Holy Paladin UI
Palithras UI Solo
As promised, I present to you my UI. Commentary and addons after the break.
Visible addons are:
- kgpanels (for the background)
- Dominoes (Action Bars)
- PitBull (Unit frames)
- VuhDo (Healing mod and raid frame replacement)
- ElkBuffBars (For buffs/debuffs – right hand side)
- Sexy Map (Because its sexy, baby! In the right hand panel)
- Recount / Omen (In the left hand panel)
- Chatter (Chat mod)
- CowTip (Tooltips)
- FuBar
Not visible in the screenshots:
- Carbonite (for questing)
- Gatherer (for farming)
- MikScrollingBattleText (much better than Blizzard default)
- Power Auras Classic (graphic alerts, only shows in combat)
Recount and Omen share a space on the screen. Recount is up out of combat and is replaced by Omen in combat. I don’t really need either on Palithras but I share this UI across all of my toons and the info is nice to have on some of them.
I use VuhDo as my healing mod and raid frame, incorporating click-to-cast, buff monitoring (upper right), and health bars. They are set up to look kind of Grid like, filling out to the right as the raid gets bigger, and health bars being vertical.. My personal preference is to have all boxes green rather than using class colors but everyone is different.
PitBull is there for me (left middle), my focus (left), my target (right middle) and target of target (right).
Palithras UI 10 Man Raid
I’ll get a 25-man screenie posted as soon as I have a tidy one – like where half the raid isn’t cybering the loot master for preference on “The Turning Tide”…
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a clicker – always have been, always will be. I tried mouseover keybind macros and could not get used to them, but they can be very useful if you’re a keybind type of person.
I have two main action bars on screen, in the middle. Bottom is for combat – daily quests and so forth – top is for healing related stuff. I met a healer in Naxx 25 last weekend who used Healbot (nothing wrong with that) but did not have her healing spells on a bar because they were bound in Healbot. So we ended up wasting time at Instructor Razuvious while she got that set up. That’s why those are there – for those occasions when you need to heal something that does not show up in your normal frames.
Some of my layout stems from the fact that I’m working on a 17″ CRT monitor and screen real estate is precious. If I had a widescreen monitor some of this stuff would be spaced out horizontally, meaning I could lower the height of the UI and move raid frames to a central position. With that in mind, I have tried to keep all of the important information central or to the right: Buffs/debuffs, VuhDo, unit frames etc. Chat and Omen are off to the left as I usually only glance at them in combat.
At the end of the day, one’s UI is a personal thing. Everyone has different needs and ways of doing things. The Wife has no idea how I manage to even play the game because my interface is so different to hers. I think, though, that one’s interface should evolve and adapt to one’s playstyle – not the other way around. If you find that you are being shoehorned into playing a certain way just because “that’s where things show up on my screen” or “I don’t have enough buttons”, then change! We have an excellent and talented pool of people who are making these addons – I bet there is something to fit the way you want to play.
UI Resource Links:
PlusHeal UI Showcase (healer related for the most part)
NoStockUI
Elitist Jerks UI thread.
