What mod is listing the curse/time left?

Can we please stop with just random shots of various UIs, a spot of mod listing, and actually discuss the theory behind creating an efficient Death Knight UI? There is already a thread for posting your UI elsewhere in these forums, which I enjoy looking at for inspiration, so duplicating it here seems a touch unnecessary.

I gave Sympa's UI a trial run last night for some heroics, and whilst it shows sound design, it didn't quite gel. I found that I didn't really need the additional magic runes display of cooldowns and runic power, as the ag_uf rune display worked perfectly well for that. So, I chopped and changed and substituted a few things (Need to Know for Class Timers, ditching a lot of the unnecessary text from the unit frames), and I'm much happier with it. I do think that the Sympa theory is fairly sound, but personal preference will override even the strongest design.

Well, as far as efficient UI design goes, one of the big things that I've tried to do is use the infinite height/width of screen edges and corners to place my "clicky" action bars. That way, in the heat of the moment, you don't need to be careful with where you click. I've also been using AutoBar to help auto-manage the crufty items I seem to always place on actionbars like quest items, potions, bandages, etc.

For Unit frames and the like, I still haven't found a good location for everything. Of course, you want to try and keep everything as close together as possible, but what's a good, efficient way of doing that in a way that doesn't look horrible?

Its driving me crazy! what mod is it that puts the countdowns on the spell buttons?

Acaciaizm's UI, very slightly modified to my tastes.

Still looking for a nice mod to handle rune display.

Use Opie for anything not bound.

For runes I use Xperl and OmniCC, it shows the Cooldown on each rune.

It has been enough for me, I only have to watch the top left of my screen to keep track of my runes/RP/Disease & HP.

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AtrRunes ftw tbh (still very new addon)


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Don't know if this has been covered elsewhere, if so i apologize beforehand.

I'm having huge problems with Bartender 4 and skill CD's. It's completly inconsistent with runes, specially juggling Death runes. I'm currently Unholy spec and one problem which often arises is that the visible CD on my SS button never takes into account death runes.

2xBS followed by 2xSS leaves me waiting for 2 death runes before the next SS. The cooldown on the button however ignores the death runes and goes by when the next Frost + Unholy rune becomes active. As soon as the death runes pop, the button becomes colored again and i can do a SS, BUT the button itself still got the shaded clock-timer ticking down til the next U+F rune.

Am i making sense here?

This has had the UPSIDE of me learning to not trust the buttons, but rather focus on my runewatch, so i guess in the end i'm better of for it, but it's still a tad annoying and i'd like to know if anyone else experienced it.

Also Bartender 4 seems to mess up my CD on Bone Shield quite alot. It shows it as a colored button with no shaded CD, but when i mouseover it the skill still has 40+ seconds left or whatever. I assume this goes to the CD sometimes beeing calculated of the Unholy rune i used to pop Bone shield.

Is this a problem unique for Bartender or is the fault somewhere else?

The problem exists in my Bartender as well, so don't think it's specific to you. Haven't found a fix for it yet, the only advise I can give you is use a good Rune tracking mod, and watch those (like you said). I find it working way better because you constantly know the state of your other runes as well.

The bone armor thing is really annoying indeed, it seems it does not use the skill cooldown unless you have runes up to use it and spam it a few times.

My current UI.



The rune/disease tracker mod is Runewatch, around it I use power auras to show what buffs are active or not.

For example when I need to get UB up there will be a glowing green edge around it.

If HoW isnt up there is a blue pulsing ring to signify that.

I'll update with shots of the runes when I get time.

I use a setup very similar to Sympa's, although I can't post pics from work.

I have ICE Hud set up with just my health and RP in vertical bars, with a sortof panel to the left of my health containing, from top to bottom: DoTimers limited to only my diseases and DnD, MagicRunes horizontally laid out, with no RP bar, and TellMeWhen set up to monitor when I need to reapply debuffs, when CDs are available, and when buffs proc (for timing the Garg).

This really does help me to prioritize, as a glance at my runes in the center can tell me if my diseases are running low, if I need to reapply any buffs or if I should pop my Garg, and how much damage I am taking. I have plenty of time to watch the rest of the environment, and so far I haven't stood in the fire due to trying to track all my timers.