UI Remake for the 20384570857th time!

11/18/09 Edit: Two raiding videos added to show new changes from the original post yesterday. I have since hijacked even more of Benea’s UI. I feel so dirty.

I follow UI threads avidly, checking them at least once a day Mondays – Fridays (gee, I wonder why!). Sometimes, even multiple times a day (they don’t get updated very frequently). I’m a huge Benea fangirl so I usually end up changing mine up and copying some of her UI elements when she updates hers. I’m not a huge fan of the square unit frames from her most recent iteration but I did end up using it for ToT, player’s pet, and focus’s target. I definitely jacked the 2 big buttons on either side of my action bars though.

Grid makes its reappearance in the middle of my screen, bigger and badder. To be honest, I don’t know how long I’ll keep this one. I have the UF’s lined up on the left side, Power Auras Classic and DXE bars on the right and … I don’t know. I feel like it blocks out too much stuff on the sides, which prevents me from screaming at people to get out of fires if they’re behind my unit frames. Change opacity maybe?

Solo:

Target, ToT, Focus while casting in a party:

Target in a raid setting:

I also hijacked the unit frame set up and cast-bar-over-portrait idea from Asylla too. I was totally unoriginal this time and just picked up things that I liked from other people and put it all together. I think I might have changed it just for the sake of changing it. :(

I changed all the textures in Grid and PB4 too after these screenshots were taken, which could be seen in this video of me getting facerolled in EOTS:

I moved the BG map after this EOTS after I saw that it was sitting right under the faction meter.

Don’t know the half-life on this UI but until I can figure out what I want to do with the unit frames, it’ll probably stick for a little bit. If not, I’ll just go back to the old one. Reflux ftw. ^_^

Here are 2 new videos I took to show what it looks like in a raid with the new unit frame placement. First one is ToGC10 on my priest:

This second one is ToC10 on my shaman:

So… Today is Tuesday…

I thought today was Monday, thanks to Labor Day. =_=

But I remembered!

The RaesaUI package has been uploaded to WI.com, awaiting approval. However, I sent a copy to Andracon (in the comments) to test it out but apparently Reflux is misbehaving. I’m going to weed through these problems before it becomes availamable.

>.<

RaesaUI incoming!

It’s almost ready, it’s almost ready!

So I have the actual folders zipped up. I think I’m going to host it on WoWInterface.com. What I’m missing is screenshots for presentation on the page. That’s what I’m going to do tonight.

I also need to test the bundle out myself tonight to see if it works properly.

I’ve never done this before!

Eep!

Below are 2 screenies of what it looks like in a 25-man raid. They’ve got our guild screenshot logo on it unfortunately because… well, that’s all I have right now! I’m at work and I left the originals at home… /cry

The only thing that’s going to be different is that there won’t be a stupid Gatherer minimap button.

There is a hidden ChocolateBar at the top and a hidden-until-mouseover Autobar to the right of the 2 visible action bars. The pet bar shows up below the 2 action bars.

Omen and Recount share the same space – Recount is toggled to hide in combat so that only Omen is visible and vice versa when out of combat.

I’ll also be updating with some idle and casting screenshots, as well as one with a Pitbull mock-up of where everything will be. I don’t use PB4 party frames at all (I use Grid for 5-mans too). However, the party and party pet frames are customized and positioned in its traditional Blizzard area so if anyone chooses to use them, just enable them and it’s good to go.

I also use Ishtara’s SharedMedia for textures and fonts, but that will be included.

It’s definitely healing-centric but works well with my level-capped warlock and leveling alts. For those who don’t need Grid front and sort-of-center, moving it should be pretty trivial.

My UI isn’t anything special or revolutionary (I leave that to the pros). I’ve taken a lot of ideas from all over the UI community and just put it together into this huge glob I’ve been using for a little over a month now. I think the fact that I haven’t changed it in about a month now is a good indicator I might have finally found something I like and feel comfortable using.

Or I’m just out of inspiration. :-P

So I was going to make a post…

But then 3.2 came out. So here’s some eye candy instead:

Linked to bigger version.

I played with Stuf for 2 hours before deciding to go back to PB4 and did this instead.

Meh.

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!

UI Inspiration

Overhauling a UI is can sometimes be a daunting task. Even more daunting is planning the layout. Serious UI junkies like to think of it as an art – it’s got to be functional, artistic, and unique. At the end of the day though, modifying the UI is supposed to help streamline your WoW playing and finding ways to make what you do more efficient.

