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Interface (WoW)  

See also: Mods

One of the first thing any player must do is become acquainted with the way the game behaves overall. Please note that most of the information listed here can be found in your instruction manual.

Note that all commentary here is for the Default UI. It is possible to customize the appearance of your user interface through the use of Mods.

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Screen Overview Nameplate Chat Window Ability Bar Options Bags Map Pop-up Windows Using the mouse Default Keys Mods Macros

Screen Overview

Nameplate

To the left is a portrait of your character, with it's name displayed above two bars. The bars show your current Health (green bar) and Mana (blue bar) as two graphs. When full, you are at 100% full health or mana, half a bar is 50% full, and so on. You can also have the game show a numerical value for each of these bars, to change it, use the options menu. The small circle at the bottom of your portrait is your current level. When you are in combat, this circle will show two swords clashing, to show you that you are in combat, and unable to use things such as food and water.

Chat Window

This is a very basic chat window, here, you input commands such as /say to speak to those around you, or /party to send text messages to your party. you also use this box to give commands to the game. You can make your character perform emotes by typing them in the chat window. There are many emotes, like /cheer, /sigh, and /rude.

Ability Bar

This bar shows a list of hotkeys. You can place any of your abilities here. You can also put commonly used inventory items, like food and water, here as well. To the far right of this bar are a pair of arrows used to scroll through different bars, you can have up to 10 bars. The number shows the current bar. There are some mods that allow for more slots for abilities.

Options

On the left of this half are the options buttons. These allow you to view other menus within the game.

Bags

The right half of the above image is your inventory. There are five slots where you can place bags for gear and items. or quivers, for arrows. The example images shows three empty slots, waiting for bags, a quiver with 200 arrows, and the basic backpack. Clicking on a bag or quiver will bring up a pop-up with its contents.

Map

At the top of this menu is the name of the area you are in. The large circle is a map of local area you are in. At the top left of the large circle is a button that will bring up the world map. In the circle at the top right is a graphic representation of the time of day, if you hover over it, you will see the current time. The two circles on the bottom right of the map (the + and - buttons) will zoom in and out of the local area map shown.

need to point out:

• player portrait (comment on "in combat" skull)
• group health/mana
• target (include yellow vs. red)
• tracking icon
• menu icons
• backpack icons

Pop-up Windows

• Character window (and tabs of)
• Socials window
• Spellbook
• Quest Log
• Map
• Backpacks
• Cast bar, breath bar, endurance bar
• Options menu
• anything else? going from memory

Using the mouse

• Targeting
• Auto-move and auto-attack (RMB)
• Talking to NPCs and right-click interactive objects
• Inventory controls
• whatever else is noteworthy beyond just clicking on a button

Default Keys

Separate article for this. See Default Keys

Mods

Brief explanation of Mods

Macros

Brief explanation of Macros