Add-On Corner Part 1

Posted by Dr Dark on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 - 42 Comments

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First off I want to say “Thanks” to everyone for making the launch of Project Lore a successful one. The feedback has been great and I can’t wait to move forward with building this community hand in hand with you all!

Now it’s time for the first installment of Add-On Corner. I don’t know about you but I can’t live without my addons. The WoW UI is nice but man can you really tweak this game or what? We’ve been getting a lot of e-mails asking about my HUD in the show. So I’d like to talk about DHUD or Drathal’s Hud. When I first installed this addon it was because I couldn’t find a good combo point warning addon for WoW. As a rogue I wanted to have a quick reference for how many combo points I had accrued. Now I know there are little addons that just show balls floating in space but I needed something that was a little more clear. So I found this really interesting HUD that clearly showed the combo points right on the side of the enemy. I was not excited at first… weird tron like rings in the middle of the screen? But man after using it for a day I was hooked! It was amazing how nice it is to see such detailed information about you and your enemy right where you’re looking anyway, at the thing you’re killing. Now I will give you a few setup tips for this mod, take ‘em or leave ‘em, this is just how I think it works best.

1) In the “Layouts” tab set the option to have your info on one side and the targets info on the other. By default you have your health and the targets health on one side and your mana/rage/energy as well as the targets on the other. I found this way too confusing right out of the gate. You guys might like it so again take it or leave it.

2) On the “Misc” tab check the box for “Show Player Frame.” I found it weird to not have my little icon in the top left corner. Also, when in a group the space is still there where your player frame would be but it’s just blank… seems weird.

Well I hope you enjoy trying out DHUD. I know it’s a radical change but I think you’ll enjoy it once you give it a shot.

- Dr Dark

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    By Eric on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Let me handle all the comments for this one. Well I use “Addon Name” and it is way better.

    Aside from that, I like to keep all my addons together as much as possible, so I use the WoWAce tools. Updates all addons with one button click (hey my main is a Hunter, it’s a theme with me). WoWAce has an addon called ArcHud that seems very similar that I use.

    As the human torch would say, “Flame on”.

    By Kekka on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Now not saying that this mod is bad or anything becasue it’s tottaly awesome!! just that it’s a little out of date (about a year lol) anyways just saying if your having problems with it, it might be a good idea to try out metaHUD looks like someone els just picked the project up and fully copyed everything and just keeped updateing it abit, only thing i see thats diffrance is the defult scale of the hud witch is quickly changed with a click of a button. heres a link.

    http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3784/

    By Wig on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    I personally love this addon. I used to use the wowace one too but found it caused a split second delay on finishing moves(rogue) and heals(shaman). Maybe a conflict with something else so i removed it….missed my HUD and finally went to find a new one and landed om MetaHUD..the revised Drathal HUD..I second the recommendation for this Add-ON..(if this was origiannaly a recommendation..lol..whatever) my.02

    By Carib on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Me loves me Meta Hud, Options galore!!!

    By Sicari on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Heya Alex!

    thanks for the recommendation of the addon. Looks sharp. I went with the MetaHUD as it’s more up to date but it’s the same concept.
    See ya ingame!

    Sic

    By Syles on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    So its wasn’t MetaHud after all… I should have known. Ill Have to give this thing a try.

    By Stwo on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Alex,

    If you want something a little more light weight, and ACE2, try BasicComboPoints it puts a movable box with a colored number corresponding to your combo points.

    By Sarakar on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Hi,

    Nice Site, was watching your Ramparts vids and was wondering what your Cooldown Timer addon was, as it looked pretty cool and im looking for a decent one.

    Thanks

    Sar

    By cody on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    i love the addons thanks for giving curse.com tht addon website rocks and i cant wait to see the next dungeon you guys do bye

    By alex on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Hey great stuff, i’d also have to agree on the metaHUD addon instead of drath but it’s all basically the same thing. Just watched your new episode, make’s me wanna switch servers lol mine sucks!

    By TJ on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    metaHUD and DHUD look great, i’ll try em out, just to add to the HUD talk, i use ArcHUD right now, but will give DHUD a try.

    By LBJ on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    I’m a pretty casual player with a just-dinged 70 disc priest, and I’m having the worst time finding a good UI AddOn (all that installing and playing around stuff is eating into game time!). Doesn’t sound like metahud would be good for my purposes…any of yous have ideas?

    By Andion on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Was wondering if u guys knew a good raid mod to use?

    By Dan on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Drathal’s HUD (DHUD) is a dead project and has been for some time. After seeing this mod in your video, I’m considering picking up the project though.

    By Dan on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    @myself:

    MetaHud is someone else’s continuation of DHUD.

    just an fyi. :)

    By chris on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    for a dis priest what exactly are you looking for. do you want something that shows health and mana more or ? respond and if i check again ill give a few to check out gotta know more what your after rather then just throwing 80 different ones for you to mess with.

    By Elias on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 am

    i got DHUD, and strangely it boosted my performance, i went form 15fps to 29-32fps

    awesome

    By Mellrica on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am

    DHUD2 also works great and it is built on DHUD

    By Taylor Medley on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    I actually tried all of the hud addons and the only one that i really liked that worked for me was Icehud and i use wowmatrix works really well with my Mac. and ive got a nice list of adds if anybody is interested let me kno reply to this and ill give you a way to get ahold of me.

