GroddFrames

GroddFrames is a unit frame addon for World of Warcraft: Midnight and WoW Forever. It replaces the default unit frames with a custom design while keeping Blizzard's unit information and combat indicators.

Compatibility

This project provides separate files for Midnight and Forever. In the Files tab, choose the download that matches your WoW client.

Unit Frames

• Custom Player, Target, Target of Target, Focus, Focus Target, Pet, and Party frames.
• Independently movable and scalable frames.
• Custom portrait artwork, borders, and backgrounds.
• Elite, Rare, and Rare Elite indicators.
• Level, PvP, threat, and combat indicators.
• Raid markers, role indicators, and unit status information.
• Class-colored health bars.
• Health and power text follows Blizzard's Status Text setting.

Health & Damage

• Damage Echo displays recently lost health as a fading overlay.
• Adjustable Damage Echo duration (0.1–0.5 seconds).
• Incoming healing prediction and absorb shields.
• Over-absorb indicators.
• Texture options for health, power, incoming heals, absorbs, and Damage Echo.
• Custom colors for supported bar elements.

Castbars

• Custom castbars for Player, Target, Focus, Pet, Target of Target, and Focus Target.
• Rounded spell icons matching the castbar height.
• Adjustable bar height, text size, and positioning.
• Separate colors for helpful and harmful spells.
• Channel ticks and interrupt indicators.
• Evoker Empower stage markers (Midnight).
• Independent Player castbar positioning and scaling.
• Weapon swing timer.
• Custom Breath, Fatigue, and Feign Death bars.

Buffs, Debuffs & CC

• Blizzard-based buff and debuff displays.
• Configurable aura positioning above or below unit frames.
• Castbars adjust to accommodate additional aura rows.
• Portrait CC indicators with configurable Spell IDs.
• Dispel indicators for friendly units in the level frame.
• Enrage indicators for supported hostile targets in the level frame.
• Taunt indicators in the level frame.
• Cooldown swipes and duration displays where supported.

Class Resources

Midnight

• Death Knight: Runes
• Demon Hunter: Vengeance Soul Fragments and Devourer resource bar
• Druid: Combo Points and secondary Mana
• Evoker: Essence
• Mage: Frost Icicles and Arcane Charges
• Monk: Windwalker Chi and Brewmaster Stagger
• Paladin: Holy Power
• Rogue: Combo Points
• Warlock: Soul Shards
• Warrior: Colossal Might

Forever

• Druid: Combo Points in Cat Form and a secondary Mana bar in Cat Form and Bear Form.
• Rogue: Combo Points.

In Forever, the Combo Point display reflects your current target. It sits on the player frame by default.

In both editions, you can move the Combo Point display anywhere on screen and scale it independently in the layout editor.

Individual resource displays can be enabled or disabled where supported.

Appearance

• LibSharedMedia-3.0 support.
• Texture settings for health, power, castbars, absorbs, incoming heals, and Damage Echo.
• Grodd Soft Bevel and Hard Edge textures.
• Custom colors for supported frame elements.
• Adjustable castbar and text settings.

Layout & Profiles

• Left-click and drag to move frames.
• Right-click and drag to scale frames.
• Layout editor with Test Mode.
• Party frame preview without joining a group.
• Account-wide named profiles.
• Import and export settings.
• Reset to Default.
• Minimap button for quick access to settings.

Configuration

Type /gf or click the minimap button to open the settings.

Feedback

Bug reports and suggestions are welcome in the comments.