ABOUT THE UI:
This UI is somewhat inspired by the GuildWars2 UI and is designed with any class/spec in mind. I play a lot of different classes/specs myself and have always been busy building the "perfect" UI that works for any role. Ofcourse the "perfect" UI for a healer or a dps player can never be the same thing, anyway I think I've done a good job at how well this interface works for different roles/specs. The UI is very much a graphical interface, in the way that it brings most information "visually' to the user. If you're the kind of person that likes to get information via text/numbers/decimals etc. this is not the UI for you.
The UI is built with existing AddOns only, however some minor tweaks are applied in some of the LUA code to make the AddOns match the visual style. The package does not include: A 'Bag addon', a 'BossMod' or an 'Auction House addon'. You can simply install your own choice of mod for this.
ADDONS AND HOW TO USE THEM:
- GRID - Phanx, Maia, Pastamancer - Raid/Party frames. Includes ManaBars, RaidStatus and DungeonRole AddOns for Grid.
Grid displays player role in the right bottom of the frames: Red = DPS, Green = Healer, Blue = Tank. The border displays Aggro on the unit.
Tips for controlling Grid:
The standard profile will work for any Raid, Dungeon or rBG, but you'll have to switch to another profile if you're running 40-man content. There is an easy way to to this, using the following macro. (copy it to a WoW macro and put it somewhere on your actionbars)
/grid profile choose Default40
/stopmacro
/grid profile choose Empty
/stopmacro
/grid profile choose Default
- If you hit the key it will switch to the default profile.
- If you SHIFT-click it, it will switch to a 40-man profile.
- If you ALT click it, it will hide Grid.
- CLIQUE - Cladhaire
This addon will let you bind spells to use on Grid frames or other unit frames. It show's up on the right side of your Spellbook. After clicking it you can mouse-over a spell in your Spellbook, hit a key you want to bind, and it's done.
- DOMINOS - Tuller - Actionbar mod.
Tips for the Actionbars:
- On the right side of the screen below the Minimap, there are 3 bars that show when you mouse over them. These will be hidden in combat, else they would overlap with Boss and Arena frames.
- Your micromenu is located at the left-bottom, your XP-bar at the left-top and your bag bar is at the center-bottom.
- To bind your spells type /dominos and click the "Bind Keys..." button. You can now mouse-over a button and press the key you want to bind it to.
- RAVEN - Tomber - All Buff trackers are set-up with Raven.
On the left side of your Character it will track self-Buffs and PvP-Stuns, on the right side it will track Debuffs you've cast on your target and PvP-target-Buffs.
- SKADA - Zarnivoop - Meters for damage/healing/threat etc.
Type /skada toggle to show/hide it. You can also set a keybind for this in the WoW keybinds menu. Use you mouse left/right click to navigate through the Skada window.
- TIDY PLATES & THREAT PLATES - danltiger, suicidalkatt - Used for skinning the Nameplates.
ThreatPlates is great for tracking aggro on mobs, the Nameplate will change color depending on Aggro state. When you tank: Red = no aggro, Purple = aggro. When you are DPS it's the other way around, so Red is always "danger".
- SHADOWED UNIT FRAMES - Shadowed - Unit frames mod.
- CASTBARS - xbeeps
- CHINCHILLA MINIMAP - ckknight, ethancentaurai, Shefki, vangual
- KGPANELS - kagaro - All artwork panels are set-up and parented with kgPanels.
- MASQUE - StormFX - Actionbar and Raven button styling.
- PRAT 3 - sylvanaar - Chat mod.
- POSTAL - Xinhuan, grennon
- OMNICC - Tuller, Jaliborc - Cooldown timers on buttons.
- MIKSCROLLINGBATTLETEXT - sylvanaar - Only used to display PvP Killing Blows and Dispels.
- SHAREDMEDIA - Elkano, Seerah
- TIPTAC - Aezay - Tooltip mod.
- WEAKAURAS - Mirrormn - Used for procs and alternate resource bars.
- RBBS ORBSONLY - Zork - For the awesome Health Orb.
UPDATE HISTORY:
- VERSION 1.01
- Added DK Death Runes.
- Added Grid indicators for your HoT's and other healing spells.
- Added Bloodlust/Heroism tracker.
- Changed Tooltip anchor, mouse tips annoyed me.
- Changed around bag-bars and micro-menu.
- Some other minor changes probably.
- VERSION 1.00
- Release.
