I've looked through every option in the menu and again, nothing about a casting bar at all, I go to the Unit Frames > Player menu, but all I get are things about my portrait, hiding my mana bar or extending my status bars and such. Does it only show up for certain layouts of the frames?
Currently I'm using the ABF layout.
Are you using the latest version of ag_UF? The castbar works with all layouts, I believe. It definitely works with ABF.
I've looked through every option in the menu and again, nothing about a casting bar at all, I go to the Unit Frames > Player menu, but all I get are things about my portrait, hiding my mana bar or extending my status bars and such. Does it only show up for certain layouts of the frames?
Currently I'm using the ABF layout.
Are you using the latest version of ag_UF? The castbar works with all layouts, I believe. It definitely works with ABF.
Some layouts don't have a displayable castbar (ex. Nyrine), but yeah... the options should be in there somewhere.
Latest UI. I've dropped about 40MB of UI memory by switching away from Nurfed. Tivoli was supposed to provide an update that would clean up a lot of code (and fix some things that were annoying to deal with), but he's gotten busy or something. So ag_UF & Bartender it is. As always, click for the full version.
Yes, I know I have groups 2 and 3 reversed, the numbers look alike OK?
Sup. It seems that I suck at UI'ing. I'm constantly amazed at screenshots where people have like ... 8 things on their bars, especially raiding healers. In my screenshot, combat log goes in the bottom right blank area. The little red anchor is for Pally Power. Raid frames take up a column on the left side when necessary, party frame goes across from my own to the right.
Help me out guys, what can I do different? I'd like to reduce my screen clutter and make it prettier.
(Resized from 1920x1080, I can't get it to resize while leaving the text/icons identifiable)
When the fuck did this happen? I thought mana bars gave him hives.
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Whats the addon that shows the spell damage on the hotkey?
- Your minimap is in a weird place. Think about moving it to a corner - bottom right or top right?
- Honestly I think round buttons clutter up a screen more than square ones, but that's just me.
- Make your buttons as small as you can stand.
- Try moving around your bar of auras, maybe. Figure out which buttons you rarely use and move them to the side bar.
- I think buff bars take up more space than they're worth, personally, and I prefer icons with a time left underneath them (I just use the blizz default). If you like those bars, move them into a corner or at least slide them all the way to the right against the edge of the screen.
Sup. It seems that I suck at UI'ing. I'm constantly amazed at screenshots where people have like ... 8 things on their bars, especially raiding healers. In my screenshot, combat log goes in the bottom right blank area. The little red anchor is for Pally Power. Raid frames take up a column on the left side when necessary, party frame goes across from my own to the right.
Help me out guys, what can I do different? I'd like to reduce my screen clutter and make it prettier.
(Resized from 1920x1080, I can't get it to resize while leaving the text/icons identifiable)
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I never get why people like sidebars. It's so far away to push. I guess it's good if you use it to see how much of an itme you have left or something and never intend to push them...
Anyways here's my suggestions. *shrugs* Not even close to pretty but might give ideas of what you can do:
Ok. I've been playing for a while after a year break. I have a lvl 31 shaman and have several addons installed. But I dont see how some of you guys have so few buttons on the screen. Right now Im using Bongos. I have maybe a total of 4 bars on the bottom, 2 on top of each other, side by side.
So how do you guys whose screens show so few buttons get by? Is most of your stuff hiddent until combat, or do you hit 1 button and that calls up the rest of your bars?
How do the screenshots with the entire bottom of the screen sectioned off work?
Ok. I've been playing for a while after a year break. I have a lvl 31 shaman and have several addons installed. But I dont see how some of you guys have so few buttons on the screen. Right now Im using Bongos. I have maybe a total of 4 bars on the bottom, 2 on top of each other, side by side.
So how do you guys whose screens show so few buttons get by? Is most of your stuff hiddent until combat, or do you hit 1 button and that calls up the rest of your bars?
How do the screenshots with the entire bottom of the screen sectioned off work?
Well, a lot of people, like the rogue in the screenshot, don't hotkey everything they have, since it's unnecessary. On top of that, they hide buttons that aren't available in the active stance (i.e. stealth which is like half a rogue's shit).
I found on my shaman alt that totems took up a TON of button space. Try paging them to one bar, so you can switch pages for instancing and soloing, and only put on the totems you really use all the time (i.e. you can probably leave off most resistance totems).
