Hi,

Well, Magi and I have finally gotten into WoW (but not with the 'new' computers which are still not assembled and becoming obsolete faster than functional ).

While we've got many questions about the game (which has changed quite a bit since the beta), we're enjoying the learning process. But I'm a bit bogged down on UI mods. I've found a fair number of sites with UI mods, but I haven't found much in the way of up-to-date discussion I trust. Right now, we're running QuickLoot and QuestLevels, and they seem OK. I'm trying the GFW_ReagentCost mod (along with its required Auctioneer package), but to get the necessary info from the AH takes about 3/4 of an hour and looks like that needs to be done each session -- not something I'm likely to live with.

So, what I'd like to know is what mods y'all are using, what the mods do, and how well you like them. Also, any advice on what to avoid and why would be nice.

--Pete

PS And a big 'Thank-you' to all the people who made us so welcome on Stormrage. Hopefully you'll still be there when we get big enough to join in high level quests and instances.

A little mod I've come to love is called Gatherer. It marks any resource nodes you gather on your map and minimap. I'm sure this isn't the type of UI mod you were thinking of, but it's a HUGE help to anyone with a gathering profession. Helps you plan your route and not have to remember where every patch of weeds grows.

Hi,


On the contrary, that is exactly the type of info I'm looking for. Thanks.

--Pete

Also try one called recipe radar. It shows the recipe's in the area you are in and wither you or alts can use it.
I got it from curse-gaming.com

The problem with your request, Pete, is that it is way too open ended. If you find something you want to do with the interface, somebody has probably written a mod. As you run into situations that you think could be handled better, ask us for a mod to do it and you will probably get several recommendations. Some people prefer to use few or no mods. Others couldn't play at all if they didn't have dozens and dozens of mods running. It becomes a very personalized environment that evolves with the things you want to do and the way you like to interface with the experience (now how wiz bang gobbledy gook did that sound? ).

Hi,


Why, yes, it is

However, if anyone has a mod or two that they like and can recommend, that can give me a clue of what is worth looking at and what isn't. And that can save me some mod testing time which I can put to much better use as WoW play time. Which makes both me and my pet (not to mention Magi) happy.

So if anyone's found a UI treasure, share the wealth -- I'm sure that even some of the level 60s would learn something new and useful.

--Pete

OK, since you insist, a couple points from my interface. The base of my interface is the CTMod suite. I use most, but not all of their pieces. Other players will tell you just how wrong I am, in my choice, and recommend one or more of the many other mods out there that do what some of those pieces do, such as button bars or raid info. There is always demand for mods that try to simplify crafting and manage recipes/patterns/etc. My latest addition, in that vein, is Tradeskill Info. I like it for seeing what a particular material is used for in all the crafts in which it can be used.

I've found that at higher levels one mod I simply can no longer live without is Item Rack Even at lower levels my hybrid classes (druids, shaman, paladins, preists [solo/DPS gear and healing gear]) get good use out of it for dealing with the different specialized gear.

WeaponQuickSwap is another one that I'm pretty addicted to. Though Item Rack should be able to do this same function that I use the macro's on this for but I've never bother to look, I just like the easy 1 button don't have to worry about where the gear is in the bag, swap for my weapons, I really have problems playing a warrior without it.

I use Gatherer pretty heavily too.

There isn't anything else that I can't deal without. These are just mods that I like a fair bit but that I can deal without having.

Theory Craft is one that I like a fair bit, just does the math for me basically to help me optimize gear for what I want

I use some of the CT suit, but I don't bother with the bar mods. I had very bad experiences with them a long time ago, and am so used to the Blizzard bars and hot keys that I have set for those that I just don't even install them. Some of the stuff for the party frames (health values displayed, the CT target of target instead of the default) I like. The mailmod is probably the most valuable thing to me in the package. I don't really even need CTRA for raids anymore as I like BigWigs better for the info and default unit frames are good enough.

MobInfo2 is another one that I like too for tracking info on the mobs.

I use TitanPanel and ItemSync (though if it doesn't get updated again soon I might end up back with Lootlink for my item DB).


I use a few more mods but those are mostly things that only one character or class benefits from and some of then are actually installed but disabled at this stage.

