Thanks! I will probably be including my SavedVariables folder with future posts, since I've found a convenient way of doing that now.
The placement of the bars on the right (cooldowns, I assume) seems a little arbitrary - are they lined up with anything, horizontally or vertically? Could they be? Same with the tooltip.
If http://i.imgur.com/46RhGFl.png is your own castbar, do you need the text on it? I usually have it disabled on account of that I know what I'm casting, and if you disabled the text you could move those icons down a bit. Are those icons cooldowns, too, by the way? How many groups of cooldown timers do you have?
If you're feeling brave you can try the latest BW alpha which has the Elv style without the requirement of having ElvUI or the skinning addon. It took me a few hours digging into the ElvUI code but I'm hoping the style looks exact same as the one provided by the skinning addon, whether the user is using Elv or not. The style in BW will overwrite the style provided by the Elv skinning addon so it's important it looks the same.
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Last edited by mmocba105e19de; 2013-11-20 at 08:36 PM.
Yea, way better..
Key things I like, is how you've taken away playerframe, and targetframe..
Also, I see you moved on from the old nameplates? - I liked the Docs, but this is a nice change. They took up alot of memory in bigger raids..
I assume the timers on the left and right of the castbar, is for something like riptide?
Something to consider maybe.. A new way to keep track of raid cds, whats ready etc..
Also change fonts on bossmod to the same as raidframes. Maybe scale down fontsize on combat text.
Ill update if I think of something else..
Oh my gawd, I love that the font just pops out like that! Could you pretty please tell me what addons you used?
EDIT: I just started playing WoW again and currently leveling a undead warlock! I would love to have ideas about UI packs or so! I kinda want it to be ''dark-ish'' but not so whack'd with addons, you know keeping it abit roleplay-ish haha!
Thanks mina!
Last edited by mmoc8ad94095c0; 2013-11-21 at 02:44 AM.
On unitframes...
They're not your everyday unitframes in that they only display very little information, can't be clicked and are displayed through weak-auras but technically I still have:
- The player unitframe (reduced to the mana bar)
- The target unitframe is the text you can see top left of the vudho frames. It displays the name of your target as well as its % of remaining health in case its below 100%. Its very minimal but in the end I don't think you need anything else as a PVE healer.
Might add proper boss frames at some point if I'm not happy with DBM's... in the spirit of what I had on my previous UI.
On nameplates
Yeah like the change also. Making the Docs looking the way they did involved a lot of LUA work in the original files which I cba with ^^
I think seeing your allies names was very useful in 10 but will be less important in 20. Also, I moved away from click healing to mouseover macros (much much much better) so if I see someone in a bad spot, I can just mouseover heal them or target them and cast heals.
Timers
Yes, left one is stacks of Earth Shield and right one is Riptide CD. It turns orange when close to 0 and then red with it's at 0 (you can see it in the vid).
Raid CDs
Not sure about this one... Things like Raidcooldowns or Ora3 was really perfect for 10man but might be too spammy for bigger raid sizes. Might have to move to something in the shape of BLRaidcooldowns.
Fonts
Yes for DBM. NOOOO for combat text That combat text is completely awesome in that it really lets you check out the efficiency of your heals at a glance. Once you try it you'll love it!!
Big up to Jahzrun from whom I pretty much copied it.
I'm pretty sure this just hides the background on the tab bar. The tabs themselves are still visible, unless this was changed in the last revision. I'm not at home so I can't actually check but when I tried it this is how it behaves. Personally, I'd have the tab bar hidden at all times unless you mouseover the chat window, which I imagine could be done in the lua.
Just standard ElvUI. Remade UI to fit 10H since I'm no longer 25H =/.
There's never that many boss debuff weakauras at once, just showing where they would extend to if there were. And the emphasized bars will only show at most 2-3 of the abilities I emphasize.
Still got a ways to go, need to find a place for omen and it's kinda hard to find a good place for it.
Last edited by mmocba105e19de; 2013-11-21 at 09:43 PM.