I been away awhile and getting caught up, just wondering if any updates recently eliminated any needs for popular addons since the latest expansion started.
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If you have Hekili, you can remove it.
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I haven’t replaced any addon for the inferior Blizzard versions, so, can’t help you there.
But you could try and see if you can avoid some UI addons, like Bartender, or Clique.
Play with the base game and check.
I’ve been easing out of Bartender as Blizzard’s UI interface removes any real need for it (unless you want to move the Group Finder eye).
Personally, I prefer Hekili over the new highlight option, but, if you’re going to use the one-button rotation, you can remove it.
Why? I use Hekili and do better than OBR and the flashing button thing they put in.
I stopped using Weak Auras. One day I turned it off and never wanted to turn it back on again. And I dropped any meter too, no recount or details any more. Our team uses warcraft logs and we look after the fight. And too many people tunnel on those things during a game anyways.
If you raid and live log you won’t need a damage meter, but mid M+ seeing why someone died, discussing it over Discord and adjusting to ensure it does not happen again is handy.
You are right that most people use it to show off and try to beat each other, but the top players will certainly use it as an effective tool mid run to try and ensure we can beat the content we are doing.
I also still use WA for a couple of things that Blizzard will never do right: Brew stagger bar, IP tracker for prot warrior, notice when my hunter pets are dead and a melee range checker to ensure I am in melee range.
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You can’t really remove hekilli. It does cool downs, bliz assistant doesn’t. It also has better rotations for an lot of classes.
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This. The world’s best addon. 
Https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info26333-Bejeweled.html
The only addons i use are:
- neatplates blizzplates
- consoleport
- immersion
Blizzard locked down friendly nameplates in instances but neatplates works everywhere else. It brings back the vanilla nameplates style instead of just overhead health bars that blizzard enforced a few expansions ago.
Consoleport enhances the native controller support by using console style elements and turning the hotbar into controller indicators.
Immersion unifies the npc / quests/interactions into a console style experience that works with consoleport.
I do also use a custom fonts folder and custom fonts as well.
Isnt the fact your hunter pet hp disappears and its corpse is on the ground a pretty good indicator?
Mid combat, that is not the most noticeable.
Not to mention it also counts trinkets in rotation. Blizz has a long way to go before they can make hekili irrelevant.
It would also need a dedicated dev.
Hekili regularly updates things as patches, balancing, etc happens.
I am not confident the blizzard rotation would get more than some basic major patch day updates.
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No just one less thing to focus on, with enemy health, party health, debuffs, enrage effects, interrupts, CC, defenses, yeh I don’t mind having something pop up on my screen to tell me that my pet, who generally takes zero damage in a dungeon is now dead.
only addons i really have are leatrix plus, ailo, altoholic, scrap, dialogkey. a few others i use randomly, like gathermate, routes, farmhud.
plan on dropping details, and a few others i dont really use much, like molinari. most profession addons are pointless as professions suck.
Nothing added since the start of The War Within (as of 11.1.7) will replace an add-on if you are a happy user of those add-ons.
If you are not using Hekili, cast sequence macros, or a cooldown manager (probably via WeakAuras) then you might find something new to appreciate.
Outside of combat, make sure you check out the options to see if other features added since Dragonflight began could replace some interface add-ons.
A few examples:
- A lot of details are included in the quest log or on maps now (but not coordinates).
- Edit Mode lets you move around most interface objects and save presets globally or per character.
- There’s an option to combine all your bags into one.