Might as well make a post everyone can use :flirty:
(http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/4263/uiscreeniest7.th.jpg) (http://img446.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uiscreeniest7.jpg)
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7289/wow2006101121010215ub5.th.jpg) (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wow2006101121010215ub5.jpg)
My current UI
Weeeeeee!
(http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4553/wowscrnshot092806182648ej3.th.jpg) (http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot092806182648ej3.jpg)
Nice UI Xiaa :thumb:
Dont know what you use for the skin behind you chat and action bars but i was thinking if someone knew how to change the color on /oskin ?? :help: :please:
I use Discord, downloaded it as a custom package from the discord site and remade it to suit me using the same skins etc.
My UI :D
(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5827/myuirc7.th.jpg) (http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myuirc7.jpg)
[URL=http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myuikj6.jpg](http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/7257/myuikj6.th.jpg) (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/%5BURL=http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myuikj6.jpg%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img57.imageshack.us/img57/7257/myuikj6.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)[/URL]
here is mine :)
Akall is that different rangs of your heals or you just made a fun of it? :P heh cos it's look funny for me... cool UI Akall and Yrthal :thumbsup:
Yeh that is my HT bar, I use that mainly @ bosses to have a better mana control :D :)
(http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5140/vaelba1.th.jpg) (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vaelba1.jpg)
My newest screenie during a Vael fight
(http://home.online.no/~runesell/wow/WoWScrnShot_120406_235940.jpg)
I dont know what kind of Ui i should use.. i kinda re-make my all the time.. get bored to easily.. if there is something i cant get too work, i change it, if i think its cool and used it for some time i get bored of it and remake it! aswell with my skills, never know how to put them... allways change them to see if its more effective, and im VERY VERY interested in seeing it how others got it... seen both Dajo's and Opti's and every time i see one its As much different frome mine as it can be! but this is how mine is atm. Dont get used to it cause ill prop change it soon again :P
(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/8507/ui2wi7.th.jpg) (http://img77.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ui2wi7.jpg)
Bugger.. Screenies like that makes me miss raiding and playing WoW :sad:
OT: Hmm seems like somebody is playing with a wide-screen screen :D And damn Jorgen you got lots of moneiz! gib :woot2:
Sry to say, but for ppl that have played from the day the game got out, is not wierd to have like 5-10K g
Quote from: Nefertem;166500Bugger.. Screenies like that makes me miss raiding and playing WoW :sad:
OT: Hmm seems like somebody is playing with a wide-screen screen :D And damn Jorgen you got lots of moneiz! gib :woot2:
Got more on my alt xD
And as Deadlyspirit says, I've played a lot and I don't use gold for anything else then repairs these days. Farming the mats I need for pots as much as I can and have my priest to craft em
Quote from: Nefertem;166500OT: Hmm seems like somebody is playing with a wide-screen screen :D
Yup 19" flatscreem widescreen... just gotta love it :P
Quote from: Deadlyspirit;166503Sry to say, but for ppl that have played from the day the game got out, is not wierd to have like 5-10K g
Err... I play from day 4 but my pokets have a *very* limited ammount of gold :D
Quote from: Nefertem;166500OT: Hmm seems like somebody is playing with a wide-screen screen :D
22" widescreen ftw x)
Quote from: Akall;166509Err... I play from day 4 but my pokets have a *very* limited ammount of gold :D
same although not from day four but still.. that amount of gold can still make me baffled.. maybe I shouldn't have bought that damn goat from IF, lol..
Im a big spender though.. I like to buy stuff both in RL and in-game.. Not that good in RL though :rolleyes:
Quote from: Jorgen;166504Got more on my alt xD
And as Deadlyspirit says, I've played a lot and I don't use gold for anything else then repairs these days. Farming the mats I need for pots as much as I can and have my priest to craft em
*Nefrion gains stealth*
*Nefrion performs Pick Pocket on Jorgen*
*Nefrion performs SHIFT+Loot*
*Nefrion Saps Jorgen*
*Nefrion laughs at Jorgen*
Thats how you get 2k G in just 5 sec :ninja:
Quote from: Yrthal;166505Yup 19" flatscreem widescreen... just gotta love it :P
Quote from: Jorgen;16651022" widescreen ftw x)
24" widescreen pwns
all :norty:
Biachhhhin'
That must have been terible for you at the lan then!
Quote from: Bob;16656824" widescreen pwns all :norty:
Bobs epeen > you!
Don't ask what luna has...
What do you have, Luna?
Quote from: Bob;16656824" widescreen pwns all :norty:
CHEAT!!!!!!
Mine during raids:
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2255/uive2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Chaotic as hell lolz
:withstupid:
/me hints discretly to the thread about [post=118755]how to post images[/post] in your posts :rolleyes:
I know Bob, but then nobody clicks it, now you HAVE to see it :P
The thick black space you got at the bottom i like loads! but i dunno how to get it... would really sort out stuff on my UI...
