LF essential mods to have as a holy priest

[Super Dude]

Im looking for the essential mods to use as a holy priest to make sure i am either on the right or wrong track with my priest. So any mods you find essential or just helpful please post them. A UI screen shot would be even better. Thanks

[Frmercury]

Power Auras Classic
Vuhdo or Grid + Clique

[Danner]

Bartender4.
- Because you have a sick amount of useful abilities, and getting them all onto hotkey'able buttons really make a difference. It also helps you clear up some screen real estate.

Pitbull4, Grid or any other raidframes
- Because the default UI makes your eyes hurt. Get both imo. Pitbull can do everything Grid can do, but takes a while to set up properly. Grid comes preinstalled with all you ever need, but only handles raidframes.

Any nameplate enhancer
- I personally use caelnameplates. It's just because the default ones are ugly

Clique OR a set of mouseover macros
- Because you save 0.2 seconds per cast by using mouseover-healing, making you a much better healer instantly. I cannot overstate enough the utter success it was to switch to mouseover style healing in TBC.

Power Auras Classic
- Because there is a ton of information you need to convey regarding cooldowns, buffs and debuffs, and a ton of reminders like rebuffing inner fire that is just too annoying to forget. No more will you wonder if you have 1 or 3 stacks of serendipity up, forgot to flask, or didn't remember to apply inner fire.

Bigwigs or Deadly Boss Mods
- Because it really helps keeping you alive, even on heroics. Just make sure to not let them take over your screen realestate. It can be very greedy if you let it.

Tiptac or any other tooltip enhancer
- Because I want to place the tooltips where I want to!

Recount or Skada
- Because most priests are sado-machosists who enjoy to see how much better the druid is than you at healing

Ratingbuster
- Not very needed, but it helps me to see what is an upgrade or not. Not very useful as far as manaregen goes though.

Bagnon or any other one bag addon
- Juggling 6 bags is bloody annoying. I also tried arkinventory, but it made me annoyed :P

CastYeller2
- I use this to add some random touch to my notifications. As a holypriest, you often want to tell your targets that you cast spells like Guardian Spirit and Hymn of Hope. It gets old to yell the same thing over and over. REALLY fast. This addon allows you to add many random messages. I have around 100 random resurrection messages now, and they too are getting old. Yep. My guild dies a lot. But it's always fun to add more

ReagentRestocker
- I use this to automatically buy more candles and automatically sell grey crap and useless salty venison. Never run out of candles anymore thanks to this one.

Chatter
- Being able to copy links pasted in the game is actually a reason enough to install this addon

As a raiding healer, I also run with a notepad-like addon I made myself. Just because I often have to do healing assignments. I don't think that's a requirement for everyone

[Super Dude]

wow dude thanks a lot, that was a very big help, i appreciate all the info you put ;D

[Kaerin]

X-perl is a faceplate thing
Healbot - i prefer it to clique and grid
bartender - move your bars about
sexy map - move and customise map

[Nezoia]

Screen Space
- This mod is special by not require installation. It however requires you to adjust your other add-ons to actually be able to see the world around you, so you're not standing in fire/voidzone, avoiding Goo and so on.

It's a must have for healers, considering how much clutter raid frames for healing plus other mods can create.

[kronpas]

A good raid frame with support for click-to-heal style (like Grid+Clique/Vuhdo), essential for renew-rolling priests. Power aura classic to manage proc and various buff/debuff (like innerfire). Those 2 are all you need.

[Kelesti]

You don't even need a click-to-heal style, at all. You have too many spells that you'll be using anyways, so no matter what you'd have to shift at least some (if not most/all) of the work back to your keyboard, thus ruining the point.

I'd suggest getting your hands on a good set of mouseover macro's.

I myself run with Quartz 3 (a completely customizable castbar),
Deadly Boss Mods (a raid friendly assistant to help with abilities etc)
Shadowed unit frames (much more user friendly than Pitbull. Gods, pitbull is so ugly that the name actually fits)
Bartender (so I can have my main bar actually off my screen, I don't need it)
Sexy Cooldown: Monitors your procs while they're active, everything's ICD's, and buffs/debuffs on your self, your target, your focus, or however you want to set it
and Grid (complete with Raid Status Debuffs, Side Indicators, and Mana Bar plug-ins).

[Ultima]

Screen Space
- This mod is special by not require installation. It however requires you to adjust your other add-ons to actually be able to see the world around you, so you're not standing in fire/voidzone, avoiding Goo and so on.

It's a must have for healers, considering how much clutter raid frames for healing plus other mods can create.

^^^^^^^^^

I must admit I've not mastered the above "addon", my screen (19") feels so small.

One of my main reasons for swapping from Healbot to Grid&Clique was because of space (and because Healbot is "clunky"). I still miss a lot about Healbot, but this is likely because I'm still adjusting.

[rubberbands]

There are no essential mods for a holy priest, only essential functions which you may or may not want mods for.

[Fantasy777]

Im looking for the essential mods to use as a holy priest to make sure i am either on the right or wrong track with my priest. So any mods you find essential or just helpful please post them. A UI screen shot would be even better. Thanks

I use Grid and TellMeWhen for cd's/procs.

[kronpas]

You don't even need a click-to-heal style, at all. You have too many spells that you'll be using anyways, so no matter what you'd have to shift at least some (if not most/all) of the work back to your keyboard, thus ruining the point.

I'd suggest getting your hands on a good set of mouseover macro's.

