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After a couple of weeks /afk, Reader UI of the Week is back with a Druid UI on our hands from Frogs of Korgath. I'll let him explain his setup from here:

I'm a raiding resto druid, though I don't have much time for that as a full-time student. But I've been a UI fanatic ever since I was a wee young lowbie, years ago, and like to have a neat and well designed interface. Here's what I like in a UI: first of all, it must show all the information I need. Namely, I need a unit frame, cast bar, action bars, and chat, as well as the other less important things like damage text, minimap, and buffs. Secondly, it must not be cluttered: everything should have its place and that place should not be in front of a void zone. I like to have as much free space as I can manage. Thirdly, it must look nice. I like to look at my UI and see something to be proud of. So, how do I do it?

Hmm, I wonder! Full details from Frogs after the break.


What you see all the time (in the first screenshot at the top of the post):

• Unit Frames: Pitbull - The most customizable unit frames I know of, and an old favorite of mine.
• Action Bars (below that): Bartender4 - Another old favorite, and as much as I could ask for in an action bar mod.
• Action Bar (bottom right): Autobar - Takes care of all the random consumables I'm too lazy to put on my bars myself.
• Info Text (bottom center, top left, and around minimap): SLData Text - Not maintained much any more, but it's simple and it works.
• Minimap: Chinchilla - Does everything I could want in a minimap mod, including moving miscellaneous things like the capture bar to where I want them.
• Buffs: Bison - Takes up less screen space than Elkano, and looks pretty nice.
• Chat: PhanxChat - Doesn't do timestamps, but does everything else.
• Button Skinning: ButtonFacade (Xyrr) - Ooh, shiny.
• Font: Fontain (Arial Narrow) - I like my fonts consistent, and this works better for me than Clearfont.

What you see in raids (and battlegrounds, like in the screenshot above):

• Raid Frames: Grid, with GridStatusHots - My raid frame of choice. The squares in the corners are my four different hots.
• Combat Text: Mik's Scrolling Battle Text - It goes in front of my timers, but I can't think of another place for it. I switched around with combat text mods and eventually settled on this, after others broke.
  
• Timers: ClassTimer - Very easy to configure, and adding custom timers couldn't be more simple.
• Cast Bar (between player frame and target frame): Quartz - I still haven't found a replacement for this. Maybe it's because it just works so well.
• Cooldown Timers: OmniCC (not in screenshot) - Puts the information right where you'd think to look for it.
• Raid Warnings: BigWigs - An old favorite. Is it better than the competition? I don't really care.

What you don't see most of the time:

• Atlasloot - Who doesn't have this?
• AuctionMaster - I replaced auctioneer with this a month or two ago, and am very happy with it.
• Badboy - Blocks all gold spam. All of it.
• Bagnon - Another old favorite: I can't bear to leave this mod, especially because it still works as well as ever.
• BankStack - Sorts my bags, bank, and guild bank, and does it a lot faster than the old MrPlow.
• Butsu - A nicer-looking loot frame.
• Cartographer - The map mod of champions.
• DrDamage - Puts all sorts of spell info in spell tooltips, like how much healing a spell will actually do, it's healing per mana, the benefit of an extra 1% crit... useful for theorycrafting.
• FishingAce - Right-click fish casting!
• Friends With Benefits - Synchronizes friends between alts and mains.
• GnakedGnome - Puts a button on the try-it-on window to undress your character. I like to see what things look like without my gear getting in the way.
• GoGoMount - One-button random mounting.
• ImprovedErrorFrame - Takes your error messages and sticks them in a minimap button. Very convenient.
• kgPanels - Makes my UI look pretty, with a little effort.
• Lightheaded - This, with Cartographer_QuestInfo, makes questing a breeze.
• OPie - A genius addon. Press a button, and up pops a wheel of my buffs or tradeskills or quest items. Both useful and stylish!
• PhoenixTooltip - Changes the green "On equip" text on item tooltips to be more like the white text. For example, "Equip: Increases spell power by 59." becomes "+59 Spellpower"
• Postal - Masterfully manages my mail.
• Ratingbuster - converts ratings to percentages, and does item comparison too.
• Recount - The popular damage meter at present.
• Talented - Puts the talent window into one big nice-looking frame and saves specs for easy switching.
• teksloot - A nicer-looking (and movable) roll window.
• TipTac - Does everything I want in a tooltip mod.
• Unitprice - Shows price per item on the auction house.
• VisualThemes - Does cool minimizing effects when opening and closing windows. It hasn't been updated in ages, so it gives me an error every time I launch WoW. But it works, and that's why I have ImprovedErrorFrame!
• TradeSkill HD - Makes the tradeskill window twice as wide, and much more legible.

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