Raid Leading MOD's & Addon's

Uglesh · 08/01/07, 10:13 AM

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.

Cannings · 08/01/07, 10:21 AM

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

Marroc · 08/01/07, 10:22 AM

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..

Warbo · 08/01/07, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Cannings

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

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.

Warleona · 08/01/07, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Warbo

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.

files.wowace.com is your buddy!

Marroc · 08/01/07, 10:28 AM

WowAce downloads

Both are on there.

The Truculent Gentleman · 08/01/07, 12:52 PM

Any suggestions for a mod a raid leader might use that will do the following:

Track Raids
Track Attendance at each Raid
Track Loot received by whom at each Raid

After looking around the mods seemed to mostly be more complicated dkp-based mods. I am just looking for something simple where I can view who looted/what/when.

Thanks.

Marroc · 08/01/07, 1:03 PM

Originally Posted by The Truculent Gentleman

Any suggestions for a mod a raid leader might use that will do the following:

Track Raids
Track Attendance at each Raid
Track Loot received by whom at each Raid

After looking around the mods seemed to mostly be more complicated dkp-based mods. I am just looking for something simple where I can view who looted/what/when.

Thanks.

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.

aleyro · 08/01/07, 1:08 PM

Originally Posted by The Truculent Gentleman

Any suggestions for a mod a raid leader might use that will do the following:

Track Raids
Track Attendance at each Raid
Track Loot received by whom at each Raid

After looking around the mods seemed to mostly be more complicated dkp-based mods. I am just looking for something simple where I can view who looted/what/when.

Thanks.

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.

Lidow · 08/01/07, 1:12 PM

Originally Posted by The Truculent Gentleman

Any suggestions for a mod a raid leader might use that will do the following:

Track Raids
Track Attendance at each Raid
Track Loot received by whom at each Raid

After looking around the mods seemed to mostly be more complicated dkp-based mods. I am just looking for something simple where I can view who looted/what/when.

Thanks.

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.

Sarutobi · 08/01/07, 2:00 PM

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

Malrix · 08/01/07, 2:03 PM

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.

Baalzaman · 08/01/07, 4:54 PM

ct_raidtracker (eqdkp + mldkp I find simple and easy to use with our eqdkp system.

oRA2, sRaidFrames (good for seeing who has soulstones, combat resses, ankhs etc available)

Karmen · 08/01/07, 5:05 PM

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.

Kebinusan · 08/02/07, 8:17 AM

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.