* On my warlock, I’ve never seen a Blizzard Aura that I’m aware of outside of the “free shadow bolt!” one. She has a complex system of interlocking Power Auras so I know when things need to be refreshed.

* On my death knight, I have zero use for the buggers. In fact, personal gripe, there ISN’T a Blizzard Aura for the most obvious case in blood spec – triggering Blood Swarm. I already had them set up for Frost and for Blood, and I turned off Blizzard Auras on this character.

* On my shaman, I actually had set up Power Auras, because there were no Blizzard Auras for elemental at 4.0.1 launch. There are several I needed – when Lava Burst was available (because it can be reset now), when I had 9 stacks of Lightning Shield for Fulmination, and so on. They patched them into the game the following week, which surprised the crap out of me when GIANT LAVA WINGS appeared under my HUD. I actually like the Blizzard Aura for Lava Flows better than my own – but I keep my own around, because I need to know when Lava Burst’s off cooldown naturally, not as a result of Lava Flows.

* On my paladin… I am kind of a complete noob to paladins. So I’ve kept the default Blizzard Aura for what seems to be my only proc so far, The Art of War. It’s actually a pretty sweet pattern that doesn’t seem to interfere with anything – for now. However, I set up a small pair of Power Auras to bug me if my Seal or Blessing falls off. Previously I was really bad at not discovering that Seal of Righteousness had fallen off until I tried to cast Judgement and couldn’t… whoops. Told you. Total noob.

It’s a great bit of design by Blizz, and will make the concept of the advanced Power Auras addon more accessible to new players (or players new to the addon) as well. And it will make playing my alt easier, hurrah!

I haven’t played my other characters a lot, but I think the default ones will be very useful for when I start leveling my lowbies. I am absolutely clueless about hunters so bring on the flashing lights!

As such I’ve learnt to play without auras of any kind and even now don’t really notice them too much .. at least on my healer. On toons I’m unfamiliar with I have found them really helpfull such as my hunter and warrior.

I think in the end for new players the UI will be good, but for those who are raiding or playing longer there will be a number of things they either like or don’t like from the UI and move to use specialised versions that suit their own playstyles.

Although I think it`s great that the auras prompted you to go hunting for reasons why they appeared, I think they should be more clear about the details of the procs. For instance, I am constantly getting some sort of aura on my bear. I have no idea what it is, and usually when it pops up I am busy killing something and don`t have time to mouse over my very long list of buffs to find out what`s new and then read the tooltip. Somewhere in the default UI of each class should be a comprehensive list of Blizz`s auras for that class (perhaps broken into specs) that explains what each aura looks like and what triggers it/what it means.

Like you – as my characters mature, I tend to set up Power Auras for them and disable the default

The in game ones are nice – but you really can do so much more with the mod. I encourage you to give it another try! You can probably find a good number of resources where you can just import someone else’s strings, and then adjust them as you’d like.

If you do decide to give it another go, and end up with questions, I’d be happy to help!

I’m glad that you enjoyed your power aura experiment!

Once you get to a point that you’d like to be competitive, I do think you need to upgrade to something a bit more customizable