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Old 01/19/09, 5:22 PM   #126
richard
Piston Honda
 
Human Death Knight
 
Kazzak (EU)
I see alot of similar setups to mine; unitframes bottom middle, disease/runetimers above that, buttons below that.
This is working great for me, here's a screenshot:




Green skull means Death Trance proc, blue halfmoons means I don't have Horn or Str totem. Next to the cooldownbar is usually a petbar for extra symmetry, and the empty space between the map and the buttons is where omen goes.

One addon I haven't seen many people use is RunePack which has been discussed at length here: Death Knight rune addons: How can we do better?
 
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Old 01/20/09, 8:34 AM   #127
Halle
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Orc Death Knight
 
Doomhammer (EU)
Few people messaged me about my UI so just to clarify here, it's based on Raynes Burnt Cherry available at wowinterface.

A little further explaination of how I use Runewatch, Power Auras and Elk Buff Bars to show the info I rely on to dps.

Please dont ask me how to do it, its far too much to explain but easy if you play around for a while.

Runewatch is the circular thing with my runes around it, it can track how many of your diseases are up on target and show you the countdown for each. Above it is my timer for my unholy blight so I know when to refresh it.



Other things I've added to it with power auras.

Presence Detection:

Blood Presence : Frost Presence : Unholy Presence


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If Unholy Blight isnt up at all I get a very large warning...


No unholy Blight up

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It also warns me if Horn of Winter or Strength of Earth arent up (they dont stack).


No How or SoE up

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If my Bone Shield drops I get a warning for that also.


No Bone Shield

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If no buffs are up at all it looks like this

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What I like most is that it's all in the place where I look almost 100% of the time... my characters feet to check if im stood in anything nasty :P

I used to be a hardcore raider, now i'm a hardcore father.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 8:59 AM   #128
Serpion
Glass Joe
 
Orc Death Knight
 
Ясеневый лес (EU)
Quick question about Power Auras.

Is it possible set complex conditions? For example:

if Unholy rune AND Frost rune (death rune can be counted as unholy and frost) will not be available in 1 sec then: show some icon.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 9:01 AM   #129
Halle
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Orc Death Knight
 
Doomhammer (EU)
Sadly they havent added any rune detection yet

I used to be a hardcore raider, now i'm a hardcore father.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 9:33 AM   #130
Imperion
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Orc Death Knight
 
Boulderfist (EU)
My UI v.2

Originally Posted by Imperion View Post


Unitframes are Pitbull, nice and simple.
The Rune display is Simple Rune. I've never used anything else, it's really easy to see what runes you have up.
Actionbars are BT4 with BF (Caith). I know I need to clean them and my keybinds up, but I am working on it.
The swing timer between the Unitframes belongs to Quartz, and just below it is a castbar that I don't really need but keep anyway because I'm used to it from my previous toons.
The disease bars on top of the target Unitframe also belong to Quartz. I believe they are called target buff bars, and they are extremely useful and easy to configure; there really is no need for Classtimers.
The text 'Rune Strike' is a custom event in SCT, and the green healing text coming out of the player frame is SCT also.
I use Elk Buff Bars.
I have update my UI, cleaned it up and streamlined it a bit, and here is the result:



Most of the same addons, with the addition of SLDT (the text next to the minimap), and KgPanels for aesthetics. I can find no better way to show my runes and diseases as of yet.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 9:33 AM   #131
diospadre
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Orc Death Knight
 
Mal'Ganis
Really nice use of powa there. I dumped RuneWatch a while ago but could still apply some of those concepts to my current setup.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 1:22 PM   #132
Sympa
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Night Elf Hunter
 
Terokkar
Originally Posted by jcmkk3 View Post
My UI is pretty simple. I use the rune display provided by ag_Unitframes. I us Satrina Buff Frames for the buff displays above and in between my unit frames. Basically, when I'm targeting a friendly target, I see the normal icon buff display above them. When I target a hostile unit, it will show me my disease timers above their unit frame. Above my unit frame is buffs that I care about, and in between the unitframes as large icons are the short term buffs/procs that I want to know.
What are the disease timers being show in bar format immediately above your unit frames? Are those satrina aswell?

 
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Old 01/20/09, 3:41 PM   #133
Electrifyyy
Glass Joe
 
Draenei Shaman
 
Dalvengyr
Originally Posted by primer View Post
Nothing special, I like to keep it as minimal as possible.
Things you dont see:
SCT for combat text
Omen appears in the bottom right grey box.
ECB for casting bars.

Hey, what addon do you use for your action bars? Or if anyone else knows that would be awesome.
 
