DuduHUD (Feral Druid Tank and DPS HUDs)

Introduction

DuduHUD is a heads-up display addon for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Anniversary) designed to keep critical information in front of the feral Tank and DPS druid without too much cluttering the screen. The addon includes multiple HUDs to assist your gameplay:

1. Power HUD (Power, ticker and GCD)
   

2. Cooldown HUD (Abilities and Items Cooldown)
   

3. Rotation HUD (Cat DPS and Bear Tank Rotations)
   

4. Tank HUD (One card per mob engaged)
   

5. Assist HUD (One click assist a party member. Displays how many mobs are aggroing on each party/raid member).
   

6. Announcement HUD (Key announcements)
   

    

The current version is focused entirely on Feral Druids — both DPS (Cat form) and Tank (Bear form). Future versions may extend support to Balance (Moonkin), Restoration (Tree of Life), and potentially other classes if there is interest.

Currently the addon only activates for Druids. All settings and HUD positions are saved between sessions.

Getting Started

Open the options panel via Interface → AddOns → DuduHUD, or by right-clicking the minimap icon.

Left-clicking the minimap icon allows you to reposition the HUDs (left click again to save the new positions). By default some of the HUDs are linked together and move as a group. To position each HUD independently, enable Independent HUD positioning in the options (see below).

HUD labels and drag handles are visible outside of combat only — they disappear automatically when you engage, so they should not get in the way when playing.

The HUDs

1. Power HUD

The Power HUD shows:

• Power bar — A horizontal bar showing your current resource:
  • Red for Rage (Bear form)
  • Yellow for Energy (Cat form)
  • Blue for Mana (Humanoid / Moonkin form)

• GCD bars — A thin white bars above and below the power bar that fills as the Global Cooldown progresses and turns green when the GCD enters the spell queue window when you can queue you next ability (there is an option to automatically set your spellqueue window based on your latency, setting this is encouraged).
• Combo points — Five small rectangular indicators above the top GCD bar, lit up gold for each active combo point (Cat form only).
• Energy tick marker — A faint vertical line on the power bar showing where the next energy tick will land (Cat form only). Use this to time your powershifts and ability usage.

Moving the Power HUD: Drag the handle below the bar label. When in linked mode, dragging the Power HUD moves only the Power/Cooldown pair vertically. Enable Independent HUD positioning to move it freely.

2. Cooldown HUD

Sits directly above the Power HUD (in linked mode) and tracks everything that is currently on cooldown.

• Shows ability and item icons in a left-to-right grid, wrapping upward into additional rows as needed.
• Each icon displays a radial sweep overlay (the familiar circular cooldown animation) and a countdown timer in the bottom-right corner.
• Icons are sorted by remaining duration, shortest first.
• Spells with very short cooldowns (less than 2.5 seconds, i.e. GCDs) are filtered out so only meaningful cooldowns are shown.
• Tracks cooldowns from your spellbook, equipped items, and bag items (including consumables — even after the last one in a stack is consumed).

The Cooldown HUD only shows when you have active cooldowns to display. It grows and shrinks dynamically.

Enabling/disabling: Use the Show Cooldown HUD checkbox in the options panel.

3. Rotation HUD

The Rotation HUD is the centrepiece of the addon. It tells you what to press next so you can keep your eyes on the boss rather than your action bars.

It displays three ability icons in sequence:

Icons animate when an ability is cast — the forecast abilities shift left to promote into the next slot, and a new forecast enters from the right. This gives a smooth conveyor-belt feel for the rotation. The forcasts are just that, forcasts, critical strikes giving you extra combo points or waiting too long to use an ability so you regain more energy than anticipated will casue the forcasts to change.

For Cat form, the rotation logic also shows a powershift count overlay on the Next icon when you need to powershift to regenerate energy.

For Bear form, the HUD suggests the appropriate threat and mitigation ability based on your current debuff state, rage, and number of mobs.

The Rotation HUD also monitors your Mana Potion cooldown and overlays a potion icon suggestion when it is ready and your mana is low.

Enabling/disabling: Use the Show Cat rotation and Show Bear rotation checkboxes in the options panel. Each can be toggled independently.

The addon options panel has options to select rotation variations and customisations.

4. Feral Tank HUD (Mob Monitor)

The Tank HUD is only relevant in Bear form and shows a live card for every hostile mob currently in range being enagaged.

Each card contains:

• Mob name — Truncated to fit the card.
• Raid target icon — Displayed if a raid marker is set on the mob.
• Health bar — Coloured by current threat level:
• Debuff bars — progress bars showing how long the main druid debuffs have left.