Quote from: Luthor;167336The thick black space you got at the bottom i like loads! but i dunno how to get it... would really sort out stuff on my UI...
That you can do with a feature called Viewport (I think), which comes as a part of CTMod (I think).
That should help you a bit - I think :P
My 2.0.1 UI - not yeh finished still some 'Work in Progress' there :D
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4624/wowscrnshot121006122703if1.th.jpg) (http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121006122703if1.jpg)
(http://immortals.choka.nl/uiv2.0.jpg)
My current UI (and a killing blow on High King Maulgar!).
TL.
(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9387/highlordmaulgarjw2.th.jpg) (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=highlordmaulgarjw2.jpg)
Looking neat :) One can see you've taken good use of that new monitor of yours aswell :D
And then congratz on 1st Maulgar kill! :clap::yahoo:
Really nice and clean UI TL :thumbs2:
Love the way you get that much free space with such a huge resolution!
And congratulations on Maulgar :clap:
Nice, but what mods are you using?
I recognise some of the mods in there but not the one that lets you mes with the UI like that.
thats VERY nice TL.
I had really better do some work on my UI all I have running is CT!
I couldn't b bothered with my old monitor as I just needed the most space I could get, I have just received confirmation that my new monitor has been delivered! yay
It's a relatively plain vanilla install of Photek 6.6 (widescreen version, but they also do a normal 4:3 version) with a few extra mods added:
oRA2
sRaidframes
Decursive
KLH Threatmeter
SWstats
Deadly Boss Mods
Photek takes about 2 minutes to install and tbh the main things I have moved are the addons listed above and I adjusted the raidframes size, style & position from the default at install.
TL.
With the Photek 6.6, is there a lot of configuring or does it come like that? tried an addon before where it took a lot of configuring.. I eventually came up with a result I thought well off (its somewhere in this thread) but there was a lot of errors and stuff I couldn't do properly, so I quickly went back to standard UI..
The configuring cosists of changing the names of 3 folders. That's it. The installation then works. You can then if you want start to edit the basic Photek install, but that's down to you - mine has a few minor edits, but if you isntall Photek you'll basically get what you see in my screenshot. Older versions needed a LOT of configuring, but for the last 6-9 months or so it has been this simple.
All I do is change my W T F folder to W T F_old and my Interface fodler to Interface_old. Then install the new W T F, Fonts and INterface folder that come with the Photek instal zip file. That way if I do nto like it I simply delete the Photek versions of the W T F & Inteface folders and remove the _old from the original ones.
TL.
Cheers TL much appreciated. :)
I have a fair few mods installed but its not all that easy to position stuff without interfering my world view. It can get so cluttered that I miss something because the mod is positioned in a corner.
thanks again :)
How does it work if I want to add some of my own preferred add-ons?
I guess add-ons like WIM (http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/files/details/3921/wim-wow-instant-messenger/) and Outfitter (http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/files/details/4784/outfitter/) that doesn't seem to interfere with any of the add-ons included in PhotekUI wouldn't bring much problems, but what with for instance ArkInventory (http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/files/details/5539/arkinventory/) (genius add-on btw, strongly reccomended), that I would like to override Photek's OneBag and OneBank?
Just disable the one you do not want and enable the one you do want! It's exactly the same as you currently do. The only time you'll break it is if you disable a core component of the style, but then if you like the style you'd not be doing that anyway as there is stil loads of style tweaking you can use once you have it installed. Try it is all I can say, 2 mins to install and you're off to the races.
TL.
Can I have your monitor TL? :P
Quote from: TeaLeaf;179831Try it is all I can say, 2 mins to install and you're off to the races.
I tried it out yesterday, and it was
really great. The installation worked straight out of the box, and I also managed to add WIM, Outfitter and ArkInventory without any problems. Think this is something I can learn to love :yahoo:
I spent some time exploring the different possible configuration utilities, and I still need a bit more time here before I'm satisfied, and it also felt a bit "unnatural", but I guess I'll get used to it if I just give it a couple of days :)
However, I have a couple of more questions:
#1: now that a new version of Photed is out for the new patch, when upgrading, is it enough that I copy all the add-ons from the Photek Interface folder (and perhaps also the Fonts folder), so that I get to keep all my settings in the W T F folder? Would prefer to not have to configure it again for each upgrade.
#2: when making it work for more characters, is it just to make several copies of the
folder, and rename them to the names of my different characters (after I've configured it satisfactory for the first character)?
I installed it yesterday and spent the best part of 4 hours messing with it and adding extra mods. It does take some getting use to, the hardest bit was working out what did what, as the individual mod names aren't the most useful.
I still have some setting up todo, I'll post a screen shot when I'm happy.
