Muster Unit Frames

Muster

Complete unit frames. Muster covers every frame the game has — player, pet, target and target-of-target, focus and focus target, boss 1–8, arena 1–5, and party and raid through secure headers. Blizzard's own unit frames and compact raid frames are hidden for you.

It requires no other addon: the oUF framework it is built on is bundled inside it.

The look

Two colour styles with a live toggle. Colour mode fills current health with the class colour. Dark mode is the default and reads in reverse: current health stays dark and the missing portion carries a dimmed class tint you can adjust from 0 to 1.

Health, power and cast bar textures, editable colour palettes for class, reaction, power and dispel types, and font choice. LibSharedMedia is picked up when another addon provides it, and ignored when it doesn't. Bar fills interpolate smoothly by default; turn it off under Appearance.

Configure by clicking the real thing

The options panel shows a live frame you can click. Select a widget by clicking it, drag it to move it, and every change lands on the real frames as you make it.

• Each unit gets the same five sub-tabs: Frame, Bars, Auras, Text, Indicators.
• Bars sit in one ordered stack. Left-drag the grip to reorder, right-drag to resize. The cast bar and class resource strip can be pulled out of the stack entirely and given their own position and width.
• Named profiles, bound per character and optionally per specialisation. Import and export work with no library installed.

What's on the frames

• Heal prediction, damage absorbs and heal absorbs.
• Class resources for every spec that has one: combo points, runes, stagger, chi, holy power, essence, soul shards, arcane charges, soul fragments. The strip can hide itself at zero.
• Dispel highlight, threat border and mouseover border — concentric rings by default so more than one can show at once, or collapse them into a single border and set which state wins.
• Role, leader, assistant, main tank, main assist, PvP, phase, ready check, resurrect and summon indicators.
• Cast bars with an icon, duration text, the spell's target, and a hold time so an interrupt stays visible instead of vanishing like a finished cast. Optional cast bar tinting that shows whether your own interrupt is off cooldown (off by default).
• Out-of-range fading on any unit, including target.
• Private aura anchors — how Blizzard now draws encounter debuffs on allies.
• Buff and debuff containers filtered by category: everything, yours only, cancelable, big defensive, external defensive, dispellable, crowd control, or raid. Plus a global blacklist by spell ID, managed with /muster blacklist.
• Names truncate on character boundaries rather than bytes, so a non-ASCII name never breaks into a replacement glyph.

Getting at it

/muster toggles frame locking. /muster config opens the panel. Also /muster test party and /muster test raid to place frames without a group, /muster color to switch styles, /muster reset to start over.

Known limits, and why

Patch 12.1 made a lot of unit data opaque to addons. Two consequences you will notice:

• The aura blacklist only filters out of combat. It matches on spell ID, and spell IDs are secret while you are in combat, so a blacklisted aura reappears in a fight. No addon can currently do better.
• Debuffs on allies are shown by category, never by individual spell. Blizzard's engine decides what counts as a raid debuff or crowd control. Per-spell tracking on friendly units is not something addons are permitted to do.

Credits

Built on the oUF unit-frame framework by haste and the oUF community, bundled in Libs/oUF under its own licence. The live-preview config approach tips its hat to Platynator and Coolinator by plusmouse; Muster's designer is written from scratch. No code or media from any other addon is used.

Source and issues: GitHub. MIT licence.