    By Khrushchev on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    DHUD still works and is a great mod. That link is quite dated though. The current incarnation is DHUD2 available at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/10553/

    By Vishnue on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Dr Dark, are you using the same DHUD, when you play on the mage in some places?

    By eskarver on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 am

    how did you put your heath and energy bars in the middile of the screen

    By hardkilla on Saturday, September 6th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    you guys should use xpearl not grid GRID SUCKS xpearl= way way way better the grid grid = poop
    i have a warrior and a druid my druid healz ZA wit 1400+ healz b/c i move fast (i got 1950+healz atm tho)

    By SlamenShamen Tic Representin on Saturday, September 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Yo i was Just wonderin if there is any way you can select
    an option on Metahud Or D Hud 2 make it always show health and mana bar

    By Fizzbang on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    So I know I’m a little late to the party here but I’m wondering if you’d take requests for Add-on Corner Part II? In a few shots in your videos you can see a small instance map in the lower right corner of the screen that draws a red path (showing where you’ve been or where you should go not sure) and I’d love to know what that is. Any help?

    By Senshi on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    I’d like to know what the buffbar addon is that everyone seems to be using. It’s awesome, and I don’t think it’s Elkano’s BuffBars.

    By Ironhoof on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 1:55 am

    In my opinion this kind of addon is great. I use ArcHUD and i can’t live without it. I don’t have to watch the HP of the Boss/NPC i have to tank…and it show me when he casts and the cast time so i know when to pop my own heals (I am a druid tank and in case of emergency i can start my bear heals). X-Pearl Unit Frames show the same thing but they are at the top of the screen and i don’t like to take my eyes off the boss when i am tanking. ArcHUD is in the middle of the screen and you can see right away if something happens…and you keep your eyes on the boss at all times.

    By victorvndoom on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:36 am

    what sort of mods do you guys use inside the ‘old’ game (before the beta ) that displays names of spells if a target is hit by that spell? dont like waisting time looking them up in the log

    victorvndoom warlock level 51, dragonblight - europe

    By Dracthar on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    I have seen your shows and whas wondering about the fact that you see +XX Mana and +XX Buff on screen when you get mana off a tricket totem or buff what kind off addon is that and what is the name off it becose it is realy a great one for almost every class

    Greetings
    Dracthar son off Drek’Tharr

    By Boost on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Fizzbang,

    It might be Carbonite. Carbonite draws a red line after your character as you run, haven’t watched the video enough to see what you’re talking about tho.

    What I’m really interested in is what buff mod Dr.Dark is using with his HUD. Can’t figure it out!

    By Dracthar on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    What i mean is that you see blue numbers with + mana or + energy or green words with things like Windfury attack fades or Rapid Killing and red things like dodge and Leaving combat and all the buffs/debuffs that proc or get dispell i realy would like to know what mod/addons make this happen coz i would love to know all those things when im in a party and/or raid

    Greetings
    Dracthar son of Drek’Tharr

    By Siggy on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Question for Dr.Dark. What is the addon that puts the action bars up higher right below your carector? love what your doing here.

    Thanks, Siggy

    By John on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    Hey Alex,
    Just want to thank you for helping us all out with UI’s. I love the addon you mentioned in your post and I use it to this day :P

    By Falko on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    What is the floating text addon that zand always has, in his deathknight and raiding videos?

    By galthizle on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    as a mage yourself which mage levels the fastest? arcane, fire, or frost please respond

    p.s. big fan

    By DrowNoble on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    I never had, probably never will, use mods or addons of any kind. As Blizzard tweaks the basic UI, I find more features available (such as Threat %) that make less reason for using an addon.

    Now I have been in “classic” raids (early as healer, later dps), as well as gruul’s and mags. Been to Kara many times. Done countless heroics. Never felt the need for a mod. Plus on patch days my gameplay is unaffected. :)

    I remember a day we were raiding AQ20 (pre-BC) and the guild I been in about 6 months found out the whole time I been healing without any mods. They asked “how is it possible you can raid without “, I replied simply “I pay attention”.

    By Doogin on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 am

    For some reason the whole HUD idea appealed to me and the first one I had was DHud after I saw it on this show. But once Lich came out I wanted something that would be updated because it was only a matter of time that some aspect of the game would restrict DHUD. I’ve used a number of HUDs including ArcHud which is mentioned above quite a bit and the end all one ive come across is Ice Hud. It was released about the same time and is almost 100% customizable. I always like experimenting with different bars on the hud and wut not so Ice Hud is a great add on if ur looking into getting a HUD.

    By Chris on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Hey DrDark what’s up? i was looking around for the addon you have until i found this blog on your site. i was so happy about it until i discovered that your link is broke so you might want to update the link to DHUD2. Anyways i hope things go good for you when quest in Northrend and to the love of all rogues, i salute you.

    By Brigaguerak on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Nice template. Where can i download it?

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    By bob jones on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Those are some great world of warcraft addons! I am currently using 3 out of those 5 with my character. I suggest that you guys read up on some of the guides for these addons as they can be hard to use. A good site to reference is http://www.hiddenstuff.com/ they have some good guides for world of warcraft.

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