I use the ArkiveUI with a few things changed. I hate the one bag thing so I took out Combuctor and put in moveable bags. I also prefer Cartographer over Mapster that it uses. There's a few other things that escape me ATM. Basically, I got it, then got WoWMatrix and went through the list and removed anything I know I don't use and added in a few guild specific mods that I needed. All in all though it's a great package.
Arkive puts the Char window in the bottom left and the combat log on the bottom right, with the minimap in the center. I use dominoes to change my bars from the default layout so that I have 3 bars on the right that have 12 buttons and 3 on the left with 10 buttons, giving me 62 buttons to play with. For the bars on the right, the top bar is bound to 1 thru =, the second bar is F1, F2 and F3 then R thru \ and the third bar is F thru ' with a few empties. I re-bind the menu buttons to Ctrl+<whatever it was by default>. On the left bars the bottom one is Ctrl 1 thru 0.
so for me:
1 - Curse, Ususally CoA, but I keep other curses in the empty buttons on the third bar to swap in when needed
2 - Corr
3 - Immo
4 - SB
5 - Life Tap
6 - Drain Soul
7 - Soul Fire (never use, but will in Ulduar, so wanted to give it a spot, will probably move to 5 and move 5>6 and 6>7)
8 - Drain Life (rarely use, but nice to have handy)
9 - Incin (again, never use, but it's there to swap with SB in case i switch specs)
0 - Searing Pain (rarely use, but if i have to kite slimes at start of Plauge Wing it's there)
- - Wand (lol)
= - Fel Domination
F1 - /petfollow and /petpassive Macro
F2 - CoT (rarely use though, nice to have handy sometimes though)
F3 - Shadowflame (again, never really use, nice to have sometimes though)
R - Soulshatter
T - Deathcoil
the rest of this bar has various CC and my Demonic Circle stuff
Last bar in the empty buttons is spare Curses, F,G and H have Seed, RoF and Hellfire(neveruse) K is Health Funnel and I have some macros for raid marks down there.
Only real Important bar on the left is the Ctrl 1-0
Ctrl 1 - Meta
Ctrl 2 - Demon Charge
Ctrl 3 - Immo Aura
Ctrl 4 - Shadow Cleave
Ctrl 5 - Challenging Howl (emergency only)
Other than that on the left I have things like pets, health stones, Soul Stones, other things that don't really need to be bound and I can click. Alt 1 is on one of them for quick DEing. Keep a Vent Info Spam over there too.
As you can see, I try to keep the most useful stuff on 1-4, R, T, Y and F, G, H so they are near my movement fingers. The lesser used stuff is spread out, but still, the more commonly used, or more emergency oriented, the close it is to my movement keys.
My Pet bar sits above my left bars, and I have AutoBar which sits above my right bars. Autobar is cool because you can mouseover a button, and several other buttins pop up above it that have similar spells. Like Fel Armor/Demon Armor is in one, all pets in another, Ritual of Souls, SS(create), HS(create), Spellstone(create), Firestone(create) in one, All curses in another, Soul Link and Shadow Ward in another. Whichever one you used last stays in the always visible button and you can bind keys to it. Above my Combat log is another AutoBar that has Hearthstone, Mounts(Shift-~), HS(use), Pots, Bandages, Food/Drink, Food Buffs, Flasks, Spellstone(use), Quest Items.
I'll put up a Screenie of it in raid Combat after raid on Wednesday. Until then, here's a link to it, and you can see some generic Screenies of it, not set up the way I have it though:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7877-ArkiveUI.html
Edited, Apr 7th 2009 3:33pm by Lathais
Edited, Apr 7th 2009 3:48pm by Lathais