Friday, March 20, 2009

Burnout

This will be my final post for an indefinite period. I've just got too many projects. Drop me a line if you want to read my personal blog, or listen to the podcast I run.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Shadow Priest UI options

In light of my friends' recent UI-related posts, I thought I'd mention mine. It's pretty easy to set up, and there's not a whole lot of middle-screen-space taken up, so I dig it. The screenshot here is more or less what I currently use, with the exception of the bars on the bottom. I dropped that in favor of the standard WoW bars. Below is a list of UI mods I currently use going clockwise from top left:
  • Pitbull - delicious unit frames. This I use for player, party, and raid frames. My Focus and Focus Target are just below my toon in the middle of the screen, but I only use that for Mind Control purposes!
  • CT Buff Mod - On the right side of the screen, you can see a dropdown list of my buffs/debuffs and the time remaining.
  • (no longer used)BunchOfBars - Fully configure your bars. I like it, but it was too much work to make it perfect.
  • CT Mod - Another CT mod option is making the chat window scroll with the mouse wheel. I also use this to get rid of the dragon things around the edge of the default UI's buttons.
  • Recount - These are the damage meters I use to gauge my performance overall. Only I know what I'm doing and why I'm low/high etc, but recount is a good baseline from which to judge over time.
  • CooldownTimers - Directly to the right of Recount, I have my cooldown timers. This allows me to target anything--player or otherwise--and see how long I have left on buffs/debuffs.
I do hope you'll all find as simple a solution as I have. I didn't mention things like Gatherer, QuestHelper, and LightHeaded, but those aren't really relevant to my playstyle. Maybe I'll get around to doing another post about that. Whooo knows!?