Other than DBM, what addons do you expect everyone else in your group to be using?
Plater and Weak Auras.
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Weak Auras, Details, Plater
Plater, no wtaf!?!
Weakauras especially for Thundering. Base boss mods are mid in comparison for a lot of things while WAs can give better timers, customize the alert, and show who you need to clear on.
Not necessarily NEEDING it, but MDT or any other addon that has count shown is very nice to have. Had a lot of AA or AV where we get to the end and are off some % points and it is just mildly inconvenient to have to backtrack or overpull extra (groups seem to love ending at 99% on both dungeons).
You honestly don’t even need DBM or WeakAuras as long as you can handle all of the boss, trash, and affix mechanics properly.
So I’d say the only really necessary mod is a nameplate mod so you can see castbars of enemies you aren’t targeting.
And if the default UI has that now (I have no idea if it does), you wouldn’t even need a mod for that.
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little wigs and a few WAs.
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I dont know why these people are saying Details. It’s not gonna help you do more DPS.
Whats uh…whats plater?
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Details really only helps you flame people if we’re being honest here.
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If i’m pugging, i don’t expect anything.
Also i think the player is way more impactful than the addons they use.
Sometimes i see people with so many WA on their screen they can’t even see where their character is standing and where safe ground is.
I much prefer a minimal UI and practice to the point i could do it eyes closed. Knowing exactly which ability i’m kicking before we get there, knowing which mobs i’ll be stunning and when and why before ever arriving in the moment that it’s required. The order npc use their spells is not random, the distribution of enemies in the dungeon is fixed. The dungeon is the same every time.
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+LittleWigs
You can obviously sub a good dungeon WA kit for LittleWigs but WA’s are more annoying to keep updated.
How fast some of the folks answered this with addons.
smh
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It’s a configurable name plate addon.
Tracking on those interrupts people aren’t doing. 
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Plater is a nameplate replacement addon from the Details! team that’s highly extensible.
It’s main value in M+ is colorcoding of mobs, for example, one color for mobs that need to be kicked, one color for mobs that need to be hard stopped, one color for high HP mobs, one color for unimportant trash.
Certainly you can do a lot more with it and add notes or draw attention to very important cast bars but in general it makes controlling dangerous trash packs much easier.
Why weakauras? I’ve never understood the point of that one
I never got Plater because so far as I can tell, I get the same goodies out of ElvUI.
Aside from a feature I hadn’t heard of, which is a separate color for important interrupts apparently?
It’s just one of many ways to track buffs, cooldowns, and combat log events. So it can be useful to track many different mechanics that are going on, and display information in a helpful way.
Some sort of dungeon helper, like DBM or Little Wigs. At some point its not really needed, you have ground the bosses and mechanics into dust, but its nice to have 100%. Especially for people who are doing like 8-10 dungeons a week max.
Some sort of Thundering addon/weak aura/display. Far too often you get a guy in your group without one, and not only is it hard for you who are used to it popping up where to take it, those people generally have no idea what thundering they have, either. It becomes a mess when 2-3 people dont have one and you have to visibly look for the debuff and/or chase people around with all the crap going on.
I know some of them spam chat, but its a necessary evil.
Outside of that I think everything else is just personal preference.