Must Have Healer Addons & Weakauras | 10.2.5 Dragonflight Season 3

hello everyone vth here I'm back from a little vacation from the game and today we'll be talking about some useful add-ons and weak arms for healing of all types of content this is just my opinion on these things and I'm sure there are a million different add-ons and week RS out there that people are using successfully these however have helped me pug to over 3K IO every season and successfully raid at a Mythic level but let's get into it I'll be sectioning off this video into two broad sections for easier navigation first off we'll be talking about the general UI add-ons and we course and secondly we'll go some specific healing add-ons and we oras my trusted H Paladin pth here will be helping me show some of these tools for us today us as healers live and die by information meaning your group lives and dies by how we process that information and the actions we take as a result having a clean UI that is built around providing us the information we need when we need it will help improve your gameplay immediately let's it off with the biggest one for practically any player of any class and any role and that is you want to install we oros this addon allows should to import already existing week designs from wo. or you can create them yourself using the add-ons interface it is not super easy or intuitive to make good weor but thankfully we have a good community of very talented people that make them and share them on wago.io I love producing the website looking for new or improved ways to show information because that is what week Wars do it's all about Gathering and displaying information to the player in a way that allows them to make decisions easier and faster the main weor I use for my inter interface for most of my characters is luxos UI package there are many we or packages like this one so make sure you take a look at all of them and get the one that suits you the best this week Ora has ton of good stuff for us as healers I'll say though sometimes it be can become a bit much as it is a very comprehensive tool that shows you everything even the things that are not that important this is a very clean way to track your main CDs and abilities but also important procs that do have an impact on your decision making as a Holy Paladin player one great example is infusion of light procs you want to make sure you know when you have them and this weekor shows that as an icon for me though that's not obvious enough which is why I went into the weor itself and added a audio queue anytime you see any of my videos and I'm playing my Paladin you'll constantly hear guitar strings go off this is the indicator that an Fusion of light proc just happened let's talk about the larger UI of the game the default UI setup works fine but it's a bit dated for my taste to be honest I use lvi for my general setup as it allows for a lot of customization of reaction bars UNIF frames buff and debuff icons scaling and much more this is a very versatile add-on and one that I highly recommend to everyone you will not find this on kurge forge on the other hand but instead you will have to go to their website to download it once downloaded export all the files in the zip folder into your add-ons folder this is also how you update the add-on and it will notify you and the new versions available in your chat window when you log into the game My my setup is fairly simple but you can make this incredibly more complex and custom if you have the time to spend on it it might look intimidating at first but spend a little time with it and you'll find that it's relatively easy to create a pretty solid setup there's some very good video tutorials out there they'll go over every aspect of this add-on so go check those out if you want more details now if you want a really snazy set up with very little effort from yourself I would highly recommend that you check out an amazing YouTuber called gibberish he makes arguably some of the best LV profiles out there and on top of that he has a very active Discord community that is super helpful I put a link to his channel in the description of this video as well as his Discord Channel make sure you let him know that I sent you lvi also has great uni frames for all content that can be heavily customized to your liking you can change practically anything you want to suit your needs it is important that you spend some time with this add-on make sure it Vibes with you and how you want it you'll be looking at it for many hours and you want to make sure it suits your way of playing next up up let's talk about the mother of information add-ons and that is big wigs and deadly boss mods also make sure you install little wigs if you choose to go the big wigs route which is the dungeon versions of the add-on I'm including these in the general UI section as the information bars to make up the bulk of this add-on will need to be placed and customized so it fits your general UI design and setup I will go into a bit more depth about bigwigs in the last section of this video and show you how you can edit some functions within it I myself used big wigs and I haven't touched dbm in many years I know dbm is a very good and very popular add-on and if it works for you continue using it both of these add-on provide us with important information regarding boss encounters and we should make sure that we customize this information Highway in such a way so we can actually use it and a way to plan ahead since I don't use dbm I'll show you how it looks in Big Wigs but the same setup interface exists within dbm as well there are multiple different bars that do different things and we want to make sure they are placed in areas where it's easy for your eyes to see them just by glancing over to the bars if if you have to spend more than a few seconds searching for the information you've already put yourself and your group in danger as you took your eye off the ball for too long make sure you place the various bar so that you can either see them in your periphery or quickly glance over to get the information you're seeking I have my bars just to the top right of my character and I can in a split second see what's coming up and when just by glancing over there I also have various auditory cues and countdowns on specific events to help me know what's coming up without even having to look away this is usually when people start telling me that I'm not not even playing the game anymore and that my addons are playing for me I can understand the sentiment but this is a