Death Knight UI's - Page 12

Redantisocial · 04/07/09, 11:52 PM

Mods involved
Pitbull 4: The raid and player/target frames
Bartender4: The Button Bars, there's 2 more hidden on the right with a bagbar, you can just see em.
Omen: Threat Meter
Recount: Hidden on the left
Classtimer: Disease and other timers
oRA2: Raid Timers
SCT: Combat Text
SexyMap: The map that's all sexy
Satrina Buff Frame: Buffs and Debuffs on me
DeathKnight.info Runes: Rune cooldowns and disease cooldowns on extra targets

I like to keep the screen coverage minimal, and this is it at max coverage, so as you can see, i still have a fair bit of real estate free.

Sythral · 04/08/09, 4:37 PM

So I am FINALLY getting around to doing this... First is a clean SS of my UI.

Addons:
MSBT
Sexymap
Satrina Buff Frames
DockingStation (Broker based Bar at top)
Pitbull
DKIRunes and DKIDiseases
Dominos
Phanxchat
Grid (Not shown, thinking of switching to something else)
Power Auras Classic

Now for the details.
Basically I feel it is important to have a clean UI when playing a DK. Playing a DK is very involved since you have to monitor so many different things. I placed my own UF in the middle of the screen so that there is symmetry on the screen. Below that is my pet's health. My target is obviously above my UF, and above that would be the ToT in the same setup as the pets bar. Above that is my runes and then my diseases. The white around the diseases is Power Auras, tracking my Unholy Blight. The blue around my UF is for when Bone Shield is up, and the white below it is for when horn of winter is up. A lot of people have said earlier that placing all important things in one area makes it so that you pigeon hole yourself into one area of the screen. I do not find this... it helps me monitor all important things at once in my eyes. Also, buffs for my target are shown on the left of the frame, debuffs on the right. Comments?

Lollersk8er · 04/08/09, 4:51 PM

Originally Posted by Sythral

Basically I feel it is important to have a clean UI when playing a DK. Playing a DK is very involved since you have to monitor so many different things.

Then why do you have that SCT spam on your screen? I see that a lot on other players, too. You don't need to know how much damage your autoattack does, when FF ticks or how big your crits are. It does nothing but distract. I have almost everything disabled, just stuff like immunities or low health are enabled.

Sythral · 04/08/09, 4:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lollersk8er

Then why do you have that SCT spam on your screen? I see that a lot on other players, too. You don't need to know how much damage your autoattack does, when FF ticks or how big your crits are. It does nothing but distract. I have almost everything disabled, just stuff like immunities or low health are enabled.

I am not distracted by it. I actually like it the way it is. It's MSBT, and it throttles everything so that it is less spammy than SCT.

centrino · 04/13/09, 11:48 AM

Pitbull 4: The raid and player/target frames
dominos: bars
Omen: Threat Meter
ct_buffmod: buff tracking
oRA2: Raid Timers
SCT: Combat Text
pminimap: The map
Satrina Buff Frame: Buffs and Debuffs on me
DeathKnight.info Runes: Rune cooldowns and disease cooldowns on extra targets

Alita · 04/13/09, 1:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mman

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?

Magic Runes has a power bar built into it. you can turn off all bars except the runic power bar if you only want that

Here is my UI:

I use Rogue Power Bars for my diseases/debuffs and shorter buffs (procs, heroism). I find them much better than class timers, as you can color individual buffs/debuffs any way you want. You just need to open up the default buff/debuff files and remove the rogue related ones.

I keep everything in the middle of the screen, as having a 24" monitor makes it annoying if i have to look somewhere else to find the information i need, and is part of the reason that i started to use a hud. I mainly use the HUD to keep track of my runic.

Jylime · 04/13/09, 2:23 PM

Long time reader first time poster! =) Anyway, I thought I'd contribute since I havent seen any compilations that met
the standards that I've been looking for.

What I look for in an Interface is simple and informative. This can easily be done with either blizz own UI or the various addons that curse.com provides.
But I feel that I't lacks either information, or estetics, or both! Very often addons that add artwork and changes buttonbar setups uses loads of memory, and thus gives you more trouble then you gain percs in the long run.

So this is what I found on the wide stretches of the internet. Since I play on a computer that has had a few birthdays since I first bought it,
its important to me that the addons uses little memory so that it doesnt increase fps/lag. I know some of you share this problem with me.

Solution
So how do you get nice estetics and all valid information without huge memory usage?
All addons naturally takes up some memory. But some use less, and some are designed by very cleaver persons who make sure it looks great and works perfectly.

The solution lies in these addons. (If you like the looks of my UI)
First and most important is the RothUI artworks and unitframes. It moves the blizzard actionbars and adds a very lightweight artwork on wich the actionbars rest.
Also adds Player Frame and Runic Power Frame for the Diablo feel. It also adds Target Frame, ToT Frame.

Other usefull addons I use are: Acherus Runes, NeedToKnow, MikScrollingCombatText, Closetgnome and Power Auras.

