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I suppose this could have been in the other topic, but I'd the topic of our respective UIs to have it's own thread.

Large pic of current UI in action with large monitor.  Still very much a work in progress.

My current UI uses:
Bagnon - Puts all bag into one giant bag in your UI. Works for your bank.  Tracks all of your character's cash.  I have mixed feelings about this mod. While I do like being able to easily track items in my bags, I miss the fastidious bag organization that I used to do.

ButtonFacade - I'm not sure why I have this installed. I think it was to add different textures for PitBull and other mods.

ClassTimer - Going to try and use this for DOT tracking. This is not my favorite so far and I may go back to NeedToKnow.  However, it not as nice on the eyes and I like having my dots in the same place on the timers and stuff like shadow embrace I don't give a shit about tracking. I will have to mess with this more.

Clique - For use with grid, somewhat useless for a warlock.  More use for a healer.  It allows you to bind certain spells to mouseclicks for use with your unit frames. I have it only interact with GRID.  
CooldownCount - Displays cooldown on all of your abilities.  Works great. Rarely updated so I always have to remember to load out of date addons.

DBM - Deadly Boss Mods.  A mod for deadly bosses.  Not much use since I don't raid anymore.

Dominos - button bar. I like it better than others I tried.  It's the follow on to Bongos.

Elkano's Buffbars - Crappy buff bars.  I do like how it separates out the item, buff, and debuffs and how you get more information.  I just think it's too big and looks like shit.

GatherMate + GatherMate_data - Because I hate bloated mods like Gatherer.  It does the job just fine of tracking resource nodes.  You can use GatherMate data to import data instead of just tracking what you've picked.

Grid + one layout mod for it - I use this instead of any other mods raid and group frames. It's small and works great with clique.  Although honestly I need to come up with a good click/keybind for targetting.  At some point where I wasn't grouping for 3 months I remapped my targetting mouse click to an AE button.

Mapster - A less bloated map mod.  I only really use map mods for coordinates. It does a good job of revealing the entire map and shading it whatever color you want for uncovered areas.

MikScrollingBattleText - Scrolling battle text on either side of me.  Really I don't think this is of much use at all.  It's nice to see when I crit though and when I'm receiving healing, I suppose.

NeedToKnow - Getting replaced by class timers.  May go back to this and just live with the fact that it's somewhat retarded and sometimes can distinguish between your debuff and other player's debuff.

Omen - Threat mod.  Truth be told, I never look at this damn thing.  Tank has to suck pretty hard for me to pull threat.  I just keep it incase I someday feel like doing a PUG raid of OS or VOA and don't feel to lying to someone that asks if I have this intstalled.

PitBull Unit Frames 4.0 - I like the look of it and the custimization options are nice once you get used to it.  Xperl can be a buggy piece of shit on patch days.

Quartz - That's the casting bar you see.  It's good for showing latency and when you can actually start your new spellcast.  I could function without this, but it's nice when 2 of the classes I play have interupts, which makes big noticeable cast bars useful.

QuestHelper - This mod is a bloated piece of crap, but I hate getting lost. I can probably safely turn this thing off as I'm not currently leveling any character.  This mod gets buggier by the week.

RatingBuster - Breaks down stats on item comparisons. You can have it factor in enchants, etc or not.  It's a good mod and it really helps making item upgrades a little easier.

Recount - I will occasionally check my DPS after a heroic. Heroics aren't hard and I know I can do enough on every character to be relevant.  I don't raid, so this is pretty non essential.  I do, however, like to see that gear improvements are making a difference, even if my pve set is second fiddle.


The goal here is to keep most information readily available right in front of me. I mainly play a PVP warlock so it's import for me to be able to track my current DOTs and keep track of Nightfall procs.  In PVE it's good to be able to track my immolate (which need to know was somewhat failing at) and see the current count of backdraft I have left.  I still click a lot, so I also need to be able to interact with my UI easily.  I like things clean.  I do not like the way the current standard WOW UI works, if I couldn't play around to suit it to my needs, I'd not be playing this game.  Other games without similar levels of UI customization have giant marks against them.

