The Angry Healers!- Letting You Die of Your Stupid Since 2009

Why does it look like the Angry Healers are rapidly becoming the Angry Healer? 

Anyways, moving along… there are people to educate!  Individuals to enlightent in the ways of the WoW Add ons!

Last time, we took a look at Grid and Clique- a personal must have.  Now, I want to show you Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text (or MSBT)!

I should put something witty here, shouldn't I?

 See those numbers and words scrolling around the middle of the screen?  That’s Mik’s SCrolling Battle Text.  What it does is it shows a ton of information in a small space, and is totally customizable.  Are you sick of AoEing and seeing all of the yellow, flashing numbers filling your screen and dropping your framerates to a crawl?  MSBT consolidates all of your outgoing damage and displays it as ‘amount of total damage done [# HITS]‘. Druids, are you tired of seeing your HoTs tick for each indiviual person?  MSBT will do the same for your healing as it will for everyone else’s damage!  Done with staring at your spellbar to time your spells with longer GCDs?  MSBT can be configured with alert tones to let you know when your cool downs are up!  It will also tell you when specificl class abilities, like Revenge, Eclipse, or Art of War, proc!  It really cleans up your display and makes it all so manageable.  It also has tons of customization options, raging from scroll locations, directions and patterns; fonts and font sizes; alert tones, and so much more.  Its very easy to set up and use.  Comes highly recommended and with the Pyo Seal of Approval.

Next mod I have to share is not a necessity, but it sure is nice to have:  SexyMap!

It really is sexy.

Hot, yes?  I’d say this really served no purpose other than to look good, but it does hide all of the buttons around the minimap when you don’t want to see them, and will show them when you mouse over it.  So that’s nice.  However, the best part is that you can design your own skin for it.  YES!  If you know how to get into WoW’s texture and image files and know what you are looking for (WoW Model Viewer can help with this) you can make your own skin- choose designs and colors, glows, runes, rotations, sizes… anything that is a texture incorperated into WoW can be used!  As a matter of fact, Phae from Resto4Life created her own skin for tree!druids to love !  I built it from the tutorial she had up on the site before I realized they’d incorperated it into the mod.  -shrug-  But there are tons of preset skins for it, and all of them are pretty awesome looking.  Don’t like round maps?  There are square ones you can use, or change, if you’d like.  The options are limited only to what textures are loaded into WoW.  So have fun!

The last mod I’ll discuss today is one that, I believe, is an absolute must if you are a raider or plan on raiding anytime soon.  It is a requirement for all raiders in my guild for a very good reason:  DeadlyBossMods (DBM).

Ignore the glowing tattoes and screaming Illidan fangirls.

Deadly Boss Mods is a Boss Ability timer.  It gives you the cooldowns of boss abilities, shown as bars (see right).  It’ll warn you when a boss is using a targeted ability on your raid (Shadow Crash WUT?) as a Raid Warning, complete with annoying noise (though some people still manage to get hit by it).  If the boss has mobs, it will show their health (like Freya’s Storm Lasher, Snaplasher, and Ancient Water Spirit, or Mimiron’s V0-L7-R0N) which is especially important if you need to kill them Romulo and Julianne style.  It will let you know when a boss is doing an AoE attack you need to avoid (Emalon the Storm Watcher’s Lightning Nova being a prime case)- it even tells you to ‘Run Away, Little Girl!  Run Away…’ a la Big Bad Wolf from such attacks.  The only thing DBM doesn’t have that other Boss Timers have is the final Fantasy victory music when you beat the boss- damn you, BigWigs.

So there you have it.  I hope that someone out there found this at least somewhat informative.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress…