Back in June, Kae over at Dreambound shared her Power Auras settings. I had seen Power Auras before but I think this post got the cogs turning, as I realised it could be very handy for a number of my cooldowns.

I don’t have buttons visible on my UI, so I rely on cooldown timers or monitors to count down for me, but my bar-style cooldown timers have really been playing up lately; occasionally they would refuse to show me Innervate or Rebirth; and it’s kinda important that I be able to see those! It’s really annoying (and embarrassing) to have to spellbook an ability to find out how much time is left on it.

So I finally, FINALLY got Power Auras.

Here are some shots of my current UI. No raid shots at the moment sorry; need to tweak it a bit. I’ll try to post some, sometime. Click for large versions.

Solo, no target:


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As you can see, I don’t have any abilities or buttons visible; all commonly-used abilities are keybound using BindPad or Macaroon. Some infrequently-used ones are on hidden mouseover bars; things like food, tradeskills, mounts, etc.


My Power Auras

Although my bar cooldowns were clear, I found that I wasn’t paying much attention to them. I guess they just never really suited me; they blend into the rest of the UI and I end up basically never using them.

I decided that I needed to see the following things:

  1. Wild Growth. I either hit it when it’s not up (thus wasting time that I could be casting something else), or I don’t cast it enough. I wanted to be more aware of the cooldown.

  2. Swiftmend and Nature’s Swiftness. These probably speak for themselves – I want to know when they’re up, without looking around my screen for timer bars.
  3. Innervate. I want to Innervate early and often; plus, I need to know immediately if I can innervate the mage that is calling for it, or if I have to refuse them.
  4. Rebirth. When my timers aren’t working, I think Rebirth is up, but it really isn’t. I call out that I’ll rez, but then discover that I can’t. This is very bad.
  5. Low mana. For the times when I use my innervate for myself, I want to know when I’m missing a chunk and can innervate.
  6. Missing buffs. There are still times that I forget to eat, or my flask drops off and I don’t realise.



As you can see, I’ve assigned icons for my short cooldown abilities (Swiftmend, Wild Growth, and NS), so that I can see at a glance when they are available. These icons stay on my screen as long as those abilities are ready to go; they disappear when I use the ability, and then reappear when the cooldown is over.

I was aiming for a colourful icon that basically said, “Hey! I’m here! Use me now!”

When Innervate is up, a purple rune sits around my feet. It tells me that it’s ready to go, whenever I need it. Similarly, a pale green ring tells me that Rebirth is ready when needed. If these rings are missing, I know the abilities are not available for use yet.

I’ve flattened the rings, to make them look as if they are flat on the ground, rather than around my character. I like how it turned out!

Next, when I’m under 80% mana, a purple rune appears over my character for 2 seconds, with a whoosh noise, to prompt me to Innervate (if necessary).This is the only “animated” image – the rest are static. The animation will hopefully get my attention – because scrolling text saying “innervate ready” never does!

Finally, I have two icons that only show during raids – missing food and missing flask. Obviously I don’t care about being well fed or flasked outside of raids, so I’ve set them to show only when I’m in a raid. If a skull pops up, I know to refresh my food and/or flask.

Hooray for Power Auras! Better late than never!



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