Speaking of audio alerts, I am a big fan of Hear Kitty - Addons - Curse, an audio combo point indicator. I originally installed it as a curiosity and was amazed at how quickly and completely I had come to rely on it, despite also having a conventional CP display, when it temporarily stopped working in a patch. I know a lot of people play with the game sounds off but if you generally feel game sound is helpful, it may be something to check out.

Personally I feel sound cues are very intuitive to react to and it also helps that I can rely on some sense besides vision in some gameplay aspect, since there are already so many different visual cues to watch in a typical boss fight.

The following Addon might add some similar utility like EventHorizon only for Spell/Trinket cooldowns and when they will be ready:

CoolLine : WoWInterface Downloads : Casting Bars and Cooldowns

As all the Information you need is in one single place, this might add some utility and enable you to conetrate more on the environment...

One thing that I'd like to mention that I didn't notice covered already is the use of focus targets.

Personally, I have my pitbull focus target setup with the most prominent feature being the cast bar, so I can set focus to a mob that I won't always be targeting but still track their casting, health, buffs, etc.

I'm in agreement here. I've seen a lot of talk about what specific mods are useful, and I've tried out a lot of different buff mods and unit frame mods and such. In the end, all I really use is NeedToKnow and RogueFocus. I find both to be indispensable while raiding. One to track my energy regen and combat points, and it has a nifty little enemy HP thing on it. And the other to simply track my HFB, DP, Rupture, SnD and Expose Armor(when I need to use it).

Here's a link to the UI, it's pretty simple.

Fenriz UI in Combat

Disclaimer: I have not tried other HUDs, others may have the same (or better) functionality.

IceHUD can be configured to contain most of the information you need to know as a Mutilate rogue:
* Slice & Dice uptime
* HfB uptime
* player/target/focus health/mana/energy
* target/focus debuffs (though I find ElkBuffBars is more useful)

I do not believe it tracks Deadly Poison or Rupture ticks, though it can track debuffs in general.

The use of a HUD is likely based on whether or not you find it overly distracting or takes away from your immersion. I don't find this to be a problem personally. Is there a general feeling for or against HUDs? Clearly, it's another addon, so it can affect your memory usage, but is the presentation detrimental compared to simply using the unit frames?

I been playing with UI mods since TBC started, I was a big fan of pitbull until WOTLK came, when i watched a friend use Xperl.

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/r...coop/uinew.jpg

Elkbuffbars is great for tracking your own buffs, being able to create MORE bars allowing you seperate + filter the buffs you want to view. Whitelisting/blacklisting, allows me to only show certain buffs, in certain bars, so above my portrait, i only show SND/HFB/trinketbuffs/etc. but along the right hand side, i show raidbuffs/debuffs/etc etc.

Xperl also has a great DoT/debuff timer built in. You could track your own buffs with it aswell, above your portrait, but it wouldnt be advisable since i dont think you can filter what you want and dont want to show.

ErrorMessageRedirect is usefull, easily removes the ''NOT ENOUGH ENERGY'' or '' THAT ABILITY ISNT READY YET'' messages, that really clutter up the screen. But giving you the option to put them into Combat Log so you can still access them if you wanted to see an error.

Bartender4 ofcourse, goes without saying really. One feature i do like tho, is the ability to fade out bars, for example, on my ui, along the right hand edge, i have essentially my Utility buttons, poison macro's, trade skills, Micro menu etc etc. all i do is hover the mouse over the bar and they become visible.

Just a note that you can track debuffs on your target with Elk Buff Bars, which benefits from the massive filtering options offered by the addon. It removes the need for another debuff monitor. The fact that mutliple EBB groups can stick to each other also makes for easy UI design.

Which brings me to something I haven't seen mentionned yet for rogue timers: tracking specific debuffs on a mob or enemy player that matter to you specifically. Such as Disarm or another rogue's Dismantle for example. So that you know it's already up and you don't overwrite it with yours and blow your CD. Or filter for Mangle so you know it's up... etc.

For 3.1, I am considering adding a group to EBB that will show the various bleeds in the game when they are applied to my target, by anyone. This because of HfB of course, on the off chance that I do not have a bleed up on my target or if I switch targets and have to find out at a glance if there's already a bleed up on that target, saving me the trouble of applying one first for HfB.

If this is of interest to anyone, I could compile a list of bleeds, including SpellIDs if you want to add them to your add-ons like NeedToKnow or whatever else you use for debuff monitoring.

Hi all 1st time poster....long time reader.