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Old 01/20/09, 4:59 PM   #134
Led ++
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Draenor (EU)
http://hdimage.org/images/yop4rrzgts...2009212327.jpg

Unit Frames show only the important things, near the center so I constantly see them. I only track Frost Fever and Blood Plague as you can see.
Wrote some dogtags which indicate Aggro very easy.
Killing Machine proc is close to my UF so I immediatly see it.
AtrRunes .. numbers, easy to see .. close to my UF.
Debuffs are quite huge, cant miss em
Replaced all possible SCT mods and using EavesDrop (the thing in the right corner), this keeps my screen uber clean even when fighting over 9000 mobs.
Important skills on clear actionbars so you can see the CD quickly.
Party Frames go in the middle center, around the height off the decease tracker. They only show MissingHP in either Cyan colour (no aggro) or in Red (Aggro!). Mouseover function to see maxHP, if they are at MaxHP.

The UI is made to be clean, very informative in a very easy way. Important things are seen the quickest. And all in all I couldnt bear to make an ugly UI so I spend loads of time making it pretty

Oh and, Omen goes above the actionbars. Hope that's enough information.
Comments welcome.

Hey, what addon do you use for your action bars? Or if anyone else knows that would be awesome.
Probably just Bartender or Dominos skinned with Buttonfacade.

http://thepiratebootybay.com/ THE best Addon site out there!
 
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Old 01/20/09, 7:26 PM   #135
jcmkk3
Glass Joe
 
Draenei Shaman
 
Kael'thas
Originally Posted by Sympa View Post
What are the disease timers being show in bar format immediately above your unit frames? Are those satrina aswell?
Yes. If you go into the Satrina options, then Units, you can select a frame for your targets debuff frame. I don't like to see Crypt Fever, and it doesn't show up under the normal Spells options (nor do any other debuffs it seems) to disable. It seemed to work fine just Shift-Clicking on the icon and choosing to not display it though.
 
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Old 01/21/09, 9:44 AM   #136
Linux Nazi
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Draenei Death Knight
 
Kel'Thuzad
Apparently with all the goofing around with the howling blast cooldown, they've manage to remove the display for the cooldown altogether. I originally kept a CDT3 cooldown bar specifically for it right next to my runes, but since the game isn't reporting a cooldown for it, CDT isn't picking it up.

Is there any cooldown timers that allow you to manually add a custom cooldown timer any more?
 
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Old 01/21/09, 12:56 PM   #137
richard
Piston Honda
 
Human Death Knight
 
Kazzak (EU)
It's a bug in the blizzard interface. I'm not a programming expert by any means, but I don't think any cooldown mod will display it right now. Unless you macro HB into starting a timer mod for 5 seconds or something.
 
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Old 01/21/09, 3:12 PM   #138
Brutallis
Glass Joe
 
Human Death Knight
 
Deathwing
I'm sorry if this has been stated already on this thread, but I couldn't find it, but I was wondering what add on could be used to display (preferably VERY blatantly) when I have a Rime proc? I just specced frost after patch day and am having trouble spotting it amongst the plethora of buffs I usually have.
 
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Old 01/21/09, 4:17 PM   #139
keltzed
Glass Joe
 
Human Death Knight
 
Earthen Ring
Originally Posted by Brutallis View Post
I'm sorry if this has been stated already on this thread, but I couldn't find it, but I was wondering what add on could be used to display (preferably VERY blatantly) when I have a Rime proc? I just specced frost after patch day and am having trouble spotting it amongst the plethora of buffs I usually have.
PowerAuras should be able to do this for you. I haven't tested it specifically with rime, but used it for similar things on my shaman. It takes a bit of configuration, but works very well. You want the new "PowerAurasClassic" version, which has been ported to LK.
 
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Old 01/23/09, 4:46 AM   #140
Sympa
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Night Elf Hunter
 
Terokkar
Sympa UIv5

Reorganized info a bit to a right weighted feel, just didn'd like having chat/recount on the left. Not releasing this one publically. Addons are same as Sympa UIv4 only switched to pitbull over AGuf for Dog Tags. Fonts used are Helvetica in two different weights for Pitbull and chat/recount. Submitting as a video so folks can actually see the function of the UI.

Sympa � Sympa UI v 5:

 
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Old 01/23/09, 12:11 PM   #141
Dristig
Von Kaiser
 
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Orc Death Knight
 
Crushridge
Hey Halle Can you tell me what Addon this is?

 
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Old 01/23/09, 12:18 PM   #142
Larenn
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Death Knight
 
Magtheridon
I believe it's part of Runewatch.

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Old 01/23/09, 12:31 PM   #143
eliah
Glass Joe
 
Human Priest
 
Shadow Council
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Last edited by eliah : 01/23/09 at 12:33 PM. Reason: duplicate
 
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Old 01/23/09, 2:55 PM   #144
Dristig
Von Kaiser
 
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Orc Death Knight
 
Crushridge
Originally Posted by richard View Post
I see alot of similar setups to mine; unitframes bottom middle, disease/runetimers above that, buttons below that.
This is working great for me, here's a screenshot:


Green skull means Death Trance proc, blue halfmoons means I don't have Horn or Str totem. Next to the cooldownbar is usually a petbar for extra symmetry, and the empty space between the map and the buttons is where omen goes.