What I still need to do:
-Layout the scrolling battle text a bit better so it's not making me push ClassTimers out so far.
-Make ClassTimers easier for me to read or go back to NeedToKnow and live with it's limitations.  The limitations only really affect me when I'm in a group with a same specced warlock.
-Find a better buff bar addon.
-Turn off the big ass tooltips.  Jeebus.
-Maybe find a new bagmod that allows me to indulge my inner organizer. 

Grats on finding a font that's even worse than Comic Sans!  :uhrr:

I do like the target frames, I think if I ever deviate farther from the default UI (right now I just use that with Grid, FuBar and some extra informational mods - Omen, Recount, that sort of thing,) that the first thing I'll do is something with those.

MSBT font is a bit retarded. Does make it easy to track.  "Hey, big dumb looking number! YEAAAAAH."

I can't live without Bagmon. 

It also tracks which character has what item in inventory/bank for you as well as allowing you to customize the rows/columns in the One Big Bag inventory view.  These days it also puts an item glow on each icon in inventory so you can quickly find the quest item that just showed up (for instance).

rasix i can't believe you play a game that looks like that my shift key has run away

That is a goofy font! It means you're secure in your manhood.

I'd post my UI but it's just the default one, and would make everyone recoil in horror.  :grin:

No it doesn't. That implies it's gay (or girly) in some way and he's just that OK with it.

It's not gay (or girly), it's just eye stabbing.

Does anyone know of a bar mod that lets you have DoT timers overlayed on your buttons in some way?

MSBT's default fonts suck so much. It actually reduces number spam however if you configure it right.

I use Carbonite now that it's free.  I turn off a lot of the options.  I like the map.  I also use:  Auctioneer when I'm actually farming for gold, Auction-lite when I'm just selling stuff I find lying about, Lightheaded, Fisherman's Buddy, Bartender 4, Gatherer, Ackis Recipe, Atlas, Atlas Loot, Outfitter.

(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4108/uiwow.th.jpg) (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/uiwow.jpg/)

Don't make fun of my clothes!

Inline Aura.

Repeat after me: "I don't need this many fucking actionbars, I need to disable some."

Fear my rolling skills  :why_so_serious:

I also have another small action bar that's only visible in combat in the middle of the screen, just below my character, that has cooldowns and bombs on it.

Nice.

Another thing people need to repeat: "Fuck, I need to make some macros, this is retarded."

Like what?

I used to use macros in my MMOs all the time.  I haven't found much of a use for all but just a couple in WoW. 

I have a bunch of macros.

A one-button-fits-all macro for mounting either a riding or flying mount while swapping to crusader aura (and then swapping back once I dismount).

I have one that emotes every emote in the game all at once for annoying spamming purposes (this is more fun than you'd think)

A macro that prevents me from clipping my mind flay with a second one so I get all 3 ticks of damage.

One that pops my trinkets and uses inner focus (no mana cast) before prayer of healing.

One that pickpockets before my cheapshot which got me around 500 extra gold when I leveled


I have about 20 or 30 "macro" buttons filled but those are the only ones that I can remember right now. I think 5 or 6 of them are variations on the trinket popping macro for each of my characters.

Heh.  I don't think I've even used an emote since beta, for the most part.  Well, until I used the one in the screen shot above.  Of course, I never group and I'm not a big girly arr-pee'er like you! (http://www.realitybbqforums.com/images/smilies/tease.gif)

I've been facepalming a lot lately.  Stupid direbrew groups.  I'll continue that thought on another thread.

I should set up macros for trinket palming.  I had done that in the past on my DK to pop both trinks before pulling out the gargoyle.  The current trinkets on my warlock are both PVP, but in some situations it'd be beneficial to pop both +  healthstone in one shot.

Heh, FuBar, tempting to use that again.  My addon count really starts to skyrocket when I do.

You know, I'm a huge fan of UI mods and macros for pve, but find myself crabby about their use in PvP. 

I don't use many UI elements and no macros.  Quest Helper, Gatherer, Auctioneer, and Perl frames are about it. 

