User Interface

This is my current user interface, I am always looking to improve it but this is my current one :) I try to keep information that is most important near my toon without restricting my awareness, I have found the following to be a good combination.

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User interface Details and breakdown can be found below :)

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A: Chinchilla - Map movement/customisation
B: Minimap Button Frame – MBF is cool, it grabs all the icons around your map and puts them into a frame that you can move around, the idea again is to remove the stuff you don’t need to see all the time.
C: oRA2 - A CT_RaidAssist alternative, another requirement for raiding in most guilds. This is the Cooldown frame
D: DotTimer - Very useful tool for tracking dots and hots. Takes a little setup to get it working the way I’ve got it, but I might write a howto in another post :)
E: Grid - I use grid although HealBot is supposed to be good as well. I added a couple of Grid addons to place corner warnings for stacks etc too and invert the colors! Makes it so much easier to see who needs heals I think (see my config guide).
F: Dominos with ButtonFacade – I use this small dominos bar to highlight my primary spells that have cooldowns, namely; Wild Growth, Nature’s Swiftness, Swiftmend, Innervate, Tranq and Rebirth. It’s used as a reference and I do not use it to click (well may for res’s)
G: Decursive - great for single click (left or right) decursing/cure poison, I use this for dispell intensive fights like Yogg. When I don’t need it gets hidden :) I know some of you would say “Why do you need a second unit frames?”. I have found that decursive allows me to dispell much quicker than Grid + Macros.
H: Deadly Boss Mods – must have for raiding, timers and notices etc
I: Doom Cooldown Pulse – this is a cool mod that will prompt you as key abilities come off of cool down. This is a great trigger to hit spells like Wild Growth :)
J: SatrinaBuffFrame (Player Buffs) -  I have SBF split into 2 frames, this frame is used for buffs.
K: Skada - a recount replacement, really cool features, check out my review here: http://www.upyursh.com/2009/09/addon-review-skada-recount-alternative-or-killer.html
L: Quartz (Player Cast Bar) – Cast bar filled with win, I have grown to really appreciate this cast bar addon, it is especially useful for us Aussies who have latency issues, a nice presentation of when you can start casting your next cast makes it really great for those ‘heads down healing’ occasions.
M: SatrinaBuffFrame (Player Debuffs) -  I have SBF split into 2 frames, this frame is used for debuffs, nice and big and relatively central so I dont loose awareness while watching stacks/ticks etc.
N: Quartz (Focus Cast Bar)
O: Quartz (Target Cast Bar)
P: oUF_Upy & oUF - This is my custom built oUF Layout. Consists of (from left to right) Player, Focus, Target of Target, Target.
Q: Prat - Chat customisation, I have prat setup with 2 windows, general chat rooms like 1. General, Raid, Officer etc and a second purely for healing channel. I also use Prat to also announce important messages in our healer channel to the centre of my screen, calls about people being down etc.
R: Dominos with ButtonFacade – Main Toolbar with my commonly used spells.
S: Dominos with ButtonFacade (hidden) – Opacity set to 0 without mouseover and contains secondary spells as well as pet and class bars.
T: Carousel - Is pretty cool, allowed you to build up a number of Brokers and cycle through them. I use this with MacroBroker to manage my Healing Assigns.
U: ChocolateBar - Fubar type addon but rocks more ;)

  1. [s]eraph
    July 16th, 2009 at 10:58 | #1

    thanks for showing/describing your addons, its incredibly useful.

  2. Penpen
    July 24th, 2009 at 00:43 | #2

    I love your UI O,o I’m planning to use oUF Nivaya. PB is an eye sore and thank you for showing that UI :D

  3. Rob Rogers
    November 11th, 2009 at 04:34 | #3

    just curious what you are using for the orange faded box around your player frames is. are you using kgpanels? can you post the setup or files being used?

    • November 11th, 2009 at 15:02 | #4

      LightPanels :)

      This is my layout.lua :)

      lpanels:CreateLayout("UfBar", {
      -- Left mid-section of the box
      { name = "BoxL",
      anchor_to = "BOTTOM",
      width = 350, height = 85,
      x_off = -350/2, y_off = 120,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0, gradient_alpha = 0.2,
      },
      -- Right mid-section
      { name = "BoxR",
      anchor_to = "BOTTOM",
      width = 350, height = 85,
      x_off = 350/2, y_off = 120,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0.2, gradient_alpha = 0.0,
      },
      -- Top Left gradient line
      { name = "LineTL",
      parent = "BoxL", anchor_to = "TOP",
      width = "100%", height = 1,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0, gradient_alpha = 0.8,
      },
      -- Top right line
      { name = "LineTR",
      parent = "BoxR", anchor_to = "TOP",
      width = "100%", height = 1,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0.8, gradient_alpha = 0,
      },
      -- Bottom Left gradient line
      { name = "LineBL",
      parent = "BoxL", anchor_to = "BOTTOM",
      width = "100%", height = 1,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0, gradient_alpha = 0.8,
      },
      -- Bottom right line
      { name = "LineBR",
      parent = "BoxR", anchor_to = "BOTTOM",
      width = "100%", height = 1,
      gradient = "H",
      bg_color = "CLASS", gradient_color = "CLASS",
      bg_alpha = 0.8, gradient_alpha = 0,
      },
      }); lpanels:ApplyLayout(nil, "UfBar")

  4. Rob Rogers
    November 12th, 2009 at 03:51 | #5

    thanks you soo much. you rock sir

  1. October 11th, 2009 at 17:27 | #1