Threat colors show how safe your aggro is at a glance:

• Red: You are not secure on this mob; fix this first.
• Orange: Threat is unstable and may be lost soon.
• Yellow: You are close to secure, but still in caution range.
• Green: Threat is stable and under control.
• Grey: Not enough threat data yet.
• Dark grey: The mob is dead.

Card ordering:

• Cards are automatically sorted by threat safety, with the least safe mobs shown first (top of the list).
• In practice, red/orange threats tend to rise to the top, while safer green mobs appear lower.

Debuffs:

• Four compact rows showing the key tank debuffs and how long they have left:
  • FF (Faerie Fire / Faerie Fire Feral) — purple
  • LC (Lacerate) — orange, with stack count (1–5)
  • MG (Mangle) — red
  • DR (Demoralising Roar) — blue

CCC Indicator:

• If the mob is crowd-controlled (Freezing Trap, Hibernate, Banish, Sap, Shackle Undead), the card is overlaid with a coloured shimmer matching the CC type, plus a countdown timer.

The Tank HUD grows and shrinks automatically as mobs appear and disappear. It is always visible in Bear form and hides when you leave Bear.

5. Assist HUD

The Assist HUD lives on the left side of the screen (mirroring the Tank and Rotation HUDs on the right). It shows a compact grid of your party and raid members and allows you to click and quickly assist them if they pull aggro.

By keeping an eye on the assist HUD (and any announcements in the Announcement HUD) you can keep track which mobs your party members are targetting and what is targetting them:

1. Do I have aggro on all the mobs being engaged?
2. Are they all targetting skull or is that pesky DPS targetting something else again?
3. How many mobs has the healer aggro'd?

Each button:

• Displays the member's name and role icon (Tank / Healer / DPS).
• Is coloured by the number of mobs targetting the party member.
• Is an Assist button — clicking it targets the mob that member is fighting. This is particularly useful for quickly picking up mobs that have pulled aggro from the tank.
• Shows any active raid target icon on the member's target.

Assist HUD button color is based on how many visible hostile mobs are currently pressuring that party/raid member:

• Green: no incoming mobs.
• Yellow: 1 incoming mob.
• Orange: 2 incoming mobs.
• Red: 3 or more incoming mobs.
• Dark grey: member is offline or dead.

The small number on each button uses matching urgency colors too:

• 1 = yellow tone
• 2 = orange tone
• 3+ = red tone

Note: It is strongly recommended to keep the Assist HUD enabled even when playing Cat form. Druids are a hybrid class and you may need to emergency-shift into Bear at any moment.

Enabling/disabling: Use the Show Assist HUD checkbox in the options panel.

6. Announcement HUD

A wide, horizontally-centred, scrolling message display near the top of the screen. It acts as both an on-screen alert and a group chat announcer for important events.

Messages fade in and out with a lifetime of 6 seconds. Up to 4 messages can be visible simultaneously, with the newest at the top.

Detected events include:

• A non-tank party/raid member gaining aggro
• A party/raid member being crowd-controlled (with the CC type indicated)

The HUD can also send these alerts to your party or raid chat automatically (see Announcements options below).

Options Reference

Open via Interface → AddOns → DuduHUD.

Rotations

Cat Rotations

These three options are mutually exclusive — pick one to define how finishing moves are handled:

Cat Rotation Options

These toggles apply on top of your chosen rotation mode:

Note: There is a hidden rotation for when you are playing SOLO. Mangle is the defalt builder and shred is only suggested if the target is stunned (e.g. Maim). Soloing works much better with the first option below selected as mobs die too quickly for Rip to be a viable finsiher.

Bear Rotations

HUDs

HUD Visibility

HUD Positioning

Announcements

Advanced

Latest Changes (1.1.0 - 1.3.0)

1. Greatly improved the Rotation HUD and Cat Rotation logic, now gives much smoother animations, and more accurate forcasts. Note that crits that give additional combo points, omen of clarity procs, and miss/parry/block will cause the forcasts to be recalculated! 
2. Added rotation debug addon option that lets you collect information about the rotations that I can analyse if you see any issues.
3. Increased size of announcements.
4. Mana ticker
5. Stealth opening rotations
6. Rotation HUD displayed on targeting enemy, rather that when combat starts.
7. Added FF to the tank rotation.

8. Added tank hud card for target even if it is out of nameplate range.

Potential Future Enhancements

1. Other classes and specs — Under consideration for a future release (Boomkin, Tree, Warior, Paladin...) - only if requested.
2.