So i was playing around with some mods the other day. I had read an article off wowinsider where someone had mentioned PitBull as being a good mod. I decided I'd give it a shot and wanted to give a quick summary of my impressions.
First: what is it? It's a Unit Frame mod build on Ace. I love Ace, the WowAceUpdater is great and it seems that a lot of the mods built on it are very high quality. It is a replacement for the standard blizzard unit frames and competes with mods such as x-perl (which I used to use) and sRaidFrames.
When I first installed the mod, my initial impression was "meh". It didn't look all the special with the default configuration. So I said, well let's see how I can change things around to work a little better. I moved my mouse over to the new configuration button siting on my mini map. When I hit right click I nearly fell off my chair. Holy Cow! take about a TON of options. At first I was a bit overwhelmed, and with my initial impression being less than favorable, I nearly uninstalled the mod. Then I got to thinking. You know the biggest complaints I hear about the existing mods is that this mod can't do this or this mod can do that. Everyone is nitpicking little details about how they wish something worked slightly different. Maybe having so much configuration is a good thing. So, I rolled up my sleeves and starting digging in.
First thing I did was put the mod into solo configuration mode. I saw all the standard frames displayed that I'm used to. Player, Target, Target's Target, Focus, Focus' Target. I also saw where all the slots are reserved for buffs and debuffs. I really like the mods configuration mode. You see everything that is either enabled or disabled so you know where all the information is going to go. I also noticed a casting bar, deficit health bars, Range check, a FSR timer on the mana bar (nice!). There is a wealth of information available on each of the different frames. I started playing around with making changes. Want the health bar on bottom? Put it there. Don't like the font? Change it to one of a dozen different possible fonts. You can change the scale, width, height. Where the buffs and debufs are located. How many buffs/debuffs show up. How big they are. How you filter it. Don't like the default health information? Change it! it even has custom text where you use variables for currentHP/maxHP and setup a health string EXACTLY like you want it. Want a portrait? Add it!
Well after spending some time in solo configuration mode, I switch to party. To my delight I have every option available to me on party frames that were available on player/target frames. There are Party Target and Party pet frames too. Each type of frame is independently configurable so you can have your pet frames be just the health bars with the names of the pets. You can turn on/off buffs/debuffs on the pets.
Finally I switched to raid configuration mode. Holy frames batman! there are the standard raid frames, but then you have tank frames, MA frames, target frames for MA/TANK. Target's target for MA/TANK. There are even raid target and pet frames! You can enable/disable these frames to customize what is available, but EVERYTHING is there. In addition, every capability that is on Player/Party frames is also on raid frames. You can have casting bars, range check, everything you could possibly want to see.
Are you tired of having separate mods for party and raid frames? Are you tired of missing that one key piece of information that one mod lacks? Do pets die in raids cause you can't see them? Pitbull may just be the answer for you. Be prepared to spend some time configuring the mod, but once you learn all the configuration options there is nothing it can't do.
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First: what is it? It's a Unit Frame mod build on Ace. I love Ace, the WowAceUpdater is great and it seems that a lot of the mods built on it are very high quality. It is a replacement for the standard blizzard unit frames and competes with mods such as x-perl (which I used to use) and sRaidFrames.
When I first installed the mod, my initial impression was "meh". It didn't look all the special with the default configuration. So I said, well let's see how I can change things around to work a little better. I moved my mouse over to the new configuration button siting on my mini map. When I hit right click I nearly fell off my chair. Holy Cow! take about a TON of options. At first I was a bit overwhelmed, and with my initial impression being less than favorable, I nearly uninstalled the mod. Then I got to thinking. You know the biggest complaints I hear about the existing mods is that this mod can't do this or this mod can do that. Everyone is nitpicking little details about how they wish something worked slightly different. Maybe having so much configuration is a good thing. So, I rolled up my sleeves and starting digging in.
First thing I did was put the mod into solo configuration mode. I saw all the standard frames displayed that I'm used to. Player, Target, Target's Target, Focus, Focus' Target. I also saw where all the slots are reserved for buffs and debuffs. I really like the mods configuration mode. You see everything that is either enabled or disabled so you know where all the information is going to go. I also noticed a casting bar, deficit health bars, Range check, a FSR timer on the mana bar (nice!). There is a wealth of information available on each of the different frames. I started playing around with making changes. Want the health bar on bottom? Put it there. Don't like the font? Change it to one of a dozen different possible fonts. You can change the scale, width, height. Where the buffs and debufs are located. How many buffs/debuffs show up. How big they are. How you filter it. Don't like the default health information? Change it! it even has custom text where you use variables for currentHP/maxHP and setup a health string EXACTLY like you want it. Want a portrait? Add it!
Well after spending some time in solo configuration mode, I switch to party. To my delight I have every option available to me on party frames that were available on player/target frames. There are Party Target and Party pet frames too. Each type of frame is independently configurable so you can have your pet frames be just the health bars with the names of the pets. You can turn on/off buffs/debuffs on the pets.
Finally I switched to raid configuration mode. Holy frames batman! there are the standard raid frames, but then you have tank frames, MA frames, target frames for MA/TANK. Target's target for MA/TANK. There are even raid target and pet frames! You can enable/disable these frames to customize what is available, but EVERYTHING is there. In addition, every capability that is on Player/Party frames is also on raid frames. You can have casting bars, range check, everything you could possibly want to see.
Are you tired of having separate mods for party and raid frames? Are you tired of missing that one key piece of information that one mod lacks? Do pets die in raids cause you can't see them? Pitbull may just be the answer for you. Be prepared to spend some time configuring the mod, but once you learn all the configuration options there is nothing it can't do.
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