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#1 Apr 11 2009 at 2:31 PM Rating: Good
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First off, the rules for this thread:
1: Don't post just a pic/link to a pic, give some explanation on the what, why and how of your UI.
2: Don't post a massive list of addons, I don't give a @#%^ if you use a mod for fishing, all I care about is things that have a significant effect on your UI.

And now, without further delay: My UI

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in combat screen
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out of combat and casting.

I'm going for the (pretty standard) minimalistic, all info at the center bottom setup.
Not something very spectacular but it works.
My main issue right now is that it doesn't really fit together very well yet.
It's all too much separate blocks of UI, so I'm currently fiddling with KgPanels to try and get some unity in the whole thing.
Although I am also considering switching around a lot of the colouring in the unitframes and in Omen to get it to look less like an abstract painting Smiley: tongue
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#2 Apr 15 2009 at 6:00 PM Rating: Decent
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So I go to look for a SS of my UI and find that all my screenshots have been deleted! Fun!

But since I love you so much, I found:

SV after 3.02?
BM at WotLK release.
BC early S2? That's what it looks similar to currently.
#3 Apr 18 2009 at 1:18 AM Rating: Good
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The only thing I can say is, scale things down man....
You don't need to have stuff that big unless you're either nearly blind or sitting miles away from your screen.
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
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#4 Apr 18 2009 at 7:38 AM Rating: Decent
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The only thing I can say is, scale things down man....
You don't need to have stuff that big unless you're either nearly blind or sitting miles away from your screen.


Will do man, thanks.
#5 Apr 27 2009 at 8:23 AM Rating: Good
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Here is mine.

I prefer everything down towards the bottom, FuBar up top for random stuff. Align to set everything nice and pretty. Lots of hidden buttons, just consumables in the bars below.
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#6 Apr 27 2009 at 12:16 PM Rating: Decent
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A few things I would do:
1: Hide Fubar, you don't need to always see that info so just showing it on mouseover is enough and it frees up screen real estate.
And, what I find more important is that FuBar on top kind of forms a frame around WoW, it makes your screen look a lot smaller.
2: Size down the boxes, your chat doesn't need to be that large, and it's obstructing the view.
Same for Omen, the amount of bars it shows now is enough regardless of what environment you are.
Pull aggro + self + 3/4 bars to show the tanks is all the info you need, because you don't need to see if Joe the Hunter is 11th or 13th on threat right? Smiley: wink

I would also hide Recount, because during combat you shouldn't be watching your dps.
I have it set up to show as a large block in the middle of my screen when I click the button on FuBar so it gives me all the info I want outside of combat but isn't blocking my screen when I don't need it.
You might want to hide the buffs/debuffs on the party frames too because as a rogue there's not much you can do about any of them anyway.
Some people want to know everything though so it could be worth keeping depending on your preferences.
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#7 Apr 28 2009 at 2:19 AM Rating: Good
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I put this in my sig. I love UI talk.

My UI.


Lots of pitbull, grid, dominos, dbm, natur, recount, omen, prat, outfitter.

I love UI discussion.
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#8 Apr 28 2009 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
Out of combat

In combat

Xperl Unit frames
Grid Raid Frames
Omen
Dominoes
Recount
Prat
SquawkandAwe
SexyMap
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#9 Apr 29 2009 at 2:21 AM Rating: Decent
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Pretty cool UI, although I personally don't think I'd like the unitframes at the top it looks pretty nice.
Only thing I'd do is move them down just a little bit so they're not hugging the edge of your screen.
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#10 Apr 29 2009 at 10:53 AM Rating: Good
I really only keep them up there for raiding. I'm just used to seeing them up there and I hardly ever watch my frame.

Otherwise when I'm healing my unit frame is where you'd expect it to be at the bottom and my target is as well.
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#11 May 01 2009 at 4:31 AM Rating: Good
My UI:

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I pretty much only raid so it is spread out and plenty of open space in the middle for maximum viewing enjoyment. I also use a viewport addon so none of my screen is hidden below the bottom part

Stuff that isn't in the bottom section:
Trinket Menu
Grid
Decursive
oRA2 MT list
My bag (bagnon)
Cryolysis
Buffalo2 (buff bars)
And around my character I use UnderHood and PowerAuras to let me know of timers and procs/buffs.
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#12 May 01 2009 at 11:12 AM Rating: Good
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Trinket Menu


Add on or a bar?