Still needs a lot of work (hiding bags, hiding main menu bar, repositioning stuff), but works well; don't mind the backpack, it's usually not open. And yeah, I really gotta bind fade and fearward to be more accessible, but I cbf right now :P (same with the nets, that way I'd actually use them).
About macros, imo there are some that can be considered a must:
- mount macros (ground/flying)
- trinket combo macros (PI + hyperspeed accelerators on priest; I bound my attack power trinket to scourge strike for extra faceroll on my DK, etc)
- buff sequence macros if you have a lot of them (ie. you are a priest)
- self-cast and/or /arenatarget macros for pvp, but I haven't really played arena in wotlk, so yeah.

All of your alt and shift buttons?  Those can all go into one bar, like so:


I then have the right/left click on my fancy 3-axis mouse wheel bound to alt and ctrl, so that one press of the mouse wheel and a keypress gets me any of the three shocks.  I do the same for Judgements on my paladin, you could also merge the shield spells this way, same for totems.  Maybe merge your weapon imbunes into cast sequences on a hidden bar.  Or you could use Bartender's functionality to do the same thing with entire bars.

Also: professions-fu.  Get it.

Isn't professionsfu part of fubar?  I don't use fubar at all anymore.  I don't seem to need it.  And I like having lots of little bars more than lots of little macros.  Since I just solo, I don't really have a use for all the macro and fu-fery.  I also have an alt, shift and control profile programed in to my mouse.  Makes it much nicer.

It's a separate module but built to go with Fubar.  I just like it because it gets all my tradeskill buttons off of my bars so I can stick things I need to press there.

I really fucking hate UI clutter.  Especially neon, pastel, or Comic Sans UI clutter.

Is this a function of your fancy mouse, or can WoW accept those buttons as ctrl/alt?

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Specifically the ctrl/alt mapping. That would save my poor pinky finger a lot of grief  :oh_i_see:

(http://www.logitech.com/repository/199/jpg/1204.1.0.jpg)

The mouse wheel tilts to the right and left, depressing switches in the process.  It also has browser back/forward buttons right under the scroll wheel.  So it's a 5 button + wheel mouse.  If your mouse has more than two buttons and a wheel chances are you can rebind the extras to behave like keyboard presses using whatever software it comes with or can be downloaded for it.

If you're willing to click the macro you can get them to behave differently depending on whether you use the left/middle/right mouse button using WoW functionality.  Alternatively, working outside of WoW if you wanted to you could rebind keyboard buttons (I have a utility called Keytweak that does this), although that sometimes behaves oddly, and you'd have to reset your computer every time you want to revert to normal (you can also completely disable your "windows" key via this method if you're so interested).

My mouse has similar browser Back/Forward buttons, but on sides of the mouse instead of on top. Being able to use those as Ctrl/Alt buttons without disturbing their functions outside of WoW would be rad.


I guess I'll go dig out the drivers or whatever this thing uses.

To be honest I don't really feel the need to do any of those things. I play multiple characters so it's very useful to me to have the actual buttons for all the assorted spells visible on my bars, so that when I'm playing a char I haven't played for a while I can easily look on the bars when I've forgotten where Lay on Hands or whatever is. With merged abilities on single buttons that'd get confusing very quickly.

Professions-fu doesn't look like any kind of must have for me either. I'm perfectly happy with the number of action bars I have, they do not take up more space than I want on the screen.

So, to all of your suggestions, thanks but no.

I accidentally hit the printscreen button the other day, so here's a mid-raid UI.

I'm not one for a lot of add-ons since I remember well the days of "Oh fuck, so and so is broken and I can't play for shit now."

Running with:
Omen
Autobar
Recount
RuneWatch
Titan Bar
ORA2

What you can't see are Sell-O-Matic (sells all your grays with one click)   Auctioneer and Outfitter.  I'd dump outfitter in favor of the default UI if I didn't like the sorting and auto-build features in Outfitter.

