Awesome, I will have to try it tonight in naxx. Quick questions though, I looked through the list of mods. What run mod is that using because I didn't see it named. I have been using magic runes and really like it so was curious to see which your using and its settings or if I would disable it for magic runes.

It's the rune module from IceHUD. You can go into IceHUd's options and turn it off if you like to add in your own mod for runes.

hi,

i am no great writer, so you might don´t know me, but i would like to use the opportunity of this Thread to share my idea of a UI with you. To me working on the UI is one of the most fun things about WoW and i allways try to have some concepts in mine, this is the newest first version (did it this morning).



I tried to focus the most important informations (from a tank perspective) at one centric point of the screen aka at the left of my Char, there you find HP,RP, Rune CDs (simple rune bar), RS usability, Disease tracking of the target (with Classtimer) and the most important cooldowns (IBF, AMS, VB...).On the right, the classic target and target of target.

at the bottom are the most important cooldowns in 2 Bartender Bars, with used Shortcuts on hidden bars, above this there are Debuff-Bars (not showing here, because the Targetdummy is to sucky to wound me!)

I am tracking some minor things with PowerAuras like Suddendoom Procs (green Flame in front) and the missing of HoW is shown as a blinking snowflake on the left "Hud"

maybe you have some ideas for more improvements or, as i hope, my UI gives you new ideas for your own.

Here's mine, pretty simple.



Frames: pitbull
Meters: recount
Bars: bartender4
Map: sexymap
Buffs/Debuffs above player/target frame: classtimer
Castbar: quartz
Runes: magicrunes

I just want to say big ups to Sympa, I installed your UI last night and it looks great. I had to scale it up alot though and modify most things to fit my 1440x900 resolution but it still looks nice.

Continue to work and release your UI. It is well appreciated!

Here's mine.

The big things are the runes (courtesy of MagicRune) which I have centered in my screen so I can easily track them. Diseases are displayed in the top middle of my screen using Need to Know. Finally, I have an (unseen) enemy castbar immediately below the disease display and a cooldown timer (also unshown) at the bottom middle of my screen (I use Forte Warlock).

Just wanted to address some of the things mentioned in this post. I've posted this to my blog but I'll repost here. The problem I have with the default UI and with many other UI's is that content is splayed across the screen often spanning all sides of the screen. Couple this with raid addons like bigwigs/dbm and omen and your looking at about 80% of your screen all the time. It's just too much information all over the place unless you are working with a relatively small screen resolution.

To circumvent the issue I designed a hierarchy of content. The only real important content listed is in a single vertical column toward the center of the screen and is organized as follows:Abilities>Pet>Player>ToT>Target>Runes>Buffs/Debuffs. By establishing a hierarchy of content it makes the information more easily read at a glance. Separating frames just spreads the amount of screen-space your eye has to pan to find what its looking for, again at a small screen size there is less space to pan and it is less of a problem.

The point has been mentioned before that my method of organizing content can create a slight blind spot. However all the frames have an 85% alpha as well as being "modular" so that you can see behind them. I've never really had a problem with them. Although in previous versions of the UI I have left the chat panes on the left rather than organizing them with the content column on the right.

Hope this clarifies the concept of the design.

One question on your UI Sympa. Are any of the frames click-through-able?

I have set up a very similar vertical array of information, as I mentioned earlier, but the problem I have is that although I have it set up such that it isn't a total blind spot (some lowered alphas, some spacing between bars, etc.) I often have to rotate my camera around to do something I need to. Most often this is placing a DnD in the area covered by my UI, which is just a pain.

Have you encountered this issue at all?

I havn't really encountered this issue but it may just be a result of the placement of your frames. If you are using kg panels make sure you have them set to background for their level so they do not intercept mouse clicks. Beyond that I can only recommend panning your camera via left mouse click and then hitting dnd.

I should really get around to posting a pic of it someday, though it isn't really impressive.

The block of info is composed of DoTimer, Magicrunes, and TellMeWhen. The main issue is that MagicRunes sits directly to my character's left, next to my IceHud health bar (So I can see if I am taking damage that I shouldn't be) and it does not appear to have any click-through option.