:)
Quote from: Bob;179951However, I have a couple of more questions:
#1: now that a new version of Photed is out for the new patch, when upgrading, is it enough that I copy all the add-ons from the Photek Interface folder (and perhaps also the Fonts folder), so that I get to keep all my settings in the W T F folder? Would prefer to not have to configure it again for each upgrade.
#2: when making it work for more characters, is it just to make several copies of the folder, and rename them to the names of my different characters (after I've configured it satisfactory for the first character)?
#1
Yes. I rename the folders with _old as mentioned in an earlier post and then install. I then copy across any addon folders (but do not allow any overwrites). I also then copy across my savesvariables files for each. This usually works just fine.
#2
Yes. That's exactly what I do.
TL.
WOW I installed it yesterday as well.
TL thanks for the help on TS.
Once TL explained some of the basic bits to me then I found it relatively easy to customize, it is going to take a bit of time to get used to but I think It will b better in the end. Looks great on my new wide screen monitor, Im just stuck with the decision on if im going to keep the combat log or have damage meters...... or maybe..... ill have another play when I get home.
Problem is that I missed Top Gear last night due to messing around with Photek, that annoyed me
anyone no of a good quest tracker? Photek doesn't have one!
here is my latest UI, im very happy with this one
Im using
Photek 10 (wide)
natur castbar
Bigwigs
KLH thret meter
Decursive
oRA2
Grid
recount (damage/healing etc meter)
(i think thats it for this one)
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5739/myuipg8.th.jpg) (http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myuipg8.jpg)
Nice UI Sheepster!
TL.
My current UI is based on the Photek X compilation but is substantially different now after tweaking.
The screenshot:
MT windows are visible, Target, ToT, Focus T, FToT all show in this shot. Obviously when I do not set a focus target the two target panels middle right do not show up.
A full 25 person raid fits into the Grid space alongside Omen.
Replaced ag_Unitframes with Pitbull as it shows a PVP flag(!) and also cooldowns on the debuffs/buffs shown on the target. Left chat channel has 2 panes: One with all the crap in, the other panel is for raiding and has only /ra, guild and class channels showing, so no distractions.
Right chat panel is combat log only.
In addition to the addons used in the Photek X compilation I added:
Omen
Grid
BigWigs
oRA2
Recount
XRS
DurabilityFu
Cartographer
WhoDrops
Decursive
NECB
The only thing I am going to change is to remove Decursive (you can see the transulscent microframes on the lower righthand side) and replace it with Clique to use in conjunction with Grid.
(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4633/070921screenshotfr8.th.jpg) (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=070921screenshotfr8.jpg)
Enjoy!
TL.
nice.
Very clean. I may possibly look in to that pitbull as i get anoyed with ag unit frames sometimes.
Pitbull is much better than ag_untiframes I find and is highly configurable. And if you want a copy of the whole UI then shout and I can ZIP it up and MSN it to you, or transfer it at the LAN.
TL.
WTBorrow some coin off TL, hes loaded :narnar:
Simple....
http://www.smite.eclipse.co.uk/Images/UI.druid.jpg
thats a nice UI smite, lots of room to look at things
Think i may have to nab some of these mods, quite like one i have at present but it can get quite messy, esp now i have healbot on. Just hope the unit frames work similarly to XPerl for party and raid frames
i personally use grid for my unit frames
meens that i have my whole raid displayed ina 1.5" by 2cm box in 10 man raiding
top left in my screenie is what grid is like. imo best unit frame there is
Current layout, very similar to photek, havent had time to set it up properly yet ;)
(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5332/wowscrnshot031808072032tg2.th.jpg) (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot031808072032tg2.jpg)
That is awesome mate, Whats the name of the mod you got for the action bar with ya spells?
That's a combination of eePanels and Bartender3. Bartender to set the buttons and the black panels that sit behind them are eePanels.
Download the Photek X ui and try it and you'll have the basis of Kreg's UI. My own UI which I posted some time back was also based on Photek X - it's on the previous page of this thread.
TL.
:withstupid:
reviving an old thread:
But is there an updated version of Photek X i was updating my addons last night and checked over Curse and said that last one hadn't been updated for quite some time....
Real shame as well because i loved that mod package and having to go back to the standard UI for the time being as i deleted the 'old' version of Photek X :(
The individual mods that make up Photek X have all been updated regularly since Photek X was issued. Install it, run WoWAceUpdater.exe and you will have an updated Photek X.
TL.
ok cheers TL
well this is what ive been working on
http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newuidb0.jpg
i just need to tart up the buttons a bit. as soon as ive done that it will be finished. ive just got it so its functional at the moment
as you can see this is very much based on the old photek style of UI as its one that i get on well with
Some prettyness ive been trialing for anyone interest in giving it a go its the spartan ui with xpearl raid frames and recount dmg meter. Oh and titan bars up top
http://www.hexxcon.com/evoxersui.html (http://www.hexxcon.com/evoxersui.html)
Evoxer
Thats one of the best looking UI's i have seen in a long time.
