What UI is best for a Shadow Priest?

**Pontificate** · 2009-11-30, 10:21 PM

Looked around but nothing leapt out at me, and most of the ones that I find are very old posts, making me question if they are still usuable/valid UI's. I need something current! Worshaka I'd be particularily interested in yours. Given your quote here in the DPS sticky, I realized I should really get something besides the standard Blizzard UI.

I just want to make a quick comment on UI's but will expand this section in time. Your UI is EXTREMELY important, it needs to be able to communicate vast amounts of information to you easily without distracting your attention to what you're doing. I would say that 99% of DPS probelms result from poor UI's, not understanding things like

1. Does my UI feed me detailed DoT information on multiple targets so I know exactly when to recast my DoTs?
2. Does my UI promote my main eye focus to be close to my character so I can see when I need to move out of fire etc?
3. Can I see what my raid is doing via raid frames at a glance? This includes knowing where people are, what buffs or debuffs they may have, being able to dispel anything nasty instantly etc.
4. Do I know where I stand in the threat list. Can I see who is top 5 in the threat list.
5. Do I know when timed raid events are about to happen eg. Mistress Portal for Jarraxus so I know to switch to the Portal and DPS it immediately?
6. Can I evaluate healer's mana and preemptively use Hymn of Hope if they need a hand?

I could go on forever but I guarantee a vast amount of people who read this post can't answer yes to any of those questions above, at least give an honest yes.

Always critque your UI, if you die ask yourself why and be honnest with yourself when it was your fault. Did your UI give you enough information to react, if it didn't why not? What needs to change, what important information isn't getting to you quick enough. How can you fix that issue?

I've read the rest of the post, and tried to follow it as closely as possible, (Armory Link: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...&n=Pontificate) and now just want to do what I can to get my game up. I do have an add-on timer that I like, Event Horizon, I just feel it's high time to get a decent UI and would love to here from all you TOTGC clearing l33t Shadow Priests. Thanks in advance.

**talrob** · 2009-12-01, 12:31 AM

You need a boss mod (Bigwigs/DMB), a dot timer and a 'dispel/cure' addon (most use grid but I'm still old school with decursive), whatever else you want is purely optional and to be honest a crutch that will break when a new patch is released and you will be one of the people shouting 'hold on I need to update my mods' when everyone else is ready to go.

**Pontificate** · 2009-12-01, 04:22 AM

Interesting point. I have DMB (I do consider that a must-have, even though it's a crutch), Decursive, and Event Horizon, but I could get by with the latter two. Maybe I'll just hold off on the UI until after 3.3 I suppose. Still, I'm going to definitely look into it...I want to be highly, highly competent. Thanks for the reply.

Deleted · 2009-12-01, 01:31 PM

i for one have raided HC in vanilla and Bc start wrath. and moste of that time was withe the standard Ui just with some changes to it.. mosty a few simpel addons.

treat meater, boss mods, and some better uint frames with grid and some dot timer.

the lay out was simpel and thats what i think works. dont think i can find a screen shot to show you.

but i can only say there is no need for someing fancy...

**Dimitrije** · 2009-12-01, 02:17 PM

Most of my time i used default blizzard UI but since i read Worshaka's thread i decided to do something about it. I've had some attempts in the past but i always been turning back on the default.

2 days ago i downloaded quite a few, first of them was Shadow Unit Frames, along with a simplistic design it was very easy to setup information it would display on the frames as well as size of your own debuffs on target/focus/etc.

Second useful one i found is MikScrollingBattleText. The reason i find this one very useful is that you can have clear view of the damage flow, you don't get insane amount of numbers popping out when you mind seer a decent pack of mobs just a simple 10493 dmg / 5 hits (for example) and most importantly it gives you announcement when your MB, SW

, Dispersion and SF comes off of cooldown.

Of course i use DBM as well as bartender which gives me again a little more simplistic design and enables me too have a larger portion of the screen free for either to see what is actually going on in the fight or for other addons.

To have an overview of the raid and what is going on i use grid.

The only thing i couldn't find (not that i tried

) is to find dot timers and how to track multiple dots on multiple targets.

And one question, i don't understand why would i need omen? I can't remember last time I've been able to overaggro a tank in a raid or hc.

**xebtria** · 2009-12-01, 02:47 PM