Anyway, I thought I'd post another UI option, the PowerAuras addon is very nice and can unclutter that screen big time. I had NECB and Rogue timers before but I realized that once my procs are going, dots, timer etc I had too many bars to really follow what was actually up. I'd have to search to find the SnD bar in a stack of bars etc. Now with PowerAuras I simply have graphics placed surrounding my character (i.e. 1 place to look). I have timers right on SnD and rupture graphics, then just symbols/graphics for important procs that I want to track. I find now I can pretty much pay attention to all my important buffs/debuffs without ever taking my eye off my character or having to read any text.

As mentioned above I keep my bars up via Bartender, but also use Omni, so my hotkeys basically show me range and time on abilities.

Other than that my UI is pretty clean and pretty basic.

While binding consumables to keys would probably be better in the long run, I have never gotten used to that idea, so the best compromise between that and having them on normal action bars somewhere on the side is probably Geist, which creates a set of buttons around your cursor when the bound key is pressed.

Other than that if you're still using good old SCT instead of MSBT/Parrot, SCT Cooldowns is still great for efficient use of cooldowns.

I just want to point out a few more things about PowerAuras, it will also track debuff types so you can have an indicator to if your target is poisoned (will be somewhat unnecessary for 3.1). You cannot set it to check if your target is bleeding however, you can set it to have an indicator to when an ability is usable so you set it to indicate when 3.1 HfB is usable (works on the PTR). I personally use a small energy bar but if it fits your play style better you can have an indicator come up for a certain energy threshold. You can also set it to trigger via number of combo points. I will point out that it's easy to have a very cluttered screen if you set too many things for this mod. It's probably best to use this in combination with one of the previously mentioned timer mods.

Another suggested timer mod is NeedtoKnow, it's quite customizable you can specify it to track any buff/debuff on yourself, target, targetoftarget, and focus rather then a mod that has to be updated to include new abilities etc.

I am sure there's a hundred of these but a good combo point mod is NugComboBar, you can move it right to where you keep track of everything else, been using it forever and it has never broken.

Here's a quick picture of the the relevant, the bars are NeedtoKnow, the arcs and skull is PowerAuras tracking a trinket and if my target is poisoned respectively.

Glad this thread is moving along well.

In response to Neto, I have a Focus target unit frame, along with Focus target's target and Focus target's cast bar. I'll definitely that its a useful frame to have on several fights, especially in conjunction with a macro to kick your focus target. It likely won't help you do more dps, but it will increase your capabilities in the utility department.

I think one of the common themes in a lot of posts has to do with screen real estate and the value it has. The center of the screen is the most valuable, and as such only the most important pieces of information should go there. At the same time, you need to remember that if you fill up too much of your screen (something I personally am dangerously close to, I'll admit) you increase the chance that you'll miss important encounter events - void zones, lava, adds doing stuff, etc.

Nearly every rogue here would agree that SnD and HfB are vitally important buffs that you MUST be aware of. Similarly, Rupture and Deadly Poison (DP less for non-Envenoming specs) are vitally important debuffs to track on your target. These are things every entry level rogue must learn to use or fail miserably. Personally, and I can see it in the UI's of guys like Vulajin and Neto, I believe buffs like weapon enchants and trinket procs are also important. I think that incorporating this type of information into your decision making process while playing is a step above entry level and you won't gain as much dps per "attention", however it is still something that helps. Despite a lot of people talking about pooling energy before envenoming, if you have 40 energy, 5 combo points and 1 second left on Mirror of Truth, you should probably just envenom. Now, if you are watching your DP ticks as well, you might be able to make further optimizations to envenom just after a DP tick while still under the 1000 AP buff. A UI that has your Reflection of Torment buff mixed in with Sacred Shield and Turn the Tables won't allow you to do this effectively.

In response to Gus, one of the mods I use is Opie - it functions very similarly to Geist. The idea is that a specific keybind causes a saved set of abilities (not one of your default 10 action bars) to display while the keybind is pressed. You then select one of those abilities or items with your mouse by left clicking on it. This is incredibly useful for cleaning up your UI and removing a lot of the seldom used buttons. One of my favourite sets is for marking raid target icons. Opie creates a circle on your screen when the keybind is pressed and the selected ability is the one which your mouse is closest to. Thus, since I have the location of all the buttons memorized already I can move my mouse around and tap the hotkey to mark targets (mostly just used for Skull, mid-pull). There are many other applications, but its a handy feature to have for cleaning up your UI and merging several items to a single keybind. I don't want to go into my bags and click my hearthstone each time, or find a tradeskill icon in my spell book. Nor do I wish to use up a keybind for each of those abilities or even have them waste space on a bar. So I put them on an Opie ring.