Sounds nifty, splain plz.
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#13 May 01 2009 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
It's the thing at the top right of my screen, allows for quick switching between trinkets and such by just mousing over and left clicking for top slot and right clicking for bottom slot (13 or 14). It also shows CD and such for on-use trinkets.
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#14 May 01 2009 at 1:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Anobix the Wise wrote:
I also use a viewport addon so none of my screen is hidden below the bottom part
How exactly does that work?

Or better phrased, what effect does it have.
Does it move your character up in your screen or something like that?

And I think you have way too many buttons on your screen Smiley: tongue
You could probably fit all the addons inside your blue bar if you removed unnecessary buttons, but that's the minimalist in me speaking.
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#15 May 02 2009 at 4:53 AM Rating: Good
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Anobix the Wise wrote:
I also use a viewport addon so none of my screen is hidden below the bottom part
How exactly does that work?

Or better phrased, what effect does it have.
Does it move your character up in your screen or something like that?

And I think you have way too many buttons on your screen Smiley: tongue
You could probably fit all the addons inside your blue bar if you removed unnecessary buttons, but that's the minimalist in me speaking.


The viewport basically changes the displayed area of the screen to a different resolution. So think that it moves the 'playable' area up past the blue bar, it makes the resolution a little funny (if you ever played a Valve game or similar and changed the POV it is like that). This way things can't be underneath me but blocked by the blue bar.

Most of the abilities that I keep on there are for either knowing their cooldowns or to make sure that I have range. I know I could get rid of a few, but I hate opening my spellbook all the time (professions, etc).
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#16 May 02 2009 at 5:03 AM Rating: Decent
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Hide the bars for stuff you have bound to keys :P
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The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#17 May 02 2009 at 4:27 PM Rating: Good
I guess I could do that for abilities that are not dependent on range (focus magic, blizzard, etc) but for abilities like fireball/scorch I prefer to be able to look down and see that it is red (oor) or not.
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#18 May 02 2009 at 6:39 PM Rating: Decent
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RangeDisplay takes care of that for me.
It can display the distance to your target and/or focus and it's got enough options to make it look the way you want it to.
Check the top screen of my UI to see how I've got it. (focus is the same only on the left side)
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#19 May 03 2009 at 4:55 AM Rating: Good
Screenshot

I designed this UI to better organize my junk and to utilize the elements from Statblock and SBF (Satrina Buff Frames) in a better way.

Relevant addons:
kgPanels
Macaroon!
ButtonFacade
Stuf
StatBlockCore with various plugins
Chinchilla
SatrinaBuffFrames
SharedMedia3
Custom Skins created by me

What I didn't feel turned out the way I had hoped:
I used an emboss effect on the path of frost icon and my mount icon to gain the effect at the top, but I am not really happy how it turned out.
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#20 May 03 2009 at 8:52 AM Rating: Good
The SimpleMajority of Doom wrote:
Screenshot

I designed this UI to better organize my junk and to utilize the elements from Statblock and SBF (Satrina Buff Frames) in a better way.

Relevant addons:
kgPanels
Macaroon!
ButtonFacade
Stuf
StatBlockCore with various plugins
Chinchilla
SatrinaBuffFrames
SharedMedia3
Custom Skins created by me

What I didn't feel turned out the way I had hoped:
I used an emboss effect on the path of frost icon and my mount icon to gain the effect at the top, but I am not really happy how it turned out.


Overall I love the look of it, it is pretty damn clean (much better than your original version). Getting rid of the xloot anchors (obviously) and using a raid frame (grid or whatever) to get rid of the party frames would probably look great and very clean.
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#21 May 04 2009 at 4:22 AM Rating: Good
Thanks, and yeah I am going to get grid added to the UI. The xloot anchor is completely hidden now, just needed it up for adjustments before locking down.
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#22 May 14 2009 at 3:36 AM Rating: Good
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This is my UI Screenshotted during last night's raid. I'm not totally happy with the size of both my Unit frames and the oRa2 frames, but I still need to change that.

edit: nice thread btw.

