[Miller]

Sorry girls..... and Sobie.... this is not a thread where I am showing off my package, this is a thread for UI's.

I am constantly tweaking my UI trying to make it more efficient to allow me to not stand in the bad stuff and hit the good stuff as fast as I can. So I thought I would upload my UI and talk about my different addons I use and how I use them. Please upload your UI's and talk about them. I'm sure we could all use a fresh idea on how to display something better, as well as I would like to see what all of you are staring at for 3 hours every Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.

Ok here is my .
It was just taken from a LFR today, wanted to upload one during an actual raid.

I will only list the first few as I'm sure all of you have seen and or use them, these include Bartender, Deadly Boss Mod, Recount and Omen.

The first addon I will cover is,
1. Ragebar- This is the red bar just above my buttons. This is a very handy addon originally designed for warriors and bears, but the developers have expanded it to work for any resource system. The bar switches color to whichever resource you are using and can be resized, twisted, turned and moved to whichever location on screen you would like.

2. Classtimers- The bar that says Colossus Smash is made with an addon called Classtimers. This is a very simplistic addon used to track timers, made even easier by the developers preloading almost all of your possible abilities. So all you need to do is weed out the ones you dont want to display and keep the ones you do. You can also have it display custom ones such as ones for set bonuses and trinkets. I have a few of these but none that are actually showing at this moment, these pop up above recount next to the range check.

3. OmniCC- A must have addon IMO. This addon displays the cooldowns of your abilities with big nice numbers. Much much easier than trying to keep track of a shadow going across your buttons. Helps to see at a glance how long your abilites are on cooldown.

4. Enraged- Unfortunately this is a warrior only addon, but there are several addons out there for other classes that do the same thing, including CLCret for pallys. This addon displays the 4 boxes above my ragebar. You can set up something similar to this with weakauras (complicated as shit) or powerauras (less complicated as shit).

So I think that is pretty much it. My UI is fairly simple but displays all the things I really need to know. All of these addons can be found on wow.curse.com. Now post some of your UI's even if you dont explain any addons, we can at least ask questions if its something we don't recognize.

[Deceax]

I use ElvUI for the basic UI overhaul. This takes care of unit frames, action bars, class timers, etc in one nice consistent package. On top of that I use Power Auras for CD tracking (should remove mana gem since it's not important with fire). I use MKST for combat text but honestly I might take that one down. I mean does it really matter to see the numbers for how hard I'm hitting or how much I get healed for? The only nice part is tracking big crits for combustion so maybe I should just configure it to only notify me of those. I also use Combustion Helper for living bomb dot tracking as well as ignite damage for combustion. Tidy Plates because it's awesome.

Also, bonus points for me snapping a screenie of Hesher raging about Gunther boning him on the auction house (luls).

[Wrathblood]

Could you set MKST to only show you crits over a certain level? I can see that being handy for Fire.

I've recently swapped from TukUI to ElvUI and I'm happier with it, but the configuring took longer than I expected and the swap coincided with some chat weirdness (If someone links something in chat, I can't see the item or anything written in that line) so I'm not entirely sure it was worth it.

[Miller]

Wrath post a pic of yours so we can see the difference.

[Hesher]

Deceax, on 07 January 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

Also, bonus points for me snapping a screenie of Hesher raging about Gunther boning him on the auction house (luls).

Dick.



Basic stuff that everyone seems to be using, though I may revert back to my old ass UI that consisted of hardly anything on the screen. Shadowtimers and Powerauras to track my debuffs/procs otherwise everything else is stock. Things you don't see because its a training dummy is my execute powa and some of my procs that show up in between some of the shadowtimers. The UI I'll be reverting back to once I get my new computer looks something more like the next SS.

Addon List:
- ElvUI
- ShadowTimers
- Omen3
- Recount
- Power Auras Classic
- DBM



I fully customized that one which it took me something like 3 hours to finish. Minus the DK shit it will generally look the same except I probably won't be using MSBT or anything like that because that shit just eats away at your framerate as a multidotter. I don't really remember what addons I used back then, that pic is over a year old actually lol.

[Deceax]

@Wrath make sure you update ElvUI somewhat frequently (once a week is good). He did a total rewrite for 4.3 and a lot of things were broken/funky/etc early on and he's constantly pushing out updates.

@Hesher move the map to the right on the second screen. The lack of symmetry disturbs me.

[Hesher]

Deceax, on 08 January 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

@Wrath make sure you update ElvUI somewhat frequently (once a week is good). He did a total rewrite for 4.3 and a lot of things were broken/funky/etc early on and he's constantly pushing out updates.

@Hesher move the map to the right on the second screen. The lack of symmetry disturbs me.