Move your titan/flex thingy to the bottom and bump your player frame to the top left corner. Get rid of the circle thingy unless you really need it (some of those buttons are duplicated on your bars anyway). Scale down your buttons.
Ok. I've been playing for a while after a year break. I have a lvl 31 shaman and have several addons installed. But I dont see how some of you guys have so few buttons on the screen. Right now Im using Bongos. I have maybe a total of 4 bars on the bottom, 2 on top of each other, side by side.
So how do you guys whose screens show so few buttons get by? Is most of your stuff hiddent until combat, or do you hit 1 button and that calls up the rest of your bars?
How do the screenshots with the entire bottom of the screen sectioned off work?
1) Mods like Bindpad and Spellbinder (hell, even the built-in macro interface) let you bind abilities without putting them on a hotkey.
So, for my hunter, my most frequently-used shots are on 1-5, but I've got abilities like a pet attack/pet passive toggle, Hunter's Mark, Intimidate, and other commonly-used abilities on buttons 4 & 5 on my mouse (using shift/alt/control where necessary). I keep Freezing Trap and Frost Trap on x and shift-x respectively, with my more offensive traps going on the bar to click (I don't use them all that often).
2) Bartender lets you use button-press toggles of various bars. So while it looks like I've only got a couple hotbars visible, I hite shift, and I've got two more. My primary attacks are 1-5. My stings are on shift-1 to shift-5, and my melee abilities are on alt-1 to alt-5.
3) Another nice Bartender feature is the ability to hide bars until you mouse over them; I keep my pet bar hidden, because the only time I really use it is when I group and need to disable Growl, or to set my pet on defensive mode if I have to go AFK in the middle of a dangerous place.
4) Scaling (again, Bartender) helps you get lesser-used abilities out of the way. I've got a total of 16 tracking and aspect abilities, so I've got two really small (like 55% scale) 8-button bars on the sides of my minimap sans hotkeys. There's never a time where "ZOMG I NEED TO TRACK DEMONS RIGHT THIS SECOND!11" so I just click it. Aspects? Yeah, sometimes that's the case, but I've got Cheetah/Monkey/Hawk all bound on v.
5) Just think about priorities. Stuff that you use all the time, put on your primary bar; slots 1-5 are all you can really hit conveniently. Stuff you don't use all the time, but when you do use has to be now, that's a good candidate for some key you can hit without your hands leaving your mouse or WASD. The rest of it? Well, if it's a piece of crap like Curse of Weakness, it isn't even worthy of a hotkey or a slot on your bar. Get rid of it. If it's some oddball ability you don't use often, or something that's just really not all that time-sensitive, put it out of the way and click it when necessary.
6) Of course, smart raid healers use Clique, too, so that can really help cut down on buttons.
EDIT: For reference, a shot of my UI (several levels ago, but the basic layout hasn't changed):
S3rial, what buff mod are you using? I think you said it was CT once before but I want to make sure. I am starting to hate elkbuffbar now since all I really need is icon and time.
For those lamenting the amount of space that totems take up, think about grabbing the TotemGrid mod from Saeris.
It's the bee's knees.
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My bars are a bit of a mess still since I've basicly been too lazy to get them sorted and cleaned up. I use Clique for almost all of my healing so I can remove a lot of the buttons I currently have on my bars.
When I used to play a priest I would have almost no button on my screen at all.
Wish I would of had Grid back then, could of has a very clean UI then.
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Probably would of been an issue if I was playing my old priest still, but for a paladin I'm finding it to be great. I already have the Pally Power to track my buffs, I have no HoTs to keep track of etc...
Grid is most definitely the most awesome raid mod ever.
I think my only beef with it is there's too few configurable indicators for buffs and other statuses, but it's something I am willing to work around.
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My bars are a bit of a mess still since I've basicly been too lazy to get them sorted and cleaned up. I use Clique for almost all of my healing so I can remove a lot of the buttons I currently have on my bars.
When I used to play a priest I would have almost no button on my screen at all.
I think every server has a few of those running around. Obviously, always a blood elf.
Off to the horrible name thread with you!
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Already had the name reported so I could change it too....but nothing ever happened. O_o
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I'll never get why people will name their character something retarded, get it to a high level, and then complain that the GMs won't change it. Makes me wonder if the GMs are just doing it as punishment, heh.
Stick a paperclip in an outlet ...suuuuure. It'll teach you not to do that again.
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I'll never get why people will name their character something retarded, get it to a high level, and then complain that the GMs won't change it. Makes me wonder if the GMs are just doing it as punishment, heh.
