[0:00] What's up, gaming heroes, and welcome [0:02] back to another awesome World of [0:03] Warcraft video. Today, we are going to [0:06] be looking at the UI in World of [0:08] Warcraft. You've just created your [0:10] character, you've got into the game, [0:12] finally pay that subscription, and now [0:14] you're greeted by this absolute [0:17] travesty, which is a UI, and you want to [0:20] make it look cool. Well, today I'm going [0:22] to show you exactly how you can do that. [0:24] And if you're looking to make it that [0:26] much faster for yourself, I'm even going [0:28] to put the import export string in the [0:31] description below if you want to check [0:33] that out. So, let's dive in. Make sure [0:36] to help this video, you click that [0:38] subscribe button. It really, really [0:39] helps. To open up the edit mode for the [0:42] UI changes, you'll need to go ahead and [0:44] press escape or go down to the question [0:46] mark here and open up the game menu. [0:49] Then you can click on edit mode. From [0:51] here you get the option basically to [0:53] have the basic version like so or you [0:55] can press the advanced version like [0:57] that. I'm going to press advanced. Uh I [1:00] think actually I'm going to leave it [1:01] like that for now and then we'll do the [1:03] advanced version afterwards. Uh now you [1:06] get kind of like the option of modern [1:08] preset which is kind of the modern [1:09] version of World of Warcraft and you get [1:11] the classic which puts the portraits [1:13] above and everything like that. It [1:15] doesn't really matter what you choose [1:17] but I prefer you know modern. And then [1:19] what I like to do is press new layout. [1:21] We give this a name. Subscribe to my UI [1:25] video. Okay. And you get to select here [1:29] whether this is character specific [1:31] layout or if this is a general layout [1:34] you want to use across your whole [1:35] account. In this instance, I'm just [1:37] going to use it as a general layout [1:39] across the whole account. At this point, [1:41] we kind of get to decide, do we want to [1:44] have the things like this fancy artwork [1:47] that Blizzard has or not. So, we can [1:49] click on this to edit it. And you get [1:51] the option here straight away, hide bar [1:53] art. And that's how you can hide these [1:55] kind of like griffins here at the bottom [1:58] if you choose to. In that, in this [2:00] instance, I am actually going to hide [2:01] them because they are just going to get [2:02] in the way for what we're trying to [2:04] achieve. Okay. So, at this point, uh, we [2:06] can just quickly press save and then [2:08] activate additional action bars. This is [2:11] going to make it a lot easier for just [2:13] figuring everything out. So, I'm going [2:15] to go ahead and click on that X, then [2:18] press the options here, and then I'm [2:21] going to go down to where it says action [2:23] bars right there. I'm going to activate [2:26] three, four, five, because I typically [2:28] find that having five action bars is [2:32] usually the amount I need for my [2:34] characters. Then we go back to the edit [2:36] mode. And here we find we've got [2:39] additional action bars now that we can [2:41] organize and figure out how everything [2:44] works. I'm just going to go ahead and [2:45] move this over to the side here. Uh, [2:48] just so it's out the way and we can [2:49] really focus on what we're dealing with. [2:52] Now, the talking head. This is when you [2:54] get like a quest and it starts telling [2:56] you about the quest. That's basically [2:58] the talking head. And sometimes, you [3:00] know, you can have it up here. You can [3:02] have it wherever you want. You just [3:03] don't want it to conflict too much with [3:05] other buttons that you've got. So, [3:07] typically I like to have this towards my [3:09] feet section or above up here just there [3:14] because I kind of find it it quite [3:15] useful it being out the way. You want to [3:18] make sure it's out of the middle of the [3:19] screen because this is this is typically [3:20] where you're clicking on characters and [3:22] you aren't often going to see the [3:24] talking head bar. So, you don't need to [3:26] worry about that. Your cast bar is quite [3:29] an important one and I think this should [3:32] typically go towards lower than your [3:34] feet, just above your bars. So, I would [3:37] just typically move everything out the [3:39] way and just get the bars to exactly [3:42] what it is you want. So, if do you want [3:44] three bars? Do you want four bars? How [3:46] many do you want? I would put it [3:47] something like that and put the cast bar [3:50] on top like so. It just makes it nice [3:52] and uniform, makes it look good, [3:54] everything like that. Now, I'm going to [3:56] focus on working on these sidebars here [3:58] because these sidebars are typically [4:00] where I will keep like the half stone. [4:02] We'll keep consumables, things like [4:04] that. We don't want this giant vertical [4:07] bar. Instead, we'd much prefer it to be [4:10] a bit more consolidated. So, I'm going [4:12] to change it from vertical to horizontal [4:14] first of all. Then I'm going to change [4:16] the amount of rows to two rows. And then [4:19] because this is one of those things I [4:21] want to basically not be in the way too [4:24] much, I'm going to make it quite a bit [4:26] smaller. So I'm going to go ahead and [4:28] make it about 70% [4:30] of the typical size. And that's just [4:33] because I'm not using it for spells and [4:34] abilities. It's just to hold things [4:36] like, you know, my Hearthston or random [4:38] consumables I'm not going to use in [4:40] combat. I'm going to do the exact same [4:41] thing for the other one as well. So [4:42] change it from vertical to horizontal. [4:44] Give it two rows instead of one. Drag it [4:48] down. And then we're going to go ahead [4:49] and make it 70%. So it's the same [4:52] typical size. Then we'll put these two [4:54] together so that they