Raiding Toolbox

Here is a quick overview of the tools that I use for leading raids.

Is your raid forgetful? Do people come unprepared? No worries, use BigBrother to watch your raid's every move. Buffs, food, elixirs, flasks and more!

Have you ever joined a PUG where the tank takes 2 patrol routes of a mob to mark up the kill order? No more slow marking with MagicMarker! You set a target order, and hold down a button to do mouse over marking. You can also save target configurations for each mob in a database and share it with others so that you just hit a button and the next large group auto marks. It's so fast that your healers are guaranteed to never be out of combat to recover mana!

EPGPLootmaster is a fresh addon that we have been experimenting with in the guild. It makes loot so easy! Doing loot in raid chat would take forever. Now everyone in the raid can select need/offspec/pass and be done with it. Loot for a 25 man raid boss took ~2 minutes (instead of 5+minutes). Less loot time = more killing time = uber.

Big Wigs is the most reliable source for boss timers and warnings in raids.

ORA2 - This is must have. Tank Lists, Assist Frames, Cooldowns (including Battle Rez cooldowns), Durability, Resistances etc. Any information that you need on the fly can be accessed with this addon.

For aggro management, Omen is the best. It provides a neat display of each player's threat in a customizable window.

Addons that I want but are not being used effectively:
- Good Raid frames that do not use up too much memory and are not ugly
- Something that tells the raid when I cast certain spells
- A button that I can press which will play a recording of myself explaining fights

For detailed info, Quaiche is the addon guru - check out Q's WoW Setup