BlackwellUI

The tactical HUD and run-analytics suite for Azeroth Survivors.
See every number that decides a run: who deals the damage, when the next boss spawns, where the caches are.

 

What's new · Screenshots · Features · Installation · Commands · FAQ · Report a bug

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Why BlackwellUI

Azeroth Survivors turns the 1.12.1 client into a horde-survival roguelite: spells fire on their own, the screen fills with enemies, and a run is won or lost on build decisions. The stock interface was made for a different game.

BlackwellUI replaces it with one clean HUD that puts the run in front of you:

Know your damage	A five-tab meter (Damage, Healing, Boss, Taken, Party) with share, DPS, biggest crit and item-proc merging.
Know the clock	Run timer with a countdown ring to the next boss, the full boss schedule and the "4 Guardians before 8:00" goal.
Know the map	Minimap radar pins for caches and guardian lairs, rare spawn timers and a live elites & bosses tracker.
Make it yours	Round or classic sharp style, 200+ settings, every frame movable on a 32px grid, any accent colour.
Speaks your language	Follows the game's language automatically: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português (Brasil), Polski, Čeština, Română, Türkçe, Русский, Українська, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어.

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What's new in 2.8

• A new round look for every frame. Panels, bars, buttons, tooltips, the character window and the control center are redrawn with rounded corners and a calmer, modern layout. Unit frames are one full health bar each, as in the classic layout, now with rounded corners.
• The classic sharp style is one click away (/bw → Appearance → Interface style). Both styles share every setting.
• 200+ settings. Each of the 17 modules has its own page with size, opacity and visibility (always, in combat, out of combat, or faded until mouse-over) plus its own options: rows and columns of the meter, health text formats, tile size, data bar items, chat timestamps, minimap clock, combat text sizes, nameplate layout and many more.
• Enemy colours that mean something. Bosses red, rare guardians yellow, elites blue, normal enemies violet, the final boss crimson; the same colours on the target frame, the elites & bosses list and the nameplates, all adjustable.
• A thicker XP line above the data bar (2 to 12 px, 6 px by default).
• A welcome line in your language when you log in (can be turned off).
• Built-in checks for bug reports: /bw selftest tries every setting and reports errors, /bw layoutcheck lists frames that overlap.

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Screenshots

_{The same layout in the new round style (top) and the classic sharp style (bottom).}

_{Left: rare timers, minimap, run clock with a countdown ring to the next boss, boss schedule, elites & bosses in their enemy colours. Right: spell tooltip with damage school, range, upgrades and talents.}

_{The control center (/bw): General, Appearance and Tooltips, then one scrollable page per module.}

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Features

Combat analytics

• Damage meter with five tabs: Damage, Healing, Boss, Taken, Party. Click the title to cycle, or a tab to jump.
• Hover breakdown per spell: damage, DPS, share of the total and biggest crit.
• Proc merging (M button): folds item procs such as Amulet of the Inferno: Consecration into the spell they belong to.
• Session reset (R button): left-click starts a fresh session, right-click returns to run totals.
• Party drilldown: in the Party tab, click a player to see their spells, hits and crits.
• Floating combat text in its own style: outgoing and incoming numbers, multi-hit merging (223 (9 Hits)), ability alerts, sizes and timings to taste. Blizzard's numbers come back as soon as you turn it off.

Run intelligence

• Run clock with run length, zone and difficulty, a countdown ring to the next boss and the full boss schedule.
• Guardian goal: tracks the "4 Guardians before 8:00" objective right in the timer.
• Elites & bosses tracker with HP and percent in enemy colours; click a row to target it.
• Rare spawn timers for every lair: alive, fighting, or the time until respawn.
• Data bar along the bottom: level, XP, kills with a rolling kill pace ([57/m]), gold, lives, total damage and FPS; pick which items show.
• Loot log with quality colours and run timestamps.

Unit frames

• Hero, target, target of target, pet and party frames: one full health bar each, with name, level or status and health text inside.
• Enemy colours on the target: boss red, rare guardian yellow, elite blue, normal enemy violet, final boss crimson. Players show in their class colour.
• Target debuff bars with tick damage and timers above the target frame.
• Health text as value, percent, both, current / max or hidden; widths, heights, text size and every element switchable.

Your build

• Spell tiles with cooldown overlays, rank badges and full tooltips including all upgrades; tile size, spacing and growth direction to taste.
• Buff bars above the tiles for shrines, racials and procs.
• Level-up button: with stored level-ups, a LEVEL UP READY (N) button appears above your spells.
• Equipment panel with every equipped item and a quality ring.
• Stat multipliers panel: damage, cooldown, crit, area, speed, echo and more, read live from the game; choose rows, colours and growth direction.