Mods I use:
DiscordUnitFrames (for customized party frames, debuff size, buff size, etc...)
DiscordActionBars (for customized button size, location cluster row / height, etc...)
CT_MapMod (for gathering, mostly)
CT_MailMod (unpossible to live without)
Bagnon
Banknon (very useful "all bags in one" mods)
NaturEnemyCastbar
Recap (mostly for personal combat stats)
SW_Stats (for raid sync'ed stats that give some more useful raid combat stat info, but not quite all of what Recap does)
CT_RaidAssist
Elkano's Buffbar (awesome mod for compact graphical depiction of time remaining on buff / debuffs)
and, of course, ItemRack

About the only of those that I wouldn't have a difficult time living without is Recap and SW_Stats.

I use alot of mods, and have had a lot more that i've found to be too much trouble, see list below.

On auctioneer, if your only buying or selling some types of items, then it's much easier to only update the catagories your using, then the whole lot before you leave the game.

Mods i am using.

Auctioneer:
Autobuff: Good for classes with buffs you want to keep up, ie Shaman, priest, mage
Autoprofit: Adds a button to vendor window to sell all trash items in you inv
Character Veiwer: Lets you look at your other characters, good for remembering what items of bank items they have
CT_raid & Bossmods: If you want to Raid
Easypriest: makes self casting....easy
Equipcompare: Brings up a window containing your equiped item when you click on a linked item or loot
Fishing Buddy: Makes fishing easier
Gatherer: Marks your map and mini map with nods you've found
Item rack: For quick changing of item sets
Moveable bags: Drag your bags to where you want them when opened
Recipe book: Keeps a track on the patterns/ recipes you know, and color codes the AH items according to which character you have and weather they can learn it now, later or not at all
Scrolling Combat text: Good for keeping an eye on whats going on
Spell alert: Lets you know if Spell starts to be cast near you
Titan: Has various functions, i use
Crit line: keeps a track of you normal and crits on each type of attack
Ammo: good for Hunters
Bag: opens all bags or closes
Clock: Good if you in another time zone to the server...like me
Co-ords: lets you find things by the Co-ords
Money: tracks how much you've made/lost in the time your on line

Turnin: Great for the Thouium brotherhood faction turnins, auto turns in the stuff with only 1 click each time not 4

Weapon stance sets: good for warriors, change weapons baised on the stance your in
Decursive: might be for the lazy, but i like it, though soon to be blocked
Mob info2: keeps a track of HP and MP on a mob, and also gives you an idea on when their going to die
Atlas Enhanced: Instance maps with Boss loot drops, what more do you want
Serenity: great Priest mod.. try it out..customisable
Recipe box: saves info on you character professions and item they can make, searchable on any of you other characters
KTM threat meter: Another for Raiding, BWL must.
Natures Enemy Castbar: Great Mod
As you can see, i use alot, i allow 128k of memory and have had no problems with interaction.

Mistique

Though my use of CT is minimal anymore, I won't say you're wrong

CTMod is a very good base -> it gets 80% of what you want right off the bat, in one mod. Eventually, you may want it done better or faster, but as a beginning its ease of use puts it at top.

To counter the flow, I'll actually recommend mods to not use
Discord * -> memory/cpu hoarding mods. These mods generally do everything in their designated area, but it comes at a steep price. Find a mod that does everything you want and use it instead. Note Nurfed is typically as extensible as Discord, but it comes from hand-editing .lua files instead of ingame options (thus, Nurfed is faster, but harder to use).

TitanPanel -> Very useful. Also very inefficient and always hard to tell who the latest author is. FuBar is a very clean alternative.

CritLine -> (Well, it becomes unrecommended in BWL+) Fun watching your numbers go up. Also completely pointless once MCing mobs with 300% damage bonus become common and thus all your "highest" numbers are from when you were attacking your allies.


... And on the same vein ...

I don't get this. At all. No, seriously, can someone explain this to me as I've been wondering the whole time? What's the point of this mod? It ends up taking more space than the default UI, and I never understood why people can't use the icon to figure out what buff it is instead of listing a long name.

Look through this list and test out if you find something that sounds interesting: http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Category:Addons

Ace2/Ace is a framework that allows very efficient development of add-ons, and usually the design of these add-ons is very good too.

The size / width is configurable.... And if you use CTMod's way of displaying buffs, it takes way less space. I prefer to use the top of my screen for less necessary things, like Recap and SW stats.

I agree that the default width is pretty wide.

