Boss Encounters
BigWigs , , ,
Boss alert mod. It consists of many individual "boss modules", mini addons that are designed to trigger alert messages and timer bars for one specific raid boss each. Modules are activated when you target or mouseover a Boss, or if any other BigWigs use in your raid does. In most cases only one module will be running at any given time.
Curse, WoWInterface, WoWWiki
LittleWigs -
BigWigs modules that add some warnings to the bosses found in 5-man instances.
BossEncounter3
Boss Mod whose purpose is to ease your time through bosses by providing tools such as timers, health bars, alerts, a radar and other more specialized tools. BossEncounter3's philosophy is to deliver these tools to the players in a fun, elegant, efficient and funky manner. Provides: Health bars for the main boss and its adds, Timers for incoming events, Summary window telling you the name of the fight as well as the combat time or the berserk timer, Visible text for important stuff you may not miss, A radar which allows you to check your distances and the evil areas of doom which you mustn't stand in, Evaluation of your performance each time a boss fight is cleared.
WoWInterface, Curse
DBM , , ,
Boss mods for all raid bosses, Colored raid warnings! Bars can be enlarged when they are about to expire, Some boss mods have very advanced features like the Loatheb healer monitor which allows you to setup a heal rotation and see the cooldowns of all healers, Synchronization system for accurate timers, No dependencies, no embedded libraries, 100% stand-alone, Modular design - all boss mods are plugins and can be exchanged, removed or updated separately, Load on demand - boss mods and the GUI are separate AddOns and they will be loaded when they are needed, e.g. the GUI uses no memory if you don't open it, Efficient code: low memory and CPU usage, Special effects like the screen flash and the screen shake effect to draw your attention on critical events - for example DBM will warn you when Thaddius changes your polarity, Bars can change their color over time and flash before they expire, Many bar designs to choose from, all designes are are customizable: you can change the color, size, icon position etc. Option to create custom timers, so-called "Pizza Timers" for your pizza or whatever you prefer to eat while raiding, Powerful object-oriented API - you can use it to write your own boss mods!
Deadlybossmods, Curse, WoWInterface
DBM Bar Style Change
Deus Vox Encounters
Deus Vox Encounters (DXE) is a boss mod inspired by RDX. It is designed to be functional, efficient, and customizable, so you can change what you want and how you see this addon.
Curse
HudMap
HudMap is an addon that provides a true heads-up tactical display of an encounter, with raid member positions, range data, debuff area-of-effect indicators, and more. Additionally, HudMap ships with totem radius indicators. In general, if you want to do range or player-to-player directional stuff, HudMap's your huckleberry.
Curse
WoW Insider Review
Raid Watch 2 , ,
Raid Watch is an addon that shows important events during Boss encounters. It will show these events in the form of messages, warning and timer bars when appropriate.
Raid Watch is inspired by Bigwigs and DBM in many ways but have its own look and feel.
Curse
RobBossMods
Cataclysms new heroic instances are much more diffiicult than they were in WotLK. Many people are forced to do 5 man heroics with random groups. The problem: Some of the random players might not know what the boss mechanics are. In Addition, players might be afraid to ask for fear of being kicked. To solve that you can use RBM. RBM explains the boss mechanics of the boss in front of you.
Curse, WoWInterface
WoW Insider Review
Dungeon Journal
Dungeon Journal Enhanced
This addon enhances the Dungeon Journal. Shows which spells/adds are new/removed in the heroic version of an encounter compared to the normal version. To see the difference, just press the "Diff" button, which appears in the Dungeon Journal after selecting a boss. New spells/adds are green colored and removed ones are red colored. The parent spells/adds are always shown, even if they exists on normal to see new/removed stuff in context. You can hide the boss icons on the instance maps or if you want to see them just not that big, you can scale them down. You can expand/collapse all headers with 1 click. Adds/spells which exists on normal and heroic, but change how they work on heroic will be colored orange.
