Unit Frames

QUI’s Unit Frames replace the default combat frames with cleaner, more readable versions that are easier to position around your central HUD.

What You Get

• Player, target, focus, pet, boss, and target-of-target frames
• Optional castbars, portraits, auras, absorb overlays, and heal prediction
• Flexible sizing and text formats for health, power, and names
• A darker visual style that pairs well with QUI’s CDM and action bars

Best For

• Players who want their health and target information close to the middle of the screen
• Anyone building a cleaner PvE or PvP HUD
• Users who want a custom castbar even if they keep other parts of the UI fairly simple

Where To Configure Them

• Open /qui and go to the Unit Frames section.
• Use /qui layout if you want to reposition them visually.

Best First Tweaks

1. Move the player and target frames until they sit comfortably around your CDM.
2. Decide how much text you really want to read in combat.
3. Turn portraits on only if they help you.
4. Keep aura counts modest at first so the frames stay readable.

What You Can Customize

• Size, texture, colors, and border styling for each frame type
• Health and power display styles
• Name formatting, optional level text, and class coloring
• Castbars with interrupt and channel support
• Aura placement, icon count, growth direction, duration text, stack text, and Blizzard-style Helpful/Harmful classification filters
• Heal prediction, absorb shields, indicators, and class resources
• Inline target-of-target text, classification icons, reverse target health fill, and show-below-100% health behavior
• Per-frame border color independent of the global skin border
• Resource bar breakpoints, charged combo points, secondary resource swaps, and class utility bars
• Optional standalone player castbar mode

Important Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Frame width/height	Dimensions for each unit frame type	Varies by unit
Health display	Percent, absolute, or both	Percent
Class colors	Color health bars by class	Enabled
Dark mode	Use subdued health/background colors	Disabled
Power bar	Show power bar below health	Enabled
Portrait	Show unit portrait	Disabled
Castbar	Show castbar per unit	Enabled
Aura max icons	Maximum buffs/debuffs shown	Varies by unit
Absorb overlay	Show absorb shield on health bar	Enabled

Per-Frame Border Color

Each unit frame can pick its own border color instead of sharing one skin border with every other frame.

• Open the frame’s Appearance panel and set Border Color Source to one of:
  • Inherit — use the global skin border color (the original shared behavior).
  • Theme accent — use your current theme’s accent color.
  • Class color — color the border by class.
  • Custom — use the Custom Border Color picker right below it.
• The same controls are mirrored under Appearance > Border Coloring > Unit Frames > “Frame” if you prefer to set them all from one place.
• This applies to the player, target, pet, focus, target-of-target, and boss frames.

Frames left on Inherit keep following the global skin border color exactly as before, so you only need to touch the frames you want to stand out.

Good To Know

The player castbar standalone mode is useful if you want QUI’s castbar feel without fully committing to QUI unit frames.

When repositioning unit frames, make sure you are out of combat. Protected frame movement is blocked during combat.

If your target frame feels crowded, try the inline target-of-target option before enabling another full frame.