And, yeah, with my machine, I don't have a tremendous concern for resource usage.

What classes are you playing? Most classes have their own must-have ui mods.

Hi,


Magi has a priest and I've got a hunter that play together. In addition, I've got another hunter and a warrior. But I'll probably try most of the classes to some extent at one time or another. So any class specific info is greatly welcome, and labeling it as such would be nice to avoid confusion.

And to everyone who has responded, thank you for the info so far. It gives me a nice bunch of mods to read about and test over the next few days or weeks.

--Pete

Ugh, I wonder why every screenshot I've ever seen has it taking up like half the screen, then :/

For my hunter i like the Fizzwidget's mods. Fizzwidget hunter's help shows what skill the mob has before you tame it so there is no guess if the mob you just trained had a skill that you need. I lso use Fizzwidgets feed-o-matic, you set which foods you want fed to your pet and bind a key, when pet is hungry just hit the key, you can set it to not use foods that are needed in recipes.
Fizzwidget

He also has others but those are the 2 that i use.

I play a hunter myself, and two addons I heavilly recommend are Rangeswitch (switches your main bar depending on range) and Sorren's hunter timers (shows timers for trap/sting and other effects).
Priests I'm less familliar with, but you'll probably want something that lets you cast beneficial spells on yourself while having an enemy targeted (like Easycast), CT_raidassist's built-in emergencymonitor is another very popular addon for healers, though it's usefullness is debatable.

[edit] And MonkeyQuest is great for levelling.

When I was 5 manning with my priest I liked groupbuttons, though in hindsight after transitioning to raid healing, presented it's own "re-learning" barrier.

The only things special I have for my priest is the mob BUFF icons are extra large (assuming a detect magic is up) and the player DEBUFF icons are extra large. Mob debuff and player buff icons are extra small, because I can ignore these in combat. My warrior and rogue have just the opposite. As a warrior I need to check debuffs like demo shout, T-clap, sunder counts, etc... so mob debuffs are huge.

Rather than a selfcast mod, I just made a quick macro for a couple key spells (PW: Shield, renew, flash) that target me, cast and then TargetLastEnemy. I find you can sometimes get in trouble with self cast mods... like lastnight we had a warlock madly trying to soulstone a rezzer in an impending wipe. Rezzer was dead and he ended up casting on himself. Also, a common method of raid healing is to target the FF mob and heal by pressing the key / button, then clicking on the health bar to be healed. Self cast mods make this impossible.

Well Telo's (which he discontinued) didn't. Since everything would cast as normal until I hit the modifier key (be that alt or whatever) then it would cast on myself. I like Telo's way better than anything else because it would work if I did mod-# press or if I did mod-mouseclick. The built in stuff didn't work with mouse click casts. But yeah I keep the mob targeted all the time than press my heal key then click the health bar to cast, but well I did a lot of my early healing on a paladin where I still wanted to keep swinging at the mob. And for things like curing with a paladin. The cure is instant cast it doesn't mess with your swing timeer at all so I could swing and cure someone at the same time, if I did a retarget then target the mob again the swing would be stopped on the retarget. Bleh.

So I'm still looking for a good self cast mod that will be updated when it breaks (I'm always in fear that Telo's will break. CT's doesn't work unless you have their bar mods installed and turned on and I don't like their bar mods, the built in stuff sucks and has all the issues Conc mentioned).

Re: Elkano's Buff Bar



I tell you exactly why I installed it:

Blizzard's UI doesn't show enough buffs.

I'm one of the warlock tanks for the Twin Emperors fight. In our learning phase I was buffing myself to kingdom come and back. I found that if I didn't watch the order I buffed in, I wouldn't be able to see Blessing of Salvation in order to click it off. (For instance, summoning my Felhunter right before the pull because Paranoia and Master Demonologist ate two buff slots).

I found the default size hogged up too much real estate, but scaling it back to 90% made it visible without hogging more screen real estate than I wanted.

Ace2 mods seem to be all the rage at the moment as far as efficient use of system resources go (eg AG_Unitframes instead of DUF).

My question for Pete: are you primarily interested in cosmetic changes, or functional changes to your interface?

