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A quick note as a few commenters don't seem to be aware – UI scale is user toggleable in the ElvUI settings. Also, our written guide has small & large presets for this UI.
superb video , a well tailored ui just makes you a better player having more fun in the game period !
Video summary: Get Elvui
This is one of those videos that you bookmark.
The video is kinda misleading, I thought this would be a step by step tutorial for ELVUI setup.
This was just what I needed. Much appreciated, and keep up the great work. I see it, I appreciate it, and I know that I'm not the only one.
I basically set up my UI like this. Except I hate elvui. It's just overhauling for the sake of overhauling and its extremely ugly. I have tried it and I honestly don't get what's so appealing about it…
I use the base UI, except for the map, I use sexymap, I then move stuff around a bit and then lastly use Zperl unit frames instead. I then tailor the colors of stuff to match my class and/or spec. So for example orange theme for a fire mage and light blue for a frost mage.
Other then that, I basically do the same stuff.
Sounds like a lot of folks here are nope-ing out from trying this out because of ElvUi. Don't use it if you don't want to. I dont. However, there are plenty of add-ons out there that give you full control of the default WoWUI while preserving it's look and feel: LeatrixPlus, Bartender4, MoveAnything, BlizzMove, Titan Panel and others. LeatrixPlus, for example, can even enhance the default bars and frames while keeping where everything is in it's default place.
Yo Bell thank you so much for the UI. But there is one thing i want to change and that is the transparency of all the windows. But I can´t find the option where to change it. May you help me with this?
Am I the only one that finds weak auras more distracting than useful? I prefer to just have my action bars neat and raised a little on center. Then my target and me to be top center. That’s about it. I find it easier to track all my cool downs and abilities directly in my action bars. Then I like buffs/debuffs to be neat and apparent. Same with name plates. Neat. That’s it. I dunno, I am a little ADD though. So maybe that’s why I feel that way.
I prefer the Classic UI design over all UI changing addons I've seen, *including* footage shown in this video.
How do i make so that my actionbars are always showing?
Man these UI options just ruin the game visually for me, it makes sense but they just look so sci-fi as others have said, unplayable.
Love this set up, thank you for the work you do
I've used your UIs' for several xpacs and this is by far your best work . As someone who has C.P. i tend to get focused on one area and i've struggled to find an UI that I was comfortable with for the long haul and this UI accomplishes that . Everything is up and around the character easy to see at a glance as you stated plus its easy to read(getting older plus the C.P), only I had to "tweak" was the scaling as the large version recommend .74 which on my monitor(32inch) was huge . Again thank you and great work.
what combat text addon is that??
almost puked when i saw the elvui suggestion
A clean UI is nice but something about the scrolling battle text appeases my monkey brain.
Have a UI contest
Entire video is nothing but abstracts and overview without exploring and showing specifics.
I just use the gw2 UI
While I absolutely agree with your points on the principles I can't stand ElvUI and the likes. It completely destroys the WoW's aesthetics by changing fonts to some modern-style abomination and also uses in my opinion downright ugly plain transparent black backgrounds for every window. It doesn't feel like WarCraft anymore. It's also horrendous with small monitors as the scaling is pretty bad in ElvUI and requires hours of tweaking to get right (I'm playing at 1080p on a 17-inch monitor and I need bigger UI elements). It does some things absolutely fine like frames and buff/debuff trackers, although all of it can be achieved by other means. And Blizzard's raid frames, for example, which you can also use for dungeons, are super-accurate and neat by default (if you disable border and wiggle sliders to your liking), it wasn't always the case.
I really think it's a bad practice to hook up new players on ElvUI. Teach them principles, give them Bartender and any frame addon (Easy Frames is a great upgrade on default frames without sacrificing the aesthetics, for example), enemy frames (Plater is ugly by default, but customizable, NeatPlates is a bit of an outdated concept, but still good, KuiNameplates is just a good well-rounder by default, also customizable) and some basic unintrusive WeakAuras and let them go ham. I'd even argue that neatly stacked Bartender can completely nullify the need in having spec cooldowns WAs in the center of the screen. I have my bars neat and tidy closer to the center of the screen and always have all of my cooldowns at a glance without duplicating any information on the screen. The only WAs I really use are buff and debuff trackers for me and the enemies (once again, semi-transparent and invisible when unneeded). There are more addons that I personally use, but if you get your actionbars, frames and trackers right I strongly believe you're good to go.
For encounter tactics DBM is good if you'd like more audio information (considering everything else so far has been visual I'd say it's an optimal choice) and if you're ok with tracking more text and icons on the screen BigWigs/LittleWigs is for you.
This really annoys me. Looking at this awfull disgusting mess in the middle of your screen. Seriously you dont need it. For me i tried it and it made me more confused and I couldnt see a damn thing that was happening. Maybe if your a hardcore raider but nup not for me.
I love the original UI. It's structured and doesn't need extra RAM end CPU. You dont need those addons that steal your data and private information.
You think, you want all those addons, but you don't
I love this video! Although I have old eyes and the small text in you examples don't actually work for me. This is a very good starting point. Thanks
YOU SHOULD ALL GET PREACHES ITS WAY BETTER BELLULAR SCUMMY AF FOR THIS
Just some feedback – If your main content of this video is showing UI principles and general layout – is it really neccessary for your face to take up 1/3 of the screen? Not that I don’t love your face, I’m just thinking about information clarity and overall UX.
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Lol why would someone give this a thumbs down…. haters! Lmao ty for the vid Bellular, love your content buddy =)
I bet Ion doesn’t even use the default UI, no hate intended, I just bet he doesn’t.
i still use the old UI. I cant stand the new, too much garbage on my screen. i like a clean view with stuff out of my way
Testing it right now with weakauras added. So far so good. Just had to move a few boxes around. And made chat larger.
Probably the best all in one UI for wow, both classic and retail, is in my opinion – NDui. https://github.com/siweia/NDui
how is this optimal? where do you have dps/hps/interrupt tracker, weakauras, timer bars for uptime of hots, buffs, procs and dots on enemies etc? This is very nice but efficient maybe for leveling or m+0
I'm a moderately experienced ElvUI user and I really appreciate the versions you guys put together. While they aren't exactly for me, they gave me several good ideas to implement in my setup, such as the fading action bars and transparent chat windows. Thanks!
Healer round-up please
It's pretty eye opening how far those add-ons have gone. I used to take days setting my screen, and had a lot of fun doing it.
Now copy-paste settings? No need to fiddle with my WTF folder? Sign me in!
Do these presets work with super-ultrawide screens? 5120×1440 to be specific.
Leatrix Plus <– BY far my favorite All around, General Option addon EVER. Second is eAlign, just gives you a grid in game for setting up addons 'evenly'.
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Describe the UI in one sentence
"I CAN'T SEE SH*T! WHOOOOOO!!!"
was looking forward to this till i found out its not free! you should have mentioned this in your video
I WANT A LVL5 UI