It will take several addons and as much as an hour (or more) of customization. You can get more functionality and greater control from assembling the UI elements (character frame, party frame, mini map, etc.) from scratch. It’s an all in one, near zero configuration UI that maximizes my screen real estate. The basics: action bars and general layoutĮlvUI is responsible for 90% of my UI. For me, I had almost forgotten what it looked it like. For some people, this won’t be much of a change.

WoW will rebuild the default Addon folder for you, and you’ll see the stock UI again. Shut down WoW and delete your Addon folder, then log back in. Now that you’ve got your backup, you can wipe out your Addon folder and start fresh. Vicinni says when the job goes bad, you go back to the beginning.

This will come in handy in case Mitch and his Old Gods ‘friends’ do anything horrible to your computer. Once you’re all done tweaking your UI, I recommend you make a second backup that is stored somewhere off your computer, for instance, a Cloud based storage solution like Dropbox. If you need to restore your backup, copy the original Addons folder you copied back to the original location, overwriting whatever is there and badaboon badabing, you’re back in action.

If something goes horribly wrong and you get your UI in a state that won’t work, like, for instance, you shrink your chat box down to the size of a single pixel (not that I have ever done that), and can’t figure out what you did wrong, you can always come back to this backup and start over. To make a back up, copy the entire Addons folder to another location on your hard drive or to a flash drive. On my Windows 10 computer, the WoW installation direcotry is C:Program Files (x86)World of Warcraft. We need a good blend of visibility of the entire playing field while providing essential information like who the boss is targeting, and any important debuffs, like, oh, I don’t know, maybe Overwhelm/Rend Flesh.Īfter that, my next big criteria is something that gets me up and running with a minimum amount of tweaking so I can get right to killing Internet Nightmare corrupted dragons.īefore you make any changes to your setup, you want to leave yourself a way to get back to your current state by making a backup of your current UI. What Do We Want?īefore we delve into a list of addons and WeakAuras, let’s take a step back to think about our goal. When it comes to playing World of Warcraft, a big part of the toolkit is the User Interface (UI) we use to interact with the game world. It is said that only a poor craftsman blames his tools and while that’s true, the best craftsmen tend to have the best tools.

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