I use Discord Unit Frames for my unit frames and Bongos for action bars (warlocks never have enough buttons), plus a mod that replaces the default font with something I like better. A lot of my mods revolve around effective raiding: I use Perfect Raid for raid frames (more compact than CT-Raid or the default bars) and La Vendetta Boss Mods for visual timers on boss abilities. I still have CT-Raid purely for the MT target boxes (and a mod to add the raid icons to the boxes). Atlas is highly recommended if you run any instances at all.

I used to use Gatherer, but I think I've memorized every herb spawn location in Un'Goro Crater by now.

Chris

There's a setting in Interface Options to cast beneficial spells on yourself if you have an enemy targeted.

Hi,


Given a choice, I'll pick function over form almost always. But if I can get both, then that's just a cake with icing

Some of the posts so far have given me some nice ideas. I like a lot of buttons available since I'm bad with hot-keys, but the default locations of the bars does little for me. Some of the optional read-out information might be useful, I'll have to try it. I'm less interested in automating too much, but that might change as I get bigger and a I play in larger groups.

--Pete

Fear no more - it is already known for sure that Telo's mod will break in the very next patch, along with all other self-cast mods (since target selection will be now disabled from withing a mod) .

To Pete: I personally don't think it make sense to setup your UI right now - the pre-expansion patch is coming soon (although, as usually with Blizzard, nobody knows exact date, my guess is one month maximum), and the modifications made into UI interface will break most of existing add-ons and made impossible a good portion of it. I recommend you to research only for those feature you absolutely can't live without, and leave the rest to the better times. If you're not used to some nice feature, you will not miss it when Blizzard disables it, you know .

Hi,


Oh, yeah I remember the on again off again of UI mods throughout the beta. Made me appreciate the mods all the more whenever they all broke due to one patch or another.

--Pete

Good to see that I'm not the only old-time Lurker coming back to WOW...

With BC now out, can we renew the discussion on recommended UI mods? I've tried Auctioneer and TitanBar, and found both of them helpful. I really want a mod to make the minimap more useful - it's just too small for these 41-year-old eyes, I guess.

There are several mods that you can use to enlarge the minimap. Bongos has that function - among some others. But unless you're a hunter, or to a less effect a druid, the minimap doesn't really do that much. It lets you know where your party mates are, where resources (herbs and minerals) are, and what direction you're pointing, but that's about it. There's not that much function to enhance really.

Of course, if those are the things that you're having trouble seeing, then I'd recommend bongos to enlarge the map. It's very easy to use and not really memory intensive in my experience.

Thank you -- checking it out now. My main (all of level 21 as of right now... I blame alt-itis) is a hunter, but mostly I'm just used to more location context information from my minimap. I think part of the problem is that it contains too much color detail; the D2 minimap which just showed edges and objectives was great in that way.

My current mods. Keep in mind, I'm a healer, so interface is *everything*.

Ace2 mods (available at www.wowace.com):
ag_UnitFrames - Blizzard's default unitframes are so limited, it's not even funny. This is essential to me
Aperture - Lets me control the viewport of the screen, like the CT mod ViewPort
aUF_Banzai - Highlights who has aggro
aUF_RangeCheck_M - Range coloring on ag_UnitFrames
AutoBar - nifty nifty nifty automatic bar that arranges items for you in a handy key-mappable bar
BanzaiAlert - ZOMG U HAVE TEH AGGRO TEIM TO FADE!!!!111!!!eleven
Bartender3 - bars, bars, bars, wherever or however I want
BigWigs - you raid, you have bigwigs
Capping - Battlegrounds timers and such
Cartographer - This is fast becoming one of those mods that everyone has, it's sick useful
Cartographer_Herbalism - see above
Cartographer_Mining - see above
Cartographer_Noteshare - nifty to share your data with others
ColaLight - man, I've completed the quest and none of the rewards are useful - which will sell for the most?
coolDown - oh, I'm sure YOU can monitor the cooldowns from trinkets, spells, consumables, etc without this
FuBar - Who doesn't run FuBar nowadays?
FuBar_BattlegroundFu - I play alliance on a badly balanced population server. I want to see my queue time
FuBar_ClockFu - because it's handy
FuBar_DuraTek - see my durability of all items at a glance
FuBar_ItemBonusesFu - nice when comparing items
FuBar_LocationFu - mostly because I use Squeenix for minimap, this is handy
FuBar_MailFu - CT_MailMod without the CT_MemoryUsage
FuBar_MoneyFu - Invaluable, track all money across characters
FuBar_oRA2CooldownFu - nifty to see when the next soulstone/innervate/rebirth is ready
FuBar_PerformanceFu - framerate, memory usage, etc
FuBar_QuestsFu - this mod rules...track the quest progress of everyone in party, intelligent quest tracking
FuBar_RegenFu - you kidding me? I went through more than 50,000 mana against the Curator?
HotCandy - simple timer bar of my Renews
IceHUD - all the key health/mana info front and center of my screen
MobHealth - yeah, try using Shadow Word: Death effectively without knowing a mob's exact hit points
oRA2 - people still use CTRA?
Prat - invaluable chat system replacement
RangeRecolor - simple out-of-range bar icon replacement
SCT - because Blizzard's combat text just doesn't cut it
SeriousBuffTimers - I'd like to know how much time is left on my buffs, Blizzard.
SimpleCombatLog - Because "[You] hit by Moroes (9234)" it easier to read than "Moroes beats the everloving s*** out of you, lern2playaPaladin"
Squeenix - square-based minimap with lots of options, move it anywhere on the screen you want
sRaidFrames - CTRA what?
TinyTip - because I want to know what I'm pointing at, not have info about it put way on the corner of my screen
TradeskillInfo - egads this is useful, tracks tradeskill knowledge of all characters. Look at any item and know what it does, what character could use it, if they already know it, etc etc etc
XLoot - mostly for XLootGroup
XLootGroup - because Blizzard's default loot frames stink

