That is Power Auras, it does the the Killing Machine procs and the presence indicators next to the runic power number.

All of the buffs, both next to the mini map and above both unit frames, are handled through Satrina Buff Frame which is a real pain to set up.

The buffs over my own arn't just "all buffs with less then 1min duration" but they are the buffs that I cast myself. So it includes Horn, Blood Tap, ect. Same goes with the debuffs over the target frame which are debuffs that only I cast.

about:

Good place to start would be the unit-frames. Character is on the left and Target is on the right. Nothing really terribly important about these, The target bar is colored according to the players class to make distinction quick and otherwise it function just as your regular Unit-Frame. I liked AG because it proves a look and most of the functionality of pitbull and its much easier to modify.

Bars are done with bartender. Again nothing really particularly special here its just an easy to customize and move mod so I picked it. I chose to extend the bars out to be 18 instead of 12 spaces due to the high number of spells you need to have hot keyed in order to play a Death Knight

Above my character Frame (on the left) is a mod called Utopia. Utopia shows me the debuffs that are present on the boss, grouped by their effect. Currently running is a modified version which only shows me debuff which are useful in order to increase my DPS (Such as physical vulnerability or increased damage from CoE).

All Combat Text (Damage Taken, Healing, Damage Done, Block/Parries, ect), are done using Scrolling Combat Text and Scrolling Combat Text Damage. The usefulness here is that it takes my damage and removes it from the middle of my screen and moves it around my character. This allows me to easily see void zones and other such obstacles in order to avoid them.

Buffs up top are using Morganti Buff Bars. Very easy to customize mod that allows you to move your buffs / debuffs anywhere on the screen and change there size. As you can see the debuffs are larger than the buffs which makes for very easily determination of what to do on say Thad.

Class-timer used to monitor key buffs on me and buffs on the target. Moved to the center of the screen in order to allow for the best use of DRW and other such cooldowns. Also for timing strikes based off of time left on the diseases and all that jazz.

Alot of other standard raiding mods like Omen, Recount, Raidframes done with Perfect Raid, sexy map just for the look, and titan bar to sum up some other information.

EDIT: @Sorijin The runes under the player frame are actually default under AG Unitframes. Unfortunately they are not very customizable but I think they do a good job. I added magic runes to the middle of the screen because I didn't like always having to look to the left and away from my character when I needed to see what runes were off cool down.

What do you use for runes? I use an addon that looks similar but it's currently unskinnable. It'd be nice to be able to skin one in accordance with the rest of my UI, and make it a bit larger as well.

(I mean the one directly below your playerframe, not the longer skinnier bars in the middle of your UI.)

updated a little. I'm such a minimalist.



notable addons:

Pitbull4 (unit frames)
Bartender
Auracle (Procs/Buff watch)
Eavesdrop (combat log)

It's MagicRunes. Grab it here.

Nothing too fancy, I tried to put things in a place so I can see them asap without having to search for them. Set up Power Auras to show me when important things are up.

Red for Unholy Strength
Yellow for Reflection of Torment
Green for Greatness
Teal for Rime Proc
Rune UI Glows when Killing Machine is up.



Add-ons:

X-Perl Unit Frames
Skinner
Grid
Omen
Elkano's Buff Bars
Power Auras
Bartender w/ ButtonFacade
Sexy Minimap
Rune Watch
Eavesdrop
Closest Gnome
FuBar with assorted addons.

Bartender4 for the ability bars
Magic Runes for the Runes
Xperl for the unit frames
Carbonite for the questing addon (yes I quest with Unholy Aura)

This is how my UI currently looks like:

It is still work in progress, and I'm trying to clean it up a bit more.

My goal with designing this UI was to have all the info I need to quickly make decisions in middle of my screen and close to the action (not taking my eyes of void zones and what not.

I found that the most important thing is my rune/runic power addon (Runepack). I tried all other rune addons, but this one i like the best because: 1. it has BB and 2x FU pairs, 2. can set it to fade out 80% out of combat, 3. symetrical, 4. compact and 5. quick decision making friendly.

The white line below is my swing timer (Quartz) to see when my Runestrike hits. This is a bit bugged since Quartz doesn't show the next swing after using RS, but I hope it will get fixed soon. Target cast bar is not shown in the ss, but it's just above the runic power number.

Below the swing timer there's UB/Killing Machine/Sudden Death timer bar (ClassTimer) which is not shown atm, but it's just like the disease bars underneath it.

To the left of the diesease/utility timers there's the blade barrier tracker (PowerAuras), to the right is "Runestrike available" with the icon style and position same as blade barrier, and above Runepack there are buff icons with timers for Unholy strength and Trinket procs for timing gargoyle, who then too is an icon with duration left from the Unholy strength icon/timer.

The bar between disease timers and unit frames (Pitbull4) is ForteCooldowns, with the ability that just came of CD flashing between the center of the screen (player model) and incomming dmg/heals scrolling text (MSBT). Outgoing dmg/heals is scrolling right from the center of the screen.

Tried to keep cooldowns to the right so I can track all longer CDs at one place, but not totally satisfied with it yet. A lot of abilities (chains, blood boil, deathstrike, obliterate, mounts etc) are on a hidden bar keybinded, but are not important to show because they either 1. Don't have a CD, 2. availability can be determined by runes of CD. Trade skills, bandages, deathgate and simmilar skills are on a bar in the empty space between CD bar on the far right and minimap on the bottom right, and it is shown on mouseover.

