ISO: a mod that shows status info near the character

John Salerno wrote:

> 1. shows player health
> 2. shows rage/energy/combo points

For this I use ArcHUD2, which is an Ace2 addon that shows your health
and stuff as little green/red/blue curves around your character.

http://www.wowace.com/wiki/ArcHUD

> 3. shows abilities you can use and when they are ready

For this I have Scrolling Combat Text, which although it doesn't show
*all* of the abilities when they are ready, it does show some of the
more useful as messages - for example "execute" for warriors, which
flashes on the screen when you are able to do it.

It also shows all sorts of useful info and is very customisable.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info3965

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"Dylan Parry" <usenet DeleteThis @dylanparry.com> wrote in message
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> John Salerno wrote:
>
>> 1. shows player health
>> 2. shows rage/energy/combo points
>
> For this I use ArcHUD2, which is an Ace2 addon that shows your health
> and stuff as little green/red/blue curves around your character.
>
> http://www.wowace.com/wiki/ArcHUD
>
>> 3. shows abilities you can use and when they are ready
>
> For this I have Scrolling Combat Text, which although it doesn't show
> *all* of the abilities when they are ready, it does show some of the
> more useful as messages - for example "execute" for warriors, which
> flashes on the screen when you are able to do it.
>
> It also shows all sorts of useful info and is very customisable.
>
> http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info3965

I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely priceless.
Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like the look of
its curves better than the ArcHUD.
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drowland wrote:
> "Dylan Parry" <usenet.DeleteThis@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
> news:4655b6c1$0$639$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>> John Salerno wrote:
>>
>>> 1. shows player health
>>> 2. shows rage/energy/combo points
>> For this I use ArcHUD2, which is an Ace2 addon that shows your health
>> and stuff as little green/red/blue curves around your character.
>>
>> http://www.wowace.com/wiki/ArcHUD
>>
>>> 3. shows abilities you can use and when they are ready
>> For this I have Scrolling Combat Text, which although it doesn't show
>> *all* of the abilities when they are ready, it does show some of the
>> more useful as messages - for example "execute" for warriors, which
>> flashes on the screen when you are able to do it.
>>
>> It also shows all sorts of useful info and is very customisable.
>>
>> http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info3965
>
> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely priceless.
> Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like the look of
> its curves better than the ArcHUD.
>
>

Thanks guys! I will check these out tonight!
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drowland wrote:

> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely priceless.
> Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like the look of
> its curves better than the ArcHUD.

I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the
character portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it
back, but it grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character
picture, and it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.

AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.
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John Salerno wrote:
> drowland wrote:
>
>> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely priceless.
>> Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like the look of
>> its curves better than the ArcHUD.
>
> I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the
> character portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it
> back, but it grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character
> picture, and it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.
>
> AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.

Scratch that, I guess it was just a temporary problem. Now it's back and
normal. Woo!

I love the energy ticker!
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John Salerno wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> drowland wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely priceless.
>>> Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like the look of
>>> its curves better than the ArcHUD.
>> I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the
>> character portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it
>> back, but it grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character
>> picture, and it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.
>>
>> AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.
>
> Scratch that, I guess it was just a temporary problem. Now it's back and
> normal. Woo!
>
> I love the energy ticker!

Ok new question: how do I enable the display of combo points? It seems
like i have it turned on, and i changed it to "graphical" rather than
floating number text, but I don't see anything on the screen to indicate
combo points.

Also, how do I use SCT to show when my animal form abilities are ready?
Or does it not work that way?
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"John Salerno" <johnjsal.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> drowland wrote:
>
>> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely
>> priceless. Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just like
>> the look of its curves better than the ArcHUD.
>
> I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the character
> portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it back, but it
> grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character picture, and
> it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.
>
> AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.

A Hud did that for you? Odd, the HUD shouldn't touch your character portrait
(aka unitframe). I also use ag_Unitframes mod, and that one by default makes
my unitframes extremely small and with no portrait. But once I found how to
configure it, I made it large enough to read again and re-added the
character portrait, which is not needed, but just something I'm used to
seeing.
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"John Salerno" <johnjsal.DeleteThis@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> John Salerno wrote:
>> John Salerno wrote:
>>> drowland wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree with both of these, I find a HUD and SCT to be absolutely
>>>> priceless. Only difference is I use IceHUD, also an Ace mod. I just
>>>> like the look of its curves better than the ArcHUD.
>>> I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the
>>> character portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it
>>> back, but it grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character
>>> picture, and it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.
>>>
>>> AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.
>>
>> Scratch that, I guess it was just a temporary problem. Now it's back and
>> normal. Woo!
>>
>> I love the energy ticker!
>
> Ok new question: how do I enable the display of combo points? It seems
> like i have it turned on, and i changed it to "graphical" rather than
> floating number text, but I don't see anything on the screen to indicate
> combo points.
>
> Also, how do I use SCT to show when my animal form abilities are ready? Or
> does it not work that way?

I haven't actually used the show combo points option on IceHUD yet. I use
the scrolling combat text's option to display CP in floating text, that's
how I know what my CP's are at. My old HUD, drathil's, used to show the cp
dots along the target's health bar on the left, I guess I haven't noticed
IceHUD not doing that...

And what precisely do you mean by animal form abilities? Is this on a druid?
If so, then I'm afraid I can't help...haven't played a druid in ages and I
didn't use so many fancy mods back then
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drowland wrote:

>> I agree, IceHUD looks much nicer, but I hate how it removes the character
>> portrait from the upper left. I found an option to put it back, but it
>> grays out my health and shows 1/1, and there's no character picture, and
>> it had the crossed swords like I was in combat.
>>
>> AceHud is okay too, but a little too wide.
>
> A Hud did that for you? Odd, the HUD shouldn't touch your character portrait
> (aka unitframe). I also use ag_Unitframes mod, and that one by default makes
> my unitframes extremely small and with no portrait. But once I found how to
> configure it, I made it large enough to read again and re-added the
> character portrait, which is not needed, but just something I'm used to
> seeing.

Yeah, it removed both my portrait and the enemy portrait when you target
them, but there are options to turn that back on.
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drowland wrote:

> I haven't actually used the show combo points option on IceHUD yet. I use
> the scrolling combat text's option to display CP in floating text, that's
> how I know what my CP's are at. My old HUD, drathil's, used to show the cp
> dots along the target's health bar on the left, I guess I haven't noticed
> IceHUD not doing that...

Yeah for now I'm using SCT to show my CPs, since IceHUD doesn't seem to
be working in graphical mode.

> And what precisely do you mean by animal form abilities? Is this on a druid?
> If so, then I'm afraid I can't help...haven't played a druid in ages and I
> didn't use so many fancy mods back then

Yes, stuff like Claw, Rake, etc. I never get a notice that anything is
ready to use.
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