Nice. :D
nice n clean there dude, not one i could use but nice UI
What is the very Bottom frame/addon called that runs straight across? (Holds all the action bars, chat panes etc...)
It's probably eePanels or a similar addon.
TL.
smitey i believe thats the spartain UI bit
Aye sheep spartan ui deals with the bit across the bottom and the repostion of the minimap
The bars themselves are bartender which is packaged in with the spartan ui >> http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7221-SpartanUI.html (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7221-SpartanUI.html)
Evo
I have the majority of those it was just the Panel across the bottom. I already use eepanels but doesnt look anywhere near as good as that one.
I might get that and have a play around with it.
Added to the Gallery, the current iteration of my WoW UI.
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=626&cat=518
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/data/501/thumbs/WoWScrnShot_010709_225813.jpg
dillinja's ui but playing on mushroom at the time
Quote from: FATAL;274190http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/data/501/thumbs/WoWScrnShot_010709_225813.jpg
dillinja's ui but playing on mushroom at the time
Bit small aint it :P
Quote from: smite;274206Bit small aint it :P
rofl :rolleyes:
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=605
as no one responded when i forgot about this post
and fatal ur photo is far to small to see
I also had a revamp of my UI .. I was using spartan Ui tho it seemed very heavy slowing my machine yo a crawl
I have had a tweek with kgpanels.. Its a bit indepth tho there are some nice tutorials on youtube and it seems to not lagg out my PC
The rest of the stuff is about the same as sheep is using
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/album.php?albumid=6&pictureid=12
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/album.php?albumid=6&pictureid=12)
that is one tidy UI jas me like
this might be usefull to you guys http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
ta for the sugestion ranger - i think that is more for programs and designing how they look rather than the in game modifications we do tho.
With the new widescreen I've been working on an UI overhaul the last few days... I think it's sleek now :) Simple in looks, yet effective.
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=7&pictureid=15)
tidy mate. :)
Nice, how about posting up a mid-raid combat version plz!
I thought of that when I posted it xD Will do as soon as I get into another raid :P But basically the raidframes show up above my chat log left of my skills/own health bar, and warnings in the middle of the screen. There's some hidden skillbars on mouseover mode in the bottom right (stuff like menu, bags, buffs/HS, drinks etc., stuff I don't need all the time basically).
nice and clean - is that sexy map that you are using?
Yep. Very lovely indeed, it has various cool looking skins and easy to modify :) Icons appear on mouse hoover.
Here my New ui
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=701&size=big
Quote from: sheepy;274843ta for the sugestion ranger - i think that is more for programs and designing how they look rather than the in game modifications we do tho.
upload your ui someware i LOVE IT!
- claw
here a shot of my new ui,
what ya all think
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=712)
Pretty slick :D I couldn't work with a bottom bar that high up tho ^^ But it looks very neat =)
EDIT: I promised I would upload one of my UI whilst in a raid a while back, so here it is =)
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=7&pictureid=16)
as per requests here is the new UI ive been working on this afternoon
empty box bottom right is omen box
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=724&size=big&cat=517
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=724&size=big&cat=517)
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=724&cat=517)
Here is my UI during a raid if anyone is interested^^
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=8&pictureid=22)
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4435/newuit.jpg
as requested new ui pic
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Bamsebror/WoWScrnShot_050610_224613.jpg)
my shammy.
(http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Bamsebror/WoWScrnShot_042310_234532.jpg)
my druid.
same ui on both of em :)
with alot of hotkeys ;) but with the lovly Bartender i can remove them, soo i dont have 2 see the numbers all the time.
Is that the spartan ui, bamse?
What are them buff bars Hal is using??
Quote from: Jewelz^;311587What are them buff bars Hal is using??
The bars on the right hand side of his Screeny? Elkano Buff Bars
new UI that I knocked up in an hour or so today
http://img687.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot070110185420.jpg/
(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd164/Angel_of_sin91/WoWScrnShot_071710_023057.jpg) Here's a new UI i've been working on tonight
thats a nice clean looking ui
Looks clean when in Dalaran. But does it look like when in raid, could we have a look, please?
I am curious why your unit frames are shifted to the raid side? Is it because something that shows up during raid?
Thanks, DFE
adding mine. Excuse lower pic quality, it is taken from Youtube. I added comments to those elements of my UI that do have influence on actions that I will take. The main idea is cooldown stacking - only use Rapid Fire + Readiness + Rapid Fire during DeathbringerÃ,´s Will proc (can I have T10 2pc proc at the same time, pretty please?). Ideally Readiness is used right after Kill Shot to have this killer shot available again.