This UI is somewhat inspired by the GuildWars2 UI and is designed with any class/spec in mind. I play a lot of different classes/specs myself and have always been busy building the "perfect" UI that works for any role. Ofcourse the "perfect" UI for a healer or a dps player can never be the same thing, anyway I think I've done a good job at how well this interface works for different roles/specs. The UI is very much a graphical interface, in the way that it brings most information "visually' to the user. If you're the kind of person that likes to get information via text/numbers/decimals etc. this is not the UI for you.
The UI is built with existing AddOns only, however some minor tweaks are applied in some of the LUA code to make the AddOns match the visual style. The package does not include: A 'Bag addon', a 'BossMod' or an 'Auction House addon'. You can simply install your own choice of mod for this.
ADDONS AND HOW TO USE THEM:
- GRID - Phanx, Maia, Pastamancer - Raid/Party frames. Includes ManaBars, RaidStatus and DungeonRole AddOns for Grid.
Grid displays player role in the right bottom of the frames: Red = DPS, Green = Healer, Blue = Tank. The border displays Aggro on the unit.
Tips for controlling Grid:
The standard profile will work for any Raid, Dungeon or rBG, but you'll have to switch to another profile if you're running 40-man content. There is an easy way to to this, using the following macro. (copy it to a WoW macro and put it somewhere on your actionbars)
/grid profile choose Default40
/stopmacro
/grid profile choose Empty
/stopmacro
/grid profile choose Default
- If you hit the key it will switch to the default profile.
- If you SHIFT-click it, it will switch to a 40-man profile.
- If you ALT click it, it will hide Grid.
- CLIQUE - Cladhaire
This addon will let you bind spells to use on Grid frames or other unit frames. It show's up on the right side of your Spellbook. After clicking it you can mouse-over a spell in your Spellbook, hit a key you want to bind, and it's done.
- DOMINOS - Tuller - Actionbar mod.
Tips for the Actionbars:
- On the right side of the screen below the Minimap, there are 3 bars that show when you mouse over them. These will be hidden in combat, else they would overlap with Boss and Arena frames.
- Your micromenu is located at the left-bottom, your XP-bar at the left-top and your bag bar is at the center-bottom.
- To bind your spells type /dominos and click the "Bind Keys..." button. You can now mouse-over a button and press the key you want to bind it to.
- RAVEN - Tomber - All Buff trackers are set-up with Raven.
On the left side of your Character it will track self-Buffs and PvP-Stuns, on the right side it will track Debuffs you've cast on your target and PvP-target-Buffs.
- SKADA - Zarnivoop - Meters for damage/healing/threat etc.
Type /skada toggle to show/hide it. You can also set a keybind for this in the WoW keybinds menu. Use you mouse left/right click to navigate through the Skada window.
- TIDY PLATES & THREAT PLATES - danltiger, suicidalkatt - Used for skinning the Nameplates.
ThreatPlates is great for tracking aggro on mobs, the Nameplate will change color depending on Aggro state. When you tank: Red = no aggro, Purple = aggro. When you are DPS it's the other way around, so Red is always "danger".
- SHADOWED UNIT FRAMES - Shadowed - Unit frames mod.
- CASTBARS - xbeeps
- CHINCHILLA MINIMAP - ckknight, ethancentaurai, Shefki, vangual
- KGPANELS - kagaro - All artwork panels are set-up and parented with kgPanels.
- MASQUE - StormFX - Actionbar and Raven button styling.
- PRAT 3 - sylvanaar - Chat mod.
- POSTAL - Xinhuan, grennon
- OMNICC - Tuller, Jaliborc - Cooldown timers on buttons.
- MIKSCROLLINGBATTLETEXT - sylvanaar - Only used to display PvP Killing Blows and Dispels.
- SHAREDMEDIA - Elkano, Seerah
- TIPTAC - Aezay - Tooltip mod.
- WEAKAURAS - Mirrormn - Used for procs and alternate resource bars.
- RBBS ORBSONLY - Zork - For the awesome Health Orb.
UPDATE HISTORY:
- VERSION 1.01
- Added DK Death Runes.
- Added Grid indicators for your HoT's and other healing spells.
- Added Bloodlust/Heroism tracker.
- Changed Tooltip anchor, mouse tips annoyed me.
- Changed around bag-bars and micro-menu.
- Some other minor changes probably.
- VERSION 1.00
- Release.