Edited, May 14th 2009 1:36pm by Curois
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I'd scale the whole thing down a bit yeah.
And what I would do is hide recount, ou don't need to see it during combat and I personally like to see a big huge window when I open it ^^
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The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#24 May 14 2009 at 11:50 AM Rating: Good
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
I'd scale the whole thing down a bit yeah.
And what I would do is hide recount, ou don't need to see it during combat and I personally like to see a big huge window when I open it ^^


I guess you're right. There's no reason to have recount visible during fights. But what makes me sad is the time and effort I put into cramming both Recount and Omen, my 2 chat windows (one for raid/party/bossemotes, the other for guild/Classleader/say/whispers), the minimap and my buttonbars in that space at the bottom of my screen :S But on the bright side, it gives my UI more room to "breathe".

Edited, May 14th 2009 9:50pm by Curois
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You can always try to squeeze grid in there Smiley: wink
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#26 May 14 2009 at 8:29 PM Rating: Good
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Curois you can also hide some of your action buttons. Like all of them except ones you need for cooldowns and to see the GCD's progress.

Could help free up some more screen.
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Horsemouth wrote:
Curois you can also hide some of your action buttons. Like all of them except ones you need for cooldowns and to see the GCD's progress.

Could help free up some more screen.


So far, I don't really need to free up screenspace, especially when removing Recount from the equasion, but...

His Excellency Aethien wrote:
You can always try to squeeze grid in there Smiley: wink


...this is actually not a bad idea at all. I could scale grid down a bit more, because, what the hell would I need grid for when DPSing, except some decursing :), and then put it where Recount used to be. MOAR SCREENSPACE for everything non-UI related then.
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Newish UI.

Dropped the Pit frames to be more eye level.
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Omen stock skin hurts my eyes.
It's seriously ugly and clashes with everything else in your UI.


And my new priest's UI.
Because my normal one is terrible for healing.
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The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#30 Jun 16 2009 at 1:22 PM Rating: Good
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How do I change the Omen skin?

It is ugly.

I want a pretty UI so I can use it to pick up chicks.
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#31 Jun 16 2009 at 1:57 PM Rating: Good
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/omen config



It's that simple :P
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The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#32 Jun 20 2009 at 9:56 PM Rating: Good
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I use: Pitbull, Dominos, Recount, SquawkAndAwe, Omen, Elkano Buff Bars, BigWigs, One Bag and Simple Minimap. There are some others, but not importants.



This is my questing ui:
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/535/wowscrnshot050309232806.jpg

This is my out of combat raid ui:
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2550/wowscrnshot050309172037.jpg

(I cant find right now one in-combat raid, will try to take one tomorrow, but its similar to the off-combat but with my target showing and squawk and awe showing too. Ah, and big wigs alerts too.)


ps. how do I upload images to here? I guess its a premium thing?

edit. 1 - Usually, the raid group is far below, just above the chat. Dunno why it isn't on this screenshot.
2 - Sometimes I have Decursive up to. Usually I move the chat bar a litlle down and squeeze it there.

Edited, Jun 21st 2009 3:02am by Brisin
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Brisin wrote:
Got a screenshot yesterday while I was raiding:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/34/wowscrnshot062109042010.jpg

The addons are basically the same.


Forgot to say 2 things:

1 - I have recount up but only because its Patchwerk. It's the e-peen fight.

2 - I usually dont have that fps showing. I was having some issues that day and I was trying to see what was the problem, connection or fps. Clearly, it was fps...

3 - I was trying to change the way Omen looks, and I kinda messed it up, so its not showing it the correctly.

4 - When I'm healing, I have the groups I'm assigned to heal in the center. Would kinda look like that screenshot, but with raid groups by the side of myself's bar(right on top of the buttons) and SquawkAndAwe would be turned off. When I'm not assigned for raid heals, I have my target, my focus and raid tanks by the center where the raid groups would be if I was raid healing.

5 - I'm still having some problems with tunnel vision while healing. I'm gonna probably change a little bit more the ui so I can have the raid groups around my char when I'm raid healing and/or my target, my focus and raid tanks when I'm focus healing.
#36 Jun 24 2009 at 5:26 AM Rating: Good
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I would show the powerbars for non mana users too in your raid setup, to get it to look a bit more uniform and less distracting. (and I'd line em out properly :P)

I would also change the style of the bars you have on your screen to make them match.
Your untitframes, castbar(s), Squawk and Awe, Omen, Recount, DMB/Bigwigs and buffs all have different barstyles so getting them the same style would make your UI look more like an UI and less like a thrown together heap of addons.

