Healer LFG

Essential Addons

I’ve been in the process of cleaning out my addon and wtf folders and redoing my UI. Its long overdue! I figured this would be a good opportunity to share some of the addons I use and those I refuse to uninstall! I am a bit of an addon addict so it was hard to narrow it down, but here it is

General Enhancments

• Bartender3 : Nothing better than a good bar mod. I won’t get into the great debate of which is best because it’s purely preference. I like bartender because its simple, lightweight and easy to use.
  Available at WowAce.
• Cartographer : Anything you wish to see on your map, Cartographer will show you. Its also modular, meaning you only have to install the features you will use. For example my Druid is an engineer and I also fish, so I have the features enabled to show me previous locations I found some good fish or mote clouds. It can also show you were your guildies are on the world map if they also have it installed and have this feature enabled. There is not much Cartographer can’t show you, including previous quest givers and objectives.
  Available at WowAce.
• FuBar : Is your minimap starting to look more like a huge jumble of buttons instead of a simple map? FuBar is many things but mostly a bar you can place anywhere on your screen that shows you essential info, or allows access to mods or functions without going through your interface panel or menus.
  Available at WowAce.
• ItemRack : I really think I would go crazy without this mod. It allows you to set up multiple gear sets and switch them with the click of a button or macro. It also will show you a menu when you mouse over an item in your character screen of all the equippable items for that slot in your inventory, allowing you to switch items or weapons quickly.
  Available at WowInterace.
• Pitbull : Unit Frames! Pitbull is another modular addon, meaning you only need install the features you need and boy does this mod have lots of features. It can be a little overwhelming the amount of unit frames this package has and all the options for each one of them, but I love having that amount of control over what I see and how I see it.
  Available at WowAce.
• Talented : Great for those who respec on a regular basis. You create Talent Build Templates and can simply click ‘Apply Template’ when respeccing and it fills in all your Talents for you. No more “oops” moments during those expensive respecs.
  Available at WowAce.
• Quartz : Castbar and more! Not only is this mod a great cast bar, showing you or latency to begin your next cast. It also shows you a global cooldown timer (great for beginner trees) and HoT/DoT timers for your target, focus or yourself. Its another modular addon which means it has a ridiculous amount of features which you can enable and disable as you wish so you don’t have to worry about using up too much memory.
  Available at WowAce.
• FreeRefills : Automatically buys a set amount of the reagent you define whenever you visit a reagent vendor.
  Available at WowAce.
• EQCompare : Compare items easily with those you have equipped side by side.
  Available at WowAce.
• DrDamage : In game theorycrafting. Your spell tooltips will be adjusted to show tons more information including how your gear effects the selected spell: cast time, average damage, average crit, average healed etc. Available at WowAce.
• Ratings Buster : See what those ratings mean in actual percentages.
  Available at Curse.

Raiding

• WhisperFu : I include this because it broke on me after a patch once and I think I missed it more than almost any other mod. If you are a raid leader, or in a position where you get a lot of tells and have a hard time keeping track of them, this mod is invaluable. Its an add on for FuBar. It shows you the last person who sent you a tell on FuBar and if you mouse over their name it will show you the last 3-4 tells sent and received. Right-click and it shows you the last 10 people who have whispered you and the ability to see what they said.
  Available at WowAce.
• oRA : RA stands for Raid Assist. If your raid leader has this mod you can do them a favor by just leaving it running in the background. Especially if you have cooldown abilities your raid leader might want to know about: battle rez, ankh, etc. It gives the ability to show windows with this information as well as other good stuff to be aware of.
  Available at WowAce.
• XRaidStatus (XRS) : This is a great mod for everyone who raids. It allows you to create customizable bars with information you would like to see about the raid. How many are alive, dead, who’s in range, healer mana, overall raid health, overall raid mana. Almost anything you want defined by group or class or the whole raid. It also allows you to create a bar showing who has what buff and lets you buff those missing say Mark of the Wild directly from the window.
  Available at WowAce.
• Heal Organizer : Sick of typing out all those healing assignments, or having those macros to assign healers taking up all that space? I was too. Heal Organizer is a GUI to set up heal assignments and then broadcasts them to a channel of your choice. You can save profiles for any encounter and if someone was afk or not paying attention they can whisper you with the word “heal” and have their assignment sent back to them.
  Available at WowAce.

Healing

• Clique : To see more about Clique see my post about “How to be a Clicker“. Clique lets you bind spells to your mouse to be cast when your mouse is over any unit frame. While this is possible with macros, Clique gives you a nice simple GUI to set everything up and create profiles for different characters or situations.
  Available at WoWInterface.
• Grid : Grid put an end to the days when healers could not see anything beyond those they were healing since their whole screen was covered with unit frames. Small, lightweight and highly customizable its worth the bit of a high learning curve it takes to get it up and running.
  Available at WowAce.
• Chronometer : Timers for everything. I use it mostly for HoT and totem timers combined with Quartz.
  Available at WowAce.

Questing/Leveling

• Quest Helper : The beauty of this mod cannot be explained, it can only be experienced. It makes leveling a dream showing you the quickest and most efficient way to complete your quests and where to go to do so. Questing as a group? No problem, this mod will adjust to make sure all your friends get their quests done too.
  Available at Curse.

PvP

• Proxmio : The Ultimate Arena Addon. Shows you, your opponent class, health, mana, even their spec!
  Available at WowAce.
• Afflicted : Alerts you when important cooldowns of your enemies are up such as counterspell. Also alerts you if your interrupt or dispel/purge failed.
  Avalable at WoWInterface.

Class Specific

• Druid

  • Innervator : Alerts you when you should use your innervate to get the most out of it. Great for long boss fights.
    Available at WowAce.
  • Evocation2 : Automatically equips your highest spirit weapon combination when you have the innervate buff, then re-equips the previous weapon when it fades.
    Available at Curse.

• Priest

  • MendWatch : Tracks your prayer of mending, where its jumping and how many charges remain.
    Available at WowAce.

• Paladin

  • PallyPower : organize all those blessings on raids.
    Available at WowAce.

• Shaman

  • Since my shaman is fairly new I haven’t had the opporunity to experiment with shaman-specific addons. If anyone has any suggestions for me of things I should try out, please comment!