have. And you can see all the

[05:01] different profiles that I've made in

[05:04] order where the buffs should be, in

[05:06] order like just everything. And the

[05:08] latest feature is tracking buffs that

[05:12] are still somewhat secret. For example,

[05:14] if we go down to discipline priest and

[05:17] we can go and click add icon, you can

[05:19] add as an icon, you can change the

[05:21] health bar color if you want. Again,

[05:23] multiple different features. Let's go to

[05:25] the icon section and now you can see you

[05:27] can track things like power infusion by

[05:29] itself. That's actually not really

[05:31] possible or you're not able to track

[05:34] just power infusion with a lot of other

[05:36] add-ons. This is doing using Herix kind

[05:39] of logic in order for you to track

[05:42] almost everything or a lot of the things

[05:44] that

[05:44] >> [music]

[05:44] >> healers might need or if you want extra

[05:46] customization. These things right here,

[05:49] these have been unsecreted by Blizzard,

[05:51] so every single add-on can do this

[05:53] really easily. These things right here

[05:56] are using specific logic. It's

[05:59] again a big of magic. So, these kind of

[06:02] features, if you want additional

[06:03] customization is really really nice.

[06:05] Again, it also has its own binding

[06:07] system as well. I'm not really using it

[06:08] right now. I'm still sticking with

[06:10] Clique for the time being, but overall,

[06:12] I think Danders has been improving every

[06:14] single week and the amount of

[06:15] customization you have on top of the

[06:18] really robust in my opinion testing

[06:20] feature.

[06:22] You can test every For example, you can

[06:23] test boss debuffs, which a lot of the

[06:26] other add-ons cannot really or they

[06:28] don't really allow you to do that. So,

[06:31] you can actually see where every debuff

[06:32] is going to. By boss debuffs, I mean the

[06:34] private auras. This is something that is

[06:37] quite important. So, good testing

[06:40] feature, a lot of improvements, a lot of

[06:41] customization. I'm liking Danders more

[06:44] and more every single week. And now

[06:45] let's talk about the big cool down

[06:47] manager. There's been a bunch of add-ons

[06:49] that I've been testing for the cool down

[06:50] manager in terms of trying to manipulate

[06:52] the spells and move them and manipulate

[06:54] buffs, which is a very very important

[06:56] feature for me. And we're going to talk

[06:57] about the OG WeakAuras. I have not spent

[07:00] or I I'm not using WeakAuras. I'm

[07:02] currently I'm using a bunch of different

[07:03] add-ons, but WeakAuras is the OG.

[07:05] WeakAuras is doing somewhat hacky

[07:07] things, but Blizzard doesn't seem to

[07:08] mind and I feel like a lot of add-ons

[07:11] are going to go down the route of trying

[07:13] to do what WeakAuras is doing because

[07:15] Blizzard is allowing for it, which means

[07:17] again, in this case, WeakAuras has a

[07:20] bunch of features. It has a lot of

[07:22] things that you can tinker with and this

[07:24] is why for a lot of the casual players

[07:26] or people who are just not really that

[07:28] versed in add-ons are going to find it a

[07:30] little bit difficult. But, if you know

[07:32] what you're doing, WeakAuras is very

[07:35] very strong and I think one of the

[07:36] latest features is to do with like mass

[07:39] master exports in terms of profiles.

[07:41] Profiling for cool down manager in all

[07:44] of the cool down manager add-ons that

[07:45] I've seen is a big issue to deal with

[07:48] because cool down managers you have to

[07:50] manipulate the cool down manager spells

[07:52] and things like that. So, just keep in

[07:53] mind, WeakAuras is very good, but I'm

[07:55] not using it right now, but I have to

[07:57] mention it. What I've been using

[07:58] recently is going to be and I've been

[08:01] pleasantly surprised by this, by the

[08:02] way.

[08:03] And that is AJC DM. This is one of the

[08:06] add-ons that popped up a little while

[08:07] ago and I it's been on my list to try

[08:10] and mess around with it. The best way I

[08:12] can place AJC DM is that it's not really

[08:15] WeakAuras in terms of customization, but

[08:17] if you don't need all of that,

[08:19] the layout of the menu, the

[08:21] customizations are more than enough. And

[08:24] most importantly, based on my

[08:26] performance testing of add-ons, this has

[08:29] been doing re-surprisingly really well

[08:31] in terms of performance. So, this is a

[08:34] bit of an underdog that I had to talk

[08:36] about. So, let me show an example of my

[08:38] preservation evoker. I'm going to open

[08:39] the menu and again, we talked about the

[08:41] fact that by default it's going to add

[08:43] some skinning to your cool down manager.

[08:45] It's going to change your bars, but if

[08:46] you want to add additional buffs, for

[08:48] example, in my case, I can click

[08:50] settings here and you can see that I'm

[08:52] going to be tracking stasis

[08:54] uh the number of abilities right here.

[08:56] I'm going to be tracking essence burst

[08:58] here. I'm going to be tracking twin

[08:59] echoes here and it's very very easy to

[09:01] do. You basically again, you have this

[09:03] group of ungrouped buffs and then you

[09:05] can create a new group and in my case

[09:06] it's going to be main buffs. You can

[09:07] click into it and then you can change

[09:10] the icon width, you can change the X and

[09:12] Y offset, you can anchor it to a

[09:14] specific ability and then that's that's

[09:17] basically it. Now, you have a separation

[09:19] of buffs and you can place them whenever

[09:21] you want. And if you want to use the

[09:23] same kind of again, the group, you can

[09:26] right click it and copy it to any spec

[09:28] that you want to again, reuse it.

[09:31] So, you don't have to redo all the

[09:33] groups all the time. It's very

[09:34] simplistic. It makes sense. It's basic.

[09:37] And this is exactly what I needed

[09:39] because for example, right here, if I'm

[09:40] going to be pressing my again, twin

[09:42] echoes, it's going to show up here. If I

[09:43] press stasis, you can see here that I

[09:46] have three abilities that's tracking it

[09:47] for me. So, I can clearly see what I'm

[09:50] adding and taking away and then it's

[09:53] showing me that this is going to go off

[09:54] in 26 seconds. And I also got two twin

[09:57] echoes. So, you can see that anytime I'm

[09:59] 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.