[Wafflehowse]

I was wondering if some folks would mind sharing how they have their SCT options set up and maybe a screen shot of it in action. Trying to get some ideas of how I want to do mine, and I have found inspiration in the past from peoples UI creations so why not with this also.

[Belak]

I was actually about to post a question along these lines when I saw yours. So I'll combine my current method with my plea for help. (Unfortunately, I'm at work so can't post a screen shot though)

I used to run with a HUD with arcing bars, so I broke SCT's info into 3 scrolling areas - left, right, and between the bars.

Left side was incoming heals.
Right side was incoming damage, blocks, dodges, parries, etc.
Center was my outgoing damage and notifications of tclap getting resisted, etc.

That worked ok for me as our guild MT, but probably wasn't ideal.

Now that 3.0 has hit and I'm doing a lot of AOE tanking, I'm in information overload. The display has almost become meaningless, because it's producing data way faster than I can usefully process it. As a result, I'm missing the important stuff in the sea of mundane.

So, like the original poster, I'd love some suggestions on how other tanks set this for more helpful viewing.

[Shortypop]

I'll second this, going from not much aoe tanking to this, I'm in seriouis information overload. I did manage to turn off the multidinous "Attacking you" and "Change target" messages, but it's still really chaotic.

[Belak]

I haven't looked yet, but one of my guildies said there's a way to combine some of the groups into single large numbers. That might help for things like tclap and shockwave.

[Wafflehowse]

Bump. Deffinitely enough people interested in this for a bump.

[Cryst]

I made the change to Parrot long ago due to SCT/D's inability to suppress and consolidate combat text entries. If I'm AoE tanking, say 25 BT supplicants, the last thing I need to see is individual text strings per tick of consecration per number of mobs. It's screen spam and has no useable information.

On the other hand, seeing 1500 [Consecration Icon] (25 hits) on a single text string is much easier on the eyes, and allows for more important text strings to stay on your screen longer (like those massive revenge crits!).

If SCT/D has this option, I highly recommend consolidating what is shown on your screen. If not, I recommend Parrot or MSBT for anyone pursuing AoE tanking.

[Warwench]

changed to MSBT and love it.

[Caulle]

Source: Belak I haven't looked yet, but one of my guildies said there's a way to combine some of the groups into single large numbers. That might help for things like tclap and shockwave.

Parrot does this by default.

[Belak]

Does MSBT allow you to combine hits like this? I didn't find the option.

I tried Parrot, but the waterfall option screen wouldn't open for me. Only config screen I could get was the option to donate to the author. Anybody know where to find instructions for it or a site that has update information? Ever since WoWAce went down, seems like none of the config instructions got moved over to Curse, etc. *sigh*