(http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww310/Deepfriedegg/ui-raid-1.png)
Hey guys check out my new awesome UI.
(http://i32.tinypic.com/12379uc.jpg)
great UI there, so Jealous
Quote from: Alleriana;313676Hey guys check out my new awesome UI.
Is it from Cataclysm beta? :)
pvp ui
(http://i27.tinypic.com/18it7k.jpg)
Here's how my UI looks in a raid situation, as requested.
(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd164/Angel_of_sin91/WoWScrnShot_072010_222345.jpg)
Thanks. It is actually interesting to see Sindy from front, how slim she looks. And also all those spells heading towards her are impressive :)
BTW, let Chilled to the Bone fall off at 5 stacks, noob :)
And Stormy, that is a nice one, although not full; looks pretty functional-oriented. Especially I like your font.
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg217/Jewellsy/WoWScrnShot_080210_205041.jpg)
Ok so here is my UI... Is there a way to move or remove that box in the bottom right? Very annoying!
I think there's an option somewhere that allows you to turn off the tooltip box, which is what you're looking to get rid of :)
Managed to move the box, next thing is, can i move my DBM timers so that they're not over my buffs?
...to which the answer is yes you can. You can also turn off the anchors in Elkano Buff Bars and then perhaps narrow the buff display to show what is needed. For example you might not need the names showing, perhaps just the icon and the timer next to it? Saves a lot of real eastate and as a side effect means you would not have to move your timer bar either....
(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8909/8272010115539pm.th.png) (http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8909/8272010115539pm.png)
Lovely ui section here!
Here is my ui. Full resolution if you click on it. Using Elkbuffbars, X-Perl in the above left corner, d3_lightweight_orbs, Bartender and all the likes.
In the above right corner there are alot more addons attached to the minimap, they will be unhidden while you mouseover (sexymap). Something like proculas and itemrack. In the above middle is an addon that shows how long it takes to down a mob or boss.
Also got milkscrollingtext in the middle, showing my heals or damage.
Slightly edited today with kgpanels and some druid art, click for bigger picture:
(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6896/829201072448pm.th.png) (http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6896/829201072448pm.png)
here's mine
have 1 of the 25 man sindy fight if u wanna see me dead in a iceblock
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Quote from: kracau;315533here's mine
have 1 of the 25 man sindy fight if u wanna see me dead in a iceblock.lol
[ATTACH=CONFIG]547[/ATTACH]
Hmm.. It says invalid attachment :(
tiz ok for me :)
says invalid for me as well...
here's mine not uber gr8 but its ok
http://img192.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot083010112102.jpg/
Hey guys, was tlakin to some raiders about UI's after the raid as some people dont seem to see/get the DBM or other Raider addon warnings (they display in Text and in Sound) so to help people clear up UI's or just to see what others UI's look like and comment for Feedback or helping them find smaller alternate addons Please post Pictures and reply with respect
Vladic The Watermelon
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg217/Jewellsy/WoWScrnShot_051611_220203.jpg)
Ta Daaa?
Very Messy during fights! But it tells me whats going down and what not
I'm a huge fan of minimalistic UIs. That means just one action bar with cooldowns on the screen (i have all the useful spells binded and each keybind now comes naturally instinctive), the raid group panels (i use the standard blizzard ones, they can be set to display all the nasy buff you need), the boss mod (here i prefere bigwigs: the sound countdown warning on the selected ability is priceless and saved me lots of times) and of course a minimized chat and player/target frame. You don't need anything else, at least as healer (dps meters can be very distracting - you should already do your best, not waiting for an addon to tell you're sucking to get the hint -) and of course i don't use omen on tirkad: i only use heals when needed and if the tank can't keep aggro from me... well, he was going to die anyway (btw, skada can be set as threatmeter too, so no need of omen).
One of the major real-estate savers is swapping out Recount and and Omen and replacing them a single addon, Skada.
Skada's most useful setting allows you to have a 'default' preferred page (e.g. damage, healing & absorbs, interrupts, deaths etc), but that when you go into combat it switches display to become a threat meter. When combat is over it reverts to your chosen default again . It's well worth using imo.
I'm with Tirk here, minimalist raid displays let you focus on the info that's really important - but it is minimalist in the sense that it still shows you what you need to see, not necessarily what you think 'looks most artistically minimalist'! But, here's my biggest tip to improve your raid display: work out which area of the screen you usually focus on and then centre your important 'must know' info in that area. I see so many UIs with raid UI in one corner, bossmod warnings in the other, boss and your feet in yet another place etc.
Healers need to:
-see the raid UI all the time, so the most key information has to be placed in the same area. If you have to focus on the raid UI to do the healing, it's no good having your boss mod ability timers on the opposite side of the screen!
-likewise your healing UI should be in view of your feet - if you're focused on the raid UI and that is nowhere near your feet you are far more likely to stand in fire!
