GladiusEx
GladiusEx is an arena unit frames addon based on Gladius.
What's new
New features include:
- Party frames: support for showing frames for your own team
- Cooldown tracker: a highly configurable module for tracking all types of cooldowns
- Skill history: shows the icons of the last few skills used by the unit
- Alerts: makes the frames blink in a noticeable way during some configured events (including low health, auras and specific spells being cast)
- Pets: new module for displaying pet bars
- Interrupts: See the interrupts directly on your arena & party frames.
And the classic modules, most of which have been improved in various ways:
- Auras: now with more filtering options
- Class Icon: new display modes: by spec, role and portraits
- Cast Bar: now shows which spells can't be interrupted
- DR Tracker: track the diminishing returns timers on both the enemy team and your team. Now lets you select which icon you want displayed for every category!
- Health Bar: now displays incoming heals and absorbs
- Tags: configure every text to show exactly what you want, now with more built-in tags and improved performance
FAQ
How do I bring the user interface up ?
You can use the /gex slash command, or you can access the options from the addons tab in the interface panel.
Where did the trinket and the dispels modules go ?
They have been replaced by the cooldowns module, which now allows you to have several groups of cooldowns configured independently. By default, the trinket cooldown is shown in group 2 and a few other cooldowns in group 1.
What is that additional set of frames that I see ?
Those are the party frames. This is incremental functionality that will help you track not only your enemies but also your friends. If you use your own you can turn these easily off in the general settings. You can also disable only your own frame, but keep the GladiusEx party frames.
Is it possible to have text timers for the auras, cooldowns or the DR icons ?
The timer module has been removed, but this can be achieved with OmniCC or other similar addons.
Bugs and feature requests
Please use the ticket tracker to report any issues or request features.
Please report all the problems and bugs!
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Posted Jan 24, 2026Please consider a Midnight update, even on a very basic level! It is possible as seen with other addons like sArena/Arenacore. ..but GladiusEx is the best by far and would instantly move back to it if it was updated for Midnight!
I am in the EXACT same boat as the commenter below me asking for an update. in that I literally use this addon to have clean representation of both friendly and enemy arena frames. It's the only addon with a friendly arena frame option. I used it since TWW for this reason, and I used it with basically none of the DR, buff or other module tracking; I only tracked the trinket. Everything else, I did with other addons.
I would love to see Gladius Ex updated simply so I can have my arena frames to easily click on to target and set focus; I am literally only three steps away from being able to have my old UI mostly back from before the addon apocalypse... having GEX updated would tick one of those three steps off my list!
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Posted Jan 22, 2026any plans for midnight ?
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to rikikikirikitv:
There's nothing to be done. Their explicit goal was/is to prevent addons like Gladius EX from working.
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Posted Jan 24, 2026In reply to Vendethiel: Well, AFAIK not all features are removed. Only some such as tracking cooldowns, but you can still track essential fields like HP, DRs, Casting, CC, Buffs/Debuffs this is what other arena frame addons does atm. But, what I really liked about GladiusEx, is that you could mirror the Arena UI Frame also for Party, so this is why I would really love to have it. For example: https://imgur.com/a/7dnK3C7
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Posted Jan 24, 2026In reply to rikikikirikitv: I am also in the EXACT same boat as you. I literally use this addon to have clean representation of both friendly and enemy arena frames. It's the only addon with a friendly arena frame option. I used it since TWW for this reason, and I used it with basically none of the dr, buff or other module tracking, I only tracked the trinket. Everything else, I did with other addons. Would love to see Gladius Ex updated simply so I can have my arena frames to easily click on to target and set focus.
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Posted Nov 26, 2025Hello! Is there any way I can display Health in the shortest way possible now that health is in the millions? I'd like just one decimal, like 22.3m. Is that a possibility?
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Posted Sep 29, 2025anyone have problem tracking emeny healer's Dispel CD ?
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Posted Sep 18, 2025Guys how to setup the class icons on the friendly frames to show every cc , like in this pictures https://imgur.com/a/9KAbNnP ( right now it shows only fears/kicks)
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Posted Sep 10, 2025Small bug - when you enable side-view icon under the Class Icon module, the icon shows up for flag carriers in BGs. Is there a way to fix this?
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Posted Sep 4, 2025Is there anyway to get old Og mop skin to this version of GladiusEx
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Posted Sep 6, 2025In General -> Bar Texture choose "Wglass (GladiusEx)".
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Posted Sep 4, 2025Theres a huge bug there if you setup cast bar inside frame both frames will disapear after reload/relog
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Posted Sep 6, 2025Please report an issue (https://legacy.curseforge.com/wow/addons/gladiusex/issues) with a bit more information on how you have configured the addon in order to make this happen.
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Posted Sep 1, 2025Is there a fix for party frames fading during combat? Looks like it’s an issue with range check on teammates because when I set the out of range alpha to 1 it stops the fade, but then I can’t tell when party members are out of range.
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Posted Aug 25, 2025Hey i think that there is some major PROBLEM. In Class Icon > Important Auras when im trying to DELETE some AURAS they wont be deleted after /reload or logout, they will be at list again. Its very sad, super hardstuck because of this bug. I hope you will read this and fix it. @Vendethiel FIX THIS ASAP ASAP ASAP PLEASE I BEG YOU PLS MUCH LOVE <3
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Posted Aug 25, 2025Hey i think that there is some major PROBLEM. In Class Icon > Important Auras when im trying to DELETE some AURAS they wont be deleted after /reload or logout, they will be at list again. Its very sad, super hardstuck because of this bug. I hope you will read this and fix it. @Vendethiel FIX THIS ASAP ASAP ASAP PLEASE I BEG YOU PLS MUCH LOVE <3
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Posted Aug 13, 2025Is there any way we get this addon fixed , its missing monk cds
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Posted Jul 29, 2025Not working properly for Mop Classic :(
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Posted Jul 18, 2025MoP Classic prepatch - unable to change talents with this addon enabled. "This action has been blocked".
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Posted Jul 30, 2025In reply to calzeru: me too