I'll try and get a good raid one sometime. For now though:

The Priest:

The Shaman:

Addons:

Pitbull 4.0
Bartender4
Sexymap
Elkano's Buff Bars (I agree with Rasix, I'm really starting to go off this one)
Recount
Cool Line (The best cooldown addon I have found)
Grid
GridManaBars
DBM
Decursive (Going to ditch this soon, since mass dispelling isn't a big feature since Naxx, and I can do the same with Grid and keybinds)

About 3/4 of my bars are hidden, but I really managed to trim everything down to about 12 abilities that I actually use. It's very easy to over-clutter action bars with abilities you never really use. The only hassle is totems, and while the new totem bar has improved that, I still need a clickable side-menu for totems I need on odd occasions.

For reference:

Priest abilities used regularly:

I have the rest keybound, but a lot of it I don't really need to see. I also make extensive use of macros to condense multiple abilities into buttons, and also to do shouts/raidwarnings when I use cooldowns. The only ability I click is Divine hymn, which is macroed into inner focus (like 99% of priests).

When Ace disappeared way back in the day, the curse updater wasn't keeping up to date with what was being put up on their site for direct download. Is it better than that now. Meaning, when the patch hit and I got some crashes, should I start going to the website to look for the most recent or can I trust curse client to do it for me.

Curse updater seems to be pretty decent about showing what's new in a timely fashion.  Most updates I miss are just because I don't bother to look.

This for me too.

Even though I enjoy mods, I think I could probably play WoW with no macros and only Bagnon and Bartender 4 for mods.  I don't like artwork around stuff and I like keeping my UI very small, both in UI scale and font.  A lot of the things that mods used to cover exclusively are now options that Blizzard provide, anyway. 

As long as I could use a button bar mod and a unit frame mod, I can play.  The rest is just gravy.

I use Auctioneer, simply because I want price tracking so I don't have to remember what stuff is selling for, and because I like getting tooltip notices of what an item is used for. I can't count the number of times I've looted something and thought "Somebody uses that, but for what?" and tried to remember if I needed to mail that to an alt, or a friend, for their class or profession or whatnot.

I used to use Aspect mods for Hunters (way too many aspects) and I might dig one out again. I only need three on my action bars, really, and the rest are so situational I can use a drop down for it.

Other than that, I used a raiding one that allowed the raid leader to pop up warnings and put up giant warnings so we wouldn't miss emotes, but I rarely needed it.

I'm experimenting with Gatherer, which might join an Auction one as my only really 'needed' addon.

ATSW (Advanced Trade Skill Window). Expands crafting UI to double width, allows task queuing, and one-click mat purchasing at vendors.
Auctioneer
BankItems - lets me see the inventory, equipped gear, bank, and mail of all my toons. Modifies tooltips to say how many of an item each toon has.
Bartender4
ClassTimer
Deadly Boss Mods - raid alerts
Gatherer
Omen
Power Auras - tells me when abilities are off cooldown, among other things.
QuestGuru - Expands quest UI to double width, and the best HUD quest tracker I've seen thus far.
Recount
SCT
Titan Panel - the bar across the top with the info display
XPerl - unit frames

I use DBM, Omen (not used, just have), Gatherer, and Recount.  And the default UI ;-)

As a mage, do you relaly need to see the entire raid's health/mana bars in their full glory?

GRID (scaled down some) would free up a lot of space there.

My UI has been improved steadily over a couple of years, the main tips I'd give are:

 - Eliminate redundancy to save space, if you're running a buff mod, you don't need to see self-buffs under your character frame, really.
 - Character portraits are nice, but a waste of space
 - You REALLY don't need every ability keybound, or even on your bars. Tradeskills, Fishing, Pets etc can be hidden well
 - If you are good with keybinds, you don't need to see all your abilities. Hiding bars can save space.
 - You rarely ever need map buttons in combat, mods like sexymap hide them
 - Unless the only thing you ever do is 5-mans or solo, you don't need party frames. Get some good lightweight raid frames like grid and enjoy the space you save. Party frames are useless even to a healer, and if you ever set foot in anything with more than 5 people, you'll want raid frames. The only other frames worth preserving are Player, Target, ToT and Focus (Pet frames too perhaps).
 - Fubar is a waste of time, space and memory.
 - You don't need your mini-menu or bag menu visible. N for talents, C for character, Shift+B for bags, /gm for help. You never need to click those buttons, so hide them away.
 - Bartender lets you have cast bars built into frames, so it eliminates the need for separate cast bar mods, although interrupting-heavy classes may possibly want a separate enemy cast bar.
 - Base everything down the central axis of the screen rather than hug the edges, people naturally focus on the bottom of the screen, so that's the best place to put your most important information.
 - Grid is amazing and can give you astonishing amounts of information about your party/raidmembers
 - Making a macro to show/hide addons like recount and Omen on demand is handy when you move between situations that do and do not require those addons.
 - Shift+M brings up the minimap
 - Dual spec saves different bar layouts for each spec, so you can dispose of spec-specific abilites that aren't relevant if you like.

A couple of more specific comments:

Rasix

You know you can hide the anchors on Elk's buffbars? This would make them look a slightly less ghetto. Likewise you can hide the background and tab for Grid.

Apocrypha

All other comments aside about keybinds and such, no shaman ever needs Sentry Totem on a hotbar, let alone with a keybind  :why_so_serious:

Also, why are you using Water Shield as Enhance?



On a separate note, since Pitbull 4.0 and Bartender 4 can be confusing as fuck to configure, I'm happy to do a screen-by-screen guide to setting up a smoother UI if anyone wants.

I also heal with the same interface, I find it keeps it practical to see the same thing every time so that I don't get confused on the wrong character.  Not to mention I like to watch and see who dies and how fast it happens.  Gives me an idea of whether we are going to actually succeed or fail (and know who the people who can't be bothered to move out of the fire or novas are).

40 man stuff was sure crowded though...

I've since switched to Satrina's Buff Bars.  Checking my buffs for me really isn't that important (important procs are handled by ClassTimers for now).  I like it so far, but I still need to mess with it some. It's very customizable.

At this point I want to turn on all bars, add all abilities and some extra buttons then post it just to watch some of you bust in apoplexy.

Really, get over it.  Not everyone shares your anal retentive need to see every useless corner of the screen.  90% of the action happens in a 200x 200 pixel space, having a "Clean" ui doesn't do anything but erect a monument to being potty trained too early.

 :awesome_for_real:

I bet you still use CTMod.

Here is my highly advanced elite UI setup:



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The Chat Area and Omen are usually hidden most of the time. I also use quartz for my cast bar and I have Squawk and Awe (just above omen) for eclipse timing. If I ever have to really heal for our raids, I'd probably get Grid or something, but since I only have too if we are desperately short or farming naxx, the default raid frames work for our 10's.

I just hide the group display and have both rows of raid frames in that top left area for DPSing, and I move a row on either side of my character in the middle for healing. Sometimes I'll drag the tanks over near my feet if they need extra attention.


I fear no patch day!

While I agree with this I just can't live without guildfu :(

I couldn't find a super recent in-combat UI shot but the one below is still pretty much what it looks like now.  There's still a bunch of redundancy that I need to get rid of.


I don't think I use any mods that people haven't already mentioned, possibly with the exception of the buff/cooldown timer icons in the middle, which are from tellmewhen (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13173-TellMeWhenFanUpdate.html).  I quite like this mod as it lets me keep track of a combination of procs and cooldowns all in one place.  I may also try powerauras at some point though, as I hear that can do the same thing in a prettier fashion.

Since I took the screenshot I've added more hotkeys to things like mana pots and inner focus etc.  I still keep some blank slots in my hotbar for encounter specific macros, like focus dispels and target macros etc.  I plan on hiding more bars when I get round to it, as I don't need to see hotkeyed spells that don't have cooldowns.

I have no idea what's going on with all that acheivement duplication, I assume it's some kind of bug.

It's not duplication. You got the 2 and 3 keeper achievement on that kill.  If you hadn't done a single keeper kill  prior to that you'd have gotten 3 achieves.

