KitnEssentials

Standalone combat, utilities, quality of life, dungeons, and skinning modules for KitnUI.

KitnEssentials adds HUD elements, buff trackers, automation features, and Blizzard UI skinning through a fully themed settings panel. Every module is independently toggleable and repositionable via a built-in edit mode.

Features

60+ modules — combat HUD, buff tracking, automation, dungeon tools, and UI skinning
Dark themed GUI — custom settings panel with sidebar navigation and 8 color themes
Edit mode — drag any element to reposition, with anchor and strata controls
Profile system — save, copy, and reset per-character or shared profiles
Minimap button — quick access to settings, edit mode, and reload
Sidebar search — real-time search bar to quickly filter modules by name

Combat

Battle Res — battle res charge tracker

Combat Timer — elapsed encounter timer

Player Crosshair — center-screen combat indicator with range warning

Combat Texts — combat enter/exit, no target warning, interrupt announce with spell icon, and low durability warnings

Cursor Effects — cursor highlight with crosshair, circle, and heart textures, plus an optional dispel-cooldown countdown at the cursor

Range Display — target range text with out-of-range color warning

Advanced Debuffs — bar-based dispellable-debuff display with cooldown swipe, native countdown text, dispel-type border color and atlas overlay (Magic / Curse / Poison / Disease / Enrage / Bleed), PLAYER filter, per-type include/exclude, and spell-ID blocklist. Subsumes the older Boss Debuffs module

External and Defensive Buffs — external defensive cooldowns cast onto you (Pain Suppression, Ironbark, Blessing of Sacrifice, etc.) with cooldown swipe, native countdown text, configurable glow per cast, BigWigs glow integration on incoming raid hits, and a Sound Test button

Focus & Target Castbars — repositionable cast bars with kick indicators, target names, focus raid marker, important-spell glow, out-of-range dimming, color settings, and cast sound alert (tabbed GUI)

Damage Meter — standalone multi-window damage/healing meter built on the 12.0 C_DamageMeter API (replaces Blizzard's built-in meter). Proportional dock with shared backdrop, per-content auto-swapping layouts, eight meter types, class-colored bars with nickname support, header combat clock, out-of-combat spell breakdown / death recap / target details, segment history, and report-to-chat

Class Utilities

Evoker Suite — Disintegrate tick marks, Preservation Stasis spell/countdown tracker, Ebon Might crit/dupe tracker with pandemic refresh glow and ally extension warning, and Prescience Tracker (Prescience/Shifting Sands) — tabbed GUI

Hunter: Mark Missing — alert when Hunter's Mark is not applied

Pet Status Texts — on-screen pet status text alerts for pet classes (Hunter, Warlock, Death Knight, Mage)

Priest: PI Macro — dynamically builds a Power Infusion macro with trinkets, racials, and potions

Spell Alert Opacity — per-spec opt-in/out grid for Blizzard's proc activation overlay flashes (every class, 4-column layout), plus an opacity slider for the overlay

Stance Text — your current stance/shapeshift form name as configurable on-screen text

Totem Tracker — bar tracker for active totems with destroy buttons, configurable layout, and EditMode integration. Tracks all four Augmentation Evoker dupes with independent timers, where the default UI shows only two

Warlock: Burning Rush — glowing icon reminder while Burning Rush is active

Utilities

Combat Potion Ready — "Potion Ready" text when a combat potion is in bags and off cooldown, with instance/combat/healer visibility toggles

No Movement Alert — remaining-cooldown alert when your movement ability is unavailable — auto-detects your highest-priority movement spell (all classes)

Player Absorbs — on-screen text readout of your active damage-absorb shield and heal-absorb, with optional icons, flexible layout (stacked / side-by-side / split), and player-frame anchoring

Raid Notifications — Gateway usability, reset boss reminder, loot boss reminder, Mythic raid bench alert, and seasonal bonus rolls reminder with per-alert toggles and configurable duration

Ready Check Consumables — on ready check, attaches a row of clickable consumable icons (food, flask, weapon enhancement MH/OH, augment rune, healthstone, and Warlock Soulstone with auto-target healer) for one-click application

Recuperate Button — one-click self-heal button with health curve visibility

Time Spiral Tracker — cooldown spiral overlay with countdown timer for any class

World Marker Cycler — cycle through world markers at cursor with drag-to-reorder priority

Healer

Dispel Frame Glow — colored border + top fade on ElvUI party/raid/tank frames with a dispellable debuff (including private auras), tinted by your dispel-type palette with adjustable thickness; requires ElvUI

Dispel on Cursor — your dispel spell's cooldown countdown at the cursor — a healer-focused view of the Cursor Effects dispel countdown (shared settings)

Healer Mana Tracker — displays the current party healer's name, spec icon, and mana % (party-only; hidden in raid); shows OFFLINE when the healer disconnects

Innervate Tracker — icon + countdown while Innervate is on you, with configurable label, glow, and alert sound; healer-capable classes only

Maintenance Tracker — one icon per key maintenance buff with group-member count and lowest remaining duration, color-coded by urgency; spec-aware (Atonement, Renewing/Enveloping Mist, Rejuvenation, Riptide, Echo) with side-by-side multi-spell layout and GUI preview

Quality of Life

Automation — auto-repair, auto-sell, auto-confirm queues, auto-slot keystone, skip cinematics, hide event toasts, hide zone text, and more

Combat Logger — automatic combat logging for raids, dungeons, M+, PvP, and arenas with per-content toggles

CVars — one-click CVar optimization panel

Slash Commands — toggleable shorthand slash commands (/rl, /cd, /fs, /leave, /reset, /mute, /music)

Skyriding UI — skyriding vigor bar with second wind tracker and whirling surge cooldown icon

Position Controller — auto-anchors ElvUI Player/Target frames beside SkironCooldownManager or Ayije_CDM (auto-detected, clears the widest cooldown row); Focus/Pet anchor freely; CDM racials bar offset with pet detection (works with ElvUI and UUF). Writes through ElvUI's mover system so placements survive /reload. Yields to the standalone ElvUI_Anchor addon if loaded; ignores healer specs by default

Custom Nicknames — map characters to personal nicknames on ElvUI and Unhalted Unit Frames via the [kes:nickname] tag family (plus class-color variants [kes:nickname:color] for UUF); includes a management GUI with search, import/export, and replace/merge modes; nicknames also display on the KitnEssentials Damage Meter

WindTools Game Bar — opt-in toggle to hide WindTools' Game Bar without unloading the module

Great Vault Alert — shows your loot spec when opening the Great Vault with class color and sound alert

Character Panel — per-slot item level, enchant labels, gem icons, missing-gem cue, and item-track letters (M/H/C/V/A) on the player and inspect frames; decimal stat-pane and inspect item level; interactive Gem Socket Helper (Shift-click to replace all matching gems); auto-disables BetterCharacterPanel if loaded

World Map — adjustable minimized map scale, coordinate waypoint search bar, and city map icons for Silvermoon / Stormwind / Orgrimmar

Vantus Rune — one-click Vantus Rune withdrawal from Guild Bank with priority search and confirmation

Skinning

General UI Clean Up — hide unnecessary Blizzard UI elements

Buffs, Debuffs & Externals — restyle aura icons and bars

Action Bars — dark themed backdrops, cooldown text styling and proc glow sizing

Blizzard Mouseover — highlight and tooltip behavior tweaks

Blizzard Texts — font and outline changes for Blizzard text

Blizzard Tooltips — tooltip backdrop and font restyling

Micro Menu — micro menu bar appearance

Battle.net Toast — dark theme for BNet notification toasts with custom anchor positioning

Details Backdrop — Details! Damage Meter backdrop styling

Raid Manager Panel — raid manager panel appearance

Dungeons

Death Notifications — on-screen alert when party/raid members or your focus target dies, with class portrait + color, configurable text format, and an optional voice (TTS) reminder when your focus dies in combat. Active in dungeons by default; raid activation is opt-in

Dungeon Casts — enemy cast bars for M+ nameplates with icon, target text, raid icons, bar stacking, and interruptible/shielded status colors

Dungeon Timers — curated dungeon ability timers driven by BigWigs events with hand-tuned cast durations, phase tracker for HP-based encounter transitions, role-based filtering, and per-spell display overrides; plus a Dungeon Trash Tracker that predicts trash-pack casts from nameplate observation across 8 dungeons, with on-nameplate countdown icons and per-ability sounds

Enemy Counter — displays the number of enemies currently in combat via nameplate scanning with editable prefix and combat-only visibility

Focus Marker — auto-creates a focus targeting + raid marker macro, with optional party ready-check announce

Interrupt Tracker — party interrupt cooldown bars rebuilt for 12.0.5, with live synced bars for teammates using kick-sync addons, temporary class-colored kick records for everyone else, dark mode, and healer position override

Keystone Helper — three M+ keystone reminders: party/raid announce on instance reset, a glowing "reroll your key" prompt after timing a key at/above your keystone's level, and a "Your Key?" prompt when entering the Mythic 0 dungeon matching your owned keystone

Mythic+ Timer — self-contained keystone timer HUD with count-up timer, +3/+2/+1 threshold marks, aggregate forces bar, per-boss objective list with clear times and personal-best deltas, deaths line with class-colored hover log, personal-best splits, Challenger's Peril aware cutoffs, enemy tooltip + nameplate forces overlay (replaces the standalone WarpDeplete+ overlay), keystone auto-insert, Blizzard objective-tracker hider, boss-split party chat posts, and a Rookery +12 live preview. Six-tab config page (/kes mt)

Targeted Spells — mirrored icon + countdown entries for enemy casts targeting you, with important-spell glow, an interrupt X indicator, per-content filters, and adjustable layout, font, and colors

ElvUI Tags

[kes:name-classcolor] — Unit name with class/reaction color
[kes:target:separator] — White » separator, hidden when no target
[kes:target:name-classcolor] — Target name with class/reaction color
[kes:group] — Shows "Group: X" only while in a raid
[kes:mana:percent] — Unit's mana percentage, hidden at 100%

Slash Commands

/kes or /kitnessentials — Toggle settings GUI
/kes edit — Toggle edit mode
/kes mt — Open the Mythic+ Timer settings page
/kes dm — Toggle the Damage Meter dock (/kes dm reset clears segment history)
/kes resetgui — Reset GUI position and size
/kes help — List every available command in chat

Credits

Built on the NorskenUI framework. Both NorskenUI and AtrocityEssentials have been a steady source of ideas — thanks to both projects.

Related Addons

KitnUI — ElvUI profile installer with guided setup
KitnUI Lite — Standalone profile installer for popular addons (no ElvUI required)