Useful UIs

[Derricka]

As more and more additions that Blizzard puts into it's own UI, I found lesser and lesser use for Cosmos...

So.... Trayus and I decided to drop Most of Cosmos functions, because cosmos has been causing a lot of trouble in our experiences... and here are some of the UI Addons that we found useful if you hate cosmos ...

Additional hot bars: Came with the new patch!! yeah!!

All-in-one Inventory: No more going through each bag trying to find what you are looking for....
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=326

Atlas: Don't you hate it when you don't have the map when you are in an instance? and you are lost, and can't find the guys you are suppose to fight?
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=400

Gatherer: Mining and Herbalism made easy!... It will mark the spot for you after you gathered from it, and save it for later!!... also marks Treasure chests!!
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=277

Auctioneer: Wanna know how much a junky item worth to an vendor before you pick it up? Problem solved... Also, if you scan the AH, it will give you an average price of how much the item is going for on the AH... not complete accurate because of price changes.. but good to know...
ui.worldofwar.net/top20.php

Lootlink: Oh, remember that Awsome purple sword that dropped? you wanted to show the guild or someone else, but you lost the roll? Cry first... then get lootlink... it remember every item that you'll ever see in the game... and then you can link it to anyone anytime you want... (Remember Delf and his 10 Epics?)
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=330

BeneCast: Ultimate Healer/Buff Mod... No more click the spell and then click on the person you want to cast on... and no more accident wrong heals... just click the icon next to their name and heal!
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=340

Map Notes: Mark and Note the places that you have been to and want to remember for next time!!
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=769

Location Coordinates: Coordinates when you need to find someone or something... when you look up the coordiante on allakazham or thottbot
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=30

Recap: remember everything you and your group did.. and calculate all kinds of data for you very nice and easy to figure out...
ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=859



Note: We do not have a DPS calculator included in the list of UIs... I personally didn't find it all that useful for me.. but there are plenty out there... so get whatever you want ... and if you know a good one, please let me know!!!



How to Install the UI you just downloaded?

1. Most UIs are downloaded as .zip files, so first you will have to unzip the file, and save it onto your computer (such as desktop or documents, wherever you like to put it so you can find it later)

2. Open the folder and then another folder named Interface, then a folder named Addon should pop-up.

3. Open the Addon folder, and then you might see more folders or a few files. now... HOLD...

4. Make sure your WOW game is turned off.

5. Go to Program Files in your computer, and find World of Warcraft folder.

6. Click on the WoW folder, find and open the Interface folder, then open the Addon folder

7. Go to the things you have opened in Step 3, and copy ALL of the files from that folder into the WoW Addon folder.

8. Close all the windows and turn on your WOW game. and hopefully that worked ^^ well it should...


How to check ALL of your Addons?

1. After you logged into the game and after your character list have loaded, on the bottom left corner you will see a small icon that says "Addon" click on it

2. A list of Addons should come up on your screen and you can turn them on and off at your on will...




Have fun... and please let me know if you have any problems....







cheer!!

[Derricka]

REMEMBER TO CHECK THE TOC FILE AND MAKE SURE IT'S THE RIGHT VERSION!

[Jeskah]

Thank ya very much for the UI upgrades, they are working very very nicely ;D

[Derricka]

A lot of addons are not updated with the WOW patches.

How to update your Addons:

1. Go to My Computer>>C>>Program Files>>World of Warcraft>>Interface>>Addons

2. In Addons open the Addon that's put of date and you should see a few files.

3. Show Details of all files, and in the format section, you will find a TOC file. Find it and open it with notepad.

4. There is a number in the top few lines (normally first or second). That is the patch/version number of the game.

5. Find the current version of the WOW game. It is normally at the bottom left corner when you turn the game on.

6. Change that TOC file number to the correct patch/version of the game. As of last patch, the number is 1700 (August 29, 2005), which is 1.700 patch/version number.

NOW... everything should work... but there are always exceptions... I know for a fact that cosmos doesn't work even if you changed TOC number, they have their own update that you have to reload. Best bet would be to check out the addon/ui website for more info.

[cricri]

This is few of the 105 addons I use:

Atlas www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=539
Atlas is an instance map browser.
Useful to know where you going, and where are the main mob in the instance.

Auctioneer auctioneeraddon.com/
Displays item info and analyzes auction data.
Want to know how much you can sell an item in AH, this add-on scan the HA and add statistic on the item pop-up-menu. Like the number of time you see this item in AH, the price range, the buyout,...

BankStatement www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=11
View the contents of your bank, anywhere in the world, including quantity of each item.

CT_QuestLevels www.ctmod.net/downloads.ct
This mod adds the level of your quest to the left of its name in the Quest window.
Simple but nice.

CT_RaidAssist www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=694
The ultimate raid assistant. Reports health, mana, buffs, debuffs, and lots more.

CT_RaidTracker www.ctmod.net/
Tracks raid attendance and loot history.

DamageMeters www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=791
Totals player's damage and shows as bars on the screen.
The mesure are not perfect, but give you some inside information of the damage or healing you doing compare to the other player. Usually your result is boosted compare to the others (it see all your dps versus only a part of other player). Multiple DamageMeters can be synchronized by a channel, improving a little the number.

Decursive www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=643
This is a cleaning mod. Its job it to help a class that can remove debuffs, do it with ease.
A must in MC for removing all the bad stuff mob put on player.