I like to switch mine up a lot. I usually end up doing so because I spot a brilliant idea on those “Post your UI” threads on various forums and get swept up in a whirlwind of inspiration. Each forum community has its own preferences for what they like to see. Following is a list of threads I check up on periodically for new ideas:

EJ’s general UI thread:
http://elitistjerks.com/f32/t23417-share_your_interface_read_first_post_no_really_read/
EJ community members generally like the minimalistic theme. Responses to cluttered UI’s are pretty harsh. Most of the UI’s are very innovative and there are so many posts that you can look at! The best part is everyone who posts a screenshot also posts a list of addons (as is required by the EJ mods) so you can try to build something similar yourself. They also have a lot of class-specific UI’s in the class mechanics sub-forums. Great all-around place to look.

PlusHeal’s UI thread:
http://plusheal.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=210
Healers will find this thread especially useful. Spotlight normally falls on practical uses of raid frames to facilitate healers’ response times in functional yet visually appealing ways.

AJ’s UI thread:
http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=12234
UI’s with a PvP bent. Most of the screenshots will show how the players use Proximo/Gladius rather than raid frames.

Shadowpriest.com’s UI thread:
http://shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37
Looking for DoT management mods? Want to see when Mind Flay ticks on your cast bar? This is the place to go.

Warlock Den’s UI thread:
http://wowmb.net/forums/f23/33927-show_off_your_ui_thread_3_patch_3_1_beyond/p24/
Similar to shadowpriest.com, this thread obviously puts a lot of emphasis on DoT monitoring and management, with pet management thrown in.

These are the ones I check mostly because:

• I like the minimalist approach to UI’s.
• I’m a healer.
• I do Arena.
• I do dabble in the darker magics.
• My next highest level toon is a warlock.

This list isn’t all-encompassing at all; it’s just a list of threads that I check regularly. I know TankSpot has a UI gallery, DiscPriest.com also has a thread (although it’s a pretty short one at the moment), and WoWInterface.com has a Compilations category where you can just browse what people have uploaded. WI also further separates them by theme also – it’s great for those of us who aren’t too addon-savvy but still want a bangin’ UI. The people who upload their own do great work!

If anyone keeps track of other UI sources, make sure to leave a link in the comments!

MMOUI Minion is currently an evil Gremlin.

The Review:

I love WoW Interface. I prefer it to Curse. When they released their updater yesterday, I was ecstatic. WoW Interface has a lot of the little eccentric, niche addons that Curse doesn’t have (e.g. NeonChat, RaidCooldownsDisplay, OPie, etc) so I often have to run the Curse updater and then visit the WoW Interface website. I update addons daily. What makes this process bearable is that I’m also subscribed to WoW Interface’s RSS feed that posts updates as they come out in my Google Reader. Through the day at work, I just make note of which addons have been updated and I go home and update them. A pretty painless process overall, really.

I was kind of hoping the Minion would make my life even easier but that hope was deflated rather quickly. I downloaded the beta and started it up (cheers for Java so that it works on all major OS’s). It picked up most of the addons, said I had to update a whole bunch of them though. Eh, so I hit the update all button, didn’t really check since it was 5 minutes to raid time, and quit.

I log in and find that a bunch of things were not as they were supposed to be. There was a unit frame in the middle of my screen with my name and a white box (white for priest, I assume) that represented my health. There was an additional panel after my raid panel, where the tab was named “GA” (the tab was also broken) with stuff for a guild alliance. I kept getting text in the chat log that told me to rebuff fort, spirit, etc. Things that I didn’t have before were popping up randomly. What. The. F*ck.

Logged out and checked the addons folder and found a bunch of addons that I never downloaded, would never want to use, but magically appeared: Guild Alliance, Annoying Self Buff Reminder (annoying is an understatement), Healbot, and some other random things, in addition to screwing up my entire UI font scheme because it updated SharedMedia or something.

Good one Minion, you just “updated” a bunch of crap that was never in my directory to start with.

I then ran the Curse updater to see what could be updated that wasn’t on WoW Interface – bunch of addons that were updated by the Minion had the triangle error icon next to it. Poop! It probably didn’t mean anything but I just re-installed them anyway (OCD okay?). It seems to know which addons were updated from its own database.

Minion’s search function works just fine. I looked up Damn Achievement Spam (damn that achievement spam!) and hit install. I scanned through my addons list to make sure it was downloaded but I didn’t see it when I got to the D’s so I re-installed it. Oh, wait, newly added addons are added to the bottom of the entire list. Oh, how did I not see that? Because that’s soooooooo intuitive.

