Originally Posted by Praetorian
I'll have to investigate it. My understanding was that all it did was filter your debuff display to show specific ones, which is something, but still a clunky and seemingly requires more of my attention than I'd like to devote when I'm looking to get a piece of info right away. I'm more concerned with which debuffs AREN'T on the target than which are, is the main point. If Demo/TC/Sunder/CoE/CoS/CoR/FF are on the boss, I don't want to have to peer at a window to count them all and make sure. If Demo/TC/Sunder/CoE/CoS/CoR are on the boss, but FF is not, I want to know that immediately at a glance, since that's really what matters.
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Debuff Filter is almost what you want. I'll be a bit more specific that the previous people who mentioned it.
Debuff Filter creates its own separate debuff frame for you target (and for your focus, and even one for yourself, if you want) that includes only debuffs from a list you specify. By including only the most important debuffs, an instantaneous glance at your DFilter frame will spot anything missing. Obviously, there's a tradeoff here--the more debuffs you want to watch, the less "instantaneous" your scan will be. But that will be true of any such mod. It you're trying to monitor every significant raid debuff yourself, you may as well just be watching an unfiltered debuff frame.
The best use of DFilter is to expect people to use it to monitor the debuffs important to their own classes. As a raid leader, you don't want to be filtering in Faerie Fire--that just dilutes your ability to notice at a single glance when something major like Thunderclap is down. Instead, a Rogue whose filter only includes Sunder, CoR, and FF will notice immediately when one of the three is down, and call it on Vent.
Similarly, healers might actually want a DFilter frame for the buffs/debuffs on the MT. The MT often has a huge list of buffs that nobody wants to visually scan every few seconds. A filter frame showing the major HoT's and buffs like Inspiration can help them remain aware of the tank's status without having their eyes scroll past "Prayer of Fortitude" a hundred times per fight. MT himself probably wants to watch Demo Shout/Thunderclap/CoR/Shadow Embrace/etc.
As the raid leader, pick out the few things that you feel the need to inform the raid about immediately if they drop, and filter them in.