DruidMod ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=877
A few handy druid functions
Used with the WatchDog ClickCasting.

InspectMemory 64.168.251.69/wow/inspectmemory.html
Keeps a "memory" of all players you mouseover, remembering their current inventory and allowing you to view that inventory later, no matter how far away they are.

MozzFullWorldMap www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1758
Shows unexplored areas on the map.

Perl www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1381
Pretty new unitframes!

Recap www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=761
This AddOn will track and summarize the damage dealt and received by every participant in a fight around the user.
Give more detail than DamageMeters, specially diferentiate the "util" healing than the "over" healing.

StatusBars www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=388
Adds bars to monitor health, mana, rage, energy, combo, buffs, etc. in combat.
Give the main fight information where you need it.

Titan www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1935
Adds a control panel (also served as info box) on the top of the screen.

TrainerSkills www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=728
Shows the trainer frames from anywhere in the world.
And notify when you can learn a new skill.

Wardrobe www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=309
Wardrobe is an AddOn that lets you define up to 20 distinct equipment profiles (called "outfits") and lets you switch among them on the fly.

WatchDog www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1281
A minimalistic replacement for party, player and target frames with ClickCasting and more.
The Click casting is for me the best interface for healing. Works with CT_RA and standard interface too.


The base compilation of add-on I used is: www.ometh.com/. If you don't like to spend too much time upgrading your add-on after each blizzard update, you should consider to use a compilation.

Cricri

[Lochart]

Since the Useful UI's hasn't been updated since well before TBC, and many have lost function entirely (Auctioneer, Decursive) or been incorporated into other mods (Coords, Gatherer, Atlas) I thought I would take this time since the servers are down to post what I consider useful mods, ranging from "I can't live without this anymore" to "mildly amusing".
This is also basically a list of what I use, so if anyone has thoughts as to other things they think are useful to the point of cheating, feel free to add. But first, a few sites I also think are useful to answers all questions about aspects of WoW.

wow.allakhazam.com
I don't care what people say, I prefer the layout of Alla to Thottbot. Call me crazy. I think it's easier to use and more intuitive. Find out quest rewards, coordinates of quest objectives, drops and drop rates of mobs and items, etc. Essential site.

wow-loot.com
Useful for honing your class. Has gear suggestions for various builds of all classes (tanking warrior, healing druid, feral druid, daggers rogue, beast master hunter, etc.) and what instances to run to collect the best stuff for your character. Also now updated with TBC instance loot. Also has suggested basic builds for all classes, 3 for each, to give you ideas on how to build talents, and what each is good for (PvP vs. PvE).

Then of course, the various mod sites to facilitate your mod collections:
ui.worldofwar.net
www-en.curse-gaming.com

Both useful in their own ways, just organized differently. If you can't find what you're looking for on one, try the other, they have almost all the same stuff, but the UI site tells you if the mods are updated for BC, which I find helpful so i don't DL defunct mods.

Now, the mods

Fubar - For those familiar with Cosmos or TitanPanel, this is another mod that completely overhauls the look of your interface. Fubar 2.0 is the core, and it has countless additions that you can display in the Fubar interface. A few of my favorites include RestFu, which keeps track of the rest status of all of your alts (%age rested, time until fully rested). Never play an unrested toon again if you don't want! ItemBonusesFu, which lists the cumulative bonuses from gear you're wearing, so you can keep track of +healing, resistances, spell damage etc. Coords, which are infinitely useful in all aspects of questing.
There is a "fubar compilation" on Curse that includes about 20 of the addons, so you can get a bunch at once and determine which ones you like most. Otherwise you have to DL them all separately, which is rather time consuming.

CT mod, CT raid - another useful UI mod, which among other things, changes your casting bars so you can display up to 6 at a time wherever you want, and adjust the size, display all buffs in a smaller, movable window so when you have 800 on you at once, they don't take up an entire side of your screen, and allows you to save your setting across characters, so once you set it up for one character, you can load the same setting across each toon, and you'll have everything in the same place for everyone. Also can set up key bindings for all bars. Useful when you have more than ten skills you want to access quickly.

Atlas Enhanced/Lootlink: updated for all TBC instances, allows you to see which bosses drop what so you know when you don't need to run a particular instance anymore. Also has maps of all instances so you can tell where bosses are and where you are, which is nice in everything except BRD, which is so stacked on top of itself Atlas doesn't help. Lootlink is fun but not all that useful, just nice to be able to call up impressive gear to show to your guildmates and parties, even if you don't have it.

There is a new movable bags mod for those that like those sorts of thing. I do, but I can't remember offhand what it's called. Something mundane no doubt. I trust you will find it if you want it.

Scrolling Combat Text - the WoW version leaves a little to be desired, so someone made an independent one. It has numerous parts and requires Ace 2 to work, but once it's up and running, it's useful to know how often something procs for example (seal of light, any weapon effect, clearcasting etc.) Also tells you when you get killing blows for bragging rights on bosses .

Getting long as my posts seem to do. But that's a start. If you have any questions about this stuff I'll do my best to answer them, and as I said, if there are essential mods I'm missing please add them. I don't do Gatherer or most profession mods because that's not very high on my list of WoW goals. Also don't care about damage/threat/healing meters. So I know those are glaring omissons, for example. Hope this is useful, because my fingers are tired.

[Kvenia]

Just a quick add to site lists for info...www.wowhead.com

I think Ollin is the one who recommended it one day...