World of Warcraft Shadowlands introduced a large variety of new content and features. From adventure missions to soulbinds, conduits, and covenants, there is a lot to keep track of. In this article, I want to share some addons which will help you with Shadowlands specific features. In a future post, I will talk about all the addons I recommend for Shadowlands, but for now, we are going to look at addons for the new content added in Shadowlands.
Since it is still early in the expansion, many of these addons will evolve and new addons will be added. I will do my best to keep this list updated.
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Adventure Missions
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Covenant Mission Success Estimates
The first addon on our list is Covenant Mission Success Estimates. This nifty little addon places a box below the adventure window after selecting a mission.
As you place units on the board it calculates the number of rounds for your team to win or lose. It does this by looking at the attack damage values of the units and health. However, it doesn’t take special abilities into account, so beware.
If you place a weak team, you will see red text indicating that “Mission success is impossible with your current units.”
If you place a strong team, the text turns green and the addon indicates that you have a pretty good chance of winning the battle.
There are still a lot of unknowns about how to build the best teams on the adventure table. For now, Covenant Mission Success Estimates is a helpful tool to give you a basic idea of how your team stacks up. I imagine that we will see more adventure table addons popup as we get deeper into the expansion.
Conduits
ConduitHelper
ConduitHelper is a simple addon. It adds conduit rank to your tooltips and tells you whether you have learned it yet. I have found it helpful when looking at available world quests as it helps me target conduits that I haven’t collected yet.
Soulbind Conduit Manager
Soulbind Conduit Manager is a great little addon that allows you to save different conduit setups for reuse later. After installing this addon, it will add a small grey box to the right of your soulbind trees.
You can then type the name of a new preset into the box and press the red plus sign. This will create an empty preset. To assign a path to it, you activate the tree you want to save and then hold the Ctrl key and click on the empty preset.
You can delete unused presets by holding shift and clicking on them.
Once you have saved your different paths, you can switch between them by left-clicking on them. No more need to use the activate button!
Covenants
HandyNotes: Covenant Sanctum
If you are not familiar with HandyNotes you should check it out. The World of Warcraft is a large place with a lot of NPCs and important locations. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to tell where things are on the default game map. This is where HandyNotes comes in.
If you find yourself getting lost or trying to remember where things are in your covenant sanctum, HandyNotes has a sub-addon called HandyNotes: Covenant Sanctum. It will add more markers on your map specific to your covenant sanctum. As I keep upgrading and unlocking things in my sanctum, I find this to be very helpful.
Covenant Party!
Covenant Party is an addon that is supposed to add an icon that indicates what covenant your target is a member of. It is also supposed to track the cooldown of covenant abilities for each member of your party. However, upon testing it two weeks after Shadowlands release, it appeared to only work on your frame and does not work with anything other than Blizzard unit frames.
I am hoping for additional updates to this addon because it seems to be very promising. By the time you read this, these issues may be fixed… who knows. The author of the addon posted the following screenshot as an example of what the addon looks like.
Dungeons
QE Mythic+ Dungeon Tips
Questionably Epic (QE) Dungeon Tips is one of my favorite addons.
Whenever you phase into a dungeon, a neat grey box pops up that gives you a 2-3 sentence summary of how to defeat a selected mob or boss. In specific, it will show you tips for the following:
- Stuff to dodge
- Mobs you can skip
- Spells to kick (interrupt)
- High damage abilities
- Targets you should CC
The addon is also very smart and will update based on what role you are playing. So, if you are busy getting your tank on… you can use this bad boy to remember what abilities need a cooldown.
This addon is extremely helpful if you watched a guide but always seem to forget what everything does once in combat. If you are just starting to learn the dungeons, I highly recommend it!
MythicDungeonTools
While MythicDungeonTools (MDT) has been around for a while, it makes for a great addon in any expansion. If you haven’t used MDT, it is an addon that shows all the mobs in every dungeon in the game. Even more than that, it allows you to plan out routes and share them with party members.
There are also many members of the community who post their routes for anyone to use. The most popular routes are those created by Dratnos and are posted on raider.io each week for mythic+ players.
Mist of Tirna Scithe Solver
If you have done the Mist of Tirna Scithe dungeon… there is a good chance your group has failed the guessing game mechanic. Well, fear the fog no more with this helpful little addon.
Mist of Tirna Scithe Solver opens a window upon entering the dungeon which shows all possible symbols. You can then click on a sigil to select it and click again to de-select it.
Instead of running between the pillars several times, you can check a pillar and mark it in the addon and then move on to the next one. Once you have entered the 4 sigils, the correct one will show a green outline. If you enter the sigils incorrectly, it will output an error in your chat.
The Maw
HandyNotes: Shadowlands
Making sure you get the most out of the Maw without an addon is tricky. Fortunately, HandyNotes has another sub-addon to help you out.
HandyNotes: Shadowlands adds markers for rares, treasures, events, and chaotic riftstones to your map of the Maw. This allows you to target mobs that give you the highest amount of reputation, rather than running around killing mobs for no rep. Don’t leave Ve’nari’s Refuge without it.
Oribos
HandyNotes: Oribos
While we are at it, let’s look at another helpful HandyNotes addon — HandyNotes: Oribos.
Just like the other HandyNotes sub-addons, this guy places markers on your map to make navigation much easier. Can’t remember where the bank is? Keep walking into the wrong area while looking for profession trainers? HandyNotes: Oribos is there to help.
Torghast
Mapster
The first addon in the Torghast list is mapster. Technically, it is not a Torghast specific addon. However, it is designed to remove the “fog” of undiscovered areas of the map which is helpful in Torghast.
When you enter a new floor, mapster will load the whole layout instead of the small fraction you usually start with. From there, you can use the layout to have a pretty good idea of where to head to reach the next floor. It can also help keep you from getting lost and circling back to areas you have already visited.
To give you an idea of how easy it is to find the exit based on the map, I have an example below. The exit is usually indicated by a bend in the path and generally appears at the top of a set of stairs.
TorghastStats
TorghastStats is a fun addon that keeps track of the number of deaths, mawrats kills, and total Phantasma earned across your runs. So while it won’t help you play better in Torghast, I guess you could use it to brag about the number of mawrats you have killed (wait, aren’t they already dead and in the Maw…).
To use the addon, you simply install it and then type /tgs stats after you have some runs under your belt.
Other Helpful Addons
World Quest Tracker
Anima is a major part of the Shadowlands expansion and powers everything in your covenant sanctum. If you plan on farming up some anima from world quests, I would recommend that you check out World Quest Tracker (WQT).
While this addon has been around for a while, it is extremely helpful for seeing all the available anima world quests at once.
In addition to changing the icons of the world quests to reflect the rewards they offer, WQT gives a summary of all rewards in the top-left portion of your map. You will notice that it groups anima, conduits/gear, gold, and pet supplies.
Final Thoughts
We are still early in the expansion and many more addons will be created over the next couple of years. My goal is to keep the post up to date with new addons that I test so you don’t have to!
Also, let me know if there are Shadowlands specific addons in one of the categories that I missed.
Thanks for reading!
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Track Quest POIs
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Track Quest Spawns
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