game of decision-making and action as a Healer I am constantly gathering information and I need to make split-second decision without data which requires an immense amount of skill and preparedness that not everyone possess especially when you do this at the highest level of the game yes we have a lot of information being fed to us thanks to addons and we cars but is how we choose to act upon that information that counts and that is 100% the pilot behind the character no other role in the game has the same pressure to do this like the Healer but we're always the first person blamed for any mistakes I've always said this and I will continue to say it DPS players are the fourth AIX for healers as we are there to fix their mistakes and also frequently the one blamed for them details is an add-on that I think most people are already using and have set up I've done very little to change this appearance and looks as it's pretty good out of the box I have three windows that I look at and it's Damage Done healing done and damage taken damage taken helps me quickly see who outside of the tank is taken a lot of damage which then helps me keep some specific attention on that player if needed pre-made group finder is a quality of life add-on that enhances the group finder UI this add-on provides me with a lot more options to filter out groups so I don't have to scroll forever to find a group to apply to it also gives you good information on the leader and the other members of the party including class and spec as well as highest key time than the dungeon You're app flying to very useful if you are like me and you lose track of your default game cursor when there's a lot of stuff going on in the game then this one is for you ultimate mouse cursor wiora there are a lot of similar ones out there but this is the one that I picked and have been using for a while it's been really really really helpful lastly when it comes to General UI add-ons is true stat value this is a very small add-on that shows you exactly the amount of secondary stat you need in order to hit soft cap it also shows the penalty should you go over that soft cap very helpful for players like paladins that have specific values that they need to hit before they go into diminishing returns that wraps up the general UI add-ons and weak orus that I think are essential for us to have moving on to perhaps the most important section and that is the Healer specific add-ons and we oras I use Voodoo as my main group and raid frames that I use for healing this is an incredibly strong add-on that allows you to do a lot of customization and provides us heals with a One-Stop shop for healing this add-on and replaces your group and raid frames with its own you can go into various menus of the add-on to change every aspect of its appearance there are some very good voodo profiles that can be downloaded from wago.io as well and that is a very good starting point for people unfamiliar with this add-on and how to customize it this add-on also replaces your need to create separate Mouse over markers for the Spells you want in the spell tab it gives you the option to drag and drop the Spells you want from your spell book to the corresponding key you want to use this includes any modifier Keys like alt shift and control that you want to use with your left and right Mouse button also don't forget your middle Mouse button it's very easy to click and very very very simple to set up that also allows you to customiz which buff and debuff icons you want to show as well as where you want them to show on the unit frames as we all know there are more icons and Buffs that we can count which is why bouquet are such a powerful option to use within Voodoo you find this in the G General tab section this is something you can create yourself which is a collection of Buffs that affect players and what will show on the uniframe depending on the priority you have them in your bouquet list I generally have one for various Trinkets and other externals Voodoo also clearly shows you debuffs on party members by changing the color of the bar to correspond to the calls you choose in the debuff options panel I recommend leaving these the way they are but if you want to you can change them speaking of debuffs the add-on also displays debuff icons where you want them to based on the preset debuffs that are loaded in the add-on beware here though not all the debuffs in the game are loaded into the add-on out of the box you may need to manually add them this is a fairly simple task you just need to know what the debuff is called so you can look up the spell ID on Wowhead in case you don't know the spell ID is not found on the wads page but instead in the URL section all you need to do is copy the spell ID code and put that into this Voodoo section and then designate what you want the add-on to do when it detects this Ste debuff there are an insane amount of tutorial GS out there for Voodoo that I recommend you check out if you want to do more complex stuff with it I have a very base level of knowledge about the add-on but enough to make it do what I want it to do Straight Out of the Box it works very well but be sure to make it your own and make sure you have all those healing spells in the correct spot and key healbot is another add-on that works very similarly to Voodoo just not as Polished in my opinion it has all the same functionality as Voodoo is worth checking out if you want to have a one Stop Shop add-on but don't like how Voodoo feels or looks the other really popular option out there and probably the most popular option I would say is use lvi group and raid frames you combine this with either the ingame miles over spell functionality or some third party add-on like click that achieves the same thing here again I would recommend you check out gibberish and his pre-built profiles as they already have all the function area built in and they look great you're going to need to set up your own Mouse over macros and some other specifics to your own needs but generally it works fantastic out of the box the other thing I want you to pay extra attention to is make sure you have your Buffs and debuffs where you want them on the frames this is very important to get right as it's a huge part of your information gathering process as a Healer if you choose to use the default lvi raid and group frames those work great out of the box as well but please spend some time to make sure they show the Buffs and debuffs and make sure that it's very easy for you to see which player is Afflicted with what so