Minimap is also something I would change as it clashes with the rest and the load of buttons is rather ugly. (sexymap can easily fix that)

And last but not least, I'd move your target closer to where you're actually focusing your eyes instead of shoved off into a corner.
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#37 Jun 24 2009 at 10:48 AM Rating: Good
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Well I fixed Omen to be transparent like the rest of my UI. My target just died when I took the shot but it would be where my frame is but on other side with a target's taregt smaller and below it. Symmetrical design FTW.

Screeny . I think it is fairly polished at this point but still may want a discrete buff add on and maybe some SCT. But not in a hurry to do either.

Any recommendations on current changes or where to get my future acquisitions?

I have tried Elkano's but I think it would clash a bit much.
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Go get Mik's Scrolling Battle Text.


And I use Satrina Buff Frames for my buffs, mostly because of the large amount of options it has.
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At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
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Newness

Added the SBF and Scrolling text.

Like the SBF and have it where I want it.

The Scrolling Text I want some advice with. Want it more prevalent but not obtrusive.

Edited, Jun 29th 2009 3:17am by Horsemouth
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Don't know if you have Mik's Scrolling Battle Text (if you don't, get it :P), but it has options to make frames for different types of combat text.
It comes standard with a more of less HUD shape around your character with incoming damage and healing left, outgoing damage and healing right, cooldowns center and special energy/rage/mana gains at the top.
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The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
#41 Jun 29 2009 at 10:42 AM Rating: Good
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I have it you, can sort of see it. I switched outgoing to the left and incoming right. The Notification box is still top center.

I think that means I have to move it closer to the frames and make it a bit louder.

I'll get back after tonight's raid. Will try and tinker with it then get some screenies not it a raid then in a raid. The raid setting usually has a lot of crap going on so it can be harder to see transparent frames in pictures.


pic

Edited, Jun 30th 2009 6:23am by Horsemouth
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Incoming necro.

Updated tank UI.

In a raid Grid goes where Pit party frames are in the pic.
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Here's my minimalistic UI, running at just 8.6 MB in 10 man raid combat.

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Out of Combat

Screenshot


In Combat

These are just the combat add ons I use, I disable all the ones I don't need during raids to help increase my framerate, which you can see on my Broker bar, is pretty low.

Add ons used:
Azcast Bar
BarKeep (a bar mod similar to Bartender and Dominoes with a little less functionality and much lower memory usage)
Basic Chat Mods
Cael Name Plates (which you can't see because I'm not close enough to any of the trash)
Elk Buff Bars (tracking both buffs and debuffs under the minimap)
Forte Exorcist (Similar functionality to Class Timers but includes extra goodies for my lock alt)
Mage Nuggets (Does various mage things, but I mostly use it to show me buffs I can SS)
MikScrolling Battle Text
Ninja Panel with various Broker data plug ins
OmniCC
oUF with the Nivaya layout (Pitbull + Grid functionality at very low memory usage)
Smart Buff
Squeenix (minimap)
sThreatMeter2 (Omen but with much lower memory usage)
TipTac

I've yet to find a suitable subsitute for recount that is low memory usage (preferably under .5 MB, but if it's at least no more than 1MB I'd be happy), so if anyone has any suggestions there that would be awesome. I tried Skada, but apparently it only works with raids and I want a dmg meter that can track my dps in parties as well.
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#44 Oct 26 2009 at 3:58 AM Rating: Good
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Ok here I come, brace yourself! Smiley: tongue