I do get around it by rotating and DnDing, it can just result in a 2-5 second delay due to camera clipping. Nothing like rotating your camera and having it bounce around behind some random thing hanging from the ceiling in Naxx. Also there is the issue that you have to hold left-click to turn the camera, which will drop your DnD if you have it selected, so half the time I end up wasting time cancelling it and then retargeting.

I think I will give your UI a try next week. It looks very sexy

KN runes, everybody's favorite rune UI to try to figure out has a public release available now.

WoW AddOns - KN Runes - WowAce.com

Does anyone know of an rune add-on out there in which you can configure the runes to also act like buttons? Of course, it would only really be useful if you could configure each rune for a specific strike, but you probably understand the point...

For the most part, I use key bindings for my strikes, but I was thinking that having a rune program where the rune would "light up" and I could then click it to activate a particular strike would be a useful thing.

Maybe it can't be done with current UI parameters or maybe I'm the only one that thinks that would be handy, but I've never seen it...

First time poster, btw - be gentle!

Here's my new one that I rebuilt a few weeks ago. I wanted to shrink down my old one while still being able to see the same amount of information, see more of my screen & make it more aesthetically pleasing. I took my inspiration from Caith UI & Acaciaizm UI. I also use OPie for things not shown on the screen, such as Presences/Mounts. Ignore that extra blue bar after my rune bars, I have no idea why it is there.

Buttons are static during combat to prevent such behaviour.

Only ones I use specifically for my DK are Runepack (excellent addon, btw) and NeedToKnow, which tracks my diseases and UB. Usually the NTK frame is closer in, moved it out of the way for some reason.

My UI. Im gonna be fixing my buff bars soon though, as EBB isn't doing the job i need. Below are all my important addons and a brief description.

BugGrabber - Hides AddOn errors.
AG Unit Frames
Bagnon - All bags in one.
Prat - Chat enhancements
Quartz - Casting bar
XPBarNone - XP Bar
Dominos - Action Bars
Elk Buff Bars
Enhanced Color Picker - Copy Pastes colors
Examiner - Enhanced inspect
FuBar
IceHUD - HUD (Customizeable HUD, the bars in the middle. Can show target info and so on too)
KG Panels
Mapster - Customized world map
Omen
pChat - Enhanced chat
pError - Removes error messages as Cant Do That Yet etc.
RatingBuster - Converts all Ratings to %
Runemaster - Rune bars.
Recount
Teknicolor
TeksLoot - Simplified loot
XRS - Status of raid.

It's all Sympa's UI, but I re-arranged almost everything to suit me because blocking out a large portion of an important part of the screen really wasn't working out for me. It's still something i'm working on. The player buffs/debuffs need to go somewhere decent (classtimer player buffs are above magicrunes but no KM/Rime procs are active to see.)

Thanks to Sympa for your UI. I really like it, but just not in the position it was

(Yes I know my dps is terrible, i'm usually tanking )

Heres my UI
The usual bunch of add-ons: titan, xperl, omen, recount, bartender, magic runes, and kgpanels for the art. graphics off the WoW fansite kit. put together in photoshop by me.

That bar on top of the main action-bar set is for emergencies and the professions and first aid stuff is on a bar on the right thats visible on mouse-over.

The bottom part is kinda see through though it doesn't look so in this particular screenshot.

What i am using.

Pitbull
Bartender
EEpanels
Acherus Runes (excellent addon)
Classtimer
Chatter
Simpleminimap
Fubar

And some other minor addons, those are the visible ones.

The layout itself is from wowinterface.com cant remember the name of the package.

Just noticed your UI looks very similar to mine lol.

How do u get the black bar there? I have looked for it and i see lots of people with it....the black bar where all your ablitie's are?

Thought I'd try here for a DK mod or mods Im looking for. I'm looking for a mod that's movable and relatively small that I can position to show my Frost Fever and Blood plague durations, as well as shows my blade barrier duration.

I keep my Unit frames at the top, so I'm looking for a mod or mods which I can keep these buffs/debuffs at eye level so I can refresh them all a little better.