Essential Addons for Wrath: HealBot through Quartz
HealBot | |
 | HealBot allows for up to 20 key and mouse combinations to be used to cast any sort of spell on a target to heal them. It provides the healer with various and critical monitors, meters, and range checks. The addon is highly configurable and can take some getting used to if you haven't used it before. |
HitsMode | |
 | HitsMode is an excellent combat log replacement. It can separate your combat log into up to four different windows, while providing advanced layout and colorization options that we have all come to expect from addons. HitsMode will also keep a personal summary of your combat information, making it easier for you to track your own progress when learning to play a class. |
IceHUD | |
 | IceHUD is a long standing HUD (Heads Up Display). It will show your health and your targets health right in the middle of the screen surrounding your character. The addon is highly configurable in that not only can you choose what types of bars it displays, but you can also configure it to show party members health and other attributes around the target. |
ItemRack | |
 | ItemRack is addon which provides users a quick and painless way to switch between various gear sets. If you are a hybrid class or have multiple sets of gear, you'll want to make sure that you have this addon. ItemRack can even be configured to be used through custom macros, so switching a gear set can be as easy as pushing a button on your action bar. |
Mappy | |
 | Mappy gives you a square minimap with no setup required. It features nearly automatic setup of all those addon buttons that line the map, although allows you enough configuration options to change things around as you like. You can also resize, move, and change the alpha blending of the minimap. |
MiniMap Button Frame | |
 | MMBF provides a nice and clean storage place for all those addons which give you a button on the minimap. MMBF takes these buttons and puts them into their own window, which you can show and hide at your own discretion. It's a great tool to help clean up a user-interface, and comes highly recommended. |
Omen | |
 | Omen is a staple addon in the WoW community. It is often times the only addon some people have installed – and that's okay. Omen shows a user's hate or threat on a given mob. This is critical information for anyone that wants to play the game with other people – whoever has the most threat on a mob will be taking damage. And unless you're the tank you don't want to pass them in threat. Omen lets you see all this critical information and then some. Get it and be a pro. |
Outfitter | |
 | Outfitter gives users the option to define multiple custom outfits of all the gear they take around with them. This is a godsend for tanks and other hybrid classes that can have up to a dozen different sets of gear. The addon is highly configurable and can be scripted via macros. Highly recommended. |
PallyPower | |
 | PallyPower allows one Paladin to define what each paladin will be doing with his or her buffs in a group or raid. With PallyPower you can eliminate the confusion of trying to decide who buffs kings and who buffs might; all of that can be assigned via PallyPower. If you are a Paladin and wish to raid or group with other Paladins, get this addon. |
PitBull | |
 | PitBull is a unit frames addon that is for all the efficiency freaks out there. The addon itself doesn't use much memory and works very quickly and very well. It has all the standard configurations of other various unit frame addons. People often will use either PitBull or X-Perl as a replacement to Blizzard's unit frames. |
Prat 3.0 | |
 | Prat is a chat enhancement addon that provides tons of various utilities that people like to have in their chat interface. This includes things like time stamps, URL copying, color coded player names, sticky channel typing, etc... There are over 30 various modules that provide all this and more. Highly recommended. |
Quartz | |
 | Quartz provides timers for the various casting and actions that can take place in the game. It can show times for both the target and player. These timers work with nearly everything that has a timed component to it: spells, actions, the global cooldown, and swings. Highly recommended for the serious player. |
