The guild I’m currently raiding with has a leader with one of those addons that posts deaths in raid chat (which is lovely), otherwise I would look into it for myself.

It’s really fantastic. Lightweight, easy to use and I love the way the information is displayed.

When the raid leader asks someone why they died, as they’re struggling to come up with a good answer, I’m always the one piping in: took 245k dmg from this thing and had been at half health for the previous 10 seconds.

My strings are all posted now and I’ll be maintaining and prettifying the page. http://joeego.wordpress.com/weak-auras/

Does it show mana and boss hp and cast bar?

Actually, I haven’t tried them in a long time. They might have improved since then. At the time they were ugly, big (even if you only do 10s, there’s still LFR, Alterac Valley and Sha) and you couldn’t customize tracking.

You would think that having the raid frames under your feet would help with fires since it makes your visual sweep so much smaller. It’s like frames-fire. The side is so far away from my feet that I wouldn’t be able to bring my eyes from there to me feet fast enough to avoid stuff on the ground.

A lot of people use an addon to lift the screen too, so that frames and bars are separate from the play area, but having played my first 6 years of WoW on a laptop, I don’t like making my screen even smaller.

Also, I use the standard raid frames with clique. I find that grid takes a while to get it all correctly set up, and then renewing mist is still a pain in the ass to follow.

Standard raid frames just seem to get it mostly right without me having to fiddle with it, or it breaking with patches.

Raid frames at the bottom is also something I have tried, since so many people kept being all woah about it. But I just keep missing stuff under my feet when I have it there and dying in fires. So instead I have it off to the left of my character (I do raid 10's so a little less space needed).

Once people start messing with addons I can advise minimapbutton bag (or something like it), this addon gathers up all your other addons from the minimap and places them all in a neat frame together.

For most things that I have to keep track off I use weakauras with quite subtle reminders.

Good post though!

If you’re looking for a death announcer then try something like Ensidia Fails or RaidBuffStatus. Death Note (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/deathnote) gives a more complete view and can be a lot more helpful when dealing with failures to mechanics which don’t cause immediate death such as lack of healing, unmitigated Thrash attacks, or failing a near-death mechanic but dying to something unavoidable shortly afterward. The screenshot at the Curse page is really useful.

I moved from Power Auras to Weak Auras for HuD-type information, including Holy Power.

I’ve been on IceHUD since I discovered it. It’s been so easy to use and so helpful that I never bothered trying anything else.

My obsession with Beacon tracking dates back from when Beacon did expire, but I still find it useful. Most of the time, it’s more to track other Paladin’s Beacons – I like knowing exactly what the rest of my team is doing so I can make efficient decisions. But self tracking does catch mistakes, such as accidentally hitting Beacon on the wrong player, or the cast not going off as I try to switch Beacons. Technically my battle text would tell me, but I’d like to catch a faulty Beacon early than that.

Is Death Note that addon that points out death in raid chat? I love that. Which reminds me that Recound and Skada also have a death option if you want to browse other people’s deaths.