I'll try to answer any questions I spot! Take care!
/kind Regards

Barlok · 04/14/09, 12:46 PM

Below is my five man layout:

And below this is my raid layout:

The fonts in my five man layout now use the fonts showing in the raid layout. Any questions etc just ask.

Sythral · 04/14/09, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Barlok

Love the font. What font is that?

Barlok · 04/14/09, 6:22 PM

Originally Posted by Sythral

Love the font. What font is that?

The main UI font is 'Frakturika Spamless' while the font you see in the chat window is 'Ultima Campagnoli'.

The first came from SharedMedia and the latter came from SharedMediaAdditionalFonts.

Enjoy.

Senorfrog · 04/15/09, 12:45 PM

So does anyone have an addon that can track your OWN diseases that works on 3.1? I had Quartz and it just started tracking all debuffs and ClassTimer would track mine and the other DK in the raid's diseases. Wondering if I'm going to have to redo my UF and go back to X-perl with big debuffs (assuming that isn't broken either).

Xtee · 04/15/09, 1:26 PM

I have been working all day trying to fix my addon (Need to know) but I have never used LUA before.

If anyone knows how to fix addons, here is the posts that explain the changes:

Blue post

Sombody Explaining how to change the code

Now I have tried these steps, and still am unable to fix. If I am able to, I will edit post to show exact instructions on how to.

diospadre · 04/15/09, 2:00 PM

http://www.wowinterface.com/download....html#comments

Bsiddiq · 04/15/09, 2:18 PM

Originally Posted by Senorfrog

So does anyone have an addon that can track your OWN diseases that works on 3.1? I had Quartz and it just started tracking all debuffs and ClassTimer would track mine and the other DK in the raid's diseases. Wondering if I'm going to have to redo my UF and go back to X-perl with big debuffs (assuming that isn't broken either).

As of last night, classtimer was broken for me. However, Satrina's Buff frames works. You have to set up the addon to ONLY show your debuffs on the target, however.

Speaking of broken addons, magicrunes appears to be broken as well. It doesn't save settings, so it reverts back every time you reload UI.

From the Author

Originally Posted by dhedbor

I'll definitely investigate this but I can't promise any real fixes until Friday unless it's something obvious. With Ulduar out, I'm back on a 3x4 raiding schedule.

Xtee · 04/15/09, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by diospadre

NeedToKnow : WoWInterface Downloads : Buff/Debuff/Spell Mods

I tried doing that change long before I posted, as well as trying to combine it with other changes I found. Still unable to make it work. Although I am not familiar with .lua so if you have it working, and it was simply a moronic overlook on my part would you mind uploading the .lua or showing where you edited the code so I can see where I went wrong?

diospadre · 04/15/09, 3:43 PM

Originally Posted by Xtee

I tried doing that change long before I posted, as well as trying to combine it with other changes I found. Still unable to make it work. Although I am not familiar with .lua so if you have it working, and it was simply a moronic overlook on my part would you mind uploading the .lua or showing where you edited the code so I can see where I went wrong?

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level12wizard · 04/15/09, 3:59 PM

I originally posted that fix for NeedToKnow. It usually works while testing around dummies in Acherus, but I definitely saw our other DK's diseases (15s duration vs 21s duration) during Razorscale on some mobs I hadn't touched. I don't know where the flaw in coding is, or perhaps there is an API bug. I welcome anyone with more experience to try their hand at fixing this, as I don't expect NTK to be updated by the author anytime soon.

frozenkex · 04/15/09, 4:03 PM

Quartz newest version works fine for me > Newest version

diospadre · 04/15/09, 4:22 PM

Ah, I look stupid then.

Xtee · 04/15/09, 4:26 PM

The fix appears to make it so that you do not see DK's stuff who arn't in your party. Although, if you party them it does show up.

if you did indeed fix it though, test that. THe 15 seconds vs 21 could have been another DK pestilence a mob your diseases were on, as it spreads ALL DK Diseases on the current target.

Sythral · 04/15/09, 6:08 PM

If anyone is looking for a disease tracking mod that doesn't require the need to edit the LUA for the disease fix check out DKIrunes with the new DKIDisease module.. here

Hotsy · 04/15/09, 6:33 PM

What about a Ghoul Frenzy tracker?

Sekke · 04/15/09, 6:39 PM

Originally Posted by Hotsy

What about a Ghoul Frenzy tracker?

NeedToKnow does this fine already, just tell it to track your pet instead of you.

concept84 · 04/15/09, 6:54 PM

I was using Xperl for the big personal debuffs in combination with OmniCC for cooldown times and Xperl is very broken at the moment.

I've always preferred the look of Pitbull but never switched because it didn't have the big buff function.

I've found a combination of MagicRunes and DKi Diseases seem to be working wonderfully. I simply place the DKi icons (only icons not bars) directly above my MagicRune bar which is under my character and everything is easy to see at a glance.

richard · 04/15/09, 7:00 PM

Originally Posted by concept84

I've always preferred the look of Pitbull but never switched because it didn't have the big buff function.

Pitbull 4 has the option to make buffs/debuffs that you cast bigger or smaller, but I haven't yet found a way to only make it your own. Right now all DK buffs/auras show up bigger, including other players.