WoWInterface
EJ Smaller Map Buttons
Simple addon to allow setting a smaller scale
for the Encounter Journal Boss Icons on the World or Instance Maps.
WoWInterface
Hide Boss Buttons
Simple mod that adds a check box when viewing an instance map to show/hide the Encounter Journal boss portraits on the map.
WoWInterface
Raid Assist Mods
CTRA
CT_RaidAssist is your all-around raid mod. It can report hp, mana, buffs, and debuffs of anyone or everyone in your raid. You can set it to notify when someone is debuffed with specified types as well as notify when buffs you can recast fade. It can show 'MT Targets' which allow you to specify MainTanks's which all users in raid can then see. When shown, it will show you the target of the person set as MT. It's a bit similar to the Target's Target function though with this, the tank doesn't even have to be your target.
CTMod
oRA3 ,
oRA3 is the next oRA. It is not compatible with oRA2. It features the following: Durability, Resistance, Zone, Version Checks. Cooldown monitor for just about every spell with a longer cooldown. Invites based on guild rank, zone, keyword, and guild only keyword. Blizzard Maintank based maintank lists with custom sorting. Promoting to raid assistant based on guild rank, a list of names or just everyone. Intelligent readycheck window that will display a divider bar between groups 2 and 3 or 5 and 6 based on raid target settings. Loot settings based on party or raid. Works in party for readychecks, checks and cooldowns. You can find oRA3 as a sliding panel attached to the Raid overview.
Curse
SimpleTankFrames is a plugin for oRA3 that shows a list of main tanks.
Broker_oRA3 for data broker displays.
Raid Frames
Blizzard Raid Frames - Indicators
Configurable indicators for Blizzard Raid Frames showing time of buffs/debuffs on all units in the raid. There are 9 indicators for each raid member, one on each corner, one on each side and one in the middle. Indicators can be configured to show any buffs/debuffs of your choice and you can configure several buffs/debuffs in the same indicator. Some simple options lets you select to show only if the buff is missing, only cast by you, stack sizes and more. As an added bonus there's also an option to turn off the standard buff/debuff icons.
Curse
OzRaid
OzRaid is a raid/party window 'construction kit', designed to let you build clickable showing health/mana/buffs/debuffs/etc. for raid members and or targetted mobs.
Unlike other mods, this lets you build custom windows depending on what information you need only. For example, a raid leader may want to see the whole raids health status along with the major buffs (AB, Fort, Pink paw, etc.) so they can see at a glance if everyone is buffed & ready. Healers can show certain groups or classes (or the CT/oRA2 Main Tanks) on special big bars that only show current HoTs & debuffs, with the health deficit shown in the new 'Big K' numbers that show you quickly & easily what size heal to use. DPS'ers can make a replacement for the default 'Main Tanks Target' window, which will not only show raid icons (very useful for targetting when the raid leader is shouting 'kill the orange' in a mass of mobs), but also can be customised to show only the debuffs you care about - such as Curse of Elements, Sunders etc.
Curse, WoWInterface
PerfectRaid
PerfectRaid is a whole new look on raid frames, giving you as much information as possible in an easily recognizable format that's easy to place. Show as much or as little as you're interested in, and completely customize using the each options editor.
Config: /praid
WoWInterface
Vranx Note: The screenshot shows a modified PerfectRaid using the smoothV2 texture
RaidHide
Hides Blizzard's raid frames.
WoWInterface
TinyRaidHider also hides the raid frames
ShotGlassRaidFrames
Simple grid-style Raid Frame that displays the health and mana of your party or raid members, and will indicate aggro & specific auras that are placed on those characters.
WoWInterface, Curse
SimpleRaidFrameOverlays
Enhances the built-in raid frames to have an overlay for debuffs, much like just about every raid frame replacement addon. This addon was created in the wake of the great enhancements made to the built-in raid frames in patch 4.0.1, and is intended to bring some much-needed and common functionality to the built-in raid frames and hopefully eliminate the need of a raid frame replacement addon.
