This thread will be to discuss hunter UIs for raiding / PvE. The UI forum is for all classes, but as hunters, we have unique UI needs that many of us have found answers for.

Everyone is allowed one small screenshot (with a thumnail) that much be accompanied by a list of addons being used for the desired effect, as well as the reasons for the setup. Please spend at least a few minutes writing about why you posted your UI. We don't need raw data here, only tips we can use to improve our own UIs, so only post UIs you have worked hard on, and that might be able to help other hunters maximize their performance.

The idea behind mind is simple... Everything that you need to look at is in one area right along the bottom of the screen.

Unit Frames: Ag_Unit Frames Curse Link
Action Bars: Bartender 4 Curse Link
Buffs: Elk Buff BarsCurse Link
Threat Meter: Omen Curse Link
Combat log: Evesdrop Curse Link
Cool Downs:Cooldown Timers3 Curse Link
Timers: Class Timers Curse Link

Those are the major addons all of which are very customizable.

The bottom right corner is eaves drop. It is a simple light combat log which I have been using for years. It is easy to read and follow, you can link hits to chat by shit clicking on them ( useful if you're a tank) It also keeps track of your max hits/heals if that is something you like

To the left of Eaves drop is Cooldown Timers3(and also above) It lets me know when the cool downs are closer to coming up, though I am thinking of moving it to the left side closer to what i pay attention to.

Up at the top I have EBB ( Elkano's Buff Bars) I love these because they are much easier to see and time, and I can create a second group for my pet.

I love my unit frames, though I'm not sure about the long target box yet ( just changed that). I also just recently turned on the portraits for the first time in awhile. At this point in time I am only doing 10-mans, Down the left side i have a unit frame for each member of the raid. Right above my unit frame is my pets where the color of the bar changes from green>yellow>red depending on his happiness.

Just above the pet bar to the right is Class timer. It grows upwards and keeps a bar up for my stings, hunter's mark and other debuff. You can also set it to do buffs on you or your pet if you dont' want to set up the buff bars for your pet like I did.


If you have any questions on any of the other addons I have or use, or on customizing them please feel free to let me know!

I use EBB myself, but in 3.0 with ALL these buffs on you it suddenly takes up a lot of screen real estate. Has anyone had the same issue and how did they solve it? I don't really feel like making the bars much smaller would help as it would be almost useless to have it. Something that would hide all current buffs once you enter combat and only display gained buffs and debuffs during the fight would be nice.

You could go into EBB's options and setup a whitelist (to only show) or blacklist (to not show) to shorten the number of buffs listed and filter out buff's that you really dont need showing. On mine I have several of my buff's blacklisted from EBB since I use DHud and it shows short duration buffs next to my life bar. The list still gets a little long but when I pop off my "use everything" macro, I'm suddenly not having an extra 8 or so buffs to pop up. I also use EBB for my pet buffs with the same things blacklisted (Ferocious Inspiration, Kindred Spirits, etc.).

One thing I did was split my buffs into two groups. Off to the side, out of the way and scaled down, are buffs that I'm not going to need to reference during combat. Near my character's unit frame and a focal point of my UI are the important ones. Generally they can be sorted between these two groups by duration remaining.

I, personally, strongly suggest SpartanUI simply because SUI can deal with number of our abilities in very smooth way. And I like appearance of it.

Unfortunately, I'm late WotLK started and still leveling my hunter. In other words, I don't have any raiding UI, yet (after 3.0 came, I took little break from the game), to show.

My UI:


The main reason for my UI the way it is, is how most of the important info is in the middle or bottom middle of the screen, which is where my eye's focus most of my playtime. My own health bar, as well as my pets is easily visible and my eyes don't need to move, as well as my target and target of target. The cast bar also goes on top of my mana bar, as well as the target's mana bar, which makes it easy to read, as well as not take up any more space.

Omen is easily visible, as well as recount. My timers are very visible, as well as my party's HP. I tried to make my UI as clean as possible, without sacrificing too much.

Major addons:
Unitframes: PitBull
Minimap: Chinchilla
Tooltip: TipTac
Damage Meter: Recount
Threat Meter: Recount
Timers: Class Timer
Action bar: Dominos
Castbar: Quartz
Chat: Prat
Combat damage: Scrolling Combat Text
Buffs: Satrina Buff Frame
Info text: SL Data Text

primary addons used:

eepanels
class timers
pitbull
ora2
quartz cast bar
bigwigs
bartender 4
button facade
elkano's buff bars
power display
recount
omen
chatter
chinchilla (map mod)
cooldown count
cowtip
bugsack
error monster




I redid my hunter's UI for leveling in wotlk and have largely kept it the same. I like keeping all my relevant unit frames/primary actions cast bar clustered for easy reference. There is a hidden action bar next to the ora2 tank targets that appears on mousever (next to tank names) that contains all my tank misdirect macros.

The eepanel settings and color scheme was grafted from Ishtara's UI (IshtaraUi : WoWInterface Downloads : Generic Compilations) which was in turn based off of elements from Tapestry UI (Tapestry UI - wowmods: World of Warcraft addons).

My huntard engineering theme



I have tried to make things simple and with action buttons centered for fast access.
Its a work in progress as I always try to tweak and improve it.