Rest of the addons include: Chatter for chat, Bartender4 for bars, Recount left of bars in middle, Omen right from the bars in middle, Grid + GridManaBars (to check if it's safe to continue chainpulling)+ GridReadyCheck, SexyMiniMap (bugging out for me atm, it shows no map, gotta find what's wrong), ElkanoBuffBars for buffs/auras/debuffs, fuBar for info on top of the screen, ORA2 for raid CDs and MainTanks when they are shown (between Raid CDs and DK presences), TinyTip for Tooltips (still looking for a simple, but still more configurable tooltip addon), Skinner, Aloft for skinning nameplates. That's just the visible part, there's a lot of stuff under the hood.


Now, what I still don't like how my target buffs are displayed (right from target's unitframes, on top of target of target unitframe). This is painfull in pvp, and still gotta find how to solve that problem. One other thing I found in this thread and liked a lot is Opp-ressed's Cooldown Watch setup:
Think I will move the ghoul bar somewhere else, put the central bar lower and put Cooldown watch above the skill bar and below debuffs shown under the unitframes.


I'm satisfied where my UI is going, but I'd really appreciate some help with how to sort out target buffs. Other suggestions are welcome too.

For me the most vital addon is a debuff tracker like Class Timers to be aware of what diseases are up on whom.

My big problem right now is I am too stupid to remember to keep Horn up and recast or precast Bone Shield.

Is there a decent UI that is not overly busy and will just put a reminder somewhere letting me know that, say, bone shield is down and it's cooldown is up?

Power auras > "Bone Shield" in ability name field, activation by "Ability useable" or whatever it's called.

For Horn I just put "Horn of Winter" in ability name field, activation by "Buff", and check "Show when not active" and "Only in combat" fields

Awesome - I have seen Power Auras on so many UIs and was thinking about picking it up anyway. That's exactly what I want. Now if i can just get the text to just say "HIT THE B KEY DUMMY."

Apparently my previous post wasn't good enough to be considered "worthwhile" so I'll go a little bit more in-depth.



My biggest challenge when designing a UI is making it aesthetically appealing as well as fully functional to fit my needs. For my current setup I used Merde UI which is available from wowinterface (Merde UI v1.1 [1680x1050] : WoWInterface Downloads : Minimalistic Compilations) and I tweaked it to add my own personal flare.

One of the most important addons I use is called Need2Know which is a customizable cooldown timer that can be setup to measure any spell. I use it to display my diseases on the target, my defensive capabilities, and outside defensive capabilities such as guardian spirit or hand of sac. This helps to give a more visual representation of exactly what is going on during each encounter. I couldn't live without it.

Here is an example of it being used during sartharion

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...309_155153.jpg


I keep my rune watch addon at the top of the screen, I find it easier to glance up and make sure I haven't screwed up the very easy blood disease-less rotation. It comes with a disease timer for when I change specs.

I integrate Power Auras a lot into most of my characters UIs. The Sudden Doom glow has an identical blue Power Aura for when I DW frost that shows Rime procs. I keep all my trinket/crusader procs right above my character and when I see two of them up I usually take it as a queue to pop my Ghoul or DRW. I like Archud to keep track of my health.

Aesthetically, I like prat over chatter and SexyMap over simpleminimap. I've recently switched from those.

When I am in a raid my raid frames appear on the left side of my screen. I use xperl for raid frames.



Does anyone know if its possible to set up Power Auras to show me when I don't have a SoE Totem or Horn up on the same graphic? or Also if it is possible to set it up to show me when I drop below 75% health?

On PTR (3.1) ClassTimer ends up showing all DK diseases, not just my own. I'm wondering if this is a general 3.1 API bug or if its ClassTimer specific?

Blizzard changed the API slightly. It's generally easy to fix if you know a little about code if the mod isn't updated. I posted a fix for NeedToKnow @ WoWI in the comments since that's what I use, it shouldn't be too different across mods.

Details on the API change here: World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> 3.1 API Changes (and clarifications)

The part I'm interested in is the duration of Frost Fever and Blood Plague bars. What addon can i download to do this for me in terms of a bar and seconds left? May be a noob question but i am completely new to changing UI and also to DK's!

Useful thing I found was to put "Horn of Winter/Strength of Earth" in the Buff window. Stops you getting false positives (or negatives) if a shaman drops a totem.

I was asking if that was posible for ages and never got any answers, if this works you're my hero!

P.S. I still need help with how to solve target buff auras in my unit frames *wink wink*

Might try Satrina Buff Frames. Ex here (left/right of toon):

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It's not the question of addon, but aesthetics, dunno where to put it and everything is getting too cluttered as it is.

Does anybody know of a simple bar capable of showing just my runic power? I prefer the default unit frames and the more I play my DK (not my main) the more I realize that I am not using my runic power to its full potential and it is constantly overflowing. If I can move the bar to a more centric spot I think I can solve this problem.

I know certain unit mods allow me to put a power bar wherever I want, and some of the rune watcher mods in the thread have a runic power bar attached, but is there just a stand alone runic power bar mod? Or do any of the rune mods allow just the bar to be displayed?

Addons include:

Pitbull
Satrina Buff Frames
DBM
MiksScrollingBattleText
kgPanels
Omen
Recount
RatingBuster
Chatter
BaudBag
Bartender
ButtonFacade
MagicRunes
ClassTimers
SexyMap

I have a couple extra bartender bars that I have hidden for aesthetic purposes. I have been using the same keybinds forever so I know them by heart anyway.