Retail-like Weak Auras UI for Shadow Priest
Shadow Priest Weak Auras
Hi there guys. I'd like to introduce myself before explaining what I'm about to share. I'm Lunminas, a Disco Priest main from the guild <Fade>, I've been playing on Warmane for around 3 to 4 years now with some experience on retail.
This Weak Auras was made in attempt to fulfill something that's been missing from the contemporary Wrath of the Lich King community: New and updated User Interfaces. This project is essentially a start to make the 3.3.5a experience inherit some of the best improvents from retail content. Taking into consideration that Weak Auras 2 has been updated in August to be compatible with a plethrera of components from the origial retail addon, it's now possible to develop clean, functional UIs on it's new 2.18 build, with added effects, conditions, triggers, etc.
With this, I'd like to share my WA Import, but do realize that this does not work with old version of Weak Auras.
If you're unsure where to download the new version, check for Bunny67's Weak Aura 2 Github repository. The build should be there.
Features
There's one main group and 3 other groups linked to the main one for this UI, they are separated in order to keep things organized. All the dynamic groups are dynamic for a reason, you won't see the UI this clogged, the screenshot shows all icons for all groups.
- The Main Rotation group displays your most used abilities and resources. It tracks your DoTs, but only has a special effect for Vampiric Touch. It also displays cooldowns for SW: Death and Mind Blast
- The Upper Group shows engineering gloves CD and Shadowform aura missing.
- The Left Group is shows active, aura and CD icons for shadowfiend and dispersion.
- The Right Group displays active, aura and CD icons for both of your hymns.
Things to note
This UI has certain common characteristics, such as displaying important rotation abilities and cooldowns with glowing effects for high priority purposes and also cooldowns with a desaturated textures so you know what's not up to be used. Important abilities also display unique effects when they're about to be off cooldown once again.
Comments on the UI
This UI is actually pretty different from the others on the back-end side of things. It uses different auras for wether or not the ability is on CD. This was done to solve an issue with the current version of Weak Auras which overwrites the "desaturate" option from a condition. So avoiding desaturation through conditions solves the issue but clogs the groups. This isn't relevant for perfomance, just aesthetics.
WARNING
Please do take note that this Import only works on version 2.18 of Weak Auras(Bunny67's), and also that resizing the original UI is done through the Main Rotation group, simply go to Paladin Rotations, group, Group Scale.
Import
As I said, this build is separated in 4 groups so we can keep it organized and modular. If there's things you don't want in your UI apart from the main rotation, you can simply not download it and it'll work just fine, also, the pastebin links can be changed easily, so if there's a new build, check the changelog and understand that it's already updated. With that being said, here are the links:
1. Shadow Priest (Main Rotation)
2. Shadow Priest (Upper Group)
3. Shadow Priest (Left Group)
4. Shadow Priest (Right Group)
More of my UIs
Did you like my UI? Please, make sure to check the rest! I'm attempting to make UIs for all classes. If you are interested, please check out this project's main thread for more.
Changelog
v1.0 (20/11/2020) - Released
