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You can set Xperl to display raid mana, but it looks like crap. I just got Grid recently and I like it very much.

Crap indeed. heh. I got Grid installed and now I just have to figure out how to set it up with clique for decursing! So much cleaner than the XPerl raid.

I would recommend making a mouse-over decurse macro with grid. Makes it much easier then having to click each individuals name. I don't use clique so maybe its easier with that.

Ive been polishing my interface for a good while now. This is its latest interpretation. enjoy.

Most Notable Addons
XPerl: Unit and Raid frames
Quartz: Cast bar
Kgpanels: For the custom backdrop (by request I made my background panels available: Sylgians Kgpanels)
Prat: Chat
Dominos: Action Bars
FuBar: Information bar at bottom
Debuff Filter: Buff/Debuff/Proc tracking (icons atop my casting bar) love this one. no need for scorchio.
Omen: Threat Meter
Recount: Meters and more meters
Sexymap: Minimap
Buttonfacade: Button dresser upper
SCT: Combat text
Decursive: for...decursing
Baggins: Inventory organizing
Big Wigs: For all them helpful raid warnings

There is a long list of minor ones...

UPDATE
Per requests I have made my UI downloadable: Sylgian UI.zip
there have been a few minor updates as well, mainly the addition of grid and a all over font swap.

Please note: These are the files right outa my WoW folder, I am a interface upload virgin. I may not be able to help you if things don't work. I am a terrible tutor.

Oh! please copy paste this line of text to set up recount (I forgot to include this in the instructions):
/recount profile choose sylgian - deathwing

ERROR !

I have made an attempt to reconstruct Stygians background:

ImageShack - Image Hosting :: ui2xmm.jpg

List of Addons

ArkInventory

AtlasLoot

Auctioneer

BigWigs

Cooldowns

Cryolysis 3

Decursive

Dominos

ElkBuffBars

FuBar

FuBar PerformanceFu

FuBar RecountFu

FuBar TinyTipFu

FuBar XPerlFu

Omen

Pitbull

Prat 3.0

Quartz

Recount

Scorchio

Scrolling Combat Text

Scrolling Combat Text Damage

Simple Minimap

Talented

TinyTip

My background is a series of 4 panels. They are using some simple custom textures I made for myself and imported as targa (.tga) images through kgpanels. I am a graphics guy by trade so unless you are fairly handy in photoshop this might be a bit hard to pull off for some.

If you are going to do this for yourself there are a few tips I would give
1.Remeber to save your .tga with an alpha channel or you will not get any transparency.
2. Remeber that WoW will only see images saves in powers of 2 (256px by 512px is what I used for example).

This 2 part video can probably explain the importing process better than I could. It does not however explain the panel creation.
YouTube - World of Warcraft Mod Review & Tutorial: KGPanels - Importing Custom Panels (Part 1)

If there is interest I will try and get at least my panels up for download.

GL and happy modding.

Hi Sylgian. It would be nice if you could upload your panels somewhere. I've been working with kg for a few days now and yours are one of the nicest I've seen.

Here are the 4 .tga's that make up my backdrop for those of you that are interested:
Sylgians Kgpanels Textures

Just drop the folder into your addons folder and use the following file path for the 4 panels when importing via kgpanels (changing the number 1-4 on the end of course)

\\Interface\\Addons\\Textures\\Panel 1.tga

Sorry for the ad's ...the hosting was free.

Is there an advantage to using Elkanos Buffbars? I notice you use Scorchio2, which can also track HS, etc. Could you drop Buffbars and just use Scorchio2 to save memory?

Personally I use a combination of Scorchio2 and PowerAuras and I'm not sure there is an ideal set of "buff" mods. But since this is the thread to discuss such minutia, I figured I'd ask.

Reposted Due to issues the images from last post !





Most Notable Addons

EePanel2 - All the Ice Graphics

Pitbull - All the unit frames

Quartz - Casting bars

Bartender - All the Buttons

FuBar3.5 - in the middle under WotLK

BetterEXP - EXP Bar

TipTac - Tool Tips

TBag - Bag Mod

TrinketMenu - Manage trinkets

SimpleMinimap - Mini map

DetachedMiniButtons - Mini map buttons

Recount - Damage Meter

Omen3 - Threat

ChatMOD - Chat mod

NeonChat 2.01 - Chat mod

XLoot - Loot window

Guess I'll chime in here. I overhaul my UI every couple months, but this is what I'm running with now. Focus frame goes to the left of my player frame.