Could be, although I didn't report it myself.
I have no good excuse for the name, I was impatient to play some the night Xpac came out and every name I could think of was taken. Even the randomly generated names are mostly all used now. :x
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I'm sorry, but... your character's name is "Lolimapaly"? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Regardless of how impatient you were to play the game, that name's just horrible. What's worse is that even if reported Blizzard probably wouldn't do anything about it unless you were on some kind of RP server (RP, RP-PVP).
What are you guys getting all bent out of shape about? ***!!!CLEARLY!!!*** His name is Lolima Paly, unfortunately blizzard won't let you put spaces in your name.
Regardless of how impatient you were to play the game, that name's just horrible. What's worse is that even if reported Blizzard probably wouldn't do anything about it unless you were on some kind of RP server (RP, RP-PVP).
In all the time of leveling to 70 and playing with a guild I never realized I had a stupid name until it was pointed out repeatedly by derailing a thread about UI screenshots! How did I ever miss that!? But now what to do?
Oh woe is me. Clearly my life is no longer worth living because a fictional avatar in a video game has a stupid name! I should immediatly break off all contact with society and become a reclusive monk to repent for my horrible, offensive sin. O_o
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On another note, I know a lot of people use a viewport mod to change the dimension of there screens. Do you guys change the resolution the game runs at as well? Everytime i play around with viewport, thing's start looking squished and ugly and I have to go back to the way it was before. Do you just watch the ratios and try to keep it as close as possible?
Back when I had a viewport I didn't bother with that. Just played with it for a couple hours and got used to it. The only way I'd move out of my current resolution (1280x1024) is if I upgraded my computer and went either larger or widescreen.
Regardless of how impatient you were to play the game, that name's just horrible. What's worse is that even if reported Blizzard probably wouldn't do anything about it unless you were on some kind of RP server (RP, RP-PVP).
In all the time of leveling to 70 and playing with a guild I never realized I had a stupid name until it was pointed out repeatedly by derailing a thread about UI screenshots! How did I ever miss that!? But now what to do?
Oh woe is me. Clearly my life is no longer worth living because a fictional avatar in a video game has a stupid name! I should immediatly break off all contact with society and become a reclusive monk to repent for my horrible, offensive sin. O_o
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Are you using the latest version of ag_UF? The castbar works with all layouts, I believe. It definitely works with ABF.
Some layouts don't have a displayable castbar (ex. Nyrine), but yeah... the options should be in there somewhere.
Latest UI. I've dropped about 40MB of UI memory by switching away from Nurfed. Tivoli was supposed to provide an update that would clean up a lot of code (and fix some things that were annoying to deal with), but he's gotten busy or something. So ag_UF & Bartender it is. As always, click for the full version.
Yes, I know I have groups 2 and 3 reversed, the numbers look alike OK?
Click here for the rundown.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Anyways, what's a good addon to use to tell what the memory useage is for each addon? Or at least a total memory used.
In Combat
Also a number of undisplayed addons that do random things. AH Reset, Cartographer, numberous wowace addons.
Edit: Err, ignore that deep wounds macro. That's temporary.
Help me out guys, what can I do different? I'd like to reduce my screen clutter and make it prettier.
(Resized from 1920x1080, I can't get it to resize while leaving the text/icons identifiable)
When the fuck did this happen? I thought mana bars gave him hives.
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Does it have a website? Nothing shows up on google.
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
- Your minimap is in a weird place. Think about moving it to a corner - bottom right or top right?
- Honestly I think round buttons clutter up a screen more than square ones, but that's just me.
- Make your buttons as small as you can stand.
- Try moving around your bar of auras, maybe. Figure out which buttons you rarely use and move them to the side bar.
- I think buff bars take up more space than they're worth, personally, and I prefer icons with a time left underneath them (I just use the blizz default). If you like those bars, move them into a corner or at least slide them all the way to the right against the edge of the screen.
Anyways here's my suggestions. *shrugs* Not even close to pretty but might give ideas of what you can do:
Ok. I've been playing for a while after a year break. I have a lvl 31 shaman and have several addons installed. But I dont see how some of you guys have so few buttons on the screen. Right now Im using Bongos. I have maybe a total of 4 bars on the bottom, 2 on top of each other, side by side.
So how do you guys whose screens show so few buttons get by? Is most of your stuff hiddent until combat, or do you hit 1 button and that calls up the rest of your bars?