Layout & style

• Round or sharp style, corner radius, panel colour, background opacity, font, text size, text outline and bar texture.
• Themes: Blackwell, Crimson, Amber, Emerald, Violet, Monolith, class colour or any custom colour.
• Per-module size, opacity and visibility: always, only in combat, only out of combat, or faded until the mouse is over it.
• Edit mode with labelled movers, a 32px alignment grid and centre axes.
• Auto scaling that fits the layout to your resolution, or a fixed scale (/bw scale 0.9).
• Tooltips in the HUD style, positioned next to the HUD, at the cursor or where the game puts them, with class and reaction colours.
• Minimap, radar pins, chat and nameplates in the same style, each with its own settings.
• 14 languages, detected from the game's own language setting. Spell names on your tiles follow the game's language too. Override it in /bw (General, Language) or with /bw lang de.

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Installation

Windows client (AzerothSurvivors.exe)

1. Download BlackwellUI.zip.
2. Extract it so that the folder sits at AzerothSurvivors\benilla-config\AddOns\BlackwellUI\ (the .toc file must be directly inside BlackwellUI).
3. Start the game and enter a zone. Type /bw for the control center.

Browser client (WebGPU)

Install BlackwellUI.zip through the game's in-game AddOns dialog, then reload.

Updating

Download the new zip and replace the BlackwellUI folder. Your settings live in benilla-config\saved\BlackwellUI.lua and are kept.

Uninstalling cleanly

BlackwellUI hides the stock run HUD and Blizzard's floating damage numbers. Those are game settings, and the client only saves them while you play. Before you delete the addon, open /bw, switch off Combat text (its module page) and Replace the stock run HUD (General page); the game gets its own settings back straight away. Then remove the folder.

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Commands

Command	Action
/bw	Open the control center (also /bui, /blackwell)
/bw unlock · /bw lock	Enter / leave edit mode
/bw reset	Reset all frame positions
/bw grid	Toggle the alignment grid in edit mode
/bw demo	Preview mode with sample data, useful for building a layout
/bw hud	Toggle replacing the stock run HUD
/bw sct	Toggle floating combat text
/bw pins · /bw loot · /bw rares · /bw gear · /bw plates	Toggle radar pins, loot log, rare timers, equipment panel, nameplates
/bw buffs	Toggle the buff bars above the spell tiles
/bw autoscale · /bw scale 0.9	Automatic or fixed UI scale (0.5 to 2.0)
/bw lang · /bw lang de · /bw lang auto	Show or set the interface language (applies after /reload)
/bw selftest	Try every setting once and report errors (settings are restored afterwards)
/bw layoutcheck	List HUD frames that overlap
/bw help	List all commands in chat

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Compatibility

Game	Azeroth Survivors (benilla engine, WoW 1.12.1 interface 11200)
Windows client	Tested in-game on the 2026-11-01 client build
Browser client	Built for it: Lua 5.0 only, power-of-two textures, numeric and string class IDs. Reports welcome.
Other addons	Works next to !BugGrabber / BugSack. Turn off a BlackwellUI module if another addon draws the same element.

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FAQ

I prefer the old look.
/bw → Appearance → Interface style → Sharp (classic), then reload. All your settings stay.

My floating damage numbers or the stock HUD are gone.
That is BlackwellUI replacing them. Switch off Combat text (its module page) or Replace the stock run HUD (General page) in /bw and they return immediately.

I turned off the Chat, Minimap, Unit Frames, Character or Action Bars module and nothing changed.
These modules take over Blizzard frames, so switching them off needs a /reload. BlackwellUI asks you when you switch them off.

A frame is off-screen or in the wrong place.
/bw unlock to drag it back, or /bw reset to restore the default layout.

I found a bug.
Please open an issue with your BlackwellUI version (shown in /bw), Windows or browser client, the Lua error text if there is one (/err opens the script log), and the result of /bw selftest.

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Support the project

BlackwellUI is free. If it makes your runs better, a coffee keeps the updates coming.

Stars help other players find the addon, too.

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License

BlackwellUI is free to download and play with, but it is not open source: Copyright (c) 2026 Pierre (Blackwellcode), all rights reserved. You may install and use it, read the code and show it in videos and streams. Re-uploading, bundling, publishing modified versions or reusing its code or assets needs written permission. Details in LICENSE.

Bundled fonts (Barlow Semi Condensed, Fira Sans) are under the SIL Open Font License; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

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