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Your interface looks as if it's a soup someone stirred in, Tremor =P. Also, protip: if you're not sure whether you want to hide or show a bar, make it fade and show on mouse-over.

Thanks for the feedback - never thought to use bar fading. As for the soup, yeah, I guess it does- but I kept the default party frames (I use XPerl, so you get them all together in a big block on the left side). Whenever I try to move party frames around I either don't like how it looks, or I lose efficiency when in a group and try to click-target someone.

The bars are (from bottom left to top left) 1-12, Alt 1-12, Shift 1-12. Then you get the bottom-centred minimap, and on the right (again, from bottom row to top row) Alt-Shift 1-12 and Ctrl-Shift 1-12. Basically, the spells I use most often are on the bottom left, then the next most are one row up, etc. The least used spells are on the right side, and the top right row is un-numbered, so I just click them when needed.

I keep my buff bar and quest objectives on the right side so that they don't impede my vision while I'm in combat- although I am toying with the idea of removing the buff bar. Omen only ususally comes out in combat - I pulled it out for display purposes. Recount only gets opened when I want to see it or someone asks for it- otherwise it stays tucked away on my Fubar panel.

I think I may throw my experience bar back down to the bottom of the screen, but was (ironically) worried about making it too cluttered down there!

Go to ElitistJerk's UI forum and rad throuh the last couple pages of the show your UI thread, you're almost guaranteed to find a setup you like that is also efficient.

Don't use buttons beyond 4-6 because those are out of range of your fingers and thus take a delay in using which can mean tank death.
1-5, `(button left of 1), q, e, r, f, z, x, c +ctrl, alt and shift modifiers give you 52 keybinds, that should cover just about anything. (you can also bind something to W and possibly A, S and D too depending on how you move your character)

Bar mod's actually Bartender4 - and rate up for the excellent feedback!

Aethien, I will try changing the keybindings- but I am inwardly cringing at the idea of having to retrain my fingers to the new binds. I use WASD for movement, but turn with my mouse more than using S or D. I tend to use those when I'm doing a long autorun and tap s or d for minor course corrections. Q and E are still bound to left and right strafe. I'm only 35, but I have had a certain keyboard setup for 10 years... so it'll take a little getting used to.

And Teacake, I didn't even think of using a modifier for visibility of the actionbars - if I wasn't already married to a wonderful woman I'd kiss you for that. I tried to find a "mouseover" option in the Bartender settings, but it didn't seem to have that. I'll have to check the settings when I get home, or switch to a different bar mod.

Also, will be downloading Align at my earliest convenience to make things a little more... uniform.

Well since everyone is posting their UI, I might as well get feedback on mine.

25-man raid, out of combat
25-man raid, in combat

This was actually taken a while back, but nothing has really changed as far as my UI is concerned. The only thing on the in combat pic is missing is that underneath of recount in the black empty space is where omen is, it isn't showing because I am not targeting anything at the time of the picture.

Only thing I really want to move, just haven't gotten around to, is the 2nd DBM bar(when the counter reaches 0), if there is more than 3 DBM bars, they cover up part of my tellmewhen bars and my needtoknow icons on my other toons, just haven't decided where to put them yet to be honest.

Edit: oh yeah I know there are a lot of empty action bars underneath of my rep/xp bar, but I originally had them full of daily quest items from tournament and oracles quests, I only recently removed them since I don't do those quests anymore, and now I realize there is a lot of room to work with in that area, I may think about moving recount there.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2010 4:32pm by SynnTastic

Am I seeing things or do you have Grid and some other raid frames?
Or is that something else?

These screenies are really small so some things aren't clearly visible.

You might want to change your bar textures and colours to match because they aren't.

But I think you did a fairly decent job with saving space and putting stuff where it's visible.

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On a side note, I'm kind of busy with coursework at the moment (nearly finished Eng Lang and Aeth proofread it) so I'm not doing much UI fiddling. I got CooldownTimers now, it's cooldown bars, I've set mine to empty texture so it's just the icon, timer text and a spark. I like it. I might also change my buff bars to the same texture.

The whole raid frame project will have to wait some, I guess. I have a one week holiday coming up so I might start it then; I still have to do a 2000 word report in Biology where I'm not even sure on the topic yet till March I think, and then in 2 months I'm probably going to visit Æth to find some way for me to more than pass my Dutch exam in the summer. Shortly after that I have to go to Germany, and then I have exams. No real free time till the summer holiday. And somewhere in between I should probably find a job.

And argh, I still need to submit my Eng Lang coursework. Will e-mail it now, I guess.

How many heals do you have bound with Clique?

I mainly just use it for dispelling for now (***** mouse, mainly), but you could look into getting a better (read:more buttons) mouse and making use of as many modifiers as possible.

That being said, if and when I get around to doing my own raid frames, I will try and implement more indicators than the normal grid has for various stuff, that still wouldn't fix your click-targetting issue though, right?
If it's mainly just for indicating more things, set up priorities. I realise that it's a bit different on level 80, but right now I have one corner indicator for PW:Fort/PoFort and PW:S, one for Divine Spirit/Prayer of Spirit and Renew, one for Weakened Soul and one for aggro. The borders are for debuffs and OOM. It's a good setup for level 51 but I would like to be able to track stuff like PoM additionally. I believe there is a Grid plugin that adds four more indicators. AFK could be placed over the aggro one with a different (I'd suggest higher) priority.

PW:S, Renew (left button); Penance, Flash Heal (right button); PoM, Prayer of Healing (button 4); Dispel, Abolish Disease (button 5). I think I have Binding Heal on there somewhere too, but since I don't remember I obviously don't use it with Clique much.

As a general rule I use key presses to heal self, target, and ToT, but Clique for quickly hitting anyone else's frames.

Tavila, what do you use to display the extra indicators? :)

What SynnTastic said :)

I'm using

GridIndicatorCornerPlus
GridIndicatorSideIcons
GridIndicatorSideText
GridIndicatorText3
GridManaBars
GridStatusDungeonRole

I do have my grid boxes larger than the norm because I'm not raiding, but even so I still have room for party and party pets. I doubt I'll leave pets up, however. I'll also probably get rid of the mana bars because it tends to make me have even more tunnel vision on Grid - I'd be well served by using IceHUD or something to encourage me to look at the center of the screen more.

The one thing I haven't found a way to do in Grid is show how much time is left on Weakened Soul. It would be nice to know to help decide whether to throw another FH or Renew or just wait a couple of seconds and do a new PW:S

For a Weakened Soul timer for Grid, you would have to use either an icon (big enough to show the spiral) or add the debuff and assign it on the frame to a location that includes timer texts. I haven't tried it yet, but will give it a shot tonight and make a screenie.

I think DoTimer should be able to do that, actually. It has bars though, and it wouldn't be in your Grid.