How do the screenshots with the entire bottom of the screen sectioned off work?
Well, a lot of people, like the rogue in the screenshot, don't hotkey everything they have, since it's unnecessary. On top of that, they hide buttons that aren't available in the active stance (i.e. stealth which is like half a rogue's shit).
Any suggestions on how to clean it up? I would like a minimalist look, but Im not sure how to do it.
So, for my hunter, my most frequently-used shots are on 1-5, but I've got abilities like a pet attack/pet passive toggle, Hunter's Mark, Intimidate, and other commonly-used abilities on buttons 4 & 5 on my mouse (using shift/alt/control where necessary). I keep Freezing Trap and Frost Trap on x and shift-x respectively, with my more offensive traps going on the bar to click (I don't use them all that often).
2) Bartender lets you use button-press toggles of various bars. So while it looks like I've only got a couple hotbars visible, I hite shift, and I've got two more. My primary attacks are 1-5. My stings are on shift-1 to shift-5, and my melee abilities are on alt-1 to alt-5.
3) Another nice Bartender feature is the ability to hide bars until you mouse over them; I keep my pet bar hidden, because the only time I really use it is when I group and need to disable Growl, or to set my pet on defensive mode if I have to go AFK in the middle of a dangerous place.
4) Scaling (again, Bartender) helps you get lesser-used abilities out of the way. I've got a total of 16 tracking and aspect abilities, so I've got two really small (like 55% scale) 8-button bars on the sides of my minimap sans hotkeys. There's never a time where "ZOMG I NEED TO TRACK DEMONS RIGHT THIS SECOND!11" so I just click it. Aspects? Yeah, sometimes that's the case, but I've got Cheetah/Monkey/Hawk all bound on v.
5) Just think about priorities. Stuff that you use all the time, put on your primary bar; slots 1-5 are all you can really hit conveniently. Stuff you don't use all the time, but when you do use has to be now, that's a good candidate for some key you can hit without your hands leaving your mouse or WASD. The rest of it? Well, if it's a piece of crap like Curse of Weakness, it isn't even worthy of a hotkey or a slot on your bar. Get rid of it. If it's some oddball ability you don't use often, or something that's just really not all that time-sensitive, put it out of the way and click it when necessary.
6) Of course, smart raid healers use Clique, too, so that can really help cut down on buttons.
EDIT: For reference, a shot of my UI (several levels ago, but the basic layout hasn't changed):
DrDamage. Theorycraft light, very unintrusive. Comes from wowace.com
Bing 60 Warrior
Wymond 40 Rogue
It's the bee's knees.
My bars are a bit of a mess still since I've basicly been too lazy to get them sorted and cleaned up. I use Clique for almost all of my healing so I can remove a lot of the buttons I currently have on my bars.
When I used to play a priest I would have almost no button on my screen at all.
http://webpages.charter.net/thrawn/photohostings/WorldofWarcraft/WoWScrnShot_041306_212432.jpg
Wish I would of had Grid back then, could of has a very clean UI then.
I think my only beef with it is there's too few configurable indicators for buffs and other statuses, but it's something I am willing to work around.
I'm sorry, but... your character's name is "Lolimapaly"? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Off to the horrible name thread with you!
Already had the name reported so I could change it too....but nothing ever happened. O_o
Could be, although I didn't report it myself.
I have no good excuse for the name, I was impatient to play some the night Xpac came out and every name I could think of was taken. Even the randomly generated names are mostly all used now. :x
Regardless of how impatient you were to play the game, that name's just horrible. What's worse is that even if reported Blizzard probably wouldn't do anything about it unless you were on some kind of RP server (RP, RP-PVP).
Ghalan - Tauren Druid
In all the time of leveling to 70 and playing with a guild I never realized I had a stupid name until it was pointed out repeatedly by derailing a thread about UI screenshots! How did I ever miss that!? But now what to do?
Oh woe is me. Clearly my life is no longer worth living because a fictional avatar in a video game has a stupid name! I should immediatly break off all contact with society and become a reclusive monk to repent for my horrible, offensive sin. O_o
(and the name is a minor violation because 1 - contains "1337speak", and 2 - It is a "partial sentance".)
On another note, I know a lot of people use a viewport mod to change the dimension of there screens. Do you guys change the resolution the game runs at as well? Everytime i play around with viewport, thing's start looking squished and ugly and I have to go back to the way it was before. Do you just watch the ratios and try to keep it as close as possible?