Cyntil

Pitbull is probably the most memory efficient addon for unit frames. Last time i checked (which was awhile ago) AG_unitframes was pretty much defunct. Many first time users dislike pitbull simply because it is SO customizable, and it can be pretty intimidating; however you can copy pre-made layouts directly into your game. You simply find someone who has posted their profile from pitbull and copy it into yours and BAM! you have their unit frams (provided you have the same res and such, otherwise you have to drag it around and probably resize it for your screen). Once you can wrap your head around the customization Pitbull is well worth the effort and will provide you with all your unit frame needs.


- UI post soon prob.

 

Sirupsen

My UI! Here's the addons, followed by a small description! I indented those which are "important" for mages.

aMinimap
A minimap, obviously! It can be downloaded from ALZA's UI.

LynStats
The stuff showing the clock on the minimap! When I mouseover it, it shows me current FPS and all addons activated, and the memory those addons consume. Ripped, and modified from ALZA's UI. Original LYN stats.

Skada
My damage meter, it's lightweight - and cool to configure. It matched my UI perfect!

EventHorizon
What I use for my rotations, living bomb uptime, etc. It's lightweight, easy to use, makes WoW Guitar Hero like!

aChat
ALZA once used this and uploaded it to me, I can't remember if it was public at any time though. I edited a bit to fit my needs, mmh.. yeah!

Dominos
Well, I should use rActionBarStyler.. but.. this "lightweight" high configureable bar mod have kept me with it, I wonder if I'll ever change. I should.

oUF_Alza
My oUF layout, ripped directly from ALZA's UI! This is also what's showing the buffs at the top right. And the raid frames, at the bottom-right.

sFilter
Also this came with ALZA's UI, I configured it for my needs. It shows a big bad icon when Hot Streak procs. I tend to miss the line on Eventhorizon when it procced, so I decided to move to something a bit more.. showing! Which should not be PowerAuras.

BigWigs
Yeah, bossmods.

sThreatMeter
Lightweight threat meter, o' it's so great. And so customizeable. It's the stuff shown under the target of target frame. (Between player and target frame)

aTooltip
For.. tooltip! From ALZA's UI.

Decursive
It's invisible when noone is afflicted, when someone get's a curse he's mini frame appears in the middle of the screen, and I can quickly decurse this person. This is what works the best for me!

It works really good for me, because it's simple - it's lightweight - and it takes a minimum of the screen, this is what for me is a good UI! I do not require big art or anything.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n/userbar3.gif

 

Chickonfire

Some highlights:

AG_Unitframes
After having used XPerl and PitBull, I've found this closest to my liking. It's lightweight and has the functions I want.

MSBT
I have my incoming damage- and heals set to the left. Had my outgoing damage set to the right at first, but missed the default Blizzard numbers above the target's head(s).

Scorchio2
My preferred Scorch/LB/HS/MI and even Shadow Mastery tracker. Not much explanation needed.

ControlFreak
A small addon that basically let's me put a /focus on a target for sheeping, keeps up a timer and tells me (with a sound) when it has broken.

Elkano's BuffBars
A buff tracker. I like to see the duration in a bar-form. Quite handy for Icy Veins and Bloodlust.

 

jnatkins

Addons Used:
XPerl Unit Frames - 3D display of Portraits
Bartender4 - Move and resize action bars
Quartz - Casting Bar
Omen Threat Meter - Observe Threat status of group members
Recount - Damage, Healing and many other stats tracker
Tipsy - Allows for movement of tooltip
BasicMinimap - Move, and restyle minimap
Decursive - Easily remove curses from group members
Deadly Boss Mods - Raid encounter announcements
Mage Fever - Visually display procs such as MBarr, Clearcasting, Hotstreak, TotW, BrainFreeze, Fingers of Frost, Firestarter, Living Bomb and Fiery payback
Minimap Button Frame - move all minimap buttons to a box
Skinner - Add background (ie black bars) gives a cinema effect
Spellcraft - The author has discontinued work on this addon and removed all traces of it in protest of Blizzard's new UI Addon Development Policy. This addon did many things.. Convenient portals/hearth... sell junk to vendor.. restock reagents... stip on invis in battle... auto rez in BGs... poly announcing... switch gear during non combat evocates... PM me and maybe I can email it to you...

Thinking about swapping XPerl for PitBull/Grid and adding viewport. Its a work in progress and I'm never satisfied...

 

Hotan

Chickonfire: I'd suggest using the Elkano's BuffBars option to filter certain buffs. In all likelihood you don't care at all to see Horn of the Winter, Unleashed Rage, Improved Icy Talons, etc.