Curse
Smaller Blizzard Raid Frames
Makes the Blizzard raid frames half their normal size, while scaling up names, buffs, and icons to keep them readable.
WoWInterface
sRaidFrames ,
sRaidFrames was designed to replace the raid frames provided by CT_RaidAssist. They share the same look and feel of the original frames, but are highly optimised and even include extra features such as aggro highlighting and display of PVE critical abilities.
The main goal of sRaidFrames is to be just that, frames, nothing more; they do not deliver any other magic that you might know from CT_RaidAssist. This includes Decursing, Bossmods, Raid Status and Emergency Monitor. By not including these features, sRaidFrames will allow anyone the freedom to use whatever mod, if any, they prefer to do the above tasks.
Curse
UnobtrusiveCompactRaidManager
Reduces the width of the CompactRaidManager frame and makes it transparent in it's collapsed state.
Curse, WoWInterface
Misc Raid/Instance Mods
Am I Locked Out ,
Rembers which of your chars are saved to which instance/raid. Updates on login and every time you get the 'You are now saved to this instance'-message, a shift-click on the tooltip forces a manual update. So you don't have to log onto your chars to see if you can join that raid with one of your alts.
Curse
Conjured Announcer
Automatically announce when the following items are created by any of the party/raid members: Fish Feast, Great Feast, Jeeves, Scrapbot, Moll-e, Field Repair Bot 110G, Ritual of Refreshment, Refreshment Portal, Ritual of Summoning, Cauldron of Battle, Ritual of Souls, Big Cauldron of Battle, Goblin Barbecue Feast, Seafood Magnifique Feast, Broiled Dragon Feast.
Curse, WoWInterface
DeathClock
DeathClock is a small movable frame that analyzes the current damage per second on the target and provides an estimated time til death if the DPS were to continue at that rate.
This may be useful in raid situations where you have an enrage timer to beat.
WoWInterface
Doodlepad , , ,
A whiteboard addon for drawing doodles on your screen for use with explaining fight strategies, making commentary about videos or just doodling. Doodles can be shared across a party, raid or guild scope in real-time.
WoWInterface, Curse
Fatality
Fatality is a simple addon with no in-game configuration which announces information to a specified channel about the last hit a person took before they died. The number of people reported is configurable, as is the number of events in each report, and whether or not numbers should be shortened - just open up Fatality.lua and edit the first 8 lines to suit your needs.
WoWInterface, Curse
Flump
Announces raid cooldowns/portals/feasts and more to a specified channel.
WoWInterface, Curse
No Stock UI Review
GTFO
This addon provides an audible alert when you're standing in something you're not supposed to be standing in. In some cases, you'll be warned before you start taking damage. It's particularly useful for individuals that play with their spell graphics turned down or for those that just need a little extra help being told to GTFO. It also helps out with PvP when you can't tell who's casting the AOE.
Curse, WoWInterface
LFGStatusIcon
Simple mod that displays LFG queue status by placing indicators on the LFG minimap icon so that you do not have to constantly mouse-over it.
WoWInterface, Curse
LiteAssist
LiteAssist is a very basic addon to replace the standard /assist macro.
It provides extra key bindings to learn who to assist and to assist them. You can (and must to use this addon) set them up via the WoW Keyboard Options menu.
LiteAssist really is lite. There are no /commands and no fancy GUIs, just the 3 key bindings.
Curse
MagicTargets ,
PvE status frames. Shows marked mobs, you cant click the frames to target though.
Config: /mgt config
WoWInterface, Curse
RaidAchievement
Reports in chat (or with sound) when group or raid achievement that you can't track has failed or when all criteria of the achievement have been completed and you need to kill boss. Informs about achievements when you enter the instance or target a boss. Manual selection of achievements (by location) available. Shows tactics.
Curse
rTimeToDie
Calculates the time left until a boss is going die. Option for which mobtypes will be tracked (raidboss, hc boss, all mobs). Option if dps should be shown.
WoWInterface
