Forged Alliance

So, I hear a lot of people say basically the only thing they use addon-wise is DBM. I'd encourage people who find they are struggling with raid awareness or keeping the maximum DPS rotation going while watching timers and whatnot, consider trying out some more advanced user interface modification.

Below is my basic healing UI that I use, in this case my lowbie disc priest. Notice how all of the information I need: target, target of target, focus, target of focus, grid, threat meters, bars, etc are clustered in one spot on my screen.

This facilitates two things. One, my eyes don't need to be constantly looking all over my screen to check things. I can find everything important in one glance. Also, in this case for healing I don't need to move my mouse all over to do things. There are a bunch of things hidden on the screen that disappear when I don't have my mouse over them in case you are wondering where the rest of my bars went.




Addons used specifically for this UI:
XPerl Unit Frames (this is how I moved the character frames around)
Bartender4 - Bar Mod
Omen
Recount
Grid - With various addons for Grid that track raid debuffs, and mouseover macros for healing.
Chatter - Chat mod that lets you customize you chat window.
Quartz - Cast bar addon that lets you track casts/channels and see when server lag allows for a new cast.

The life of a warrior - Where's Thandrenn?:


Part 2 - I'm in there somewhere:


That's right. 6 manning a city boss. We didn't dare try the Dark Lady or Warchief though.


Addons:
Titan Panels on the top and bottom. Not really raid related but it feels awkward when they aren't there.
The first two screenshots use the regular Blizzard Raid Frames. The last one uses Vuh'do, which I use on my Paladin, Druid and soon my Priest.
As for raid addons themselves, all I really use is Deadly Boss Mods, Omen and TimeToDie.

Im using the raid ui from curse and most of the addons that come with it, its super sweet an sexy looking.

A little off-center but I'm too lazy to adjust:

I don't have the resolution to put the unit frames above my action bars, although eventually i'll get to that. Right now it's fine up there because I don't often need to look at my buttons unless I have to cast Sanctuary on jason or something. Or if I have to use my trinkets.

Raiding: (Focus frame is just above my action bars and to the left of the casting bar)



Party mode: Only slightly different.

mine is kinda messy, but it works ok for me