Absolutely! I make myself some custom WAs to bring up highlights when RM, instant vivify, or triple Chi-Ji stacks are available. I tend to just press the associated buttons on cooldown, so having a bright reminder that they are available is helpful.
I have more subtle trackers for RSK, EF and TFT, and the current stacks of Ancient Teachings, since these buttons and data are a mainstay of mistweaver execution.
While I have tried other people’s WA’s and UI setups, I usually find that most end up just being a replacement for the button bars. If you’re going to show everything as a rectangular block, then you’ve shown nothing.
My advice is learn a bit about creating simple WAs to track and highlight buffs and cooldowns so you can put just the things you personally need to know about in the places you tend to point your eyes. It isn’t that hard and once you have one buff/stack tracker, and one cooldown tracker, you’re mostly just copy pasting them around and changing the associated spell names.
As generic advice; once you have some sort of reminder for ReM, don’t worry too much about targeting a player to cast it on, especially in M+. As long as there is at least one person without it who is injured, the active ReMs will shuffle around and find the player who needs them. Not worth spending too much brainpower and attention on picking the lowest health target, imo, especially since they often already have ReM due to how it jumps around.
For the panic moments… I’m still working on this myself! There are many as MW because our overall output isn’t particularly high right now. We got some buffs literally this morning, and we’ll see where we are soon.
Especially in fortified week, don’t underestimate the power of the 1-minute celestial talent. 12 seconds doesn’t sound a lot, but it actually is, and with 1 minute CD it’s up nearly every pack and often 2-3x on bosses.
Ideal Chi-Ji deployment is something like:
- have ReM on cooldown ahead of time (hopefully on 4-5 of the party)
- have Essence Font/Faeline hots on everyone (it double procs your mastery)
- have a triple stack of Ancient Teachings ready (this is why you want to track it)
- now start Chi-Ji
- Blackout kick
- You now have 3 stacks of Chi-Ji’s buff. Env Mist on the tank; they and everyone in melee now has Enveloping Breath and it is major.
Assuming you kept your ReM and EF ticking (this is generally good play anyway) and were using AT stacks effectively, this is 3 GCDs, less than 4 seconds with haste, and you have a massive hot out on most of the party.
Sometimes this is all you need; if not, then either kick the boss a couple of times and repeat for more Enveloping Breath, or if it’s a nasty trash pack, drop Faeline and Spinning Crane Kick. SCK + Faeline + Chi Ji vs 3+ targets does a surprising amount of healing and will very quickly build stacks for more Env Mists/Breaths.
And as a word for the future; 10.0.5 brings a very significant (100%) Revival buff for M+, so in about 2-3 weeks that should become a genuinely useful panic button as well. Always try to have EF/Faeline buffs on the party first for that mastery proc before hitting Revival - it does a lot.
Personal 2p… Vuhdo is a pain. It’s setup UI is cumbersome, it’s handling of different group sizes is bothersome, and it doesn’t come preconfigured for anything so you’ll either have to manually add every spell or go and find someone else’s configs to import. It also doesn’t really have a concept of “this is where I always want my frames” and every character ends up owning its own unique layout, even though most people just want “show buffs and debuffs better than Blizz UI”.
I am just not a fan of it, nor of how unconfigured buffs and hots (e.g. with my prevoker, double stacked enveloping breath from echo) are simply not displayed at all. I don’t really know why it’s so popular, because I think so much more could be done with a raidframe that just works out of the box and has default behaviours for unknown buffs/debuffs that isn’t “don’t show them”.
I used to use ElvUI but drifted away from that because it’s terrible for showing things I can’t dispel - even though I might need to know about them, such as heavy bleeds that need focus healing.
Right now I’m oscillating between Blizz default and Vuhdo. A case can be made for either, but neither is ideal and I suspect that it doesn’t really make much difference.