Health bar addons

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I don’t mind the standard health and target bars but what addons are out there to use instead? I find the standard ones to small I know you can move them about etc but they are just to small!

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I’m not sure if you mean the healthbars on the unitframes or on the nameplates.

For unitframes, these are some of the popular ones:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/shadowed-unit-frames/screenshots
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/grid2/screenshots
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/vuhdo/screenshots
many of them can be heavily customized though, so you can pretty much make it look however you want.

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For nameplates, these are some of the popular ones:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tidy-plates-threat-plates/screenshots
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/plater-nameplates/screenshots
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/kuinameplates/screenshots

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Hi,

Thank you, sorry I mean the unit frames, I did try that shadow one and it just blew my mind, and I wasn’t able to increase the size of the actual unit frame, if I could increase the size of the standard unit frame I’d be happy, is this even possible?

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I’m not aware of any setting to change the size of -only- the unitframes.

You can change your UI Scale in the wow settings, but that will affect every single UI element. (so your questlog and actionbars and … everything… will resize).

Alternatively, the addon MoveAnything might be able to do what you need:
https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/move-anything

  • Type /move,
  • Scroll down to find the relevant frame (like say “Unit: Player”) in the list. When you unfold “Unit: Player” you see a list of some of its parts, the top one “Player” is the whole player frame which is one of the ones you need.
  • Next to it you’ll see 2 empty checkboxes, enable the first one to get access to a “Mover”.
  • Now you should see a little “mover” window with arrow buttons to move the thing (ignore that).
  • More importantly, the player frame itself will have a gray overlay on it. You could now move this frame around (if you want) with your mouse.
  • If you look closely at the gray overlay, you’ll notice it has a tiny black block on the bottom and rightside, you can click & hold down those to change the scale of the playerframe.
  • You can also change the transparancy by using your scrollwheel while you hover your cursor over the gray overlay.
  • If you mess it up, click the Reset button in the MoveAnything window (right next to that Mover-checkbox you enabled)
  • Once you’ve tweaked it to your liking, disable the mover-checkbox in the MoveAnything window again and close MoveAnything.
  • You can make the settings permanent by logging out of the game.
  • You can of course repeat this process for other frames, like the Target, Focus and/or Party unit frames, and whatever else you might want to resize.
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I think Easy Frames is what you are looking for.
Looks like the standard ones but the health bar is twice as wide and class colored.

www curseforge com/wow/addons/easy-frames

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