Some of the text looks duplicated to me, (apart from appearing in two chat windows, which is probably my fault).  I guess it could be because they were in proximity to me when they got the achievement and are also in my guild, resulting in two entries each.  But it doesn't really annoy me enough to look deeply into it.

Yep, that's what it is.  You'll notice one is yellow text and the other is green.

When you get an achievement one notification goes to your guild, another gets published in vicinity through the System messages channel.

I'm in this camp and the Fordel camp.  It takes me a day or so to notice that my addons got disabled again after a patch.

It's like you know what my UI looks like.  :ye_gods:

I totally have the different tabards on one of my sidebars because otherwise I forget to switch. <3

Good point about the Sentry Totem, but again, I'm not unhappy about the number of buttons or bars I have. The keybinds are the same across all chars, makes life easier, and the buttons are pretty much plonked on as any char levels and they learn the skills :p

I use water shield when I run out of mana and back to lightning shield when I have lots of mana :)

Necro!

I'm looking for a mod with a relatively specific purpose; my problem is that most of the UI windows in wow pop on the left side of the screen, right on top of the chatbox. However, moving the chatbox to the right results in it getting covered up instead by the tooltip (which, due to my DrDamage mod, is quite large). So, I'm looking for a mod to either a) unlock most of WoW's UI windows (specifically: tradeskill windows and mail, but unlocking them all would be  :awesome_for_real:) so I can put them wherever I feel like or b) unlock the tooltip so I can move it around.

I spend a lot of time crafting and auctioning, and it's becoming a real pain not being able to see chat while doing so.

Edit: Nevermind, I just caved and installed Bartender. then moved my chat box below all the UI windows.

Fluidframes also lets you move pretty much everything in the default UI and most things NOT in the default UI, in case you wanna do that.

That looks like exactly what I want; however, reading some of the comments on wowinterface, it hasn't been updated to 3.3. Are you still using it? Having any major issues?

There are a ton of tooltip mods that will anchor the tooltip to the cursor; names escape me right now though.

I've used TipTac (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7593-TipTac.html) for this purpose for a long time.

That's the one I use, thanks for reminding me of the name.

OK so I've decided I want to redo my UI totally. Reason is that I'm starting to do a few 10 & 25 man raids (pugs), mostly as healer (shaman & paladin) but also as DPS (shaman & mage), and I'm finding my existing UI cluttered and clunky.

I've been playing around a bit with Healbot Continued and think I'm going to make that the main raid frame but there's a lot more I'd like to do in terms of unit frames. I'm going to be really sad here and post a picture of someone else's UI that I saw on YouTube and liked:

Can anyone help identify some of the addons used in that? Specifically the buffs mod on the right hand side, the timers on the left hand side, the boss frame in the very bottom left corner and the unit frames mod being used for the main frames, bottom centre?

I don't have as much screen space as that to play with (1280x1024 monitor) and I will want to play with layout a lot but I like the overall style and look of many things there.

The bottom left corner is Deus Vox Encounters, a DBM/Bigwigs type encounter mod. I've got it installed and it seems pretty slick - it has an option to redirect all the text warnings to any scrolling combat text mod (including the default Blizz one), which is something I like a lot and couldn't find in DBM anywhere. Haven't actually used it in a raid yet though, so maybe it sucks.

By the looks of things:
 - The unit frames look like Pitbull to me. Pitbull is incredibly flexible, but takes a little experimenting to get used to setting it up. If you want help setting up pitbull frames I can help you if you want.
 - The buff array is Elkano's BuffBars with the bar length set to zero or thereabouts I think. He's also using it for debuffs since you can separate buffs/debuffs/weapon imbues out onto separate frames (if I remember right)
 - The Castbar is Quartz, which is nice if you want a detatched castbar. I use pitbull and that has the option to embed castbars within the unit frames, which I prefer.
 - Looks like Titan Panel or FuBar at the bottom underneath the chat box. I hate both addons so I can't say which exact one it is.
 - Grid for raid frames + GridManaBars
 - Guessing Bartender4 for action bars
 - Recount and Omen on the left

I don't know about the bottom left timer thing, the blue-headed box next to Grid, the timers over omen or which map addon he's using though.

