Must Have Raid Mods Options

[Atsushi]

I understand there are a couple people that are anti-mod however there are a couple that every player should have. It will make you a better player because you aren't going to necessarily be 1-2 seconds reaction slower than those that do have them.

EVERYONE

Omen Threat Meter - Even though there is a threat meter built into WoW currently, this one is more accurate. If you have aggro issues, this will help you understand when to slow, stop or when you can go all out.

Atlas Loot - This is a good way to plan a wish list. You can browse through dungeons, reputation, factions, tradeskills and add upgrades to a wish list. It helps without having a scrap of paper with your wishlist, you can just look up whats on your wishlist immediately and know you need X dungeon or boss.

Rating Buster - This is a nice mod that will let you hover over items and instantly compare them. It will tally up in green what stats are positive and in red which ones are negative. Lets you see fairly fast if something is an upgrade or not. It is customizable if you want to ignore certain stats and only interested in other stats.

*Recount - This isn't a required one, but if you are one of those people who constantly ask what the DPS charts are, etc... you should just download it yourself. Want to know the DPS, healing done, overhealing or top 3 damage dealers, etc... this is the tool. It is what lets us know who isn't doing their job and who is down to decursing.

*Big Wigs & Little Wigs - This is not a required one but it does help to be quicker on reactions for dungeons and raids. Raid warnings will usually be going off and they are generated by this. It is modular so you can disable instances you don't want or raids we aren't doing. It has count down timers, instead of raid warnings. So instead of getting "Incoming in 10 seconds, 5 seconds, now". You will actually see a timer bar counting all the way down so you can time when to move at the last moment or do what you need to do at the last moment.

*Mik Scrolling Battle Text - This isn't required but I find it interesting especially if your someone that likes to watch damage, which attacks do the most, etc. You can make special triggers to alert you when certain buffs happen like Clearcasting, Nigh Fall, etc. WoW battle text puts all the incoming, outgoing damage on mobs above their head so its hard to disguise what is what. You can move damage to 4 different fields in different locations for incoming, outgoing, notifications.

HEALING

Healbot - If you are relying on clicking on a raid frame, then clicking on a heal... then unfortunately you are 1-2 seconds too slow. Out of the box this is easy to configure and works. Players names get highlighted in blue for magic debuffs, purple for curses, green for poisons, etc... it is also a good alternate for Decursive. Others prefer to use Grid & Clique below though. Should get either Healbot or Grid/Clique.

Grid - Grid by itself is pretty much just a raid frame. It is compact, more compact than Xperl, healbot frames and highly customizable. It doesn't gain its strength until you combine it with Clique (below)

Clique - Clique allows you to bind any spells to various hot keys. Combined with Grid it can be pretty potent. Just by clicking once (not twice or three times) you can start casting heal, cure poison, curse, etc. You can easily spot who has one with Grid so no need for a person to shout out they are cursed, etc. It is also useful for other classes, I use it with my hunter to instantly misdirect easily onto any player.


DPS

TANKING