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World of Warcraft Addons

UI

Complete UI Replacement

First off, I know you like to keep your UI as vanilla as possible, so I know this one probably won't be your thing. That said, this complete UI replacement is so popular that I should mention it. It is called UlvUI. Download it here: https://www.tukui.org/ (not the TukUI download.) Rather than take several paragraphs to explain all of the changes, it would take less time and have more impact for you to simply install it and fire up the game to see it first hand. If it isn't for you, simply delete it from your addons folder.

For the complete experience, I recommend also grabbing AddonSkins and ElvUI Shadow & Light on Curse.

If you use this, many of the following recommendations become redundant.

DIY UI Elements

Inventory

  • AdiBags is hands down the best bag addon currently available.
  • Scrap to automate dumping stuff at the vendor. More than just greys.
  • Scrap Cleaner auto-deletes least valuable scrap when bags are full.
  • New Openables never miss an open-able item in your bags again.
  • Outfitter is a more powerful version of the now-built-in equipment manager.
  • Pawn helps evaluate upgrades. (Designed mostly for level-capped players.)
  • SimPermut and/or Simulationcraft are for exporting your character information for import to http://www.simulationcraft.org/. Used to generate your own stat weights which can be imported to Pawn.

General

Pet Battles and Collection

Auction

Professions

Raiding & Dungeons

  • Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) or BigWigs and LittleWigs. Search Curse to get the extra/legacy modules.
  • Saved Instances displays lockouts.
  • Dungeon Difficulty so you (hopefully) notice you're on the right difficulty.
  • Incentive Program alerts when there are extra rewards offered for your role in the group finder.
  • Premade Group Filter powerful filters for the premade group finder.
  • Details! for damage meters.
  • Talent Set Manager save and quickly load talent sets.
  • GTFO audio alerts when you're standing in the ouch.
  • GottaGoFast is a nice replacement Mythic+ Dungeon timer.
  • Exorsus Raid Tools is a bundle of really great tools that replace quite a few common raid addons.
  • Lost Control alerts others when you're cc'd (not super important for DPS)
  • Weak Auras 2 is the successor to Power Auras. Many raid leaders have prepared auras to alert raid members of certain boss mechanics, etc. These can be exported/imported as base64 alphanumeric strings and shared. It is worth learning. I put it here rather than other UI sections because it is often mandatory for some raid groups. It is worth learning how to create your own auras as well. There are some websites out there where people share auras they've created (1) Wago.io and (2) Weak Auras Online but you'll also notice on wowhead, under certain pages like spells or auras, there is now a button that will give you a basic icon aura string that you can import to weak auras. A simpler alternative to WA is TellMeWhen.
  • Personal Loot Helper to be a bro and hand over gear that a teammate can use. Blizzard added the ability to trade soulbound loot with other players from your instance within a time limit. If you (or someone else) loots an item, it checks everyone's slot and alerts you in chat if it is not an upgrade for the looter, but is an upgrade for someone else. It has the option to broadcast this to everyone, but that can be a bit rude. I use it simply so I can offer upgrades to others.

PvP

Appearances / Transmog

Garrison & Order Hall

World Quests

  • World Quest Group Finder helps automate the process of finding, creating, and joining groups to knock out world quests quickly.

I recommend choosing only one of the following so filters work as expected:

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