Lizzarick's Unit Frames
If you played World of Warcraft during the Wrath era, you probably remember Luna Unit Frames. Clean bars, class-coloured health, a tidy raid grid and an options menu that somehow made sense of it all. That addon eventually stopped working on modern clients, and plenty of players have been chasing that look ever since. Lizzarick's Unit Frames is the answer: a from-scratch rebuild that brings Luna's layout and its full options menu to current versions of the game, with no external libraries required.
One download covers both worlds. Whether you are on Retail (including the Midnight client) or on WoW: Forever, the same addon handles the job. That matters because Luna itself cannot run on either of those clients. Both are modern builds with the new addon restrictions, meaning secret values and no combat log access. Rather than fight those rules, Lizzarick's Unit Frames works with them. It lets the game draw the values it keeps hidden, which is why the frames keep updating correctly even in the middle of a fight.
What the Addon Frames
The frame coverage is generous and follows Luna's default layout closely. You get player, pet, pet target, target, target of target, target of target of target, focus and focus target. Party members one through four appear with their pets and their targets, and the raid module supports up to 40 frames with one column per raid group. Main tanks and main assists are pulled from the raid roles and shown with their own targets.
Moving things around is painless. Type /luf unlock, or right-click the minimap button, and everything becomes draggable. The raid grid can display members in columns or rows, group them per row, or let you position each group independently. It is the kind of flexibility that makes a raid night feel organised instead of chaotic.
Bars, Textures and Tags
- Health, power and XP bars for player and pet, plus 3D or 2D portraits
- Cast bars for player, target, focus and party
- 15 smooth bar textures built specifically for this addon
- Health coloured by class, reaction, gradient or hunter pet happiness
- Incoming heals in Luna's familiar colours, plus absorb shields
- An empty bar reserved for extra text and combat text on the portrait
- 30 Luna tags such as [name], [smarthealth], [perhp] and [statuscolor]
If you have been searching for a way to download Lizzarick's Unit Frames without juggling a dozen dependencies, this is about as simple as it gets. The foxygame.net launcher makes it even simpler: Lizzarick's Unit Frames sits in its addon catalog, so a single click installs it and keeps it updated automatically as new game builds arrive.
Auras, Indicators and Visual Feedback
Buff and debuff handling is where Luna always shone, and that heritage carries over. Auras show tooltips, remaining time, stack counts and a debuff border coloured by type. Debuffs can be rendered larger than buffs, and you control position, size, count and spacing. Filter lists work much like Luna's: search by name or spell ID, see the rank, build your list, then export or import it and choose whether those auras are hidden or shown exclusively.
Squares, Borders and Highlights
Each frame supports nine small indicator squares. These can display aggro, buffs and debuffs from a list or filter, your own buffs, buffs you can cast, dispellable debuffs coloured by type, and missing buffs. They appear either as coloured squares or as spell icons, with up to eight icons per square and an optional timer.
Borders react on mouseover, on aggro or on debuff, and highlights light the frame up when you hover it, when it becomes your target, or tinted by debuff type. On top of that you get indicators for raid target marks, class, leader, raid assistant, main tank, main assist, master looter, PvP flag, incoming resurrection, role, elite dragon status and the combat or resting icon.
Options, Profiles and Compatibility
The options menu is pure Luna in spirit: a tabbed interface with a page for every frame, and every slider paired with a typed input box for precise values. A dedicated colours page covers classes, power types, reactions, pet happiness and cast bars, complete with a colour picker. Profiles are stored per character and can be created, copied, deleted or reset, which is handy when you run several alts. There is also a Hide Blizzard page that gathers Blizzard's own frames and cast bar into one place so you can switch them off cleanly.
Compatibility across game versions is handled intelligently. In Retail, the addon recognises Retail classes and power types, and it hides Classic-only options such as pet happiness, pet XP and master looter. On Classic-era clients, including TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm and MoP, those options appear as expected. Because the codebase is rebuilt rather than patched, the same package serves every supported version.
Knowing the Limits
On WoW: Forever, some values remain secret during combat, and the addon never tries to work around that restriction. It simply lets the game draw those numbers itself. The practical result is that a few Luna extras are not possible there, such as calculated heal tags or individual incoming heal values. Everything else, from the layout to the auras to the indicators, works as intended.
For anyone wondering how to install it, the process is short: grab the addon, drop it into your Interface/AddOns folder, and type /luf in game to open the menu. Within a couple of minutes you will have the unit frames you remember, running smoothly on the client you play today.