Kitbasher's Korner: My interface

My approach to my User Interface in World of Warcraft is have a unified and consistent design as to where I place everything. This allows me to swap between my various alts without too much difficulty.

Having played a hunter from Vanilla through Wrath I like lots and lots of buttons. It also gives me space for additional macros. You can say I am addicted to buttons and macros. I actually can barely play without a bar mod.

My next design principle is to smaller addons wherever possible. Each addon was picked for a specific purpose to address specific needs.

The layout for the unit frames is fairly classic, I leave a large open space below my character to keep an eye on the floor to head off its next attempt at my life.

Addon Control panel

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/acp

I have spoken at length concerning Addon Control panel, set a profile for auctions and one for dungeons/raids/PVP. Turn off your auction suites when you do not need them.

Altoholic

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/altoholic

I run this to keep track of alts, inventory and to provide an always on data source for my auction suite.

Badboy

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/badboy_ccleaner

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/bad-boy

Makes tradechat more bearable.

Castbars

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/castbars

Lightweight cast bar addon that includes latency.

Classtimer

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/classtimer

Lightweight bufftimer.

Coordinates

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/coordinates

Adds coordinates to your map, useful for when you are trying to find a quest item or vendor.

Deadly boss mods

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/dbm-raidtools

Technically you can raid without a boss mod, but why would you?

Dominos

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/dominos

My button bar addon of choice. Easy to config and clean looking.

Graph paper

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11481-GraphPaper.html

This puts a grid across your screen so you can line up each of your addons just perfectly. Great for the OCD among us.

Hear Kitty

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/hear-kitty

Plays sound clips when you gain charges on a character. I use it to track Maelstrom weapon charges on my shaman. Much better than watching the bar fill up.

Omen

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/omen-threat-meter

Keep track of who has threat. In my opinion it is as important for DPS to have this as tanks.

Ovale Spell Priority

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/ovale

Since i play a lot of alts, I cannot always remmember the various rotations/priority systems for my characters. Ovale Spell Priority helps remind me. Think of this as training wheels.

Shadowed unit frames

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/shadowed-unit-frames

My current favorite Unit frame addon. I love the clean minimal look.

Squeenix

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/squeenix

Lightweight square map addon. Sexy map does a lot more, and takes more memory to run.

Sunn Art Panel

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/sunn-viewport-art

Pushes the gamespace into a “viewport” so my buttons are not covering up the ever dangerous floor.

Tidy Plates

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tidy-plates

The default name plates are too big and distracting. My OCD will not let me play wit them on, but with this set to 50% I can. So much better.

Tiny DPS

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tinydps

Another lightweight choice for a DPS meter. Tracks DPS, Heals, etc just like recount. Takes much less resources unlike recount.

Xan Chat

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/xanchat

Does one thing, puts the typing line at the top of the chat window.

14 October 2012

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