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05-31-10, 05:31 PM   #1
Crozula
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Minor Tweak for mana

Just a minor suggestion for nUI. I personally hate huds. Not the whole thing, just the mana/health bars. I can never keep track of what is what, and i get confused. So, naturally, the first thing i did after installing nUI and giving it a run through a couple randoms was turn the hud to simple (because i DO like the cast bar and buff debuffs that the hud shows). After getting used to the the relocation of my unit frame and target unit frame, i found that this was exactly what i need for a simple de-cluttering of my raiding interface... (There was so much stuff on screen during the LK fight that i couldn't see my own cast bar before i made the change)

Anyway, the one hangup i ran into with nUI that nearly made me uninstall it was that, if the hud was turned off (or to simple), there was nowhere i could look to see the exact number of mana i had remaining (not a percentage). I was able to remedy this by changing the layout files, but it was something that had to be done individually for every layout below 25man. Just something i thought that was simple to add in on my own, but others might be looking for it as well and not be so willing to wade through and make the change themselves. For me at least, it was something i absolutely needed.
 
05-31-10, 05:57 PM   #2
Chmee
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Just curious, but why do you "absolutely need it"?
 
05-31-10, 09:28 PM   #3
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I believe there's a plugin in the HUD Layout download section that puts the text on the simple HUD for you, too.
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06-01-10, 01:02 PM   #4
Crozula
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Originally Posted by Chmee View Post
Just curious, but why do you "absolutely need it"?
I use it so i can have a better idea of how many casts i have left until completely out. It lets me squeeze a life tap in at more opportune times than just so low on mana i can't cast. For example, if i cast immolate and want to cast conflag right after that, it takes a half a second for conflag to be available (waiting on the debuff on the actual mob before you can cast) and that is a perfect time for an instant cast, like life tap. And i need to know when i am getting low on mana whether i can wait for that point in my rotation, or if i need to life tap immediately in order to keep casting.

Thanks for the heads up about the add-on though.
 
06-01-10, 01:16 PM   #5
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Hmm, maybe once nUI 6 is complete and we get the customization sorted out maybe we will start seeing class specific changes whereby certain elements that are useful for one class is displayed while others will decided they don't need to know and hide it rofl.
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06-01-10, 01:30 PM   #6
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Truth be told, nUI5 is very HUD centric and you've turned the HUD off... so you've lost the assumption that the HUD *does* show you the detailed mana information you are lacking now. But, of course, you already know that and we've kinda circled back to the starting point for the thread... you've worked around it and nUI6 will resolve it.

So it should be all good.
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