Addons used

!BugGrabber
!Swatter
Atlas
Auc-Advanced
Bagnon
beql
Buffalo
BugSack
ButtonFacade
Cartographer
Chatter
ClearFont2
ClearFont2_FontPack
ClearFont2_FontPack_1
DBM
DetachedMiniButtons
DHUD2
EQCompare
FlightMap
kgPanels
KHunterTimers
Macaroon
MarkBar
MoveAnything
Omen
PowerAuras
Quartz
QuestHelper
RangeDisplay
RatingBuster
Recount
RedRange
Routes
simpleMinimap
Skillet
SpamMeNot
TipTac
Titan
TitanFriends
TitanGuild
TrackThat
TrinketMenu
WIM
XPerl

Edit: Added the engineering texture pack over at Curse and you can find it here ESkin - Addons - Curse

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The action bar you see in the bottom left corner is usually hidden, at the time of this screenshot I was still deciding where some binds should be placed.

Questhelper at the top right hand side is also hidden typically as well, atm it is entirely removed from my addon folder.

Don't have a recent one, or one in a raid, but here's mine in a party.



I have since set up EBB for my buffs in the top right corner, played around with my party frames, and respecced BM (qq). I used Ryas' UI 4.0 for the longest time (kudos to you Ryas, good to see you're still around), then was inspired by a screenshot on the UI & Macro forums to make this one. I like it mainly because there's no actionbars showing, but this is becoming an inconvenience more and more with all this vehicle usage, especially on Malygos where I just have my first action bar showing on the bottom of the screen, in all of its ugliness. And now I want to try my hand at Ryas' new UI.

Unitframes: PitBull
Minimap: SimpleMiniMap
Tooltip: Cowtip
Damage Meter: Recount
Threat Meter: Omen
Timers: Quartz
Action bar: Dominos (not shown, the cooldowns are shown by CoolDownButtons)
Castbar: Quartz
Chat: Prat
Combat damage: Scrolling Combat Text
Buffs: EBB (not in screenshot)

In a raid





Solo





The most notable addon raidwise is probably classtimers. It helps me keep track of my stings and stuff like that.


Full list:
Recount
ItemRack
Omen
BigWigs
PitBull
Cartographer
Bartender4
ButtonFacade
Chinchilla
ButtonFacade_Caith
Buffalo
Prat-3.0
teksLoot
Quartz
ACP
kgPanels
SharedMediaLib
OneBag3
SLDataText
SharedMedia
OmniCC
sctd

I think thats most of them :]



EDIT: Moved a more detailed explination of my ui and a link to a download in this thread:

Share Your Interface - READ THE FIRST POST (No, really. Read it.)


EDIT 6-8-09: I know the link is broken, I have been really busy with finals and havent had alot of time to repost a newer, updated UI. I am working on it in between studying, work, and raids. I hope to have it ASAP! Thanks

I just updated mine recently; I'll most likely be making some more changes soon:



The list so far (of visible addons):
ArcHud
ButtonFacade
Gatherer
Kharthu's Hunter Timers
Koordinator
Omen 3
OmniCC
Recount
Scrolling Combat Text
SexyMap
Slidebar
SunnArt
TomTom
Xperl

This is an old UI of mine that I ran with for quite a while. I have since swapped over to one of Roth's UIs because I didn't feel like keeping it up to date, although I may go back and remake it now.

Major visible addons are:

ArcHUD
rMinimap
Pitbull
Bongos2 (would be Dominos now if I remake it)
BigWigs
eePanels2
Omen
Chatter
FuBar
AtlasLootEnhanced
Ora2

There are also some other addons on my FuBar, but I can't remember their names off the top of my head.

The goal for my UI was to achieve something in which I had to move my eyes very little from the center of the screen. I feel I achieved that goal very well with this UI and managed to keep it simple with the option to get a lot of information quickly through using FuBar.

Can someone please help me. Is there a mod that displays the distance between youself and your target? I am looking to spec survival and pick up Sniper Training and want an easy way to see if I need to reposition for range.

cRange is the addon you want.

Edit: A simple and non-addon way to determine the 'sweet spot' is to put the skill Throw on one of your bars and position yourself so far away that it's red. Throw has a 30yrd max range. The addon cRange uses the same technique to determine the sweet spot -- but it might not be maintained eternally. (BTW you do need Bartender or similar for the 'out of range' button colouring).

RangeDisplay also works, see the link in the SV Hunter thread, first post.

A lot of people use Recount.

recount does all of the above, well worth downloading.


EDIT: Oops, someone already suggested it. mea culpa

I would like to draw attention to three key aspects of my otherwise sloppy and poorly slapped together UI.

The giant green waterdrop is provided by Power Auras. That particular icon reminds me when serpent sting is not up if I am in a raid. I have others set up for when Lock and Load proc's and other thing's I might otherwise miss and not utilize to the fullest without a giant pulsing reminder splashed across my screen.

Along the righthand side I have a cooldown bar provided by Forte_Cooldown, a part of the ForteXcorcist package. The yellow numbers above and to the left of the cooldown bar are an estimate of how long the targetted mob will live for, provided by TimeToDie. Knowing how long a mob will stay up for and how long until my cooldowns return goes a long way towards getting the most out of Readiness or any other cooldown.

One element I would like to include, which I have not found a solution for, is some sort of TimeToOom addon. Something that would monitor the rate at which my mana is being spent compared to the amount of mana I have remaining. I would kill to know whether or not I should stay in Viper 4 more seconds to have mana to last the rest of the fight, rather than drop out too early and be oom for the last 5 seconds of a fight. I also don't enjoy dropping out too late and having half a mana pool remaining at the end of an encounter. I'm sure a fair portion of the hunter community, myself included, has developed a sense for this kind of thing by now, but I would enjoy having something more accurate than my own loose estimates.

This idea has also been discussed over here. It's something I might write if I get the time; I could see it being very useful.

I would gladly use that... managing viper time currently amounts to eyeballing it on your last cycle and trying to end the fight with little to no mana. If your addon gave me timing data based on the way the fight had gone thus far, we could be far more accurate.