What is thisFollow

looks like your kid rubbed a creamsicle on your monitor.

You have Gatherer? Disable the heads-up display for that in your addons.
...I think.

Uh, that's nUI, a featured project over at WoW Interface. The designer of it spends a lot of time working on it. It's hardly bloated, the whole point of it is to have all your needed information on the bottom part of your screen, leaving the rest of it clear. It's got a lot of neat features and it's packaged together in one add on. Just because you don't like it, that doesn't mean it's ******. :-p

Bloat doesn't always mean memory used.

It's incredibly ugly and I can 100% guarantee you that I can make a better UI with all of that information that would take up far, FAR less screen real estate.

Remove the hideous black bars that cover 1/5 of the screen, align the important info (hp, buffs and runes) up and to the centre, remove the redundent zoomed mini map and put proper action bars in its place. It is now a decent UI!

Bag space, hearth and mounts etc could be aligned round a (more attractive) map in the lower right, the chat box is fine in the lower left. A UI pretty much relies on the player being comfortable to keybind abilities to remain uncluttered as it lets you hide a lot more stuff.

Edited, Dec 21st 2010 8:49pm by ArtemisEnteri

This will show pretty much everything that nUI shows, and I can even add in Recount and Omen to show even more info:



Edit: obviously the arena frames only show in arenas.

Edited, Dec 21st 2010 6:03pm by Theophany

One of the ugliest UIs I have ever seen.

I have always used the default UI in an attempt to avoid changing and/or patching it every patch day or expansion.

But from what I see here, it wasn't the major chore I thought it was.

What I need is something usable by all classes. I am just trying to reduce the size of the UI buttons by 60% or so.
Is there a simple one for non raiders?

-Xeck-

...I don't even...

Yeah the UI is horrendous.

Minimalistic is where its at.

I've used the stock UI since vanilla... I have the ratio set so the bars are very very small. I have a complex set of mouse and keyboard binds that I use on all my toons. I know it VERY well by now. Thank Bliz soooo much for saving key binds server side. Only addon I use that takes much real estate is Healbot. And I have that scaled down so it doesn't take much space. Use it on all my toons. Even the ones that don't have any heal spells. Turn the tips off after I get used to it on said toon to take up even less space.

My wife got Dominos recently. I do admit I was a little curious. Haven't decided if I will try it. I wouldn't mind getting rid of the book ends on the sides of the stock UI or those console links in the center. Character, spellbook, game menu, etc. Know all the key binds so never click on them. Just been leery of "UI kits" though. Don't want some ridiculous crap taking over everything...

Theo is right, the UI is horrible.


I cut out the ones I have in my ui to avoid too much wall of text.

* Greatly reduced screen clutter Blatantly wrong and mine is less cluttered
* Integrated unit casting bars w/ latency Mine has castbars with latency, not in unitframes because that makes the unitframes bloated and is harder to see clearly.
* Detailed HUD including player casts, harmful auras, cooldowns and more Just pay attention to the game, aside from that I find HUD's to be a horror
* Integrated in-HUD threat meter (see notes) Omen GO!
* Integrated in-HUD health race bar (see notes) Do you even want that?
* Advanced player casting bar with latency and GCD See first castbar thing
* Click-casting compatible unit, party and raid frames Clique if you need it
* Click-to-feed hunter pet happiness indicator on unit frames Why? You can drag food to the pet for the once in a year you actually feed your pet
* Integrated battlefield highlighting of raid group numbers, hits and heals I'm not sure what this does, but it seems mostly like a lot of useless data
* Integrated player talent build/spec browsing in unit frames Don't have this
* Integrated cooldown counters, OOM and OOR indicators ForteXorcist
* Integrated range to target calculation Need to get one of these addons again, not terribly hard to accomodate though
* Integrated (de)buff displays for all units Got debuffs for self and target, can enable focus too but I don't like that
* Integrated (de)buff countdowns err, is this a feature?
* Integrated user interface reload "/nui rl" /reload ui is too long?
* Automatic faction watching press U and scroll?
* Automatic management of MiniMap buttons Don't show minimap buttons aside from tracking on mouseover and mail, done.
* Expanded battlefield map BG map I guess? shift+M gives you a small map that fits where omen usually goes
* Adaptive buff/debuff display based on target reaction This could be nice but I don't have that

So basically, my UI either has the feature, I think the feature is rubbish and bloat or the feature makes no sense in almost all cases.

For reference, my UI (work in progress. Still needs new borders, possibly a new font and some small finishing stuff)

Yes, it has every single one of those functions and more (nUI has no arena or battleground addons).

Every UI in this thread other than mine and Aethien's are terrible.

Here is what my healer is using as of now.

Have to get Tidy Plates going for her, the default ones are hideous and I need them in TB when there is multiple raid groups. Wasn't planning on that before I joined though.