Comments on: State of the UI: Nov 2007

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:25:07 +0000

I use a couple of macros I documented here:
http://warcraft.fibergeek.com/?p=439

I couldn’t find a trinket addon that played nice with outfitter so I just use the macros.

By: Galoheart

Galoheart — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:33:07 +0000

I was wondering if your found any “Trinket Addon” that still works and works well.

I used to use “Trinket Menu” for the longest time and worked quite well easily. As of back in patch 2.2 upgrade it hasn’t work at all since. Wondering if you know a good one that works well?

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:49:10 +0000

Open bartender and uncheck “lock” all the button bars show up in green/red. Right click on the button bar you want to change and choose.. um.. Modifier (I think). Then choose which bar you want shown when a modifier is pushed.

For example: Button bar 1 is in the bottom left-hand corner of my screen. When I push CTRL that button bar flips to show button bar 2. When I push ALT that button bar flips to show button bar 3.

The “flips” are related to modifiers I’ve pushed.. not to my location or state.

By: drakesilver

drakesilver — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:10:20 +0000

How do you make bartender change buttons on click? I would really really like to have a city, out of combat, and combat button sets so I don’t have as much screen space taken up with buttons. I do the auto-hide for several of the panels but that’s not enough.

Drakesilver on perenolde

By: Algorython

Algorython — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:40:15 +0000

You’re not missing anything. Like I said, it’s my limitation, not Grid’s. I’m accustomed to seeing health bars, mana bars, rage bars, energy bars. I’m not accustomed to seeing indicators only when those bars are lacking. I think it would work well for me if I could retrain my brain to quickly register the information as presented by Grid. In principle, I like that it shows nothing when there is nothing to worry about. In practice, during frantic healing and moving and cleansing during the Prince or Aran fights in Kara, my reptile healing brain takes over, and I need that old familiar interface I’ve been using to heal for so long. I keep both on screen, hoping that Grid’s paradigm will begin to seep in.

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:06:42 +0000

I have to plead ignorance here.. I’ve never used any sort of unit frame besides Grid. What info are you getting with these other unit frames that you don’t get with Grid?

I went with grid mainly because I could save screen space.. and because it shows me who has aggro. I can’t see everyone’s buffs/debuffs, but the ones I care about (poisons, magic, diseases) show up in the middle of the button with an icon and a “ding” for me to cleanse. I can’t see their mana.. but if they get low on mana I see a little blue dot in the bottom that tells me they are low. If someone’s cursed I see a purple dot in the upper-right-hand corner. I can’t do anything about it.. but I can call it out for the mage to clean up. If someone is out of range they’re brick is more transparent making it obvious.

What am I missing?

By: Algorython

Algorython — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:27:16 +0000

Thanks, Nibuca. I’ll have to check some of those out, especially AuraMap.

On your advice, I’ve installed the Grid/Clique combo, but I can’t make myself turn off the default unit frames and use it as my primary interface. I just feel like I’m missing information and that I’ll miss something important because I’m sooo much less familiar with the Grid display. As Valis, recommends, I’m seriously considering X-Perl. I think Clique will work with it, so I could get the Clique benefits without feeling blind.

I’m considering switching from Titan to FuBar, just because of the Ace Updater, but I’m not too worried about it. I haven’t seen any compelling reason to switch.

I really need to look into some form of improved button interface, but I’m not sure which one. I worry that I’ve played for so long that I’ll break a lot of muscle memory if I change the interface too much (hence my gimpitude with respect to Grid).

You *must* set up a loot master for those Kara runs. Loot rolls in the middle of timed clears are baaaad. The first two things I do when I set up a Kara raid are to promote a good rogue to assistant to mark up targets and to promote someone I know has bag space to loot master.

By: Kinless

Kinless — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:41:18 +0000

I thought my OmniCC had the cooldown pulse. I’m not noticing it like I once used to. Will definitely checkout Jim’s Cooldown Pulse. (I’ve redone my add-ons a few times and might have lost it.) I like the Aura Map thing, especially as a buffing/healing Shaman. (And I’m sure my hunter would benefit too.)

Otherwise, like Valis said, X-Perl is a pretty nice addition. I’m mostly Ace, but just can’t ditch X-Perl for AGUF or Pitbull.

By: Valis

Valis — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:55:08 +0000

Bigwigs is Ace, also Bigwigs has the useful Littlewigs for 5 man boss warnings. Still, Deadly Boss Mod is better IMO — more helpful and more powerful in a a whole bunch of little ways. I recently switched to DBM from BigWigs. Still, I wish DBM was ace…

Regarding your stock unitframes, give X-Perl a try. Their party frames and raid frames are awesome. Of course your Grid setup encompasses most of the functionality I get from the X-Perl raid frames, but if you like a lot of info onscreen in a carefully arranged manner they are great, and super customizable.

I’ve never seen AuraMap - gonna have to pick that one up. Thanks!

By: Matticus

Matticus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:49:02 +0000

*GASP* What’s this? No deadly boss mods? I kid! I’m sure Bigwigs is a fine alternative. I haven’t used that since way back when. Nice screenies.