1: Bars need to be the same texture/style, I see at least 4 different styles.
2: dump portraits, they're both a large memory hog (especially moving portraits) they're ugly (in my opinion at least) and they serve no purpose as you can see what they show right in front of your face ingame anyway.
3: I'd remove the name and level from the player frame, I'm assuming you know what level your character is and what name she has Smiley: wink
4: The buffs hurt my eyes, I personally absolutely hate that style of showing buffs, it takes up so much more screen real estate that it should.
I personally prefer just having icons with a timer, because you know which buff/debuff it is from the icon anyway.
But if you like this, at least change it so that the icons are at the right side and the bars deplete that way so it doesn't constantly take up such a big block of space.
5: I would hide titanbar/fubar or whatever you have at the top, or at the least hide the texture and place the things you have at the left now in the center (and what you have right either center or left so the minimap can move up and free more screen space)
6: Remove/replace the border of your minimap, it doesn't fit the rest of your UI and the minimap is too large in my opinion.
7: And last but not least, I would download buttonfacade to make the icons on your bars and buffs match your UI.
It's a purely aesthetic addon, but it's also very light weight. (0.1-0.2 mbish)


Other that that list, I'm assuming Zephoes is your focus target so I would add a target of target beneath your target.
And I'm assuming/hoping that your target castbar is as big as your castbar and above yours or something as I consider a large target castbar to be important in seeing when a boss casts something big and important.
(Or an enemy in PvP you wan't to CS etc)
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#45 Oct 26 2009 at 12:29 PM Rating: Decent
Bars as in unitframes, buffs etc.

And I personally use Satrina buff frames, although that does run about 1mb.
The advantage is that it's so super customizable.
You can, for example, set your arcane barrage debuff as a big see through bar in the center of your screen without any other buffs or debuffs showing there.
And you also have the option of hiding parts in or out of combat.

As for focus targets:
The little guy on Iron Council, so you can see when he casts overload if you are close to him for a rune of power.
The target you have to CC/interrupt. (Faction champions, for example)
For Jarraxxus you'd want jaraxxus as focus so you can spellsteal even when you're targeting a mistress/infernal without having to switch targets (if you bind /cast [target: focus] spellsteal to a key)
And in general every single mob/person you want to keep track of but aren't targeting.

I also wouldn't touch where your unitframes are now unless you lose track of stuff that happens on screen or around there because your eyes are off somewhere else.
(the Missile Barrage thing at the top left is in a bad place for example, it's very far away from all other info on your screen.)

Edited, Oct 26th 2009 10:37pm by Aethien
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#46 Nov 01 2009 at 9:55 PM Rating: Decent
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http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/magicsteve/WoWScrnShot_110209_032244.jpg?t=1257133186

I know it still needs work, thats why I am posting here. The gap between action bars is where my omen slots in when its visible, recount is hidden during combat.
I know a few things wrong with it. I still use the WoW raid frames, but they are just what I got used to and I love how much information is shown on them, and how clear the information is. The raid frames are the most important part of a Healers UI so, yes they are kind of large but for me its important its not cluttered.
You will say ive got too many buttons shown, but I am happy with that general area.

Things I want to change:
I want my mouseover window to appear in the bottom left between my Raid UI and my Chatbox, its a fairly vacant section of screen. Is there an addon that would let me do this?
I need a good UI, I dont mind if it is as big as the Current raid UI, just something tidier. Not grid, I never liked that when i tried it, was all too compact for my liking.

Ive sorted my map since that picture, its now a simple square shape with a plain border. I also sorted DBM so it doesnt overlap PP

Edit: A different chat addon would be nice, one thats more... square and generally tidier.


And before you slaughter it, ive only started working on it tonight. Yesterday it looked like this.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/magicsteve/WoWScrnShot_101509_190700.jpg?t=1257133277

Edited, Nov 2nd 2009 5:02am by EbanySalamonderiel
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#47 Nov 21 2009 at 10:52 PM Rating: Decent
Okay, I've done some tweaking to my UI based on your suggestions Aethien.

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IC

Add ons used:
Button Facade Lite Step
Cael Nameplates
Chocolate Bar (broker bar)
Class Timer
Cork (buff caster)
Dominos
Mage Nuggets (SS monitor and SP, Crit and Hit monitor)
Mik Scrolling Battle Text
Ouf Nivaya with Lite Step skin
Skada (dmg meter)
Simple Threat Meter
Squeenix (minimap)

I'm not using a buff display add on right now, because the default one is acceptable while my pc doesn't get good fps. It's still at about 8 MB total. Any other suggestions for improvement?


Edited, Nov 21st 2009 9:05pm by PigtailsOfDoom
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