I myself run with Quartz 3 (a completely customizable castbar),
Deadly Boss Mods (a raid friendly assistant to help with abilities etc)
Shadowed unit frames (much more user friendly than Pitbull. Gods, pitbull is so ugly that the name actually fits)
Bartender (so I can have my main bar actually off my screen, I don't need it)
Sexy Cooldown: Monitors your procs while they're active, everything's ICD's, and buffs/debuffs on your self, your target, your focus, or however you want to set it
and Grid (complete with Raid Status Debuffs, Side Indicators, and Mana Bar plug-ins).

The same as druid need clique-style mod for rejuv raid blanketing, a priest would find it much easier & lesser strain on his/her fingers over long raiding session to bind emp. renew to right mouse click for renew raid blanketing. Its also the only spell I need Clique for when healing as holy.

[Quehn]

I just sighed when I saw some of those addons...

Oh well, here goes:

Pitbull4 (unitframes)

ORA3 (Cooldown tracker, tracking other people's CDs)

CDT3 (Cooldown tracker, tracking your CDs)

DXE (Better the DBM and BigWigs if you ask me. Gives you tiny arrows where to move and other handy stuff that DBM and BigWigs doesn't give you)

ForteXorcist (Timers for Prayer of Mending, Renew, PW:S... anything)

Grid (Raid frames)

POWA (If you like configurating your interface, it can show anything, from when a spell is active or not, or a cooldown is ready, or your target is missing a certain buff - basicly anything regarding spells)

TinyTip (Target frame info box)

Quartz (Best casting bar)

EDIT: spelling


That's basicly what I recommend. I use a lot of configurations and play a lot with my interface. I'll maybe post a screenshot later.

[acherons]

grid + GridStatusRaidDebuff
stuf -> unitframe, better than pitbull / xperl imo
SatrinaBuffFrame -> customize buff/debuff bars, best mod of this type
Dominos - >action bar mod
DBM
Bindpad -> keybinding most of my spell, so i dont need 3523523523action bars outside
Gnosis -> casting bar

[Pessi]

Hotcandy to track all my sexy priestly hots and the holy bouncyball (and shields if you disco)

Well configured and placed Grid with clique and mouseover macro's.

[Zeuq]

You don't even need a click-to-heal style, at all. You have too many spells that you'll be using anyways, so no matter what you'd have to shift at least some (if not most/all) of the work back to your keyboard, thus ruining the point.

I'd suggest getting your hands on a good set of mouseover macro's.

Really? I have 20-some binds directly to my 5-button mouse. The only stuff I have keybound are DPS abilities and the few things that don't make sense to use with my mouse like Divine Hymn, Hymn of Hope, Holy Nova, Mass Dispel, etc. Considering that most of those abilities are things I only use occassionally in a typical encounter, I barely use my keyboard except for movement and mod keys.



Anyway, regarding Priest specific add-ons, there's some functions that I would consider essential and that you'll most likely want mods for.

Raid Frames are you'll almost certainly want. I strongly recommend VuhDo because it does everything the other options can and does a few other nifty things as well, like cluster detection which I find to be enormously useful. Grid/Pitbull/SuF + Clique or Healbot work as well.

Timers are also something you'll almost certainly want. I use ForteXorcist, but there's a ton of other options as well, either way, there isn't an effective way to watch Timers and CDs using the standard UI.

PowerAuras... get it, use it, love it. Keeping track of Serendipity stacks, SoL procs, Borrowed Time, not to mention encounter specific buffs/debuffs; it just makes watching all that sort of stuff much easier

Castbar is something you may or may not need. Latency is nice to see, but it really just saves you having to spam the whole time to maximize GCDs instead of just spamming around when the latency is. I use the one built into my unitframes, but there are better ones like the aforemention Quartz. Personally, I don't consider it necessary since I've generally already picked my next spell/target and am spamming it before the GCD is up.


Beyond that, there are a lot of other good add-ons, but many of them are things that I wouldn't really say are priest specific and stuff that pretty much everyone should have regardless of the class they play. Among these would be things like Bartender, ArkInventory (yes, it's a pain to set up, but it's bloody awesome when it is), DXE (it's better than DBM or BW imo, but those will work too, Chatter/Prat, Tiptac (or various other tooltip mods), ORA3, etc.



@ Danner

I'm going to have to try that CastYeller. Up to now, I've been using AfterCast as part of some macros. It's nice because I can whisper the target and announce in the healer channel when I use important CDs which may otherwise get lose in all the other raid chat spam in a boss fight

[Revitalize]

Power Auras.
Grid/VuhDo
Learn to mouseover heal or use clique.

Boss Mod.
Preferable Deus Vox Encounters.

[tehmark]

The only thing I can add is that I seem to have grown attached to the ForteXorcist cooldown bar and would recommend it for a nice addon to see your cooldowns at a quick glance

Also, DXE is def my favorite boss mod

[rekinash]

DBM does have arrows to show you where to move ...

[Kelesti]

Really? I have 20-some binds directly to my 5-button mouse. The only stuff I have keybound are DPS abilities and the few things that don't make sense to use with my mouse like Divine Hymn, Hymn of Hope, Holy Nova, Mass Dispel, etc. Considering that most of those abilities are things I only use occassionally in a typical encounter, I barely use my keyboard except for movement and mod keys.

I use a three button mouse (counting the mousewheel) and keep the general camera functions bound to it. I also actively move my camera in a fight, with or without me. Being able to do this is quite awesome, and I can't imagine unbounding it. My middle mouse button is also a vent key that I don't need to stretch to try and reach, and it's never "in the way" by accident (unless I sneeze, but that's another story).

But, 20 keys on 5 buttons means that you're using modifiers, thus are already transferring some of the function back to your keyboard anyways. My point was that "click-casting" isn't all that much better than mouseovers, all things considered.