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My current UI, I like the simple flow. I'm not using anything like scrolling combat text, only eavesdrop, makes it alot easier to handle. It looks abit like a healer UI, but it's just as good for a melee dps.

SBF has some problems with poison display as well (flickering, not correctly updating, problems with weapon switching). but it is nothing too serious.

It has other upsides though, i.e. you can create custom (de)buff "frames" to display only really vital information; like stacks on Sindragosa, or your attunement on Putricide. I've even mimiced Debuff Filter's functionality.
It's a very powerful addon.


If anybody cares, this is my current interface. Unfortunately you cannot see either of those two features I've just mentioned.

Elkano's BuffBars ... (sp?)
Very nice - buffs / de-buffs / poisons in 3 separate lists.

It is quite customizable as well - but I leave it pretty much as is.
You can place them where you want though.

I'm looking for a better targetting system.


Currently, I know which enemy I've targetted by the sudden Red Ring on the ground around them. This works fine against ground-based trash. However, it doesn't work for air-based enemies. With enemy units like Valkyries, whelplings and the like, I only have 2 visual clues of my current target:

1. Character portrait. Useless if there's three of the same kind of trash/race all gathered in a group in front of me. I could be attacking any of them for several seconds, and not know which one, until...

2. Health plates. Pressing V brings up enemy health plates, but even if their health is going down, I don't know if it's because of my damage, or someone else's. Three identical mobs, all being attacked, all three health bars decreasing, and I still don't know which one I'm targetting. Focus fire is important.


I really enjoy the Red Rings, so an addon that places them on the ground underneath aerial units is ideal... but even then, in small roofed enclosures in a 25-man vs 6 trash situation, the screen fills with sparklies and explosions and whatnot, so I often have trouble seeing the ground. That makes the Red Ring system less than ideal (in certain situations).




I'd turn down Particle Density and Projected textures...
but then I would barely see fire and void zones.


I suppose my ideal addon would add a glowing effect around the enemy model you're currently targetting/attacking. Or more likely, an addon that replaces the enemy nameplates, but includes an unmistakeable visual clue for the one you're presently targetting. Right now, the default plates ever-so-slightly fade the health plates of the mob I'm not attacking... but that's just not working well for me. That, and I don't have enemy plates active all the time (only raids). Even then, having nameplates active in a 25-man vs 12 trash situation makes it nearly impossible to see what I'm doing.


I've tried addon hunting, but I clearly haven't found the right keyword yet.

EDIT: Added thumbnail.

a) To my knowledge there is not such an addon that glows target models in existence, and if that is possible to achieve currently (I don't think it is), it will certainly not be do-able after 3.3.5 (see this blue post).

b) Re: nameplates, you may want to check out TidyPlates. It's a nameplate addon with dozens of available plug-ins, one of which will certainly fulfill your wished to fade out non-targetted enemies. I use the CleanPlates theme for TidyPlates and I never experience difficulty knowing what I am targetting in an AoE/trash scenario.

Hope that helps.

It's probably because I haven't looked into how nameplate addons function, but couldn't an addon like that create an overlay over the target? It could add another frame and attach it to the nameplate frames, offset the y value to relocate it beneath the nameplate to be located right over the character.

You would have to scale, slide and skew it based on camera distance, angle and target size, but if faded nameplates aren't doing it for you that might be in the realm of possibility. Granted all it would be would be a glowing circle or something like that, but there might be potential in it. The only big problem that comes to mind is that I don't think there's an API function to get the target's size and scale, leaving the size of the overlay shape too be either to large or too small most of the time.

jsz, (with 31 expertise ^^)

Your ui is looking very neat. And I am really going to try out the hidden or apear in combat options, probably in bartender 4. I would like to have my professions and mount buttons hidden while I am in combat.


One major thing is that I as a assasination rogue need to pay attention to the envenom buff, the energybar and the combopoints. I would love to keep them tight together. Not a energybar under your healtbar far in the corner, a combopoints system under the target healtbar some inches away and the envenom buff in the centre of the screen, witch is probably your main focus area.

Some minor things,

What is the use of displaying all the buffs? If you can filter the really important ones like bloodlust, wellfed, endless rage, poisons with Elkano's or Satrina's buff bar.

There is a large grey area with smaller objects in it. Would it not be a good idea to make the grey area smaller and loose one point on the chatwindow font?

Oh, and you can have fubar automatic hide itself on top of the screen.

In the end, it is all personal flavour.

Anyone know of an addon that displays enemy health bar information below a target's feet rather than over their head? I find myself looking more towards the floor in most encounters and some bosses are really oversized so having those bars above their head is kinda annoying.

Having your personal and target unitframe at the bottom of the screen helps in this.

Along with that generally HUD's are also a great way of displaying boss health in a non-obtrusive, but visible way.

Rogue Focus Classic is what I use when I have to run without a hud.

I talked to Loot, and he's not updating the mod anymore, sadly (he's stopped playing his rogue), but with his help I updated the mod to be current; most of the features work, but I'm still working on a few things (the tricks module doesn't work right, and I haven't tested the kick part).

RogueHUD_Om.zip

I replaced the hfb bar with one for vendetta, and swapped the expiration sound from that to your rupture bar, but as I said it's still a work in progress. Send me a PM with any issues you run across and I'll try to fix them.

What addon changes the nameplates?

Its part of the Tukui Edit. Not a specific addon.

Visit here for more info.

I use DocsNameplates for a similar functionality: I couldn't recommend this addon enough.

You can turn on "Bars" (see the water ele's at the bottom of this picture) or you can leave them off, the number is HP%
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It does 2 things I really like.
1) Very customizable nameplates all round.
- It shows casts by default.
- You can enable specific Buffs/Debuffs showing which is nice for some boss encounters (Enrage?), but not so much for rogues as you don't tab-dot or anything like that.
- Health Bar and/or Hp% (or abs), colours, fonts, etc. can all be changed.
2) Friendly nameplates can have healthbar removed making player names readable but unintrusive at all reasonable distances. (Allowing you to turn off "Show names" and use nameplates instead)

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Just a small addition on de nameplates. I found Tidy Plates and have to say that it's everything i wanted.
All nameplates are rendered (unlike the standard wow nameplates) and im loving the minimalist look of the Neon theme





Addon can be downloaded here.

*edited because the image was a bit big..

I'm almost positive it's oUF-based, just don't know which module.

Quse UI - 16:10 Widescreen : Minimalistic Compilations : WoWInterface Downloads <-- This is the UI the config was taken from.

You can re-create the unit frames with SUF, STUF, and OUF, but that particular one is STUF (look at the combo point system).

As the content of this thread is somewhat Wrath-specific, and there hasn't been any useful discussion in it lately anyway, I'm locking this. If you'd like to start a Cataclysm version of this thread, get in contact with me.