Post your UI.

[Rasix]

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 Rarely updated so I always have to remember to load out of date addons.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. 

[Ingmar]

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

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.

[Rasix]

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

[Lightstalker]

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).

[schild]

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

[Sjofn]

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. 

[schild]

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

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.

[Sheepherder]

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

[Fabricated]

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

[Signe]

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.



Don't make fun of my clothes!

[Gobbeldygook]

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

Inline Aura.

[Sheepherder]

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

[apocrypha]

Fear my rolling skills  

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.

[Sheepherder]

Inline Aura.

Nice.

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

[apocrypha]

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

Like what?

[Signe]

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. 

[bhodi]

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.

[Signe]

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!

[Rasix]

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.

[Nebu]

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. 

[Zetor]

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.

[Sheepherder]

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

Like what?

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

Code:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Flame Shock; [mod:ctrl] Frost Shock; Earth Shock

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.

[Signe]

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.

[Sheepherder]

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.

[Fordel]

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.

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

-edit-

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

[Sheepherder]

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).

[Fordel]

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.

[apocrypha]

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

Code:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Flame Shock; [mod:ctrl] Frost Shock; Earth Shock

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.

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.

[Merusk]

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.

[K9]

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).

[Numtini]

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.

[Rasix]

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.

[Ingmar]

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.

This for me too.

[Signe]

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. 

[Rasix]

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