The Conclusion:

Minion does its job but it’s not very smart. You’re probably going to want to update each addon separately after you check to see if it’s actually going to install the correct addon instead of some random mumbo jumbo that it thinks you’re using. Don’t trust the “Update All” button.

There are a couple of design flaws, as witnessed by the search and install function. I don’t think listing newly installed addons at the bottom of the window is really the most intuitive. The frame for the list of addons needs to be bigger. I maximized the program window but the frame was still a little small. I couldn’t find a way to drag/resize the frame.

I would say keep the Curse updater as your go-to-program and use the Minion to fill in the missing gaps by hand. At least it saves you time from unzipping the addon and moving it into the Addons folder after you download from the website.

TL;DR

Minion needs work. Stick with the Curse updater and use the Minion to update addons that Curse doesn’t have but make sure to update each one separately to check Minion’s picking up the correct addon.

‘Mazing Mod: ScreenPlus

Taking nice screenshots is an art. One that I have not yet mastered. But here’s something that can help you on your journey to becoming WoW’s greatest “photographer. ”

In comes ScreenPlus, an extremely simple addon aimed to customize your screenshots in a very simple interface.

/drumroll for my personal anecdote:

I like playing with name, guild, and title tags enabled. Oftentimes, this will render my screen pretty cluttered with all the Chef Salty Twilight Vanquisher Gladiator So-and-So the Hallowed and Noble Champion of the Frozen Wastes of the Shattered Sun <myguildisleet> running around on my screen.

In my opinion, the tags are a distraction in screenshots. WoW has great textures and the environmental design is stunning (for the most part – /cough Hellfire Peninsula? yuck). Icky neon green/pastel blue text floating over everyone’s head detracts from what could be great pieces of in-game WoW art!

I came across the problem of disabling the tags for screenshots while keeping them enabled while playing. I couldn’t find a way to do that easily so I just left the tags in. Until recently. Compare:

Don’t you like the one on the left better?

I really got tired of it taking screenshots in Ulduar. The inside of Ulduar is beautiful. So I decided to look for alternatives. At first, I found a mod called Paparazzi. However, it’s outdated and has no config GUI. I exercised some more Google-fu and found ScreenPlus.

It has a GUI, brought up by slash command, /screenplus. It has very simple and very straightforward options, as seen in the below screenshot provided by the author:

I personally don’t use the caption functionality. If we’re talking about aesthetics here, I don’t think in-game captions is the way to go. /cringe

I do, however, set the screenshot file format (JPEG) and image quality (max). I know a lot of people like to use PNG because it’s a lossless format but the file size is huge for WoW screenshots. It’s not really meant for things like photographs and other images containing a bajillion colors.

ScreenPlus also adds its own category to the Blizzard Keybindings interface, found via Esc >> Keybindings. I just unbound the default UI screenshot capture keybind and assigned it to the ScreenPlus one instead.

If you set the “Main UI Transparency” slider down to “Hidden,” you don’t even need to hit Alt+Z to hide your interface. When you hit your ScreenPlus screenshot capture keybind, you’ll actually see your UI disappear and reappear when the screenshot is captured.

Yeah, I know, this addon doesn’t do anything to make you heal better or DPS more but WoW is more than just PvE and PvP. Even art in a video game deserves to be appreciated once in a while!

Setting Up Clique and Its Nuances

Clique, for those who don’t know, is a mod that enables click-casting using mouse button bindings that interact with the unit frames you designate. It works for any ability you so choose, as long as you click on the unit frame on which you want to use the ability. In essence, this works for healing, DPSing, as well as tanking but I’m going to say here with pretty strong conviction that it’s best used for healing.

Coupled with the raid unit frame of your choice (Grid, X-Perl raid frames, Pitbull raid frames, PerfectRaid, etc), it will provide you with the click-casting functionality of Healbot. I use Grid because I need more customization than Healbot offers. I can also use Clique while in a 5-man heroic showing the party frame and thus, don’t have to deal with excess screen clutter from needing another set of frames.

Once you’ve downloaded and installed Clique, you can access the configuration menu in-game via your spell book:

You’ll notice there’s an extra tab with what looks like a mouse wearing a witch’s hat. Click it and you’ll get another window.

In the upper-hand corner, you’ll notice a drop-down menu where you can define your “click-set”. Default is the one that applies to all your abilities. I think harmful, helpful, and out of combat are pretty self-explanatory.

