This seems like a lot, but when evaluating wipes in the moment, the data helps – seeing death timings allows tweaks and adjustments, as does seeing when people are taking avoidable damage and being able to parse out what is actually happening. In fact, I settled on 5 meters for in-game review – a DPS meter, a healing meter, a damage taken meter, deaths, and damage taken by spell. I also wanted it to have robust support for the Havoc rotation – managing critical strike Fury refunds on Chaos Strike, watching for cooldowns and identifying moments of opportunity where it made sense to sit out and wait for a big button to become available, and for it to more readily point out when I had opportunities for Consume Magic to make sure I am as much of an asset to my group as is possible.Ĭlean Multi-Meter Array: I wanted to setup more than just a damage meter, but to instead have eyes on all the roles and the general health of the raid. I’ve rarely used rotation assistant addons, so I didn’t have any strong preference, other than wanting the addon to be lightweight and easy to place near center-screen without obstructing my view. Rotation Assistance: I’ve been getting better at Havoc DH, but I really wanted something to help me manage the rotation better. Over the last few weeks, I set out on a revamp of my current WoW UI, because I found a few things I wanted to have improved upon and some datapoints that might be more useful for me as a co-raid leader and for conversation’s sake during raid livestreams. What I find so oddly fascinating about the topic is how deeply personal they can be – how much people customize their UIs to reach minor improvements, how to tune for readability, the ways in which you can differentiate a player’s role by how things like raid frames and what data meters are visible on screen – healers tend to have centered and short distances to their raid frames, while a raid leader might also accompany that with multiple readouts of DPS, damage taken, damage taken by spell, and the like.įor years now, I’ve used a relatively standard ElvUI installation with a damage meter of my choosing (Skada around Legion era, Details from Battle for Azeroth forward), boss mods (depending on the era I’ve had DBM installed always, but sometimes alongside BigWigs for more clear timers), and some other trimmings like DejaCharacterStats, MikScrollingBattleText for configurable damage in and out numbers, and usually some sort of market management addon like TSM or Auctionator.

The topic of user interfaces in a video game is always very interesting to me.

Elvui update smaller frames