-have a separate boss/target cast bar in the same area as your raid UI - again this helps you pre-heal on things and see what is about to be cast without needing to move your eyes from the all important raid UI for healing.
DPS need to:
-focus their important info around the target & your own feet area. That's where you spend 90% of your time looking, so make sure 90% of your needed info is in that area too.
I'll not bother for tanking, it's pretty obvious what the trend is here!
Finally, it is massively important, once you have all the 'Blizzard warning messages' turned off in macros (see the above "Spell is not ready yet" or "Another action is in progress" messages), to move all non-essential info out of the way to less used parts of your UI or just to turn it off altogether. That's the bit that de-clutters your raid UI and makes it look minimalist!
...and I think this would be good to tie up with the UI thread, losts of piccies there and it might prompt people (liek me) to update their picture and UI as a result of comments made!
Another thumbs up for skada.
As tank, my prio is staying alive, interrupting the target, positioning / kiting, monitoring debuffs, HP + power bar percent and finally managing my threat. My UI reflects this as I move the player and target frames either side of the default cast bar. Below the player frame sits skada and left of them the chat window. Just below the cast bar I get DXE (alternative to DBM and bigwigs) to show Very Important timers. To the right I place DXE arrows and longer DXE timers. This means my eyes are ALWAYS just below my toon on the screen and don't flick around too much. I get the frames to show bar totals as the total IS important on some fights. However, HP percentage is also important, so I use the TargetHealthPercent addon to show this just above the target frame.
I agree with Tirk that the display should be minimal, but I use 4 actions bars. Of which I mainly use 2 (normal + 1 above). The other two I don't use (or very very rarely) during the raid and are tucked away off too one side. Keeping with the minimal theme, I now use generic blizzard raid frames. As tank or DPS, I don't give two hoots about the raid HP or mana levels so I don't show it. It gets in the way and isn't needed. However since 4.1, the gods have given DK's a battle rez show I now show it *purely* to rez someone if it's not going to affect my role as tank. But I make it nice and small. If your role is DPS and don't have a brez, don't show the frames. Less is more.
Lastly, the *one* addon essential for every class I play is OmniCC. This beauty puts a CD timer onto each button on your action bars AND any debuffs YOU placed on the target. This saves vital real estate from equivalent mods like DoTimer or TellMeWhen. If someone pokes me, I'll try and take a screenie of this when I next raid.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;325111Finally, it is massively important, once you have all the 'Blizzard warning messages' turned off in macros (see the above "Spell is not ready yet" or "Another action is in progress" messages), to move all non-essential info out of the way to less used parts of your UI or just to turn it off altogether. That's the bit that de-clutters your raid UI and makes it look minimalist!
Can you share with us how this is done?
Another suggestion some of you may find useful is to try some addons like Cooline OR Fortexorcist. The first displays a timer bar with the icons of all the cooldowns you have, moving to the start of the bar as their cooldown is expiring allowing a fast track of every cooldown with just one glimpse. The second (Fortexorcist - thanks TL) is much more than that. Once you fell absolutely sure you can track everything you have on your ui with ease, you may want to try this addon to minmax your performance. It's a really powerful tracking addon, originally designed for warlocks (i use it on desade and it covers half of the screen as affliction in some aoe groups, but it's damn satisfying :P ): it tracks each and every dooldown, spell, buff or debuff both on you and or the target/s you are fighting. It's highly customizable and it provides a timeline pretty much like cooline. The feature that makes it really awesome for locks is that it displays the "ticks" of your dots calculated dinamically on your haste, so you can refresh the dot just before the last tick and thus maximizing your dps. However it can be very "aggressive" as addon in terms of screen space used.
Moved my raidframes to under my feet, also downloaded CoolLine, new screenie will be up after Monday's raid.. downloading skada now also
Here is mine, where i feel comfortable with. tried many things but always went back to the standard stuff.
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I noticed that my focus is primarily on my character, so I moved the essential information to the middle of my screen in the lower half. This way I have a clean view on the surroundings and mobs, and the information close to my focus point.
The red is NeedToKnow, some major cooldown timers are shown just above the minor information, a bit bigger.
The blue are DBM timers. The long term timers were by default somewhere on the top right, but glancing there might just be those valuable tens of a second that your are in the damaging patches. So I moved them just left of my character. The short term timers are where they draw my attention.
I tried Skada a while back, but somehow I did not like it. Recount and Omen are moved to the side. During fights I only look at Omen when I have reason to think my aggro is too high (e.g when the audible warning comes). Recount is only looked upon after the fight.
Essential shots for a fight are always bound to 1 to =. I have a G15 keyboard, with G1 - G6 bound to actions bars on the right, lower 6 spots of the left column.
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Here is my newly changed UI, like lego i have moved things closer to my player so i can see more important things. Iv also installed Skada and CoolLine.