I like keeping thing simple. The only thing I want to do is use Clique for healing and using other “helpful” abilities on my allies so I chose the “Helpful actions” set to edit.

Setting up the actual keybindings is extremely easy. When you have selected your click set, you can input your first binding by hovering over the spell you want to use in your spell book and hit the button (or combination of buttons) that you want to use. After I did all of that for my own, I ended up with:

If you’re wondering where Penance is, it’s Shift+LeftButton (left-click). :P

After PoH became targetable, I gave it a keybind so I wouldn’t have to click to target someone and then hit 1 for my action bar. (Although I’m not entirely sure Alt + anything is actually convenient and I’ll tell you why later.)

For more custom keybindings, you can hit the “Custom” button, which will bring up the following window:

The options on the left are pretty clear, I think. The only one I’ve come to use is “Run Custom Macro.” If you already have existing macros via the default UI, you can just type in the name of the macro you want to use into “Macro Index.” You can set the binding by hovering over “Set Click Binding” and then pressing the button(s) you want to bind to it.

If you do not have an existing macro, then you can create one within Clique in the “Macro Text” box. This is where I would bind on-use trinkets to spell casts.

Clique also lets you set up profiles so you can store different keybinds per character/talent spec/etc. Ignore that my current profile is a custom one named “Raepvp.” :P It’s what I used for BGs and stuff because I had on-use trinkets macro’d for PvE and that caused complications in PvP when I equipped the Medallion and Battlemaster’s trinkets…

Anyway, Clique will make a profile per toon you log onto with it loaded automatically – as you can see here, I have one for each of my alts, even though only my priest and my pally actually use it (reminder to self: disable Clique for certain toons).

See? Convenient.

The other thing that’s convenient? After 3.1, the ability to swap profiles per your talent spec was added. Does your dual spec consist of Disc and Holy? Don’t want to keybind a replacement for Penance/CoH every time you swap? Well let me introduce this option:

My secondary spec is currently shadow and I don’t use Clique to DPS so this option isn’t enabled for me.

The last option I’m going to mention here is the Frame Editor. This is where you choose which unit frames you want Clique to be able to interact with. In the screenshot here, you can see a combination of Grid frames and the default UI frames. The default frames are the ones listed without any reference to a mod, “FocusFrame,” “PartyMemberFrame1,” so on and so forth.

What isn’t seen here are the Pitbull frames, which are also checked.

I don’t bind anything to left or right click so Clique doesn’t override default functionality (left-click to target, right-click brings up menu) and therefore, I can safely check all the frames here.

Now, we’ve gone through all the software. Let’s talk about hardware. I’m currently using the Logitech MX Revolution. It provides left and right click, 2 thumb buttons, 1 middle scroll wheel/click, 1 other middle button (default function is to bring up your OS’s search function), and a thumb scroll wheel. Yeah – it sounds like a lot right? I don’t use all of the buttons for WoW (WoW only recognizes up to 5 mouse buttons, where L+R click already count as 2). As a result, I designated which button is which on the mouse through the Logitech control panel and ended up with this:

I’ve highlighted what WoW recognizes as buttons 1, 2, 4, and 5. Button 3 is the middle scroll wheel (I don’t use it for anything – the smart scrolling functionality makes the wheel really awkward to press). That little silver button behind the middle scroll wheel is designated as Button 6 to my OS, which is currently set as my Vent push-to-talk button. For the thumb scroll wheel, scrolling forward brings up Exposé (for general convenience in Mac OS X). Scrolling backward is backspace, which in-game, toggles auto-run.

With that, here is my current list of keybinds:

• Penance: Shift + L Click
• Flash Heal: Shift + R Click
• Binding Heal: Control + L Click
• Greater Heal: Control + R Click
• Renew: Alt + L Click
• Resurrection: Alt + R Click
• PoM: Button 4
• PW: S: Button 5
• Abolish Disease: Shift + Button 4
• Dispel Magic: Shift + Button 5
• Pain Suppression: Control + Button 4
• Power Infusion: Control + Button 5
• And for some very strange reason, PoH: Alt + Button 5

Well, looking at that list, I’m probably going to move some things around and get rid of some other things. Going to leave Res, PoH, and Renew on my action bars, probably. I have a very difficult time using Alt. In fact, after extensive pressing with my thumb one night, my thumb actually locked in that position for about 5 minutes directly under my other fingers. Imagine your left 4 fingers are held at the ready over WASD and your left thumb moves from the space bar to the Alt key – yeah – my thumb locked like that for a whole encounter last week. Not cool. ._.

