Holy Paladin Midnight Interface and Macros Guide

Addons

One of the biggest changes in Midnight is the addon functionality. Blizzard's aim is to remove the advantages “combat-related” addons give, meaning a lot of the addons we’ve come to rely on, such as WeakAuras, are now a thing of the past.

To replace these crucial addons, Blizzard has developed their own in-game versions of damage meters, a cooldown manager, DMB/BigWigs, and improved default raid frames. The first thing you should do is enable them. To do so, go to Options > Gameplay > Gameplay Enhancements and enable “Damage Meter”, “Cooldown Manager”, and “Enable Boss Warnings”. Further If you’re like me and you like to have audio cues, you can go to Options > Accessibility > Audio Assist and check “Enable Combat Audio Alerts.” You can also customize what you get audio cues for.

Blizzard Raid Frames are mostly fine; the only glaring issue they have right now is the inability to customize how buffs and debuffs are tracked on your frames. Thankfully there’s addons that can help, personally I’d recommend DandersFrames for its Aura Designer feature.

Blizzard Cooldown Manager, just like default raid frames, is mostly fine. It’s easy to customize and almost replicates what we’ve been doing with WeakAuras. You can also get some extra customization through addons like Arc UI.

Damage Meter is probably the worst replication of an addon that Blizzard has done. This is why I recommend using Details, which is cleaner and far easier to use.

TargetedSpells - This will highlight spells targeting the player and/or the party, which is absolutely crucial if you’re looking to push keys.

Ellesmere's Beacon Reminders - a simple, lightweight addon that will remind you to apply your Beacons.

A must-have addon for me is SenseiClassResourceBar. As mentioned in the Playstyle section, Holy Paladin gameplay revolves around building and spending Holy Power, as well as making gcd-to-gcd decisions. For this to work, you have to have a clear and accurate idea of how much Holy Power you have at any given moment, and while the default graphic for Holy Power might look nice, it’s pretty far from practical, which is why it's imperative to have an addon that will show you exactly how much Holy Power you have at a glance.

Plater is another highly recommended addon that everyone should be familiar with at this point. It allows you to customize your nameplates, and it’s one of the few addons we’ve come to rely on that will keep most of its functionality going into Midnight.

Mouseover macros are the most efficient way of healing. The most basic of mouseover macros look like:

#showtooltip

/cast [@mouseover,exists] Holy Shock; Holy Shock

Trinket Macros:

If you’re swapping between on-use trinkets and you don’t want to update your Avenging Wrath or Avenging Crusader macros every single time, here’s a fix:

/use 13 (On a new line to always use any trinket in the topmost trinket slot)

/use 14 (On a new line to always use any trinket in the bottom-most trinket slot)