Danders Frames

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Midnight Party/Raid frames.

WoW 12.1.0 Actively Maintained

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Estimated downloads/hour over observed intervals in the last 48 hours.

Latest interval +22.1 /h 0.997h observed interval · ending Sep 11, 4 AM
Peak estimate +124 /h 0.992h observed interval · ending Sep 10, 7 PM
Average estimate +39.5 /h Time-weighted · 47.1h covered of 48h

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About this addon

What it does

DandersFrames

DandersFrames is a fully custom party and raid frame addon — built from the ground up for WoW Midnight (12.0). Total control over every aspect of your group frames, with a powerful Aura Designer, built-in Click Casting, automatic raid layouts, and deep customization.


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🔮 Aura Designer

A full visual indicator system built right into the addon — track buffs and defensives directly on your frames without any external tools.

  • 8 indicator types — Icons, Squares, Bars, Border Effects, Health Bar Color, Name Color, Health Text Color, and Frame Alpha
  • Drag-to-place on 9 anchor points with pixel-perfect offset control
  • Frame effects — Change health bar color, name color, or frame transparency when specific auras are active
  • Multi-trigger effects — One effect triggered by multiple auras (OR logic)
  • Layout groups — Grouped indicators that automatically collapse when inactive
  • Priority stacking — Set priority per aura so the most important one always wins
  • Per-spec configurations — Different setups for each specialization, auto-swapping on spec change
  • Curated aura lists for all healer specs + Augmentation Evoker to get started fast
  • Live preview with adjustable zoom and click-to-select editing

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🖱️ Built-in Click Casting

Full click-casting built right in — no extra addons needed.

  • Bind spells and macros to any mouse button + modifier combo
  • Per-spec profiles that auto-switch when you change spec
  • Works on party, raid, pet, boss, target, and focus frames
  • Smart resurrection detection and spell transform support
  • Tooltip shows active bindings and usability on hover
  • Import/export profiles to share setups

⚙️ Auto Layouts (Raid)

Automatically switch raid frame settings based on content type and group size — no manual profile swapping.

  • Three content categories: Instanced, Mythic (20-man), and Open World
  • Size-range profiles — different layouts for 1-10, 11-20, 21-40 players
  • Override-only storage — only your changes are saved, everything else inherits from your base profile
  • Visual override indicators so you always know what's customized
  • Copy layouts between content types and size ranges

📌 Pinned Frames

Create custom frame groups for specific players — pin your co-tank, co-healer, or priority targets into their own movable group.

  • Multiple independent pinned sets
  • Auto-populate by role (tanks, healers, DPS)
  • Per-set sizing, growth direction, and positioning
  • Keep offline players option

🧪 Test Mode

Configure everything without needing a group.

  • Preview 1–5 party or 1–40 raid frames on demand
  • Animated health, absorbs, auras, dispels, range fading — all simulated
  • Quick-link buttons jump directly to relevant settings
  • Collapsible panel with active element badges

✨ Core Features

🎨 Health Bars

  • Dynamic gradients — Color shifts green → yellow → red as health drops
  • Class colors, custom colors, or hybrid mode
  • 15+ built-in textures + SharedMedia support
  • Smooth bar animations with exponential easing
  • Missing health overlay with gradient coloring
  • Health threshold fading — Fade frames above a health % to focus on damaged players

🛡️ Absorbs & Heal Prediction

  • Absorb overlay or floating bar with full positioning control
  • Heal absorb tracking (Necrotic, etc.)
  • Incoming heal prediction — See heals in flight from you, others, or all
  • Overheal display with overflow threshold

⚡ Resource Bars

  • Healer-only mode — Only show mana for healers
  • Full positioning, sizing, and color control

🎯 Aura Control

  • Two filtering modes: Blizzard (automatic) or Direct API (granular control)
  • Direct mode filters: Player-cast, Raid, Defensives, External Defensives, Important Spells
  • Defensive Bar — Shows all active defensives simultaneously with wrappable layout
  • Boss Debuffs (Private Auras) with highlight borders
  • Missing buff indicator — Detects missing raid buffs, works in combat
  • Buff deduplication — auras shown in Aura Designer or Defensive Bar are hidden from the buff bar
  • Expiring indicators with pulsating borders

🎯 Highlights & Indicators

  • Target, Hover, Selection, Aggro highlights — each with 4+ styles (Solid, Corners, Glow, Dashed)
  • Dispel overlay — Border, gradient glow, or icon per debuff type (Magic, Curse, Disease, Poison, Bleed)
  • Role, Leader, Raid Target, Ready Check, Resurrection, AFK, and Phased icons — all repositionable
  • Status text for Dead, Offline, AFK, Vehicle, and Phased states

📊 Sorting & Layout

  • Sort by Role, Class, or Name
  • Separate Melee/Ranged DPS option
  • Player position control (First, Last, or sorted normally)
  • Flat raid mode (combined grid) or grouped layout
  • Custom growth directions and groups-per-row

⚙️ Profiles & Settings

  • Separate Party/Raid configurations
  • Per-spec auto-switching — Load different profiles per specialization
  • One-click import/export with compression
  • Global font options — apply one font across the entire addon
  • Settings search bar — find any option instantly
  • Copy-to-Raid / Copy-to-Party buttons on every settings section
  • Section sync toggles to keep party and raid settings linked

🔌 Compatibility

  • SharedMedia — Custom fonts and textures from other addons
  • Masque — Button skinning support
  • External API — Developers and UI pack creators can query frames, export/import profiles and click casting configs programmatically

How to Use

  1. Install the addon (remove the old version if upgrading)
  2. Access Settings: Click the minimap icon or type /df
  3. Preview Changes: Use Test Mode (/df test) to see your frames without a group

Feedback & Support

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At-a-glance numbers

Performance highlights

  • Peaked at Hot #12 on Aug 23, 2026.
  • Featured on the Hot list across 5 distinct weeks.
  • Shipped 20 releases in the last 30 days.
  • Averaging 1.2K new downloads per day over the past week.

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