Guide

Addons

Discover the best World of Warcraft addons to enhance your gaming experience. Find guides, reviews, and tips on top tools for raids, dungeons, PvP, resource gathering, and UI customization. Whether you're a veteran or a beginner, you'll find everything you need here to make WoW simpler and more enjoyable.

Index

1. Crest Optimizer 2. Details 3. BigWigs 4. WeakAuras 5. Method Raid Tools 6. Simulation Craft 7. WIM (WoW Instant Messenger)

Index

Crest Optimizer

Crest Optimizer is the ultimate addon for efficiently managing your Crests and gear upgrades in World of Warcraft. Automatically calculates the Crests needed to upgrade both your equipped items and those in your bags, showing which dungeons to tackle and how many runs you'll need to quickly achieve your upgrade goals. Simple, clear, and essential—everything you need to maximize your character's potential!

Details

Details! Damage Meter is a powerful WoW addon developed by Terciob.

Purpose: provides comprehensive combat analysis—damage done, healing, and essential stats.
Easy setup: intuitive options panel for managing windows and bookmarking displays.

BigWigs

BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual modules; small tools that are designed to help you beat any boss encounter. They will prepare you for the boss, give you the information needed to beat the boss, and even keep track of which bosses you've defeated.

Looking for functionality that BigWigs doesn't cover? Try these addons:

LittleWigs is a plugin for BigWigs and covers all forms of 5 man and solo content.
Capping covers various battleground and world PvP timers.
oRA3 covers all sorts of raid management functionality including raid cooldowns and Battle Res counting.
Old content can be installed by doing a search for BigWigs on CurseForge and installing the appropriate expansion addon.

WeakAuras

WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.

Features

An intuitive and powerful configuration interface
Custom textures including all textures from Power Auras and Blizzard's spell alerts
Progress bars and textures that show the exact duration of auras
Displays based on auras, health, power (mana, rage, soul shards, holy power, etc.), cooldowns, combat events, runes, totems, items, and many other triggers
Preset and user-defined animations
Custom side-effects such as chat announcements or sounds

Method Raid Tools

Helpful addon for raiders, especially for raid leaders and officers.

Modules included:

Raid Cooldowns – track cooldowns of key raid abilities
Notes – write and share strategic notes with the raid
Reminders – alert players about missing buffs or consumables
Visual Notes – display diagrams or icons for positioning
Battle Resurrection Icon – shows available brez count
Fight/Combat Log – track real-time combat performance
Raid Inspect Viewer – overview of players’ gear, talents, etc.
Raid Check – check flasks, food, runes
Invite Tools – mass invite tools from guild or friends list
Timers – set and share timers with the group
Raid Attendance – track who joins or misses the raid
Encounters Statistics – stats per boss fight
Saving Log (Autologging) – automatically records combat logs
Marks Bar – quick access to world markers
Permanent Marks – mark players persistently
Loot to Chat – posts looted items in chat
Who Pulled – shows who initiated the pull
WeakAuras Checker – check if players have specific auras
Raid Groups Saver – save and restore raid group compositions

Simulation Craft

You can run a simulation using the downloadable Windows program at https://simulationcraft.org/ or online via https://www.raidbots.com/simbot, which will allow you to determine your maximum DPS, the best gear to equip, and the optimal ability rotation to maximize your damage.

This is a small addon that simplifies the process of generating a Simulationcraft profile for your character. Typing the chat command

/simc

will bring up a text box containing an exported profile for your character. This profile can be copy/pasted into SimC's "Simulate" window or into any text editor and saved as a .simc file.