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by Paul Sherrard 
Mar 4th 2007 at 3:37PM
This week's submission is chock-full of AddOn goodness. Let's dive right in, shall we?Hello :) I'm Cassandra (or Cassey for short) and this is the ui I use to play wow with.
Character: Felyna (Darkspear US)
Screensize: 1280x1024 (windowed play: 1252x1002) 19" LCD
Theme: I wanted a nice, clean UI that gave me access to information and basically everything I need.
Addons: I use a lot of addons, so here we go... Format: Main addon (Similar/Joint Addons), [ ]used on other characters, not felyna
Ace (Ace2, AceGUI)Adapt
AllPlayed
ArcHUD2
[Auctioneer (Beancounter, BtmScan, Informant)]
Bartender3
Capping
Cartographer (Fishing, [Herbalism], [Mining], [Opening], Stats, Teasure)
Natur Enemy CastBar (Debuffs, Options, PvEModule, PvPModule)
CensusPlus
(Complete list continues after the jump)Clearfont
[Cryolysis]
DiscordLibrary (DiscordUnitFrames, DiscordUnitFramesOptions)
eCastingBar
eePanels
ElkBuffBar
[Enchantrix]
Enhanced Flight Map
Enhanced Tooltip
Fubar (Bag, Battleground, Clock, DPS, Durability, [Experience], Factions, Honor, Location, Money, Outfitter, Performance, Regen, Rest, Scale, Speed, TinyTip, Volume)
ItemSync
KLH Threat Meter
MobInfo2
MoveAnything
Necrosis
OneBag (OneBank, OneRing, OneStorage, OneView)
oRA2
oTweaks
Outfitter
Perfect Raid
Periodic Table 2 (PT2 Browser)
Postal
Prat
[SacredBuff]
Scrolling Combat Text (Options, SCT Damage, SCTD Options)
SendSelf
SetWrangler
SilverDragon
Simple Combat Log
Squeenix
SSPVP (AB, AutoTurnin, AV, BGLibrary, Loader, Overlay, PvP, UI, WSG)
Stubby
Super Macro
Theory Craft 2
Tiny Tip (Extras, Options)
UberQuest
VanasKoS
WarcraftRealms Killing Fields
XLoot (Group, Master, Monitor)
[XPBarNone]
Some info: I came to WoW after playing Guild Wars, and was extremely disappointed at the lack of customising the default UI could do. Over the 18 months of playing I found that addons could improve the information I get, but made the UI look terrible. Using various art mods, the first version of this setup was created. That was about 6-8 months ago now. Since then it's evolved into this today. I do have 5 chat boxes along the bottom. One for guild/party/tells, beside it is the defence channels (both local and world), and right above that one is the general one where mod messages go. Moving further right there's the general chatbox which also handles the trade channel and says/yells, and finally the combat log. It lets me see the guild chat and party chat while in a major city without the trade channel pushing it up fast.
People often comment that while the UI looks good, it must make patch days terrible. It used to, for sure, but more addon writers are utilising the UI forum list of changes as well as PTR's to make sure their addons work. 2.0 broke a lot, and I made the switch to more Ace-based mods. Now most patch days are just a matter of checking the 'Load Out-of-date Addons' button and logging in.
So what do you think of Felyna's UI? Want to show off your own, send it in!
Filed under: Add-Ons, Screenshots, Reader UI of the Week
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Kerni Mar 5th 2007 8:50PM
"Theme: I wanted a nice, clean UI that gave me access to information and basically everything I need. "
Sorry but that is far from a "clean UI". It's extremely cluttered and messy, stuff is all over the place.
Pierre Nel Mar 6th 2007 5:23AM
Can't you zip up your addons folder and share it here? It's quite a mission to hunt around and find all your addons etc :)
Thanks!
Cassey Mar 9th 2007 12:17AM
Shows me not paying attention to WoWinsider. If anyone is still paying attention, here you go.
Since I took that shot and submitted it, my UI has changed quite a bit. Still the same style, but a lot has changed.
I completely ditched Discord, and now use AG_UnitFrames instead, much smaller and more compact, using Mulesh2. This has saved me a ton of screenspace. Also gets rid of the last of the 'legacy' addons.
I still have archud, but am thinking about removing it. I don't use it to watch my health all that much, and jit really doesn't serve a purpose.
A few answers to questions.
The mod showing the damage I'm doing to the mob is SCT_Damage. It's available from wowace, and I've used it since I found it. It does spam the screen a bit when you have 3 dots ticking, plus direct damage, but it's not in the way.
To the extra slots of action bars, I'd rather have extra ones than have everything shoved up together. By putting spaces in between groups, it allows me to easily tell which group is which. For example, the 6 lesser-used curses are grouped together. If i had to use one quickly, it's much easier for me to quickly pick out the 6 together in the square than to look at all icons grouped together, or remembering if said curse was on page 6 or page 5.
Basy: Thank you for the suggestion. Please note that auctioneer is LoD on this character, so it's not using memory. There's a few I'd like to do that with, so I will be slowly doing that.
Also, memory consumption is an issue, and I would like to lower it by about 20-30MB. However, when you play on a dual dual core machine with 2GB ram, it's not as noticable as it was on my old machine.
I think that covers the questions. I'll look into muzzleUI (i think that was the name) but I've always preferred to build my own, something unique.
As for posting my interface folder, I won't be. I have a lot of stuff disabled in game, but I haven't gotten rid of yet, as well, all the mods I have came from either wowace, curse, or worldofwar. If you want to know a specific addon, either contact me in game (Felyna on Darkspear US) or post here, i left the email me reminder on :)
10pound Mar 9th 2007 12:44PM
Please dont bring me into this.............