Visible stuff is: Pitbull4, Quartz, SexyMap, EBB, Bartender4, Skada, Scorchio2, SLDataText, StatBlockCore, MSBT, kgPanels, Chatter, Grid, and BigWigs.

Looking over a lot of UIs here, I have a few comments. First, if you're using Arcanum or Cryolysis (or whatever the mage mods are these days), try OPie. You get all of the same functionality (likely gain some) and don't lose any screen real estate in the process. It's really a large improvement.

Second, I highly recommend Skada in place of Recount. Skada isn't quite as feature-rich as Recount, but it's much faster and massively lighter in terms of memory usage. I made the switch right after Ulduar was released and I'll never go back to Recount.

Third (thanks to Kyth for this one), in my guild the mages do a large amount of respeccing for Ulduar. In any given week, I run two versions of Fire/TTW, FFB, Arcane, and two versions of Frost. I started using ActionBarSaver which pretty much keeps me sane when flipping between specs and swapping macros and such. It's a godsend.

Jarlyn: What is the 38% on your player unitframe?

A general recommendation for people who use DogTags in Pittbull (or anywhere really):
[IsPlayer ? Class] instead of simply [Class]
It pains me every time I see somebody displaying the 'Class' for an NPC

Threat percentage. With the 3.0 changes to build threat values into the base UI, I haven't seen the need to run Omen anymore. Just a dogtag in Pitbull works for me.

The added benefit of this is that if you use /target macros for various fights, it will restore them. Same thing with fire ward/frost ward (which I have on the same hotkey since I'm used to my warlock who only had shadow ward.) And having your wand available for Vezax.

I ended up creating abs profiles for all the hardmodes and just do "/abs restore mimiron", for example, each time we engage a new boss.

For those who like the idea but don't use Pitbull or want something more movable, I use MyThreat

Those looking for a proc monitor should check out event alert. Pops a medium (movable) icon on your screen when your procced ability is up.

Also, Jarlyn I was wondering if you could post up your addons and wtf for d/l. I run a similar UI (that ill post when i get home) but really like certain aspects of yours. I'd like to do a bit of meshing if possible =).

Sorry for not posting a SS as required (I don't have a SS available atm). My UI is spanned on two monitors and I'm using Aperture as a viewport addon to narrow the rendered area to my left screen. Right screen can have various secondary information shown but SS of it wouldn't be pretty.

I usually browse this website as I've found the hihglighted addons suit my tastes.

Couple of addons I'm using that aren't mentioned here:
- Macaroon and MacaroonXtras for action bars and keybinds
- IHML for changing one macro based on context
- Shadowed Unit Frames (SuF) (switched from X-perl recently)
- LootPlan for getting an added tooltip hint when something of interest drops (after keybinding item-adding it's easy to browse through content drops via AtlasLoot Enhanced and add the interesting ones to LootPlan lists)

Other addons I use and would recommend that have been mentioned in this thread are EventAlert, MSBT, Skada and ACP. ACP is really good when switching addons on the fly (with reload UI). Skada can show threat values as well so there's no mandatory requirement for Omen anymore. MSBT is in my opinion the best of the Scrolling Combat text variants.

I have to mention this also - with the recent switch to SuF my framerates went up very dramatically. I'm not addressing this to Unit frame change only as I tweaked other settings at the same time. Most of the tweaks can be found in this thread: WoW Performance Issues/Tweaks, Etc

Mileages may vary but I got 30-40 fps increase with couple of tweaks, namely:
- switched AffinityMask to 14, was 15 previously (running Q6600 processor)
- added the gxFixLag Cvar with value "0" (as recommended for Nvidia gfx users here: WoW Performance Issues/Tweaks, Etc )
- changed texture Cache size from default (32 MB) to 512 MB (one of the latest tips and a new setting added last patch)
- previously mentioned UF change

Sorry for derailing but I thought someone was bound to ask what I did if I came here claiming huge fps increases

Thanks Redberad for your post.

By the way, when you talk about:


Pleases, could you tell me how do you change that Texture cache size?

Thanks in advance

EDIT:

I found the command in the forums that you posted.

Thank you anyway

This isn't specifically mage related... but are any of these addons good for tracking the pyrite dot on FL?

I've found that Classtimer tracked the pyrite dot without me doing anything special to configure it. I use it to track my living bomb and scorch.