Favorite New Death Knight UI

I go through phases on what I expect and want out of a UI or user interface.  In the past I always liked the bulky and full look of Spartan UI and it included a lot of what I needed, just some nice organization.  However, lately my attention has been drawn to a need to create a clean, light weight, and fast UI.  Not to mention I finally got around to cleaning out my Addon folder.

Thankfully there are a lot of options available for premade UI's.  These combo packs of user interface goodies can of course be found and downloaded from Curse.  But, occasionally there are packages available that can't be found officially on the Curse World of Warcraft add on website, which is the case with the Tukui user interface.

What I love about Tukui is that it automatically sets itself up optimally for the class and character you are playing.  No more fumbling around for profiles, there is a few clicks to get you to DPS mode, and you are done.  However, if you are someone that likes tweaking the night away, there are plenty of options available for that as well.  For example, I've customized how many action bars are up at one time and had to move my stance bars around.  Other than that, this baby comes ready to roll.

Built into the Tukui UI is bag sort, map mods, chat mods, automatically sell/repair, and more!  I found myself only needing to add a few more addons to reach my normal functionality.  Postal, Advanced Trade Skill Window, Tidy Plates Threat Plates, and Deadly Boss Mods rounded out my setup.

I now enjoy an extremely clean and light weight user interface.  Although it's still early in the adoption phase, I think I'll be keeping this UI around well into Cataclysm.

Death Knight Tank Recommended Addons

Addons provide a functionality or user interface change not available in the standard setup of World of Warcraft.  Blizzard is known for their availability to the mod community, ease of access, and lack of customization limitations.  Basically with addons you can do almost whatever you want within WoW, including making your life, as a Death Knight Tank, easier.

Below are a list of addons that I recommend for Death Knight Tanks.  Please don't consider this the end all guide to addons, rather a brief list of what I personally couldn't live without.  I would encourage everyone to add their own list of addons that they can't live without in the comments section at the bottom.

Tidy Plates - Curse Link To Tidy Plates

Nameplates refer to the health bars and names of your enemies and friends that float above the characters heads.  Although standard Blizzard setup has them set to hidden, pressing 'V' reveals them.  Tidy Plates takes the default look of these name plates and presents them in a much cleaner format.

Threat Plates - Curse Link to Threat Plates

Threat plates uses Tidy Plates to display threat levels in the form of graphical changes within the nameplates of your enemies.  These makes tabbing through enemies more efficient and will quickly alert you to low threat and loss of threat situations.  Thus allowing you to react to a situation faster.

Deadly Boss Mods - Curse Link to Deadly Boss Mods

If you are one of the 5 people who still haven't installed Deadly Boss Mods or DBM, then stop what you are doing and make it happen, NOW.  Although not a tank specific addon, DBM fulfills the requirement of a tank and that's having all the information available about an instance.  This simple addon announces changes within a boss fight, allowing for better reaction times, and saving on time needed to read up at WowHead.

Omen Threat Meter - Curse Link to Omen Threat Meter Addon

Perhaps this should have been linked at the top, a necessity to keep an eye on threat levels.  Does what Threat Plates does, only provides threat levels in the form of bars at the top of your screen, for easy monitoring.

These are not the only addons that I use for Death Knight Tanking, but it is a minimum list that I will use when doing randoms.  However, this list grows pretty fast when getting involved in Raids, inspecting, and of course the gold making tools.

What are the minimum addons you will use when tanking as a Death Knight in 4.0.1?