Raesa’s UI v5.0

Yes, I’ve gone and done it again… I think I’ve moved enough things around to merit a whole new version rather than just a half-version update. Ta-dah! Flickr has my screenshots stored as v4.0 but it’s really 5.0!

Solo with target and while casting (fishing, really):

Where's my Bloated Monsterbelly?!

Just idling in Dalaran:

/snore

In a raid with Omen mock-up:

What sucky loot from KT - not a single weapon!

Raid with Power Auras Classic mock-up (forgot to get a SS in combat :P):

Yellow = PoM, Orange = PI, Green = Penance

Raid with partial Clique config:

There are more spells bound but I didn't want to link a whole new SS for only 3 more spells. Meh.

The addons that you can see:

• Bartender4 for action bars.
• Chatter for … chat window.
• Grid for raid frames.
• Omen for threat.
• oRA2 for MT frames.
• Pitbull for player, target, and party (hidden in a raid) unit frames.
• pMinimap for … minimap.
• Power Auras Classic
• Quartz for cast bars.
• RaidCooldownsDisplay (bars right below minimap) to show what cooldowns have been used in the raid.
• Recount for meters.
• Satrina’s Buff Frames for buffs (upper left hand corner).
• SLDataText for text info (top middle).
• TipTac for tooltip.

Addons you can’t see:

• AchievementSnap (godsend, really, except for all those extra screenshots it takes of my alts hitting level 10 or exploring Elwynn Forest; can be disabled but I’ve been too lazy)
• AtlasLootReverse (places a line in item tooltips that tell you the source of the item)
• ArkInventory (bag/inventory management – although it’s been giving me errors as of late)
• AuctionLite (Auctioneer replacement without as many bells & whistles)
• Autobar (set to hide until I hover over it)
• AutoCombatLog
• Cartographer2
• DoubleWide for widened quest log.
• FarmIt (keeps track of the number of items that I’m farming, only shown when actually farming)
• FishermansFriend (double-right click auto-lure and casting)
• Ghost: Pulse (keeps track of cooldowns that I don’t need kept in my face via POWA)
• LilSparky’s Workshop (tradeskill windows)
• OPie (with rings for buffs, tradeskills, quest items, and raid icons)
• Outfitter (bar set to hide until I hover over it)
• Proximo (thinking about Gladius – comments?)
• SCT (Scrolling Combat Text)
• SCTD (Scrolling Combat Text – Damage)
• Prayer of Mending Tracker (auto-hide when not active)
• Talented (replacement for default Talent pane)
• WIM (WoW Instant Messenger!)

Changes from v4.0:

• Deleted Eavesdrop, as I wasn’t making much use of it during combat. All my analysis comes from post-raid or post-encounter anyway.
• Moved player, target, target of target, focus, and focus’s target to the left side of the screen, while moving Grid to the right side.
• Changed the length, width, and overall information display of Pitbull unit frames.
• Moved player cast bar from above Grid to below it, between Grid and action bars.
• Moved Recount and Omen from upper left to bottom right, where Eavesdrop used to be.
• Re-designed POWA auras to clear up screen clutter – big, obnoxious circles around my toon were only cool for so long.
• Moved buffs from next to the minimap on the right to the upper left hand corner.
• Moved RaidCooldownsDisplay from upper left to right below the minimap.
• Replaced SexyMap with pMinimap.
• Went through some interim font changes but ultimately settled on Arial Narrow for across the board.
• Changed Grid frames to dark gray and using names to indicate class by color. Moved mana bars from vertical-right to horizontal-bottom.
• Moved SLDataText info to top center and using pMinimap’s clock instead because it glows green when I have calendar invites I need to respond to while SLDT hid the Calendar but gave no indication I needed to reply to anything. Bad!
• Unified textures of all mods across the board (using Charcoal for everything except Quartz cast bars, where I’m using Perl just for some oomph).
• Had to get rid of QuestGuru – quest tracker wasn’t working with the new Blizzard tracker. I sure miss the sounds indicating I was making progress on quests though. No more, “Work complete,” in that zug zug way. ;)
• Swapped in AuctionLite for Auctioneer.
• Swapped in AutoCombatLog to replace Loggerhead, which wasn’t updated to include Ulduar in list of instances to start saving the combat log. :(

That’s it for now. I think I’ll be able to live with this for a little while before I get antsy and switch it up again. To tell you the truth, I’m starting to run out of ideas of how else I can streamline this baby. D:

Oh, it will be the end of me when that day comes.