My Current UI (Nov 08)
I’m currently using a whole bunch of addons, I thought it might be interesting to show a screenshot and say a little about each addon that makes up my user interface. Here goes…
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I’ve annotated the screenshot but here are the full details, including what can’t be seen visibly:
Ackis Recipe List (hidden) - Shows me which profession recipes I’m missing and where to get them from.
Ampere (hidden) - Allows me to turn addons on and off easily without having to log out and back in again.
Atlas and AtlasLoot (hidden) - Displays instance maps with boss locations and shows you what loot can drop with drop rates.
AutoBar (shown) - A bar which which gives quick access to quest items, food, drink, buffs and various class related stuff. It automatically updates to display relevant items. Saves cluttering up your regular bars with stuff.
BetterBlizzOptions (hidden) - Makes the new Blizzard options panel resizable and wider by default.
Buffalo (shown) - Lets you move and skin the default buff/debuff display.
ButtonFacade (hidden) - Lets you skin other addons, this is the addon causing all my bar and buffs to share their look.
Capping (hidden) - Displays various timer bars in PvP and lets you announce them to chat.
Carbonite Quest (shown) - Displays a rather funky google-maps like… map and using it’s own tracker lets you visibly see where and how far away quest objectives are. Covered in an earlier Addon Corner video.
Chatter (shown) - Various chat window improvements including timestamps, class-coloured names, invite links and many, many more.
Clique (hidden) - Enables me to “click-cast”, making casting healing spells as simple as pointing at a unit frame and clicking.
Combuctor (hidden) - A unique all-in-one bag addon that has various tabs to help ease tracking down various items in your inventory, also lets you look at the bags and bank of your other characters too.
CraftList2 (hidden) - Lets people whisper any of my characters with !craft text and get a whisper back with anything any of my alts can make. Useful to cut down on “can you make” queries.
EavesDrop (hidden) - Compact combat log replacement that is simple and easy to follow.
Examiner (hidden) - Easy to use inspection addon, lets you quickly and easily inspect someone of either faction to view their gear and see stats.
FishermansFriend (hidden) - Allows simple double-click casting as well as automatically using lures and lowering unnecessary sounds.
Fortress (shown) - Data Broker display, currently showing all the following:
- Top Row: TheTravellersReference, Broker_Factions, Broker_PvP, Attrition, picoDPS, Broker_Group, Bagsy
- Bottom Row: picoFPS, TopScoreFu, ToFu, picoFriends, picoGuild, Broker_AntiSocial, AllPlayed, Junkie, Haggler, MrPlow and MakeRocketGoNow
Feed-O-Matic (hidden) - Provides an easy way of feeding your pet (as a hunter).
ItemRack (hidden) - Create gear sets and change between them quickly and easily. I prefer ItemRack to Outfitter but both do the same kind of thing.
LightHeaded (hidden) - View Wowhead comments on quests in your questlog, makes levelling MUCH quicker…
Linkerator (hidden) - Display item links of items you have seen just by starting to type it.
LinkWrangler (hidden) - Lets you have multiple item link windows open at once for easy comparisons.
Livestock (hidden) - Lets you set either a keybind or an action bar button to get on a random mount or pull out a random non-combat pet.
Macaroon (shown) - Replacement for Blizzards default action bars, utilises macros and is very easy to customise.
MBB (Minimap Button Bag) (hidden) - Grabs all those nasty minimap buttons and sticks them inside it’s own button to keep things tidy.
oGlow (hidden) - Shows shiny borders around gear in bags and on your character sheet so you can see uncommon, rare and epic items easier.
Omen (hidden) - Everyone’s favourite threat meter. Shows everyone’s threat so you know who to shout at when doing instances, since patch 3.0.2 it gets it’s information direct from the client. Essential addon!
Opie (hidden) - Cool ring-based addon for easy access to essential spells. Covered in an earlier Addon Corner video.
Pawn (hidden) - Gives gear values based on weightings you give various stats and displays this value on tooltips to aid comparisons.
Postal (hidden) - Improves the mailbox interface tenfold, gives quick access to friends/guildies along with numerous shortcuts for dealing with mail.
QuestGuru (hidden) - Replacement quest log with dual-pane and highlights important places and names in quest text. Also records what quests you complete.
SellFish (hidden) - Displays item costs on tooltips, automatically adjusts it’s known prices whenever you visit vendors.
SexyMap (shown) - Makes the default minimap sexy, has configurable borders and is very customisable, by default it hides map buttons until hovering over it. Very cool!!!
Skillet (hidden) - Replacement tradeskill windows, very configurable and hard to imagine using the default again after using it.
Talented (hidden) - Replacement talent window, shows all three trees at once and allows you to save various specs for easy switching.
TipTac (hidden) - Replacement tooltip, looks nicer than the default and is very customisable.
TomTom (hidden) - shows co-ordinate based waypoint arrows and markers on the mini-map, useful in conjunction with LightHeaded.
WIM (hidden) - Makes whispering people as easy as using an instant messenger.
XPerl (shown) - Replacement unit frames with a lot of bells and whistles, see who party members are targetting, who has heals on them and lots of other useful things.
Hopefully seeing what I use will inspire you to check some of the addons out, I’m always looking for new addons and I’m always tweaking my UI…
