Quartz Casting Bar Addon

In this week’s “Addon of the Week” I’m featuring a mod many of you may already be using, but if you’re not you NEED to be. It’s quartz, and it’s a complete replacement to the blizzard default casting bar.
Features
Focus Casting Bar
First off, if you aren’t already taking advantage of focus macros then you need to be. Once you’ve got your various macros and such setup you’re going to want a solid casting bar and unit frame addon to make this functionality even better. Quartz provides this casting bar.

Global Cooldown Bar
This feature is really awesome if you have chosen to hide your action bars. A lot of times you still need to be able to watch that GCD for the upcoming tick.

Swing Timer
The swing timer is absolutely crucial for warriors, especially from a PvE perspective. I don’t know of any other casting bar addon that currently has this functionality, outside of quartz. Use of the swing timer allows you to better time your ‘on next swing’ and special attacks, maximizing DPS.

Additional Casting Bars
In addition to the above features I’ve listed, Quartz has a whole host of bars that you would expect it to have..

• flight, focus, global cooldown, interrupt, latency, mirror, pet, player, range, swing, target, timer, tradeskill merge.

Dependencies
Quartz’s only dependency is Ace2, which is actually one of the reasons why I really like it. If you’ve read some of my previous articles on WoW User Interfaces then you know how much I like to keep everything very lean.

The Ace library of functions is built with this type of design in mind. It’s incredibly memory efficient and designed for speed.