That was when I was playing on a wicked small screen. I'm sure if I did it now it would look totally different considering I play on a widescreen now. Oh and that whole other side was raid frames, this pic kinda shows it but that's only in a 10 man. Which back then I ran 25 more then 10 mans by that point.

[Sobeyet]

Mine hasn't really changed since I posted it in my hunter thread a while back:

Sobeyet, on 19 April 2011 - 12:36 AM, said:

As promised, a UI/Keybinding review. I use a standard wireless 5-button mouse, nothing special. Mouse Button (MB) 3 is the middle button, MB 4 is the shoulder button on the left, MB 5 the right.

I use 44 keybindings, they're roughly the same across the different specs but here's the one I use for BM:

1 - Hunter's Mark
2 - Kill Command
3 - Cobra Shot
4 - Arcane Shot
5 - Multi Shot
6 - Bestial Wrath macro
Shift-1 - Focus Fire
Shift-2 - Kill Shot
Shift-3 - Serpent Sting
Shift-4 - Concussive Shot
Shift-5 - Tranq Shot
Shift-6 - Scatter Shot
Alt-1 - Distracting Shot
Alt-2 - Agi Potion
Alt-3 - Healthstone
Alt-4 - Health Pot
Alt-5 - Bandage
Alt-6 - Intimidation
A - Misdirect
S - Raptor Strike
D - Deterrence
Shift-A - Rapid Fire Macro
Shift-S - Blood Fury
Shift-D - Fervor
F1 - Aspect of the Hawk / Fox toggle
F2 - AotH / Cheetah toggle
F3 - AotH / Pack toggle
F4 - Deterrence / Blessing of Protection cancelaura macro
F5 - Master's Call
F6 - Mend Pet
MB 3 - Trap Launcher
MB 4 - Feign Death
MB 5 - Disengage
Shift-MB 2 - Snake Trap
Shift-MB 3 - Freezing Trap
Shift-MB 4 - Explosive Trap
Shift-MB 5 - Ice Trap
Alt-MB 1 - Call primary pet
Alt-MB 2 - Call secondary pet
Alt-MB 3 - Pet Move To
Alt-MB 4 - Dismiss Pet
Alt-MB 5 - Pet special ability (heal, burrow, shell shield, etc.)
Alt-Mousewheel Up - Pet Attack
Alt-Mousewheel Down - Pet Passive

I use Q / W / E to move (strafe left, forward, strafe right), no backpedal button.

Keybindings are very subjective and you have to find a set that works for you, but there are 3 things I'd very much recommend:

• Keep emergency buttons as close to your default finger position as possible - Deterrence is D, Feign Death is MB4, etc.
• Bind movement/aoe targeting buttons to your mouse - Disengage is the big one for hunters. I have it bound to MB5, so I can mouse turn in an instant and Disengage in one fluid motion with one hand. Great for Al'akir.
• Bind traps to your mouse - Since trap launcher is a bit clunky and you end up pushing 2 buttons for each trap, having it bound to your mouse lets you do it as quickly as possible and place the targeting reticule where it needs to go. Great for Cho'gall.

What my UI looks like:

• Shadowed Unit Frames with Player, Target, Pet, Focus, and Target of Target (to the right of Target)
• Range Display gives me the distance to target (Between Player and Target frames)
• Tidy Plates for nameplates, not as essential on a non-tank character
• Need to Know for CDs - as BM I have Bestial Wrath, Rapid Fire, Call of the WIld (ferocity pet), Blood Fury (orc racial), X-Ray Targeting (bow proc), and Twisted (trinket proc)
• Grid on the lower right hand side for raid frames (as a healer I'd keep it more central)
• Weak Auras for HUD notifications:
  • The green lines to the left and right of my character shows Serpent Sting duration (only applied by me), and fade down as the timer runs out
  • Stacks below my character shows Frenzy Effect stacks on my pet, if it's at 5 I should pop Focus Fire (provided Bestial Wrath isn't coming off CD)
  • Counter above my character shows CD left on Kill Command
  • Red Cross to the left of green lines shows Mend Pet duration, fades down similar to Serpent Sting
• Satrina Buff Frames for standard buffs

[Wrathblood]

We'll see if I did this properly. Probably not.



Huh, that's a rather worse example of my UI than I thought it'd be. The mob I was targeting must have died just before I took this.

