I know that there is countless discussions on each addon, however what are the current MOD's and Addon's that raid leaders are using?

Just to be clear, I'm not hoping for a debate on one vs the other. I would just like to pick a few brains to find out what you are using and what features you are using it for.

Thanks in advance.

Two mods I find essential are, Bigbrother and Expiration, which tells you how people die and who breaks sheep and how, great for finding out the liars that claim to have used everything but infact took just a healing pot

Wrong forum first of all :P

As far as addons go, I typically use grid, oRa2, and a series of macros to control/keep tabs on the raids I'm leading.

I'll then do after the fact analysis via WWS or Recount (when it gets more stable) and expiration to figure out what went wrong..

Do you mind giving the link for those addons? I tried to search them on google, curse-gaming, and a couple of other sites but nothing showed up for me.

Thanks.

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Both are on there.

Never used it myself but I believe Looto does this, but it's very out of date (should be on Curse)

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but I'm sure they are out there.

ct raid tracker (Search Downloads | Downloads) does exactly that, and nothing more. even if it says that it does DKP, thats just an export option.

Nihilum Raid Tracker.

NRT - does this quite well for me, will have an in guild announcement when bosses die to track people not in the raid as well.

Another mod I can't live without as a RL is XRaidStatus (check the ACE mods). Can track all sorts of stuff from buffs, who's within 10/30/100 yards of you and HP/Mana of whatever class you want.

pDebuffList is also helpful as it allows you to, very quickly, see what debuffs that should be on the boss are or aren't.

CT_raidtracker is also what I use to track attendance and loot received. Other raid leading addons are:

A good set of unit frames:
sRaidframes or Pitbull are my preferences I have used XRS for more general tracking but I always seem to go back to wanting to know which person is OOM or has aggro and tend to look at the full raidframes more.

CTRA or oRA for durability or resistance checks and cooldown monitoring (sRaidframes also monitors cooldowns)

Bigbrother for sheep breaking but also for checking flask usage and probably most commonly to check that Misdirects are up where they should be and when.

Recount for analysis or why someone died as well as who healers were healing and tons of other analysis information.

I used to use Expiration but Recount has not taken that slot for figuring out why people die, very invaluable when you have the general strat down and are just trying to tweak some minor things for a kill. The rest of the things I use while leading a raid:

pDebuffList
oRA2
XRS
HealOrganizer
NRT

Just those 6 mods (including Recount) should give you everything you need while leading a raid.

My list is most the same as everyone else:

Loggerhead (enable combatlog automagically by zone for WWS)
pDebuffList
oRA2
XRS
NRT/CTRT
Recount (Which has death reports like expiration but easier to read due to color coding)

Also I recommend a mod called Dash (search wowinterface), which allows you to attach certain windows to a dashboard which is nice to get rid of some clutter. I keep Recount / Voilation and XRS on this Dash window for easy access.

Simply amazing addon. Thanks for pointing it out

oRA2 - If everyone in the raid has it installed you can keep track of which people have soulstones/combatres up, it has itemchecks, resist checks and all that kinda stuff.

Recount/expiration - Find out who died, what of and who was healing them etc. Recount is fairly memory heavy though.

Bigbrother - Check everyone is buffed (with flasks/elixirs mainly), tells you who breaks sheep.

Xraidstatus - You can set this up to show whatever you want in terms of raid mana/health, death count, offline members. Also has a buff checker type thing that can announce to the raid if anyone is missing a class given buff (gotw/forti etc), again customisable by classes.


As for organising healing, i've never really got along with mods that do it, we just tend to wing it in the healer channel before the fight.

Never used pdebufflist either, but thinking about it that's a really handy mod to be running.

Recount is great for analyzing failed attempts. Just by looking at the right graph/chart you can see people run out of mana, the effect of a shadow priest dying, who is interrupting the spells, wether the warrior forgot to shield block, etc. I can not say enough good things about it.

For actually assigning raid targets? I just use hotkeys... a mod might be a bit heavy handed?

There is an ace2 fubar addon, CharmsFu that does that. I have it, technically, but never use it.

I just have macros for /script SetRaidTargetIcon("target", 1); through 8 bound to F1 through F8, with F9 clearing the icons (0 in that /script clears the icon). We use them as a kill order (Skull then rainbow order - ROYGBIV, then moon), so they're in color order on my end for ease of just tabbing/clicking through targets and hitting all my F keys in order.

If you don't use your numpad keys for anything, that'd be another good candidate for spare keys to use for this sort of thing.

I like Simple Raid Target Icons. CTRL-Click or double-clicking on something in the actual game world brings up a radial menu where you can assign charms. It's pretty damn handy, saves me keybindings and marking up mobs is pretty quick once you get the hang out if. Definitely check it out.

You don't need to use macro space on that, you can bind icons directly to keys.

Yeah, just go to your Key Bindings menu and down towards the bottom you will see all the raid icons. I have them set to my numpad so I can assign them quickly and on the go, as necessary.