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Something I did since Cata is move my minimap to the midcentre. I use Sexymap and took a less obstructive design, the burning sun one. Around it (above and to the sides) are my action bars. Further up my HP on the left and Target's on the right. Still thinking of a place to put Grid reliably, it's currently to the left, above my chat pane. Bottom right is for meters.
Maybe someone here has a suggestion. I'm looking for a cast bar addon that let's me do the following:
A) I want to keep the Blizzard cast bar for my own spells. I like its position and I'm used to its looks.
B) I want target's casts to display above their HP bar.
Currently I can do either A or B with Pitbull, but not both. If I do B, it also puts my own cast bar above my own hp bars, as you cannot set different bar layouts for individual units in Pitbull.
Quote from: Azunai;325387Something I did since Cata is move my minimap to the midcentre. I use Sexymap and took a less obstructive design, the burning sun one. Around it (above and to the sides) are my action bars. Further up my HP on the left and Target's on the right. Still thinking of a place to put Grid reliably, it's currently to the left, above my chat pane. Bottom right is for meters.
Maybe someone here has a suggestion. I'm looking for a cast bar addon that let's me do the following:
A) I want to keep the Blizzard cast bar for my own spells. I like its position and I'm used to its looks.
B) I want target's casts to display above their HP bar.
Currently I can do either A or B with Pitbull, but not both. If I do B, it also puts my own cast bar above my own hp bars, as you cannot set different bar layouts for individual units in Pitbull.
Try Quartz for the cast bar tweaking.
Try AzCastBar (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7458-AzCastBar.html)garrit, very modular addon that probably will do what you want
Edit: bah TL beat me to it. Quartz is nice aswell yeh
You can use ecasting bar (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5546-eCastingBar.html) too, tho i like configuring it with target's casting bar showing a HUGE casting bar in the middle of the upper screen, just to avoid missing it :D
Did a tidy up on my shadow priest UI today and dumped a bunch of stuff and slimmed the rest of it down again. It now looks like this:
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Small gap to right of player is for ToT
3 small yellow timers are proc monitors for Lightweave, Power Torrent & Volcanic card (to refresh VT/DP when 2 or more up at same time)
Target cast bar is between Target buffs and the Forte Xcorcist Cooldown Timer.
Skada (lower right) shows Threat when in combat and reverts to damage/whatever when ooc.
Others bars/buttons hide when in combat or only show when mouseover.
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=776&d=1311793382)
Enter my UI :-) Minimalistic, as I said. (I uploaded it to my Gallery here on the forums, how do I make it a thumbnail like yours TL? ;_; )
Raiding Addons I use:
Bartender
Pitbull
Grid
Sexymap
DXE
Skada
Power Aura's Classic
Elkano's Buff Bars
TidyPlates
Target Frame is of course opposite the Player one, and next to that is a small ToT frame.
DXE timers appear above my chatpane on the left, when they become urgent (timer's about to run out) they move to the middle above the Player - Target frames
Skada grows downward from where it says 'DPS'
Debuffs appear under my healthplate as well as on the right, though I don't look there
The biggest space saver here is Power Aura's. Almost all my timer monitoring is done through that. It tells me stuff like: Colossus Smash is active on target. Rend is 1 second away from fading from target. Battle Shout is ready to use, but also when it's worn off. Some encounter debuffs I put in as an aura as well, for visual cues.
So yea... clean and a lot of screen real estate saved there.
Thought i'd post mine up
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The buttonbars at mid-left and mid-right fade out and in on demand which is quite nice, along the bottom left to right are: Chat, Omen, Bartender, Vuhdo(for raid frames) and Recount
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as shown without side frames showing
Buttons are set out as they are along bottom as I use a logitech G13 http://www.logitech.com/assets/17680/17680.png (http://www.logitech.com/assets/17680/17680.png)
(Best money i've ever spent on a single pieve of hardware imo)
I quite like the starcraft theme of it
this is my ui, (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/803/myuir.png/)
(http://imageshack.us/f/803/myuir.png/)
(http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/9931/myuir.png)
That one ought to do it? EDIT - Yep :-)
thats my ui mate! :D
Yes, I posted because your image links were borked ;-)
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4291/myuieb.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/myuieb.jpg/)
there u got my UI
I'm looking for an addon. The one with timerbars of how long your DOT/HOT remains on your target.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/buttontimers
My pref
Quote from: Nimsraedian;355063I'm looking for an addon. The one with timerbars of how long your DOT/HOT remains on your target.
You could try NeedToKnow or Ellipsis either :)
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10749-EllipsisMulti-TargetDoTTimers.html
http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/need-to-know/
Quote from: Nimsraedian;355063I'm looking for an addon. The one with timerbars of how long your DOT/HOT remains on your target.
