Pimped my UI

Sunday morning, one of the first things I did was completely rebuild my UI from the ground up. I had some annoying issues I wanted to take care of, the least among them being how little real estate I had on my screen.

This is what I came up with:

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New mods I added are BasicMiniMap, Grid, Classtimer, Quartz, and TankadinTPS.

I used BasicMiniMap and Grid to clean up my clunky raid boxes and get the minimap out of the top right corner. I like how much svelter everything looks now.

Classtimer I have to the right above the minimap now and it’s where I keep track of my self-buffs like Seal, Righteous Fury, and above all Divine Plea.

Quartz I love right now because it puts my targets cast bar right in my field of vision. For example, last night in Ulduar I knew immediately that Steelbreaker was casting Fusion Punch and was ready with a GCD to Cleanse off the crazy-awful dot before it could get one tick in.

And TankadinTPS is great because it’s like a mini-recount. It keeps track of your recent targets and tells you what kind of threat you’re doing on each, what moves cause the most threat, etc. It’s pure awesome.

I still need to tweak a few things, like change Focus so it’s just the focused target’s health (since I use it to track healer HP and for easy taunting) and make the bar take up less real estate on screen.

Now that I’ve shown my UI I issue the following meme challenge to my fellow Pally bloggers who read this site: what kind of UI are you running with? Please share a screenshot and detail it (… so I can steal any cool ideas)!

13 Comments to “Pimped my UI”

  1. HP
    @iamapaladin
     20 April 2009 at 3:54 pm #

    I will post mine soon then! Though it hasn’t changed much from before

  2. Logan 22 April 2009 at 1:10 am #

    nice UI layout man, just like HP, i will find a non sucky SS of mine. on a side note, just got my T7.5 helmet for 217 dkp ( runner up had 215)

  3. Paladoox 22 April 2009 at 3:51 am #

    NIce one.. but wot addon u use in the upper right corner showin all the buffs instead of the lame boxes of blizz.. looks nice…

  4. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     22 April 2009 at 9:55 am #

    @Paladoox: Elkano’s Buff Bars

    @Logan: Grats!

  5. Chikage 22 April 2009 at 11:19 am #

    Here is mine. Nothing too different from your. I use cooldown timer and xperl frames units as well as grid. I have grid configured and the grid mana bar addon. I wanted to get everything towards the bottom of the screen so I could get a really good look at those jumping giants!!!

    http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff53/nerosachf/WoWScrnShot_042209_121448.jpg

  6. Logan 22 April 2009 at 12:05 pm #

    ok, here´s my UI, its not much, but gets the work done for me.
    http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c184/sephiroath/WoWScrnShot_040209_225934.jpg

  7. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     22 April 2009 at 1:51 pm #

    @Chikage: Wow, what resolution do you play at?

  8. Chikage 22 April 2009 at 7:26 pm #

    I play at 1920×1200 ^_^

  9. Logan 23 April 2009 at 3:41 am #

    1900×1200 O_O
    wow…

  10. Sanctiel 27 April 2009 at 7:18 am #

    Can you name all of your UI Addons? I really love your setup and would like to replicate it!

  11. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     27 April 2009 at 2:01 pm #

    Ok, so I’ve got Fubar up at the top running the basic suite of plugins that go with that. Pitbull for my unit frames. Grid for my raid/group frames. Bartender4 for my buttons. BasicMiniMap for my map. Elkano’s Buff Bars for my buffs/debuffs. And ClassTimers for my bottom set of buffs.

  12. Teikkin 5 May 2009 at 4:35 am #

    What resolution do you use Rhidach?

  13. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     5 May 2009 at 8:11 am #

    1680×1050