30.12.08

Part Duex: The addon monger and healers

I'm an addon addict.

I admit it.

I actually kind of revel in it.

But honestly... DPS doesn't know how damn good they have things. They don't have the entire raid spread out marching across the lower center of the screen, taking up so much freaking room, and they can actually USE a lot of really neat compilations without heavy modification. They don't have to find a spot for grid/ouf/pitbull/insert raid frame mod of choice here. They can hide all of the raid unit frames, leaving just themselves and a target!

But ah, the healers. We must find a spot for grid/ouf/pitbull/insert raid frame mod of choice here. We have to know when shadowfiend/divine plea/mana tide/innervate/etc are coming off of cooldown. We need to know if the tank has a Weakened Soul debuff. We need to know what buffs people have and don't have, for that matter. Visual Heal bars are a godsend, truly. That is the one mod I start twitching if I don't have. Well, that and I've been using oUF for quite a while now.

Where's our cool as heck interfaces that we don't have to play an hour with just to get it functional for healing? (No I'm not kidding.) The ones that can... ahem... artistically display our raid frames of choice, along with knowing our cooldowns, and still look good doing it.

Ah well, to keep searching WoWAce/EJ for various inspiration and keep on rolling my eyes at every Rogue/Mage/Death Knight/Hunter token that just dropped... AGAIN. (Serious, 2x on the helms? Lovely. Thaddius was, and pretty much has been the only dropper of Conqueror. 2x legs tonight... too bad both rotted.) Oh yeah... and to wish that I could find that nice inspiration to make a UI that's both pretty to look at... but still functional.