Quote from: Mellisanda;355078You could try NeedToKnow
http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/need-to-know/
NTK gets my vote, brilliantly simple addon.
If you need to track dots on multiple targets, try Forte Xorcist, but you'll need ot turn about 95% of the addon off unless you like a discolight show on your UI.
Tried NTK but couldn't figure out how to config it correctly. Dnno why but i'm bad at these things :p
But then i stumbled upon Quartz and was able to configure that so problem solved.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
NTK is awesome, can also use it to track procs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IDQ99y92I&feature=player_detailpage#t=50s (theres alot of addon guides on youtube :p)
I used it back when I had the polearm from madness, to track the agi proc.. was nice to know when it was about to go off so I could use other cooldowns (rapid fire + call of the wild) and a potion so everything was lined up to get a nice dps boost
Quote from: Nimsraedian;355104Tried NTK but couldn't figure out how to config it correctly. Dnno why but i'm bad at these things :p
But then i stumbled upon Quartz and was able to configure that so problem solved.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
It's got to be one of the simplest addons in the world, it just does a bar and then you click on the menu to tell it what to track. Grab me online and I can talk you through it if you want.
I thought it was about time to repost my UI and its current state of evolution. The second picture is a duplicate of the first, but with annotations to tell you what each bit of the UI is doing.
UI with bars set to 'test' (i.e. a lot more bars show than would normally show at any one time)
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UI with Addons Annotated
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i was entertaining the idea of using elvui
at the moment i'm just using various addons
Quote from: Sneakytiger;364485i was entertaining the idea of using elvui
at the moment i'm just using various addons
Each person's requirements from a UI will differ. There will be a lot of common core needs, but every indvidual class & player tends to need something specific that others do not have. As such, I have never found any 'pre-packaged UI' to be satisfactory or to fulfill my requirements fully. If I posted a picture of my mage's UI it would differ from the above. Likewise my shaman is different, etc etc.
I'd highly recommend your 'various addons' route. It means you get the "best of everything" rather than "80% of what you want and 20% of what you don't". There is no advantage to running a package if it breaks in the future and you don't know how to fix it, or if it does not totally fulfill your requirements for all your classes.
OK in for a penny in for a pound.
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As a base I'm using ELVUI. While it's not perfect it gives me a nice clean interface that works through most of the default screens (spells, abilities, auction house etc.) and removed the WOW RPG style edges and borders which I don't really like. Out of the box the chat screens, unit frames, buff/debuff bars and mini map all work well enough for me.
Then there's
Bartender4
Tidy Plates - Threat Plates
Skada (Skada for tanks)
Omen
OmniCC
Bittens Spellflash:Monks
Gathermate2
DBM
GTFO - to make TL stop shouting at me :D
Eavesdrop
Reforge Lite
TomTom
Weak Auras for stagger meter and audible alerts.(not visible in the screenie)
As back up
Monktimers
Tellmewhen
Inline Auras (very good but broken in Bartender and ELVUI)
Seems like a very nice UI mate :)
Thanks, I noticed a few boxes overlapped so it still needs a little tweaking and obviously most things were on test model to get them to activate.
You don't need omen either as skada has a threat meter built in.
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Sadly I can't see Skada very well. I use it mainly to look back over after a fight and see how much healing I needed and received. then again I struggle to keep an eye on Omen as well :blink:
Aye, if you can't see Omen (an adjustable size threat monitor), then you'll struggle to see the adjustable size threat monitor built in to Skada too :P
Skada just does everything Omen does but also does a bunch of other stuff, so running both is not needed. Position Skada where Omen was (or somewhere more noticeable) and configure it to default to the Threat table during combat, that way it will look like Omen when in combat, but then revert to being a damage meter when out of combat.
I jumped on quickly this morning and replaced Omen with a new Skada panel as you suggested. I've yet to see it working in a party but it does seem a better solution, thanks.
I just need some Heroics to check it out. Anyone want to run a few tonight with the distinct possibility I will mess up badly due all my new unfamiliar new UI settings let me know :)
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Just wanted to post my UI that I finnaly am happy with. Any comments on it?
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Heya guys, i was hoping i would get some feedback on my ui since i'm changing it every other day. What do you think i can improve? I've marked everything in red since i moved some things after that raid (ie DBM and such).
Thanks in advance!
One where everything is as it is in a fight
(http://i43.tinypic.com/11tmp20.jpg)
Nice & clean and a whole bunch nicer than the standard ui! Well done!
The only comments I would add are:
-I would reduce the size of the raid display as you don't need it that big if you're not healing and it makes the ui even cleaner
-I'd be tempted to break the buff trackers up into groups so that you can track short & longterm buffs more easily - and specifically move debuffs out to a larger separate area to show up better
-find a spot for the addon called Affdots (major dps help for shadow priests)
Nice ui, well done! :thumbsup: