Description
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
- 45+ 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 Circle — cursor highlight with crosshair, circle, and heart textures
Range Display — target range text with out-of-range color warning
Boss Debuffs — external debuff icon display with cooldown spiral, duration text, encounter blacklist, and visibility gating
Focus & Target Castbar — repositionable cast bars with kick indicators, target names, focus raid marker, color settings, and cast sound alert (tabbed GUI)
Utilities
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
Bloodlust Tracker — animated sprite overlay + sound on Bloodlust/Heroism with 4 presets and basic icon mode
Time Spiral Tracker — cooldown spiral overlay with countdown timer for any class
Recuperate Button — one-click self-heal button with health curve visibility
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
World Marker Cycler — cycle through world markers at cursor with drag-to-reorder priority
Focus Marker Macro Builder — auto-creates focus target + raid marker macro
Power Infusion Macro Builder — auto-creates PI macro with trinkets, racials, and potions
Class Status Texts — Pet status, class stance, movement alert, and dispel CD — 4 class-specific text alerts in one tabbed GUI
Combat Potion Ready — "Potion Ready" text when a combat potion is in bags and off cooldown, with instance/combat/healer visibility toggles
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
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 — custom slash command utilities
Auction House Filter — auto-filter AH to current expansion, auto-focus search bar, craft orders filter
Hunter's Mark Missing — Hunter's Mark reminder
Skyriding UI — skyriding vigor bar with second wind tracker and whirling surge cooldown icon
Position Controller — anchors ElvUI Player/Target/Focus/Pet frames to other frames, plus CDM racials bar offset with pet detection (works with ElvUI and UUF). Yields to the standalone ElvUI_Anchor addon if loaded; ignores healer specs by default
Spell Alert Opacity — per-spec toggle for Blizzard's proc activation overlay flashes, plus an opacity slider for the overlay
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
Hide ActionBars — hide specific action bar rows
Great Vault Alert — shows your loot spec when opening the Great Vault with class color and sound alert
Missing Enchants/Gems — red warnings on character panel for missing enchants and empty gem sockets
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 and configurable text format. 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
Enemy Counter — displays the number of enemies currently in combat via nameplate scanning with editable prefix and combat-only visibility
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
Interrupt Tracker — party interrupt cooldown bars with class colors, dark mode, channel kick detection, and healer position override (currently non-functional in 12.0.5 due to API changes — under investigation)
WarpDeplete+ — restores live pull forces tracking, fixes death tooltip and class-colored names in M+, per-mob forces on tooltip mouseover, and announces instance resets to party/raid chat
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
Slash Commands
/kesor/kitnessentials— Toggle settings GUI/kes edit— Toggle edit mode/kes resetgui— Reset GUI position and size
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)