I am trying to heal better and easier, and the Blizzard UI with slight modifications (Vuhdo, Bartender) plus WA is fine right now. People like Jak and Ellesmere use ElvUI, though, and I’ve tried Elvui. I didn’t like it because it was jarring seeing how everything changed after I installed Elvui. I couldn’t see anything that mattered, so I dumped it for my original UI setup.
Do I need ElvUI for healing difficult (20s) content?
No
No. You can try Healbot or Vuhdo or mouseover macros. I’d suggest a healing Discord for help with that. I don’t know the best one, so someone here may have an idea.
I have not run any 20+ Mythics, but I do generally fund that Healbot is an excellent addon for healers (and it has some benefit for other classes too as it can also be used to remove curses, etc).
I tried ElvUI, didn’t care for it and removed it. I think that’s more personal preference than anything.
ElvUI just allows alot of customization it takes a little getting used too, and after its set up how you want its really hard to go back to the default UI. as for needing it for 20’s no probably not needed the default has all the same info just in different spots.
I just use Clique with the blizzard raid frames.
(Not a M+20 person)
You guys I tell ya, an addon like Elvui is exactly what you make it. Here is me running Elvui in what I like to call “I don’t like Elvui because it changes everything mode”
https://i.postimg.cc/rypqdYrV/image.png
Look at that, no different than the standard UI. (except for those data bars over to the right 
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Nope, whatever works for you.
You don’t NEED addons for anything.
However, they DO make a lot of things easier, and ElvUI DOES make the game more playable IMO.
So, stupid forum rules, I can’t post links. Look at some youtube videos on how to set up a healer UI. There’s a lot of them that aren’t that helpful, but there are a few that explain good reasons to move large portions of the UI.
A lot of it comes down to your field of vision. Especially when it is stressful, it is important to have the critical information close to where your eyes are going to be most of the time. Then, it’s important to get the rest of the information away from that area so that it is FAR easier to notice when something important is happening, or about to happen.
How you do that is entirely up to you. ElvUI is popular because of how well you can move everything to where it works best for you. It’s also popular for it’s visual modifications giving the UI a cohesive, more modern look, but, of course, that’s simply preference.
Almost everything that ElvUI does can be done other ways. The default interface has been modified to allow us to move more, and there are thousands of addons out there, so you can probably find an addon to duplicate anything ElvUI does without having to use the entire ElvUI to do it if you aren’t going to be using many of the modifications of ElvUI.
All that’s really “necessary” is that you have easy visibility of the information you need. That typically means moving, adding and removing certain UI elements. How you do that is entirely up to you.
I couldn’t play without it TBH, that and WAs and a few others. Healbot included
The ability to change your UI and the amount of useful data you receive is invaluable.
He used Vuhdo and you can pulll his profile from his website: www.wingsis up.com
You can use whatever you’re comfortable with. ElvUI components are nice but I prefer Grid2 and Clique for healing, for example.
ElvUI is just nice because you can customize literally everything about it.
But it’s not necessary for anything. At all.
I don’t use elvui. It’s personal choice. I like the way it looks but it’s too too much clutter that I don’t need and takes too long to set up.
I just use bartender and pitbul along with other addons mostly weak auras and plater .
I know many good players ( some who have healed world first keys ) and only thing they use is weak auras.
Your UI is just a reflection of what you need. And should be built over time. Try things, when ever you find a need for something add it.
ElvUI is extremely popular, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it described as mandatory for anything…
I’ve never heard anyone compared it to, say, DBM or having a threat meter (back when threat was far more of a concern than it is today) for instance.
Yeah. I used to hate Elvui. Then I loved it. Then I hated it again. There are just enough really nice features to elvui that keep me coming back to it. I can’t really make up my mind on it, but I still use it and only it currently so idk, haha.
The main benefit is that it contains the majority of UI add-ons that everyone uses in one place. It’s incredibly convenient if you ever have to set up your UI from scratch for whatever reason.
If you’re willing to set up what you need without Elvui you’re more than fine though. There is no single part of elvui that cannot be achieved through combinations of other add-ons/Weakauras. If there is something you see someone using elvui doing there is most likely a way to achieve the same result through different methods.
That being said, for me it was worth it to just get used to Elvui because I really dislike spending hours setting up a UI which I have to do if I actually want to be satisfied with it. With Elvui I only had to do that once and I don’t have to worry about all the different add-ons being out of date/abandoned/conflicting etc.
Cheers.
I never liked UI add-ons that completely change the standard UI. I just use move anything addon if I want to move the UI around.
Healbot is my go to heal frames. Also works for other things like misdirection, intervene, slow fall, and so on.
absolutely don’t need a single ui mod to do anything in this game
I’ve always used Healium. Works just fine.
No.
I use it because I like it. Since installing it however, it didn’t make my heals better or easier. I could do everything I needed with mouse over macros and the default raid frames, which showed all the dispellable debuffs.
ElvUI is totally optional and won’t make you a better healer.
I use nothing but clique and the base Raid frames to heal.
Great thing about the base raid frames, they always show new buffs/debuffs without having to add anything. I’ve had problems with every other raid frame where new content would be released and it wouldn’t have all the important buffs/debuffs.