 

Shakaros

I am using a modified version of Caith UI, where I have added a lot of addons to be able to raid effectively.
However when it comes to target selection theres one feature I havent been able to find.

So I'd like to ask if anyone can recommend an addon that shows the nameplates of mobs, in order to be able to see their health without targeting them. I would like the nameplates to be permanent and visible from a long distance.
I have found an addon called Aloft, but it bugs my UI out and sends lots of LUA errors, so I dont think thats an option.
Thanks in advance

 

pikapewpew

I forgot to say, i track ttw only for bosses. Most of the debuff you track can't be applied to bosses, so they won't work. Only slow could be usefull since it can be applied even if the debuff does nothing. Anyway, i can't seem to find any incorrect syntax in your dogtag, sorry I can't help you.

Resplenish isn't usefull, but i'm too lazy to edit it correctly. :p

 

LukeDx

got a screen while doing AV, been looking on the forums for ages now never posted, but i love my ui so here it is.



Addons you can see:

Xpearl - Unit Frames.
Grid - Raid bars
Buffalo - Buff mod
Omen - Threat Meter
Recount - Dps/Dmg/Hps
KgPanels - Black Panels at Bottom
Bartender4 - Action bars
DHUD3.0 - Hp/Mana Around my char.
MikScrollingBattleText - Combat Text very cool.
Scorchio2 - Buffs/ Debuff bars.
Titan Panel - Acc/char info
Tipsy - Tooltip mover
Pra3.0 - Chat window
ButtonFacade Trinity - Button skins
SimpleMiniMap - Minimap
MiniMapButtonframe - Moves Addon into bars.
DeadlyBossMod - Raid Warning

Lots you cant see the normal plus some cool ones like peggle

 

Docjowles

Aloft is pretty much the only game in town for nameplate mods. But unless I've just been using it for too long, you can hit "V" in game and get some very basic nameplates with HP. Ctrl-V for friendly nameplates. No mod required.

I don't get LUA errors with Aloft, but it does break a few things like Flash'n'shake in BigWigs.

 

Cyntil

pitbull
grid
nacb! CDtimes broke on me
dominos
simpleminimap
quartz
elks-foreverything, including Hotstreak procs
scorchio2
grid
recount
fubar
clearfont2
skinner
and i use Parrot as my sct

(ignore the raid haha one light in the darkness wipes due to dc-s and such shhh)

 

Xinhuan

Please consider adding my addon WoWEquip to the list. It is an addon designed to help theorycraft sets of gear and compare how different combinations of gear add up in total stats. This is useful for gear planning, comparing against other players, creating dream gear sets, and exchanging them with other players.



WoW AddOns - WoWEquip - WowAce.com
WoWEquip - Addons - Curse
WoWEquip : WoWInterface Downloads : Ace: Interface Enhancements

 

Cyntil

So its like rawr without all the options and customization?

 

delaydackel

In very basic terms, yes. WoWEquip lacks all the talent and dps calculations tho. Nevertheless its VERY useful for equipment checks when running pickup raids.

Back on Topic:



Bartender4
BuffEnough
Cooldown Timers
DBM
FuBar
Grid
Recount
Omen 3
PowerAuras
Prat
Quartz
Scorchio 2
Tipsy
Xperl

I tried to get as may of them visible on the screen as possible, but i guess for a live-in-action-impression YouTube - Motoka vs. Patchwerk should do better.

 

Unleash

This is my UI solo atm. I'll try get one up later in a 25man if people seem to care. Most of my UI doenst even appear till I join a raid so its pretty basic from first view.

Solo:


Raid:


Addons:

 

Zerstorung

I'm noticing that most people here have their personal and target unit frames displayed at the bottom of the screen. Is there a particular benefit to that (other than freeing up some view space)? I tried it at one point but couldn't get used to it, I never really look down that low.

 

Unleash

Its a lot more convenient to have everything centralized on your screen and takes less time to view so your reaction times are faster. Looking up, I feel is a bit slower, and in a lot of cases it doenst matter. PVP, and few times in raids you will notice it helps. Helped me a lot back in sunwell on conflags, and things like shadow crashes and marks on vezax and such where you need to have instant reaction times. I feel if your looking to be the best there is in this game that is something that will help you get there.

Arcanum is an addon that centralizes a lot of things for mages. Like buffs, portals, mana gems, mount/dismount. I personally dont like the addon, and I think its quite out of date and buggy (i havent heard of it lately). It also takes up some space on your UI that gets in the way of things.

 

ash2ash

<disclaimer>PVE raiding perpective</disclaimer>:

To be perfectly honest I don't think unit frames are that useful to a mage other than to be able to see at a glance what the mob's health is. As long as your target/player frames are not miniscule in size you shouldn't have to shift your eyes to get a picture of the situation even if you have your frames close to the bottom of the screen (and most of the UIs I see have pretty big player/target frames.)

