Need help with ElvUI

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So i downladed ElvUI and i didnt really like much about it except from some thing.

The things i liked was the party/raid frames looked much better + when someone in my party popped a persocal CD it was shown on the character frame. + more debuffs that is necessery to know as a healer was shown on the frames aswell, like if someone got axe debuff in Kingsrest etc, this things are the only things i would like to have since wow’s own partyframes dont provide as much info.

So my Question is if there is possible to remove all other unnecessary things they put in it and just have the party frames plus that it shows all CD’s ppl are using and debuffs etc.

Another thing im looking for is an addon that shows me what CD’s ppl have available next to their party frames.

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If you only want the party/raid UI functionality, then you might want to invest time configuring Grid2 or VuhDo instead of ElvUI which is a bit more wholesome.

As for CDs in party play, you can try some WeakAura configurations, but since I can’t provide links, you’ll have to search for Yuqii’s Mythic+ CDs as an example.

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I use Vuhdo for raid frames. Its a bit tricky to setup but you get used to it and can track the important debuffs/buffs np.

Regarding available cds only addon I know of is Exorsus raid tools, but it places the information in own windows, not on frames…

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Don’t use ElvUI, it hogs your CPU cycles like mad when you AOE. It’s bugged.

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Never heard of that problem. My pc worked just fine using elvui even on my old potato computer.

I needed a lot of time to get used to elvui after replacing default but i love it right now personally. Just hard to get used to changes. Im using elvui raid frames with clique.

I would very much recommend changing to another raid frame than the default one.
If you dont want to use elvui you can go for vuhdo or grid2, both are commonly used and good frames.

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Oh and as for others CDs you can find weak auras to track anything you want or use exorsus to track CDs.

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As others said it, if you want customizable healing frames, there’s more addons that do it - and they are specialized for it. Elvui frames themselves are neat out of the box but editing what they show is not very comfortable. Vuhdo and Grid are more maleable.

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I did not experience any problem with CPU and my comp is like 10 years old now. It is time to buy new one but for the sake of argument, I don’t have problem with ElvUI.

@Snookii, if you open ElvUI settings, on the left hand side, there are groups of settings related to General, Bags, etc. Somewhere at the bottom, you should see a group “UnitFrames”. This group is massive and may be overwhelming at first. In each subgroup, such as “Player”, “Target”, “5 man group”, “Raid” etc. you should see a number of tabs and one of them is named something like “Buffs” and contains settings related to the way you would see raid member buffs / debuffs. I think, as I can’t confirm that now, it is there where you turn on/off buffs you want to see or choose how buffs are represented; e.g. buffs can be placed in the middle of each player’s frame as an icon, or in a corner as a small coloured square etc. Hope this helps.

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Never had this issue myself, although I’ve only used it on a semi decent laptop, and now my pride and joy of a desktop (selling a kidney would have likely done me better for the finance though!).

@snookii in answer to your original question; I actually really like the Elvui frames- I often struggled with other frames add-ons, although there are pleanty available (everyone has they preferences), and Elvui is extremely modular - so yes, if all you’re interested in is raid and party frames, you can turn everything else off (head into the Elvui controls and make sure ‘enabled’ is un-ticked for anything you don’t want.)

As for cleansing and Cooldown notifications; first cleansing I find Elvui’s colour highlighter, + DBM shouting at anything I can dispel covers most bases.

For cooldowns I’m less certain, I do tend to macro my own big CD’s to whisper the target so they get a heads up that they’re being looked after / don’t need to blast through their own cooldowns. Otherwise it’s entirely situational between bosses, raid types and pugs, vs dungeons and mythic.

Hope that is of some help, good luck!

EDIT: In my afternoon browsing I came across an addon called Buff Overlay, which seems to have the functionality you want in terms of showing other peoples defensive cooldowns. Hope that helps! :+1:

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