One addon I haven't seen many people use is RunePack which has been discussed at length here: Death Knight rune addons: How can we do better?
YES! Finally someone posted a screenshot of my mod. I wrote Rune Pack. Please add feedback to my Addon page on Wowinterface.com I'm planning a 2.0 release eventually.
 
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Old 01/23/09, 5:22 PM   #145
Trubbs
Glass Joe
 
Gnome Rogue
 
Shadow Council
Since the release of the expansion, I've tried to keep my interface clear and simple. I've cut back on mods and what not since I needed a huge amount of add-on memory consumption for Quest Helper (the thing takes up more than my entire UI).

However, since my rogue was fully geared and my death knight hit 80, I realized that since mobs weren't dying before I could even use all my runes, I needed a better way to monitor them than the default UI.

After some trial and error I've come up with this:
Click me.

I tried using MSBT at first, but I didn't like the way it scrolled, and I was rather fond of the game damage. I may decide to go back to it later, but for now I'll stick with default+the original SCT.

Pitbull for the unit frames, and Magic Runes for the rune detection (colored bars above my player frame). Between the target frame and the bars is where the target of target frame appears.

The UI is set up to provide me with all the information I need in places that are very easy to glance at without having to move my eyes to far. I'll watch my character to check my spacing and watch for AOEs, and glancing to the left I can keep an eye on my rune timers, runic power, and relevant DPS cooldowns. Checking where I'm standing I can see if I'm standing in anything dangerous and also see my swing timer, global cooldown bar, and disease timers.

The rest of the UI is designed to be aesthetically pleasing, but as I'm no good with eePanels or other similar mods, and I refuse to download compilations, this is the bet I can do.

The bar near my player frame has any cooldowns I may use in pvp or pve, but none of those are bound. All of my abilities are bound and hidden. On the bottom I have things I may click like my vent-macro button, army of the dead, vanity pets, mounts, and professions. I think I may set them to fade out during combat, but who knows.

Oh and then I use Power Auras for lots of things: gargoyle, icebound fortitude, lichborne, unbreakable armor, unholy blight, killing machine, freezing fog, and my stances.

The green artsy-looking circle on the bottom changes colors depending on what my stance is.
 
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Old 01/24/09, 10:04 AM   #146
shadet
Glass Joe
 
Draenei Priest
 
Quel'Thalas (EU)
This is the current UI for my DK, currently at lvl 77 so no doubt it will change in a few levels once I get to 80 but not that much!



Edit:
Power Auras showing

Skull - Killing Machine Procced
Bull - Horn of Winter NOT buffed
Little red stroke near rune frame - Rune Strike available.

Screen shot was taken when server died and I was stuck not being attacked hence why Buffs are dead and i'm not where I should be
 
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Old 01/24/09, 11:18 PM   #147
mediic
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Undead Priest
 
Dragonmaw
Originally Posted by richard View Post
I see alot of similar setups to mine; unitframes bottom middle, disease/runetimers above that, buttons below that.
This is working great for me, here's a screenshot:




Green skull means Death Trance proc, blue halfmoons means I don't have Horn or Str totem. Next to the cooldownbar is usually a petbar for extra symmetry, and the empty space between the map and the buttons is where omen goes.

One addon I haven't seen many people use is RunePack which has been discussed at length here: Death Knight rune addons: How can we do better?
Anyone know what these unit/raid frames are?
 
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Old 01/24/09, 11:50 PM   #148
hai2u2
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Blood Elf Death Knight
 
Barthilas
Well here's mine. Had to use a combat screenie to get all my addons in action.

A little bit of info regarding the setup, I've decide (unlike alot of people) to attempt to space everything out rather then have it in the centre which usually results in tunnel vision [Which resulted in me getting smashed on 3D OS]. It's built more like a 'frame' so I can see what is actually is happening.

Though I do feel it is imperfect in the sense that it feels like there is too much of something, maybe its colour, or maybe its boxes lol.

Last edited by hai2u2 : 02/06/09 at 4:42 PM.
 
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Old 01/25/09, 3:46 AM   #149
Psykhe
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Draenei Death Knight
 
The Venture Co (EU)
Originally Posted by mediic View Post
Anyone know what these unit/raid frames are?
Pitbull
 
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Old 01/26/09, 9:08 AM   #150
GirMoose
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Death Knight
 
Dentarg (EU)


This is my current UI, quite similar setup to most it seems. Works well for me, haven't changed much (was taken a few weeks ago)
 
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