It helps to know your current health too just so you know when to pull off a clutch iceblock/fireward but in my experience I only need to do so when I fail at situational awareness. Your mana bar might be something you have to keep track of closely if you're arcane but it is less of an issue with fireball/frostfire specs.

I know personally, that I'm much more worried about a) checking my debuffs b) seeing if I'm standing in any fires or am about to be standing in a fire c) current threat % against target and d) maintaining my rotation - all which I have right in the center of my screen or close to it.

Ghostcrawler - "I'm the asshole that nerfed your class" - Blizzcon 2009

 

Zerstorung

Since patch 3.1 with dual specs and the Blizz UI remembering bindings and such, I have gotten used to the stock Blizz bars once again. I'd like to try some of these UIs though. How do the bar mods handle dual spec and alternate key binding sets?

 

Watlok

They handle them just fine. I use bartender4 personally.

 

Obliza

I disagree completely, Halo 3 had it right by having the health bar in the top middle of the screen. I have tested having my unit frames in all four corners , bottom middle and top middle over the years and I have found that top middle is the way to go.

It simply means your focus is on the dead center of the screen which seems to be a very good thing because of void zones, rune circles and the likes. The idea behind my UI is to have your focus on the middle of a clear screen where you only see your environment, this is where your attention should be. With your health, mana, raid(healing), damage meters active buffs and cooldowns surrounding you on the edges of the screen.

When having everything at the bottom I find your focus tends to be a lot lower down then your focus would be by having information split.
Also having information at only the top and bottom seems to be more ideal then having information on the sides, I am still experimenting to see which is superior.

The only thing that is on the actual screen it self is the things that are 'active'
Buffs like livingbomb/arcaneblast, damage (miks scrolling), deadly bossmods messages.
Which makes sense as they are meant to disturb you.
For example when Stormcaller Brundir casts Overload a message disturbs your otherwise peaceful screen.


UI to come.

 

Zerstorung

That is similar to what happened with me, Obliza. I felt that having ALL of my information at the bottom was causing a little too much tunnel vision. Too much information in one place.

I like to have my UI set up similar to a cars dash board, where a simple glance at an area will tell you the information you need. Of course, when driving a car you have the benefit of feel and sound, so when playing a game you need a few extra dashboards here and there.

 

Lusty

Since it wasn't mentioned so far, I'd like to show you, and tell you about Satrinas Buff Frames.

This is my UI while OOC in a raid setting. The big line of buffs to the left of my minimap is SBF. OOC SBF isn't all that impressive.



Grid for raid frame, Clique is also used in conjunction.
X-perl for Player and target frames, as well as focus and target of target
ORA2 for Tank List
Dominos for Bar/Buttons
Prat for Chat window
OmniCC for Cooldowns
Quartz for cast bar only.
Sexymap round out the visible ones.

Here is where Satrinas Buff Fames really shines.



You see I have Scorch and Living Bomb tracking on thier own buttons. Actually they are bars of 1 buff.
Scorch tracking does the buff on the target cast by anyone.
Living Bomb is only tracking my casts and is counting down that spell.
The red bar there is actually a Hot Streak Proc, that I track using a bar with an icon that counts down as the buff expires.
My WWS was always plagued with missed hot streak procs and slack LB uptime, until I got SBF. It's just awesome.
Just recently started tracking Dragonsoul and Broodmother stacks so I could keep those up while dodging clouds on Yogg.

There is a lot of hidden elements to my UI. Stuff I don't need to see, unless I mouse over the bars.
Here's what it looks like with everything unhidden. There's 4 full action bars in the bottom left corner of the screen, 2 more 4x3 button boxes under the minimap, a 2x6 button row that I unhide while doing dailies, as those have the quest clickables on them.

 

Weezifbaby

I've always like Proculas for keeping track of my Procs (i.e. Hot Streak). Gives a customizable sound cue when something procs. I use it in conjunction with class timers so I know if the proc is still there due to 4p T8.

 

epoh

Here's a slightly old SS (latest one I have on flickr):



Addons:

XPerl
Bartender
IceHUD
SBF (love this addon)
Aperture
Lunarsphere (handy for all the various buffs we have, ports, food, etc)
Decursive
Omen (minimized)
MSBT

And about 50 others, but those are the important ones. I've found you don't need Scorchio and all those other buff watch addons if you just setup SBF to watch everything.

I am very interested in setting up Grid. I don't like how much space the raid units take up, nor can I see ppl's mana right now.

 

Lokicat

Had to post my girlie UI.

Here is a list of mods.




Oh and wanted to show my hotstreak procc.