Non-Ace2 mods (usually findable at www.wowinterface.com among other sites):
Forecast - until I find something better, still one of the best raid healing mods ever made
Guild Event Manager - awesome for guild alliance communication
KLH Threat Meter - if you raid, why aren't you using this?
MendWatch - the Priest's best friend until someone creates something better
Natur Enemy Castbar - there's probably something better out there now for tracking cooldowns, HoTs, DoTs, etc, but I haven't found it
RatingBuster - because I'd like to know what "12 spell crit rating" means without pulling out a freaking calculator!
SW Stats - nothing beats this mod's ability to break down *everything* that happens in a party/raid

Always on the lookout for new/cool mods.

-Bolty

Anyone remember FlexBar?

Since Burning Crusade this mod has gone void. It allowed me to place buttons anywhere, resize them. And I could toggle them on and off with just a keypress.

Is there a mod that does provide the same function? I'm not looking for fancy stuff.

Wow, that's a lot for me to process. Looks like some good stuff in there.

I'm trying out FuBar, and having a bit of a problem getting it to show... do I need to load ACE itself? Some parts of FuBar seem to be working, like PetInfoFu, ToFu and such, but no bars.

Color me confused.

If you merely download the package of Fubar2 from this link:

http://wowinterface.com/downloads/info4571-FuBar2.0.html

you should be set, it includes Ace2 and most of the Fubar2 mods that you will want, you will still need to pick up some additional ones.

Also, some Fubar mods just work off of another mod, check your addons page to see if a dependency is missing for some of the mods.

Successive patches have helped me cut down my mod usage to the bare essentials - I really don't like downloading more new versions than I absolutely have to.

Unitframes - ag_unitframes
Raid frames - PerfectRaid
Buffs - ElkanoBuffBar
Main tank targets and other raid stuff - oRa2
Font - ClearFont
Actionbars - Bartender3
Boss mod - LaVendetta
Chat pane enhancements - ls_chat
Instance maps - Atlas
DoT timers - DoTimer

Chris

Thank you! That did it.

No idea what the heck I was doing wrong before, but it's working now. I think I like it better than Titan Panel -- it has some nice features. The package itself didn't include any of the mods, but did get FuBar itself working, which was the key ingredient. I then used WOWAceUpdater to get the mods I wanted, which was pretty slick. I ran into some conflicts between Cartographer and MetaMap, so I swapped back to using just MetaMap for now.

Bolty's list is oddly similar to mine. A few minor differences:

I use Chronometer rather than HoTCandy. Both are Ace2, and both do the same thing, so very minor.

Closet Gnome - Someone above suggested Item Rack. ClosetGnome is its Ace2 equivalent. Less memory, yada yada. I like it.

mik's Scrolling Battle Text - Similar to SCT (Scrolling Combat Text), but with a different look.

One of the neatest things I discovered about DOTimer is the notifications feature. It's the first thing I've found that'll warn me if my seduce and banish break early.

