I used to use decursive in classic back when it was a one button wonder; but lately, I haven't encountered a boss which requires me to furiously mash my decurse key repeatedly or risk wiping (a la Lucifron.) The closest thing is maybe Noth/Sapphiron/Yogg, but those bosses only shoot out a couple of curses such that a healer or two who has a pulse could take care of them.

As a mage, the advantage I see to decursive over using a grid/clique (I don't clique but I prefer mouseover decurse macros - same thing) is that you can set up a priority decurse system if ever there were a fight where certain people need to be decursed over others. The only fight I can possibly see that happening is Yogg with people taking portals, and that is easily dealt with for us by sending in a feral druid. Another situation that comes to mind is those stupid Naxx spiders with the healing debuff and tanks, but that's yesterday's news.

Will edit this post with an updated screenshot once I get back to my PC, but here's a quick summary of addons I find myself having trouble living without (mage specific).

• NeedToKnow
• Parrot (big sticky HOT STREAK! text with a sound) and Power Auras (double tear drop red fireball on top of my character) - Track Hot Streak procs. I use the latter as a way to track a few other things as well: mana < 75% (mana gem), mana < 40% (evocation), missile barrage, and any boss-related debuffs of important (giant + or - on Thaddius, skull on my character for Mark of the Faceless on General).
• Geist - Easy access to uncommonly used spells. All my teleports and portals are in here, as well as profession links and the like.
• X-Perl - With mouse hover macros for decursing.
• Bartender4 - Other than Frostfire Bolt (for range checks), all keybound spells are hidden to maximize screen estate.
• CooldownTimers2 - Set to only track important cooldowns (Icy Veins, Fire Blast, Berserking, Mana Gem, [Scale of Fates], etc.)
• Addon Control Panel - Easily switch between my "General" set of addons and my streamlined "Raiding" set of addons with a ReloadUI
• MyThreat - Instead of Omen

Scorchio2 seems to bug out on me on fights like Hodir and Thorim where I'm switching targets a lot, it misses HS procs and LBs. For LBs and cooldowns I use DoTimer. For procs I use Elk'sBuffbars or SatrniaBuffFrame, depending on how I want my buffs to look. I've relied on EBB for multiple things and classes since pre-sunwell, it's reliable and stable. I've never had a single problem with it. Satrina is new for me and takes more time to configure, but it's more flexible than EBB so until it gives me a reason to switch back I'm using it. The only problem with DoTimer is that it'll only watch scorch if you're the first person to put it up, but since my guild's raids are full of Mages, and our Locks don't mind spec'ing for Imp.SB, it's not really an issue.

I've been using Decursive since pre-BC. I like to set it up so it's 100% transparent unless there's something to decurse. Recently though, in an effort to tighten up my UI, I've tried to move away from it to Grid+Clique. I'm having trouble recognizing when there's something to decurse. I guess I'm just too used to having that Audio and Opacity queue. Is there any way, or any modules for Grid that can change it's normal opacity, or give it a sound when a unit is afflicted with something? I'm no stranger to Grid's config menu, and am pretty sure that it'd take some lua to get what I'm looking for. But if I've missed something, or if there's a Grid-mod that's out there and does what I need then I figure it's worth asking.

Not sure if that question fits into this thread's Rules or if it should go to the "UI Help Center" thread, but I'm putting it here.

I'll take a SS of my UI and add it here after the raid tomorrow night. It's nothing flashy, just functional, looks like 98% of all the other UI's people post.

As for a list of the more prominent parts of my UI:

-EBB or Satrina for buffbars and procs
-DoTimer for DoTs , CDs, and sometimes a buffbar
-Grid for the raid frame
-Stuf for unit frames
-Opie for random buttons like mounts, mage table, AI, AB, slowfall, hearthstone, portals, shields, etc... bound to various mouse buttons. It is essentially a customizable "Crysis menu" for wow.
-Omen for threat
-Dominos for actionbars

My little thought on addons.

You might think I'm weird, but I use no mods that screws with my bars, and I try to limit my number of addons.

Having played this game for a few years, and using ALOT of addons, I've decided to only use the ones i really need and scrap everything else. The reason being that every time I decide to take a break from WoW or a new patch arrives, I don't want to spend 2 hours setting up my bars and addons before I'm able to play.
Or getting dependant on an addon that the developer stops updating or is simply slow to update after a patch. (I don't want to get errors for 3 days untill an addon is fixed etc)

Another issue is being able to play at a friends house without any problems.


Even though I've hotkeyed everything important, I still use the standard blizzard UI for bars and most things.

Only mods I really couldn't live without would be Omen and NeedToKnow, but they are easy enough to install and usually work just as well after patch.

Lately I've been starting to use more addons again, but I still try to limit myself and for every addon I install I think "Would I become too dependant on this" and "would it screw over my play if I suddenly lost it?"

Of course some addons are simply nice to have, but are mostly to display information and doesnt change my playstyle or UI too much.

I just wanted to share this and maybe someones has some similar experiences and opinions. (maybe your favourite UI addon you relied on 100% suddenly stopped working one day etc)

One worth mentioning is iceHUD, having your hp and mana clearly visible can be very useful especially on fights like Hodir.

UnderHood can also be configured as a HUD (although I have it masquerading as normal unit frames) and is hands-down the most configurable set of unit frames out there. (if you're into that: it definitely takes fiddling, but I adore it.)

Neat thing about IceHud is you can configure extra bars for pretty much whatever you want. I was having a hard time noticing if Hot Streak had expired with Scorchio2 and Mlk(probably due to me not being able to adjust them properly, not the mods fault), so i created two small mirrored bars that circle my character, and only light up when Hot Streak has proc'd.

If you use scorchio2, make sure to get at least v1, which isnt available on wowmatrix. It goes from totally unusable to almost working perfectly.

I'm gonna hafta second this. Opie is incredible as a mage for all the reasons stated. Ports, armors, buffs, professions, whatever. It really appeals to those who want to have a minimalistic UI as possible, as the rings obviously are hidden unless the keybind is pressed.

I used to use wowmatrix but lately the updates have been slow and I've had to go to the curse/wowinterface website to get the updated mods. If you have been using wowmatrix, you might want to check some of your mods manually, especially oft-updated mods like DBM/Bigwigs. I still like keeping it around because I can uninstall mods and their associated data files in the WTF folder with a single click, but I no longer rely on it to get new mods/keep my mods up to date.

I personally use IceHUD, but from my experience looking at other people's UIs, HUD interfaces are largely a matter of personal preference regardless of class. Feel free to disagree - I'm trying to keep the first post mage specific, so I'm going to hold off on listing it for now. Maybe in the future I'll write a short guide to what I think are important elements of a Mage UI and include some possible choices there.

Which UI is best for tracking 4pc T8 effect?