Anyway, the box for my target pops up on the right side of the screen basically mirroring where my own box is, and then target of target is just below that. I've got Powerauras set up to pop-up things on the screen when stuff happens I need to be aware of, mostly tank-swap stuff like getting 3 stacks of Void Bolt or Morchok's armor sunder. I've really gone back and forth on whether to leave in the scrolling combat text and I decided to keep it in, not because I can about the specific numbers but more as a feel for what's going on. Its almost like a Poweraura visual cue for me now. I know how hard basically everything hits and how much attention the healers are likely to be able to give me, so the relative volume of red vs green crap floating by tells me to what degree things are hitting the fan.

Its funny. I've discovered that if I'm really focusing on something, the area that I can really pay attention to (enough to, say, see how many stacks of something the boss has, for example) without losing a noticeable amount of time is really quite small, just a few inches square so I make sure my box and the target's box are in that "window". I resisted it for a long time because obviously it obscures my vision a bit on some things. That's usually not a problem, though, because unless I'm looking for something specific I'm actually not focusing my eyes on the screen.

No, I'm not like reading a book or something. Its, and this may sound a little odd, but I actually let my eyes unfocus a little. I can't read while doing that, but I can certainly see shapes and colors and movement. At this point, I know what everything is that's going to be on my screen and what it all looks like. So, I wouldn't do that on, say, Ultraxion, because that fight is all about watching the timers on cooldowns and cast bars. But on something where a bunch of adds are running around like Yor'sahj with the black orb or Spine, then I'm not looking at a specific part of the screen, its more like I'm looking at the whole screen just with my peripheral vision and I know which shapes and movement are stuff that I need to pick up and I feel like I can see it better than way. Also, and I have no idea if this is actually true, but to me it feels like it is, I feel like if I see something out of my peripheral vision I react to it faster than if I see the same thing with my direct vision. Like, if I see it directly, then I see it, I recognize it, and I click on it or whatever, whereas if I see it out of my peripheral vision my conscious brain is wisely excluded from the process and I just react to it without thinking about it. Not sure if its actually faster but to me it feels like it is.

[Deceax]

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No, I'm not like reading a book or something. Its, and this may sound a little odd, but I actually let my eyes unfocus a little. I can't read while doing that, but I can certainly see shapes and colors and movement. At this point, I know what everything is that's going to be on my screen and what it all looks like. So, I wouldn't do that on, say, Ultraxion, because that fight is all about watching the timers on cooldowns and cast bars. But on something where a bunch of adds are running around like Yor'sahj with the black orb or Spine, then I'm not looking at a specific part of the screen, its more like I'm looking at the whole screen just with my peripheral vision and I know which shapes and movement are stuff that I need to pick up and I feel like I can see it better than way. Also, and I have no idea if this is actually true, but to me it feels like it is, I feel like if I see something out of my peripheral vision I react to it faster than if I see the same thing with my direct vision. Like, if I see it directly, then I see it, I recognize it, and I click on it or whatever, whereas if I see it out of my peripheral vision my conscious brain is wisely excluded from the process and I just react to it without thinking about it. Not sure if its actually faster but to me it feels like it is.

I think I found a picture of Wrath playing WoW.

[Guinthel]

Theres something seriously wrong with you wrath

[Miller]

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No, I'm not like reading a book or something. Its, and this may sound a little odd, but I actually let my eyes unfocus a little. I can't read while doing that, but I can certainly see shapes and colors and movement. At this point, I know what everything is that's going to be on my screen and what it all looks like. So, I wouldn't do that on, say, Ultraxion, because that fight is all about watching the timers on cooldowns and cast bars. But on something where a bunch of adds are running around like Yor'sahj with the black orb or Spine, then I'm not looking at a specific part of the screen, its more like I'm looking at the whole screen just with my peripheral vision and I know which shapes and movement are stuff that I need to pick up and I feel like I can see it better than way. Also, and I have no idea if this is actually true, but to me it feels like it is, I feel like if I see something out of my peripheral vision I react to it faster than if I see the same thing with my direct vision. Like, if I see it directly, then I see it, I recognize it, and I click on it or whatever, whereas if I see it out of my peripheral vision my conscious brain is wisely excluded from the process and I just react to it without thinking about it. Not sure if its actually faster but to me it feels like it is.

Wow did you write the story line to the movie Inception??? (Fantastic movie BTW)

OT- Yeah I know what you mean about the combat text. I am thinking about downloading MIkSBT or something similar just so I will have it, but it wont be scrolling directly over the top of my character. In fights where there is really heavy AOE heals, or when I am tanking, I cant actually see my character very well through the sea of green numbers. Any advice on which scrolling text is best would be nice, I think I will try a few of them out tonight before our raid Tuesday.

Also, some cool UI's, keep them coming!!!

[Deceax]

Yea I would recommend MSBT for scrolling combat text. I don't know why I called it MSKT in my original post.