Post your UI.

[Morat20]

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. 

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.

[Hutch]

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

[Selby]

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

[Rasix]

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.

[K9]

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  

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.

[Selby]

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

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...

[Rasix]

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.

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.

[Merusk]

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.

 

[Rasix]

I bet you still use CTMod.

[Fordel]

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!

[Xeyi]

- Fubar is a waste of time, space and memory.

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.  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.

[Merusk]

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.

[Xeyi]

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.

[Merusk]

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.

[K9]

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

[Jayce]

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.

 

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.

[Sjofn]

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.

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

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

[apocrypha]

Apocrypha

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

Also, why are you using Water Shield as Enhance?

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 :)

[Rendakor]

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  ) 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.

[Fabricated]

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.

[Rendakor]

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?

[K9]

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

[caladein]

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 for this purpose for a long time.

[K9]

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

[apocrypha]

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.

[ezrast]

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.

[K9]

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.

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.

[caladein]

buffs mod on the right hand side

At first I thought it might be Simple Buff Bars (which I use), but I can't find an option to turn the names off so it might be Elkano's BuffBars.  The buff and debuff display are likely the same mod but with each section having its own anchor and display settings.

the timers on the left hand side

Probably Cooldown Timers.

[apocrypha]

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!

[K9]

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.

[apocrypha]

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 

[Rasix]

This is what I've settled on.  Yes, I still have the goofy font in MSBT.  


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.

[apocrypha]

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

[Rasix]

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

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  than the other.

[Xeyi]

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