Comments on: Extreme Makeover – Matt’s UI: Part 1

By: Extreme Makeover - Matt’s UI: Part 2 (Addons that I use) : World of Matticus

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:30:45 +0000

[...] the before post of my UI when I was in the process of tearing it down entirely. This is the after post of my UI in various [...]

By: Spicytuna

Spicytuna — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:42:31 +0000

Holy crap, and I thought my UI was cluttered

You healers have it bad with stuff on your screens, especialy raid healers.

DPS just needs to make their UIs look “cool” so we don’t fall asleep spamming our 1-3 dps buttons.

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:35:44 +0000

Thanks, Matford!

By: Weekly Digest: Gorefiend in the Crosshairs, WPDesigner, and Criticism : World of Matticus

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:00:40 +0000

[...] I’m restructuring my user interface for WoW [...]

By: matford

matford — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:03:29 +0000

http://www.wowace.com/wiki/NShakedown

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:15:27 +0000

Matford, where do you find nshakedown? (I probably can find it, but it’s after 1am and this question will help remind me to look if you don’t reply before then.)

By: matford

matford — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:34:03 +0000

Well I just had my computer go futz on me and had to do my UI from scratch

There are two addons that helped me get it right in record short time, Align and nshakedown.

Align puts a grid on your screen, making much easier to line various UI elements up correctly.

nshakedown will display on the screen every element of your UI that can possibly happen at the same time in a raid, and everything’s draggable as well.

Highly reccomend the pair of them for setting up your UI.

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:56:34 +0000

Good luck on streamlining your UI. I did this a while ago and haven’t ever regretted it. I’m going to have to be another person to recommend Grid. It gives you -so- much information in such a small space. I can’t imagine healing without it.

BTW, I’m tickled pink to find people-who-are-not-me linking to my Grid+Clique article in your comments

http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2007/09/25/how-i-heal-gridclique/

Here’s a recent shot of my UI during a Nightbane kill:
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/wowscrnshot_022108_215345.jpg

And an in-action movie from killing High King Maulgar:
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2008/02/07/high-king-maulgar-boring-movie-and-brief-analysis/

Most of the addons/setup is described here:
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2007/11/21/state-of-the-ui-late-nov-2007/

Nibuca
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/

By: Matford, Nagrand

Matford, Nagrand — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:05:55 +0000

Do you really need that screen cluttering your UI for information you occiaionally use?

Think about what you need to see all the time to do your job. If something needs to be visible at all times, it belongs in your UI. I suggest that Deaths doesn’t fit that category.

IMO Expiration is a better tool for what you want to do, espeically if you team it with Prat which allows for the creation of aliases.

Example /expiration report Tadri could be aliased to /exrep %t

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:19:06 +0000

Matford: Recount by default opens up with the damage dealt window open. After a wipe or something, I usually switch it over to the “Deaths” window to find out how certain players die. Call it an autopsy window if you will. Sometimes I like to look at the “Healing Done” window and QQ to myself because I get beat out by Shamans and dirty Druids .