As for keeping stuff updated, I'd like to recommend the WoWAceUpdater. It's a Windows program that can be used to update, install, and uninstall any addon hosted on www.wowace.com. Yet another reason to keep as many addons as possible to Ace2.

Anyway, the most useful addon I've found lately is ArkInventory (also Ace-based) which allows you to split your inventory and banks into sections that items are auto-sorted into based on category. You can even change the category of an item if you don't agree where it should go. Here's a screenie. ArkInventory

My current setup.

Visible mods:
ag_UnitFrames - What Bolty Said.
Bongos - Has a couple of extra features that I like, so I use this over Bartender
Natur Enemy Castbar - You PvP, you Necb Configurable version of bliz's enemy castbar, with some extra bells and whistles.
ItemRack - Stupidly useful gear management mod.
OmniCC - My personal favorite cooldown display mod. Since I have everything hotkeyed, I can layout my actionbars just to display a couple of range finders and all my cool downs. Makes anything more showie a waist of memory. (And it's also handy in that it shows the cool down of items in your bags, bank, character screen etc.)

Not visible mods:
GoGo Mount - Mount management for people too lazy to macro it.
eCastingBar - Purdy - and highly configurable - casting bar.
nQuestLog - Quest stuff. Same as everything else I guess. I just picked it at random from the ace page.
TinyTip - What Bolty said mark 2.
MobInfo2 - Basically mobhealth with a bunch of bells and whistles. I was using it because reverted to blizzards standard unit frames, and couldn't find an update of mobheathbliz. Will get around to switching back to mobhealth some day soon.
ScrollingCombatText - Highly configurable version of blizzards scrolling combat text. I really hate the enormous writing on the standard bliz version, plus I need it to run spellalertSCT.
SpellAlertSCT - You PvP, you spellalert. I prefer the SCT over the standard version for the bigger writing and the fact that it doesn't spam anywhere near as much.
Simple Combat Log - What Bolty said, mark 3.

To do list:
Download Prat. I was a massive fan of simple chat, and it looks like Prat would be a good replacement for it. I just wish it didn't have so many extra features that I'll never use, but such is the mod world.

Being an avid coder and having written a number of addons myself, I tend to have a continually changing mess of addons as I try out different ones to see what kind of neat ideas people have come up with.

I'm an information junkie... but I also like my visbility, so my UI is always a struggle between those two aspects, to try to balance the two.

Some highlights of my current list of addons (not the full list, since there's probably some 80 of them or so!):

BugSack - keeps error messages out of sight until I want to read them. Something like this is extremely nice when you're working on addons and don't want that big error box popping up continually while you debug things.
BuyEmAll - Lets you buy more than the 20-stack-at-a-time Blizzard limit of items, as well as multiples of prestacked items; great for refilling on reagants.
Clique - For decursive reasons
Conversation Manager - Addon I wrote to help me keep multiple conversations separate and managed when I happen to be chatting in raid and guild at the same time while fending off multiple whispers.
Double Wide - Has a full-length list of quests on the left, and then the quest description/text to the right of that, rather than trying to scrunch it all into the regular sized Blizzard quest window.
Druid Bar - Estimate of my mana while I'm shapeshifted
Durability Status - Estimated repair cost of broken items, and mass-repair of equipped and inventory items when visiting a vendor that will repair.
EzDismount - Dismounts you if you try to use any action/spell while mounted. To prevent those instances where you get attacked while mounted and end up stuck since you couldn't get your dismount off quick enough
Grid - My current choice of raid frames. Nice and compact, while still providing a decent amount of information
Ping Direction - Points a big red arrow towards the ping if someone pings the minimap. I wrote this addon after the idea came up during an Ossirian fight. When BC came out and questing all over the world started happening again, I added the feature of being able to point an arrow towards arbitrary map coordinates until you reach those coordinates.
oRA2 - CTRaidAssist communication, but without the raid frames (since I use Grid for that). Has MT targets, item checks, and all the other features as well.

And, for my current project... I got annoyed at getting items with the exact same icon confused (3 sets of gloves with the exact same icon, 2 helmets, 2 legs, etc.), so I decided to write an addon that would add labels to all inventory items. Unfortunately, that is just way too cluttered for my liking... so I'm now thinking of making it a hold-to-activate-labels feature, or maybe labelling only same-icon items. Any suggestions or insight would be welcome though

I would be very interested in a mod that does this. I have thought of a similar idea, for example to tell apart gear, or to tell apart scrolls and recipes at a glance. Before TBC I used Transmogrifier, which allowed me to replace icons with more distinct ones, but it was tedious to set up alternate icons for everything.

