Reader UI of the Week: Babyshotta of Alexstrazsa

World of Warcraft allows all of us an unprecedented ability to modify our user interface to meet our needs. Each week WoW Insider will bring you a fresh and detailed look at reader submitted UIs. Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send it, along with your character name and server, to readerui@gmail.com.
Babyshotta of Alexstrazsa (charming name, no really...) brings us this week's reader UI. I'd classify this kind of UI as "the working man's interface". Sure it's a little rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. He wrote us saying he plays on a 17 inch monitor so his screen real estate is cramped, but that his layout tries to make the most of the limited space. He said he probably has over 50 different addons installed but listed are the few, the proud, the brave(?) he just can't live without!
Bigwigs -The raid warning addon of pros!
Bartender - For handling the action bars.
cyCircled - To spice them up a little.
X-Pearl UnitFrames - For all his unit frame needs.
Fubar and its many plugins - To show relevant information.
MonkeyQuest - To keep track of all his quests
Lightheaded - To show where to go and what to do.
Quartz - For showing cast times and shot rotations.
Working with such a small resolution can be difficult, particularly if you're an addonaholic like myself. He might try playing with the UI scale to trim down the space some of his addons take up. That way you can fit more on the bottom area keeping the middle of your screen less cluttered. If the font gets too small to read, try using Clearfont to adjust the typeface and size to something readable yet taking up less space.
Have a cool UI you want to submit? Take at least 3 screenshots of it in action in various situations, and send it, along with your character name and server, to readerui@gmail.com.
Babyshotta of Alexstrazsa (charming name, no really...) brings us this week's reader UI. I'd classify this kind of UI as "the working man's interface". Sure it's a little rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. He wrote us saying he plays on a 17 inch monitor so his screen real estate is cramped, but that his layout tries to make the most of the limited space. He said he probably has over 50 different addons installed but listed are the few, the proud, the brave(?) he just can't live without!
Bigwigs -The raid warning addon of pros!
Bartender - For handling the action bars.
cyCircled - To spice them up a little.
X-Pearl UnitFrames - For all his unit frame needs.
Fubar and its many plugins - To show relevant information.
MonkeyQuest - To keep track of all his quests
Lightheaded - To show where to go and what to do.
Quartz - For showing cast times and shot rotations.
Working with such a small resolution can be difficult, particularly if you're an addonaholic like myself. He might try playing with the UI scale to trim down the space some of his addons take up. That way you can fit more on the bottom area keeping the middle of your screen less cluttered. If the font gets too small to read, try using Clearfont to adjust the typeface and size to something readable yet taking up less space.
Have a cool UI you want to submit? Take at least 3 screenshots of it in action in various situations, and send it, along with your character name and server, to readerui@gmail.com.






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shawn Jun 29th 2008 3:45PM
I like what you have going on there. Triggered a couple ideas of how I could improve my own ui. The way you have your raid bars running top to bottom on the right, I might try that with healbot raid bars. Thanks!
Sara Jun 29th 2008 3:54PM
It's nice.. but I'll stick with ArkiveUI (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7877-ArkiveUIWidescreen.html).. Serious
parakletos Jul 2nd 2008 2:43PM
Thanks for the link to that UI, I've seen it around and wondered which one it was :)
Yinxie Jun 29th 2008 6:52PM
why is the screenshot not clickable?
and I miss the part where you talked to the owner :(
anyway, some more screens would be nice ofc.
dAnixx Jun 29th 2008 7:22PM
what do you guys think that is the best ui for leveling?
stunts01 Jun 29th 2008 10:47PM
I don't think I could heal with his raid frame positioning.
I have my 5 parties all sitting together so I have to look in the one part of my screen.
He would have to look up and down constantly.