Raesa’s UI v5.1

It’s that time again! Time for a UI update. I’ve been tweaking little things on and off for the last few weeks now, trying to find ways to do things better so it’s not dramatically different from the last time I made a UI update. I haven’t made any changes in a little over a week or so, which implies it’s ready for show and tell again.

It’s still got the same form factor so don’t expect anything drastic!

Changes:

• Grid frames are wider and orientation was changed from vertical to horizontal
• Using PB4 instead of PB3
• Changed color scheme of PB unit frames and visibility mechanics
• Moved UF texts onto the UF’s themselves, rather than hanging around the edges
• Changed pet, ToT, pet cast bar, and target cast bar layout
• Changed BT4 visibility mechanics
• Moved Recount & Omen positions (can’t tell from these screenshots)
• Changed Power Auras positions and glows
• Installed Minimap Button Frame to clean up minimap buttons
• Canned Proximo for Gladius
• Canned SCT for MSBT

Idle:

I’ll do a play-by-play and list the addons in this screenshot before I attack the in-combat as there are significantly more things going on there. Things you see, starting from top-left corner and going around the screenshot in a clockwise direction:

• Satrina Buff Frames
• Minimap Button Frame (currently using Entropy skin)
• pminimap
• SLDataText (for the zone text and also the text below the action bars)
• Bartender4
• ButtonFacade and ButtonFacade: Caith
• Chatter

Raid/BG in combat:

Things you see (excluding things I’ve already mentioned above), once again in a clockwise direction:

• TipTac (tooltip)
• MikScrollingCombatText
• TinyCasterStats (rainbow text below minimap visible only in combat)
• RaidCooldown Display (currently showing a pally bubbled and a rogue cloaked)
• Grid
• Quartz
• ForteXorcist (Priest module and cooldown timer enabled only)
• Pitbull4
• Power Auras Classic (the icons in the middle showing spells not on cooldown – Prayer of Mending, Power Infusion, and the Penance icon shows up left of the green timer)
• Satrina Buff Frames (Energy Siphon icon)

PB4 will only show my unit frame if my health or mana is below 100% or if I’m targeting someone or if I’m in combat. Otherwise, it stays completely hidden. All the health bars in PB4 are the same shade of gray. Power bars and character names are colored by class. Grid health bars are also the same shade of gray, thanks to EnhancedColourPicker.

My action bars are also set to fade to 15% opacity when I’m not in combat and they flip back to 100% opacity in combat using a custom conditional. I had it set to completely hide OOC for a while but it presented a problem with vehicles where I don’t have the keybinds memorized. I’ve been meaning to edit the custom conditional to do the following:

1. Hide bars out of combat
2. Show bars in combat
3. Show bars out of combat if it’s a vehicle bar

But I’ve been busy having my ass handed to me by Yogg this week so I’ll get to it eventually.

I created an extra buff frame using SBF above my character to show me 4 specific buffs: Energy Siphon (trinket on use), Lightweave procs, Heroism, and Innervate.

Things you don’t see:

• AchievementSnap – auto-screenshot upon obtaining an achievement
• Advanced Trade Skill Window
• ArkInventory
• AuctionLite
• Autobar – set to show on mouseover, anchored to the right of action bars; pots, healthstones, and mount are keybound
• BetterInbox – replaced Postal for me
• BetterOutbox
• BigBrother
• Cartographer
• Clique
• Deadly Boss Mods
• Dolemite – alt+left click disenchanting (my JC’s and scribes have Molinari to prospect/mill)
• DrDamage
• EnhancedColourPicker
• EnsidiaFails – Failbot replacement
• FishermansFriend
• Fontifer – changes UI fonts
• Getting Things Healed
• Gladius
• GetReagents – auto-refill reagents or other items at the vendor
• Grid modules: GridManaBars, GridIndicatorSideIcons, GridBossDebuffs
• GrizzlySharedMedia – contains all the custom media in SharedMedia and more
• Lightheaded – WoWHead in-game quest & NPC database
• LilSparky’s Workshop
• Multimail
• NeonChat – outlines your chat window in the color of the channel you’re speaking in
• Omen Threat Meter
• Opie – link is to WoWInterface; official website here
• oRA2 and oRA2 MT frames (MT frames sit above chat window)
• Outfitter
• Pawn
• PoM Tracker
• QuestGuru – better quest tracker and achievements tracker
• RaidCooldowns (group members need to have this installed in order for RaidCooldown Display to correctly display CD’s that have been used)
• RatingBuster – I have both this and Pawn because I want to see the actual net stat changes  to make decisions rather than solely relying on approximated stat weight scores
• Recount
• ScreenPlus – mod for preset screenshot options
• Talented
• TourGuide
• WIM

It’s a long list but I think I’ve listed all the mods I use on my priest. As you can see, I still stay right around 50mb of memory used on mods. It sometimes doubles thanks to Recount running during a raid but is easily corrected with a simple /recount reset.

I also use this layout on my alts and so far, it’s actually been pretty effective even though it’s primed for healing in a raid setting. The only difference is that I enable the experience bar in PB4 to display under my power bar, with experience text displayed on mouse-over.

I have Outfitter and Clique set up so that they switch profiles based on primary or secondary talent spec so it’s all literally just 2 clicks to get set up. Time to do Wintergrasp? No problem! Activate secondary spec and all my gear + click-to-cast settings are switched over to PvP. Time for VoA? Activate primary spec and I’m ready for PvE.

Some mods obviously seem superfluous (ScreenPlus?) but I’m the guild photographer.

As always, a WIP!