Helping hunters kill bosses one arrow at a time!

What do you stare at raid after raid, besides your toon? Why, your UI of course! This is my introduction to helpful hunter add ons.

Why Should I get Addons?

The original blizzard interface becomes cluttered and messy,  and does not include things such as DBM, or Damage Meters. Taking out the clutter, and adding tools to measure your performance are very big steps on your way to being a successful hunter.

Where do I get Addons?

I go to Curse to get all of my add ons. I strongly suggest downloading the Curse Client, to download your addons automatically. This tool will also run in the background and allow you to easily keep addons updated, and is especially handy after a major patch.

Basic Mods Everyone Should Have!

Deadly Boss Mods

Deadly boss mods is one of the greatest addons ever created! While you should be aware enough to notice when you are standing in fire, this add on is a fail-safe against it. Alerting you to boss special moves, and fight mechanics this is a must have for any raider.

Recount

The joy of being the top dps, or even the failure of a glyph change can be recorded here. Recount is the mod that tells you just how well you’re performing from a dps stand point. However, don’t get dps tunnel vision, and forget to move out of fires,  remember you can’t dps if you’re dead.

Omen

Unless you want to take your chance at hunter tanking, be sure to download a threat meter, omen is my personal favorite. Be sure to Feign Death as your threat inches closer to your tanks.

Personalizing Your UI

Now that you have your basic addons for raiding and running instances, perhaps you want to clean up your UI. Here are my suggestions!

X-Perl

X-Perl is a unit frames mod. This means that when you join a raid group you will be able to see everyone in the raid, and their pets if you so choose. This also will show you when they are in combat, who is taking damage, and who is still alive.

If you have assist you can set your tanks, and see their targets. This feature opens a window for your Main Tanks and their targets, this is insanely helpful for misdirects.

Dominos

This is the mod I use to arrange my action bars. It opens them all up and allows you to place them however you want on your screen, even hiding them until you mouse over  if you so choose. This mod also allows you to easily keybind.

OmniCC and Dominos Buff Times

When used in conjunction with Dominos these show the buff/debuff times for spells that you cast on action buttons as a timer and as a cooldown in addition to coloring the borders of the buttons. Think of it as a bright glaring reminder to get your shots off in time.

Sexy Map

Sexy map is a lovely little addon that will show you who’s pinging the map in your group by name, which is helpful for raid explanations, and lets you edit the appearance and placement of your map in many ways.

FuBar

A smooth little addon, with lots of little plug ins. It’s a small tool bar on the top or bottom of your screen, and here are the plug ins I use:

DurabilityFu Shows your armor and weapon durability at a glance, and will automaticly repair you at any vendor.

TopScoreFu Saves your biggest hits, and keeps track of your top hit for all your shots.  Purely for bragging purposes

RecountFu Pulls up recount whenever you need it, at the click of a button.

OMG! My Screen is a Mess!

So you’ve downloaded a few addons, and now your screen is a jumble of boxes, stats, things are yelling at you and you have no idea why.This means it’s time to step back and start configuring your addons to your personal preferences. This is why UI mods are so great, you get to do whatever you want to your UI!

I do have a few suggestions.

1) Make sure you have plenty of open screen space.

A cluttered UI, where you can’t even see the boss is hurting more than it’s helping, make sure to mess with the scale options if this is an issue.

2)Set things up to the benefit of your play style.

If you never use a certain spell, then there’s no point in letting it take up space on your screen, take the time to evaluate what you actually use.

3)Go to a battle ground and test some things out!

Testing out things in a battleground is alot less costly than possibly wiping a group while fiddling with your settings