you can take appropriate action you can find all of these options in the the unit frame section of the add-on and then clicking which frame you want to make changes to like I said earlier lvi has an insane amount of Versatility you can practically change every aspect of your uni frames to whatever you want them to be check out the various guides that are out there but also more importantly if you want to make it easy on yourself go check out gibber's channel and pick up some of his already pre-built profiles Grid 2 is another uniframe add-on that does the same thing as lvi but it tries to do so in a more streamlined and simple way it is very clean easy to set up and CS out a lot of extra stuff that you don't really need which means it takes up a lot less CPU power in the end all of these add-ons aim to do the same thing provide you as a player with a customizable uniframe that provides you with the information how you want it and when you want it all of them will require you to spend some time to make them look and feel the way you want them to and I highly recommend you spend that time all of them work out of the box but need a little bit of setup to make them work properly the add-on Omni CDs an absolute requirement for all healers and you should not enter a key without it this Adam puts CD icons next to the player's uni frame so you as a Healer know exactly what CDs they have available at any time once installed you should go into the atom with the/ Omni CD command then go to the dungeon section in here hit the spell Tab and now you see every CD from every class in the game the number one thing you want to set up here are your tanks go to each and every tank class and go over their CDs and check the ones you want to keep track of of I made a series of videos discussing how we heal tanks in N plus content where I go over every single one of their CDs you can check out the videos by clicking the link above or check out the link in the description you want to make sure you do the same thing for DPS and pick up all of their salent personal defensives they have next is picking where you want these to show up on your unit frame I generally like to have them go out to the left so they don't interfere with my field of view now whenever a player uses one of the track CDs you will see the spell icon glow and once the defensive expires you'll see their remaining time until it becomes available again this is incredibly powerful for us as healers to know what everyone has available at any given time now this will also make you angrier than ever before as you'll see DPS never ever ever push those defensive buttons even when they are getting absolutely trucked this is a bit of an exaggeration obviously but generally speaking DPS tends to forget that they have defensive spells available eventually they'll die and the standard why no heel crying starts you now know better and they should have pushed their buttons and you have nothing to feel bad about I was in at 23 galron fall the other day on fortified and the tank decided to pull both of those risen dragons before the blight of galron boss I had all my CS available and knew that I could heal the damage if everyone used their personal defensives do you think the augmentation invoker pushed any of their Myriad of personal defensives even once during that stormo damage if your answer was not once you would be absolutely correct if a DPS player is watching this please For the Love of whatever God you subscribe to use your defensives as if this add-on didn't do enough it also provides us with a very easy to read list of available interrupts for all party members that has an interrupt this may not be a Healer specific piece of this but if nobody has an interrupts available for a dangerous cast of spell and you know it will go off you need to be prepared for it pler is also a huge add-on to use as it changes the name plates of allies and enemies I highly recommend using qu's PL player profile his profile provides us with a very clean and easy to understand color priority of enemies and also very easy to see enemy cast bars he has a very easy to understand video about how to install pler and its profile and what the different color priorities do I've left the link in the description I choose to play with friendly name plates turned on as I want to know exactly where my allies are at all times this is even more important for the preservation evokers out there to enable friendly name plates simply hit shift and V and they will appear you can also modify within pler how these look here are some really good weak oras that I recommend everyone to pick up these will not be class specific and are just good weak oras to have for all healers runic power tracker for healers this weak Ora tracks the RP of blood decase which helps us as healers know if they're in good spot to heal themselves if you see them RP starred and a lot of damage is coming through then you know you're going to want to assist them with their healing until their RP goes back up blood decays live and die by their RP management there are multi itude of frame glow weor out there which shows an indicator on your unit frames for all debuff conditions that are of importance for us as healers this is the one that I'm using and it's pretty easy to set up and work Straight Out of the Box this next one is a threein one weor this shows and tracks the incorporeal AIX timer and shows you when the next expected incorporeal will spawn it also does the same thing for The Afflicted AIX and has the added benefit of showing healing as well lastly it also shows entangling timers so I highly recommend picking this up on those weeks everyone should have a Bess and bloodless tracker it's very useful for obvious reasons there are tons of them out there but the one I use is very simple and easy the last we cor I will recommend is the SL say announcer by boodoo boy if you've watched any of my videos You'll see chat bubbles pop up over my head warning the group of various things that are about to happen I find this very useful as it gives you a second or two warning that something's about to happen you can take immediate action that is it for this weor and add-ons video I hope you found it useful and as always I am available to help answer any questions about any of the tools discussed here if you like the video please hit that like button drop a comment below and subscribe to the channel thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one

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Published: Fri Dec 22 2023