At first I thought it might be Simple Buff Bars (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9798-SimpleBuffBars.html) (which I use), but I can't find an option to turn the names off so it might be Elkano's BuffBars (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5101-ElkanosBuffBars.html).  The buff and debuff display are likely the same mod but with each section having its own anchor and display settings.


Probably Cooldown Timers (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6599-CooldownTimers.html).

Awesome, thankyou all, I shall be experimenting with all of these for a while.

It's something I approach with trepidation, since having 3 "main" characters and playing on 2 seperate PC's, one of which has a 1280x1024 display viewed close-up and the other of which has a 1920x1080 screen viewed from 2.5m away means I have to do the entire UI 6 times or so. Which is a pain in the bum!

Most addons have profiles settings, so if you set up the layout you like on on character, you can just go to the profiles menu in the addon's configuration and copy that profile for each alt. This is particularly handy for stuff like unit frames and bars. Just remember to save each character as a profile other than default otherwise you'll find that moving an object on one character (say an action bar) moves it for all of them.

Yeah, and that made my old x-perl setup very easy for multiple characters, no question.

This time I'm intending to try and optimise for different needs and on different monitors, so while profiles will indeed still be useful they won't be the be-all and end-all of the process :p

Anyway, what I've done so far is make a 2nd WoW directory and am using that as the test-bed for the UI when I have a free hour to tit about with it, and still use my original WoW dir for playing in the meantime  :awesome_for_real:

This is what I've settled on.  Yes, I still have the goofy font in MSBT.  
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/82533/WoWScrnShot_021410_214353.jpg)

Larger:

Definitely not perfect, but I just really started playing the rogue.

Pictured:
Dominos
Pitbull Unit Frames v4
Satrina Buff Frames
ClassTimers
Grid + Clique (mostly for healing on shaman)
Omen
Recount
MSBT

Can't complain though. I can see my health. I can see my feet.  And I really only have to look straight ahead.

Oh god what font is that for your scrolling combat text?  :drillf:

Apparently it's "MSBT Porky".  Yah, it's fruity, I just never bothered to check.   

Haha, it's got "MSBT" selections like Transformers, Talsiman, Ginko, Yellowjacket, etc.  One more  :drillf: than the other.

I've tried a few scrolling text addons but with the default text I like how heal numbers appear over the recipient's head rather than in a set place on the screen.  Maybe I didn't dig around in various option menus enough but I haven't found an addon that can do this yet.

I actually quite like the MSBT default text though  :awesome_for_real:

Yeah, only a Blizzard feature is going to have access to where a unit is on-screen.

As for text, Calibri v1, everywhere.

Is there a way to disable MSBT's display of damage numbers and use the default? I downloaded MSBT primarily to manage buff and proc spam. If not, is there an addon I can get that limits the spam of certain buffs/procs, while allowing you to keep displaying the ones you're interested in? I'm particularly curious for my arcane mage; there's a lot of spam with the default combat text from Arcane Empowerment and Arcane Potency that I wanted to go away, but I really don't like my damage numbers scrolling.

From looking at the screenshots on WoWInterface, you should be able to go to: Options -> Events -> Category: Outgoing/Incoming Player/Pet and just start turning shit off.

That just made the scrolling numbers stop appearing, the default damage on target did not reappear.

Have you tried Parrot?  That's another popular scrolling combat text addon.

For important temporary buffs, I use ClassTimers.  Something like NeedToKnow might also work for you.

Thanks Rasix I'll check that one out later.

Slight necro with another addon question: Anyone use AuctionLite (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionlite.aspx)? I need an addon primarily for buying items, so I don't really care how the selling works.

I've used it for a while now and quite like it.

Cool; I've been playing with it today and it seems to do a fine job for what I need. I had previously used Auctioneer but it seemed to bog down over time if I didn't periodically delete the scan database: long loading the first time I mouseover an item, periodic crashes, etc. GearScore seems to do this too, but I just turn that off in raids.