If you could post the mod, or at least some relevant parts of the code that you use to do this, I would be most grateful. Thanks!

P.S. Ping Direction looks really cool! I'm going to try it, it seems like a great aid for when you have the coordinates to complete a quest and are trynig to get to them.

P.P.S. I just tried Ping Direction, and it's incredible. It's so elegant and useful, such a simple idea but supremely useful.

Yay UI mods! I tend to spend about as much time messing with mods as I do playing the game, but unfortunately I really like the way my current UI is layed out so I haven't been spending much time on it lately.

UI out of combat
UI in combat

I've got mostly ACE2 mods:
agUnitFrames
Bartender3
Fubar (DPS, quest, XP, performance, bag, gold, & time modules)
SimpleCombatLog
Squeenix (square minimap)
eePanels (black bar at bottom)
Cartographer (+ mining & herb modules)
IceHUD
oCB (castbar)
TinyTip
Postal
Prat
Buffalo
...and the non-ACE mods DoTimer and MikScrollingBattleText.

I'd like to give a special shout-out to DeuceCommander, which menuizes most ACE2 mod configuration. If you hate the text command method of setting up your ACE mods, then grab this and all your troubles will go away.



Prat is pretty large and bloated in its default configuration but it's easy to trim it down- there's a \modules folder under the Prat folder. Just delete the ones you don't want. My Prat modules folder consists of less than 10 modules, down from the 30+ you get by default. A warning though, if you use WowAceUpdater, you'll have to go and delete the unwanted modules every time Prat gets updated since it re-downloads the entire package.

I actually got off my behind and downloaded it yesterday. Spent a while struggling with the text commands before I noticed the minimap button (doh! ) and then pretty much went through most of the modules disabling them. (It seems that I'm the only person who plays WoW who actually wants chat buttons.)

I was under the impression that this would basically stop them using memory etc. (Actually, I was under the impression that was the case with all Ace mods.) Is that not the case?

Well, I uploaded a snapshot of my current code to http://cot.freeshell.org/WoW/UIMods/Invent...bels-0.0.1b.zip. It's still in rough shape, and still needs a number of event and function hooks to relabel things properly when you open/close bags, but you can force a relabel at the moment by hitting the keybinding. The basic functionality's there; dynamics needs some work still.

Wow, thank you. I was curious how to do this, and I appreciate you sharing your code.

Thanks everyone, I've added some very nice ones from this thread.

I'd like to add a couple other standouts that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread:

TrinketMenu -- automatically rotates your trinkets when you leave combat when they are on cooldown. It allows for different saved profiles so I can have sets of trinkets for heal gear and for DPSing. This helps squeeze extra DPS/healing as you go from fight to fight. I find it most useful for DPS. (btw thanks to Frost for pointing me at this one)

GMail -- a direct code ripoff of CTMailMod. Since I don't use CT anything anymore, but I still want mass mail... I haven't looked at the FuBar mail plugin yet, will likely switch to that. But since I saw at least two people in the thread mention they still use CT primarily because of the mail mod, I wanted to add this option.

I would suggest Postal instead - GMail is a "dead" mod that will not be getting any more updates. Postal offers an improved mass mail algorithm anyway.

-Bolty

I wouldn't mind a mail-mod that would let me booby-trap mail and send seaforium charges (or an arcane bomb or two) back to gold spammers so the next time they use their mailbox they explode in a glorious fountain of blood, bones and poorly worded gold-ad-grammar.
That would be completely awesome.

I've been using Perl-X Frames and been liking them quite a bit. Good deal more complex than Perl Classic_Frames, but the additional complexity is worth it.

We also use RDX, but I've never bothered to set it up.

I'm a DUF addict. Can't stand the standard unit frames and I don't like Perl or ag_UF, so I still use DUF.

I've heard people raving about Pit Bull unit frames, but haven't tried it out myself.

It's still relatively new. I've tried switching over twice. The first time it was very buggy. The second time, the only thing that stopped me is I can't figure out the layout .lua enough to resize the combo points.