For my mage, I use Recount, Omen, and Healbot continued. Omen and Recount are pretty self explanatory, but some people might question Healbot as it is a much larger addon than Decursive, or others to that effect. The primary reason I use Healbot is that I have 2 other toons that I use to heal (Druid and Shaman), and it's easier just to use an addon twice than to get another addon like Decursive, and have to change all the settings for your different toons. The other reason is that it is very customizable.

I made a skin just for my mage, which is very compact and easy to use. Switching skins requires only clicking the dropdown menu in the skin tabs of the options. My layout looks a lot like the Decursive layout. Each player has a small square, limited by the minimum width available. I also chose the option to show pets, as sometimes pets receive curse of mending in OS. These squares are in five columns, so a 25man raid will be a 5x5 square (plus pets in the next row/ rows). I chose the class colors option, so I can see more readily identify each player. In my opinion, the best feature is that you can have it show a mana bar, so you can see when your healer is running out of mana and shield yourself accordingly. By default, it shows health in the main bar, which can be very useful for watching the health in your raid without the built in raid health bar option. Depending on your skin, the health bar might be hard to read, but you can always adjust it.

I have it set up to remove curse on the target when I left click, and select them when I right click. Only the debuffs that you can dispell show up on Healbot, which is convenient so you don't have to waste time trying to identify the debuff if the symbol is confusing. If you mouse over a player's square, it will tell you information such as current and total health, mana, rage, energy, and runic power. It monitors buffs, such as Arcane Int/ Brilliance, Molten Armor, and Focus magic. If a player needs a buff, their square will turn white, when you are out of combat (or in combat, if you choose that option). I don't use Dampen Magic or Amplify Magic much, but when I do use them, I put them into Healbot also. My only problem is that I haven't been able to get Healbot to differentiate between ranged, nonranged, custom, etc players. Those are all options for monitoring buffs, but I cannot seem to customize this.

All in all, Healbot makes a great mage addon, despite its name, and I recommend it for any mage who is in charge of buffing and removing curses in the raid/ party.

I received a private message asking if you can configure Healbot to play a sound when raid members receive a curse debuff. The answer is yes. You can choose to play a sound or not, and there are also a few different built in sounds. It also displays a message on screen similar to DBM.

I also forgot to mention some other useful benefits. You can have the window disappear when no buffs are required and no debuffs are active. By default, Healbot does a range check on your spells. The spells can also be adjusted to target or assist raid members (good for assisting tank). It also has been updated for dual spec, so you can have different settings for different specs.

Back to the Living Bomb discussion, if you have Scorchio2 set up for it, it will track LB on all targets. I also made a dinky little macro to apply LB.

/targetenemy
/cast Living Bomb

It basically tab-targets mobs and slaps an LB on them (it usually picks the un-LB'ed target), and as long as you wait for the GCD to finish (you CANNOT spam this button and be effective), it works flawlessly. You generally have to face the mobs you want to apply this to, but it works very well.

!Swatter, Ace2, AG Unit Frames, Aloft, BaudBag, Chatter, ClassTimer, CooldownTimers3, Cryolysis3, DBM, Drathal's HUD, Dominos, Fontain, Fubar, Mapster, Mik's Scrolling Battle Text, OmniCC, Quartz, Satrina Buff Frame, Scorchio2, Sexy Map, Tip Tac, WoW Instant Messenger

The orbs and top frame are adapted from Roth UI (Diablo3Orbs, Diablo3HealthFrame, rFader, rTextures, rBottomBarStyler), I take no credit for them.

I noticed that either curse is broken or that ghost pulse was removed from curse. But I found it on wowinterface here is a link if you are interested.

Ghost Pulse 3

Look into reflux. A lot of UI compilation authors use it to easily set up their packages. Should work well for what you want.

Pitbull, ChinchillaMap, SBF, Scorchio2, Quartz, Omen, DBM, Recount, KGPanels, TipTac, SL Data Text, OmniCC, Prat, Bagnon.

Inspired by tukui and other UIs from this thread.

Considering people have been asking me about my UI I would like to point out that due to this thread I've changed my UI quite a bit since I last posted. One of the main reasons is because I started playing around with a Holy Priest for an alt and I wanted a centralized Raid frame.



Due to the way Pitbull handles raid frames I like how you can force certain designs for the size of the raid, so I have mine centered even in a 40-man raid/BG. This is one of the main drawbacks I have with Grid so it's also the reason I took that off my UI. With Pitbull starting to allow users to use LUA for front end usage this is very useful for customization of my UI (planning on adding Grid's debuff module to my Raid Frame).

Also I'm basing most of my UI on Mirr0r's UI with some tweaks on my side.

Idle in Raid (with target casting bar):


Raid Combat (ignore bigwigs spam, they broke something again):


Pictured: AzCastBar, BasicMinimap, BigWigs, Chatter, Dominos, Forte_Cooldown, Grid, kgPanels, MSBT, OmniCC, PitBull, rActionButtonStyler, Scorchio2, SimpleBuffBars, Skada, StatBlockCore, TipTac

Not Pictured: ActionBarSaver, cargBargs, Clique, ErrorMonster, Mapster, OPie, Postal, RatingBuster, TB_AltTrader, teksLoot

I'm looking for some type of function/Addon that will change the colour of my manabar at various fixed levels. For instance:

Full mana - 3500 ---> change manabar from blue to green (use mana gem)
40% full mana ---> change manabar yellow to yellow (cast evocation)

I think this would be a useful visual tool that would aid in quick decision making as to when to top up, in particular for arcane mages where mana mangement is so important.

I use Pitbull4 and I suppose some kind of dogtag text might do the job, but I have no idea how.

By the way, I do realise that immediate use of evocation isn't these days always considered to be best practice. Immediate use of mamgem must still remain best practice however.

I recently changed it to that^.

I use Bartender, IceHUD, Sexy Maps, SBF, Button Facade, OmniCC, Quartz, Xperl, Digits, Nice Damage, SCT and Prat.