Death Knight UI's - Page 9

pfooti · 01/18/09, 1:22 PM

As much as the weird unbalanced layout on my screen makes the aesthetic part of me cringe, I really like it. Primarily because I play on a 16x9 monitor, and the number of vertical pixels onscreen are so much more precious than horizontal ones. So this way I clear most of my stuff out to the right or left of the screen so the middle has as much top-to-bottom with nothing in it as possible.

The hud is IceHUD. I *really* like the rune and RP on it. I also use power auras classic - that T-shaped thing is a visual reminder that my rune strike is lit up. I have an icon like that for most of my procs. It's really handy. I use fortress and libdatabroker for everything I used to use fubar for.

Besides the actual layout on-screen, I'm happy with everything. If I had a better balance, it'd be better, but for now it is very functional and has very few wasted pixels.

Vysc · 01/18/09, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by norg

Seriously, can people please stop just saying "heres my ui: [screenshot]"? No one gives a shit what your UI looks like unless you're going to talk about how you've done things and why. In the main 'post your UI' thread they are very strict on this so I don't see why it should be accepted here.

This thread is meant to be about Death Knight-specific UI challenges and the design processes we use to overcome them, not a pointless collection of screengrabs.

Yeah that was my bad. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I wanted to make everything easy to see especially my spelltimer. Still not sure if thats the right spot where I want to put my spelltimer. I might switch it with omen(which is next to spelltimer) to better see my dots and buffs.

The reason why I have ForteXorcist cooldown sitting where its at so I can see what is on cooldown easier since I don't use OmniCC and also it's next to MagicRunes.

As for the Ag_UnitFrames, I wanted them to easy to be close to my bar(same as everyone else) but I didn't want my buffs and debuffs to show up on them because it would be more of a pain to see what is one the mob/boss. Kinda the reason why I use ForteXorcist. Also I do have the extra Runebar under my player frame but I might take it out, not sure on that yet.

I use MSBT for the same reason as everyone else. I am still working on moving everything/changing colors/text to where I want it to be.

Still haven't found a good minimap mod that I like but if anyone has some suggestions on that, please let me know.

I use Bartender4, wanted them to be on the bottom and centered like everyone else.

Addons:
Ag_UnitFrames
Bartender4
ButtonFacade
ButtonFacade_Caith
Chatter
ForteXorcist
MagicRunes
MSBT
Omen
SatrinaBuffFrame

These are the addons that I use if anyone is curious to know.

Everything on my UI is meant to be easy to see and hopefully can help out by putting some ideas in to the DK UI challenges.

Again, sorry about my last post.

Caimbeul · 01/18/09, 10:27 PM

This is a cutout of my UI, it displays omen (left) recount (right) and in the middle the rune section with addiontal racial and two trinkets.

The Runesection is the "RuneWatch" Addon which i modified. Due to this is not my work i can not publish this version but wanted to show it is easily possible to make a decent and big Runeaddon without showing stuff i personally do not need, like diseases or an extra runepowerbar. Both diseases and Runepower are implemented in my xPerl addon with does the job for me.

Maybe if there is someone who thinks the RuneWatch Change is appealing i will ask the Dev of it wheather he can maybe implement a realy combact version like the one I did.

kamiu · 01/19/09, 9:22 AM

Question regarding Power Auras and Death Knight UI's.

Can anybody share or point me to a lua / Power Auras config made for DW DPS procs (KM, Trinkets, Talons, Runeprocs)?
Right now this little mod looks like a bitch to set up properly.
So if i can shortcut a bit by using your config as a starter, i would be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

jcmkk3 · 01/19/09, 3:52 PM

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.

richard · 01/19/09, 5:22 PM

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?

Halle · 01/20/09, 8:34 AM

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

Serpion · 01/20/09, 8:59 AM

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.

Halle · 01/20/09, 9:01 AM

Sadly they havent added any rune detection yet

Imperion · 01/20/09, 9:33 AM

Originally Posted by Imperion

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.

diospadre · 01/20/09, 9:33 AM

Really nice use of powa there. I dumped RuneWatch a while ago but could still apply some of those concepts to my current setup.

Sympa · 01/20/09, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by jcmkk3

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?

Electrifyyy · 01/20/09, 3:41 PM

Originally Posted by primer

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.

Led ++ · 01/20/09, 4:59 PM

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.

jcmkk3 · 01/20/09, 7:26 PM

Originally Posted by Sympa

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.