look really nice [4:56] and they kind of like don't stand out [4:58] too much. If you want to move it and you [5:00] don't want it to snap like it is doing, [5:02] you can go ahead and untick snap to [5:05] elements and that will prevent that [5:07] happening in the future. So now we can, [5:09] you know, we can press that control [5:11] button whilst we're doing this and it [5:13] will allow us just to move it exactly [5:15] where we want it. We can press that [5:17] again and that won't snap back now [5:19] because we've already moved it which is [5:21] brilliant. Now what I typically like to [5:23] do for these action bars four and five [5:25] because they're on the side, they've got [5:27] all the consumables, half stones, and [5:28] everything like that. I like to make it [5:30] so they disappear when I'm in combat and [5:33] reappear when I'm out of combat. So I [5:35] always click this and I press out of [5:36] combat. So, this bar will only become [5:39] visible when I'm out of combat. I'd like [5:41] to do the same for this one here. And [5:43] that way, when I'm in combat, I can [5:45] really just focus on what I'm actually [5:47] seeing and not the plethora of different [5:50] action bars that you can possibly have [5:52] in World of Warcraft. It quickly gets [5:54] too much to deal with. Great. So, that [5:57] is actually done for both of those [5:58] there. Now, what I would like to do is [6:01] bring these portraits a bit closer to [6:04] the middle of the screen because when [6:05] I'm doing combat, I want to be able to [6:08] look towards my feet so that I'm not [6:10] standing in any puddles that might get [6:12] me slain. So, I will always move my [6:16] portraits a bit closer towards the [6:19] center of the screen. I find this will [6:20] really, really help you for the most [6:22] part. Now, don't have them too low [6:24] because then you're going to not be able [6:26] to see the actual buffs or debuffs on [6:28] either yourself or the or anything [6:31] you're targeting. Okay, there we go. [6:34] We've got a nice setup there for the [6:36] portrait. It looks really cool. We've [6:38] got the encounter bar here as well. This [6:40] typically isn't going to be used a lot, [6:43] so you can really put that wherever it [6:45] is you so choose. It's entirely up to [6:47] you. It's not going to appear very [6:49] often. It'll be quite a rare time you'll [6:51] actually see that. So, I'm going [6:52] actually going to put that encounter [6:54] over here as it's just one of those [6:56] things I'm not going to see too often. [6:59] Extra abilities. These extra abilities [7:02] are things like when you're in a raid [7:05] and you've got to press an extra action [7:07] ability. This is what you will typically [7:09] press. I like to keep that here as it's [7:11] just something you don't typically see. [7:13] Sometimes some people like to keep it [7:15] here instead and that is entirely fine [7:17] as well. Well, I don't particularly like [7:19] it being there because I like to have [7:21] the focus frame there. So, I actually [7:24] prefer it right here. Then, I'll move [7:26] this focus frame across and I'll pull it [7:28] just next to this portrait here and I [7:31] find that will really really help. Some [7:33] people move this pet frames to the side [7:35] like so, but I prefer it underneath. H [7:38] it just works better for me personally. [7:40] Then the vehicle exit button. I [7:42] typically have that just below where the [7:45] we'll move that possess bar there. And [7:47] then the vehicle e exit button I'll [7:49] typically just have somewhere around [7:50] here so it's really clear, really [7:52] obvious where it it actually is sitting. [7:54] I think in this instance I'm just going [7:56] to pop it around about here as this is [7:59] kind of like an area I don't typically [8:01] often use in World of Warcraft. [8:03] Typically when I'm playing I never [8:05] really play with a stance bar. It's one [8:07] of those bars that's just kind of not [8:09] needed if you don't want to use it. And [8:12] it's entirely up to you if you do use [8:14] it. It's just one of those things I [8:16] don't typically use. Remember, when [8:18] you're doing this, sometimes it's a good [8:19] idea to exit out of edit mode and just [8:22] see how it's all looking for yourself. [8:25] So, let's try that right now. Okay, so [8:27] let's just select someone. That's how it [8:29] it feels. That's how it looks. It's [8:31] looking really simple, really easy. So [8:34] far, I quite like this. I do feel that [8:37] these could be lower and that would [8:39] definitely feel a lot nicer, though. I [8:41] could just zoom out a little bit more [8:42] and that would actually be perfect. [8:44] That's about usually where I play the [8:46] game. So, that's actually not too bad. [8:48] Let's jump back into edit mode. This is [8:50] where I like to basically make sure that [8:52] my debuffs are quite big. They're quite [8:55] important debuffs are. You really do [8:57] want to be able to see when you've got a [8:59] debuff and you want it to be quite [9:00] obvious. So, I typically like to make [9:03] this quite big just so that it really [9:06] screams at me, oh, hey, you have a [9:08] debuff. You need to be careful. Then on [9:11] top of that, I like to make this map [9:12] bigger because I mean, it's just useful [9:15] having a bigger map, isn't it? Let's be [9:17] honest. This boss frames on the side [9:19] here is only used typically in raid or [9:21] sometimes PvP, things like that. You [9:24] don't really need to worry about it too [9:25] much. It's quite perfect to have it [9:27] there. I like to move these arena frame. [9:29] I like to move these arena frames right [9:31] here. It works quite nicely. The tool [9:34] tips, HUD tool tips. Typically, people [9:36] just leave that down there because [9:38] that's just when you it pops up with [9:39] some useful information. Then your [9:41] equipment durability. This is a good one [9:43] just to pop over here. You aren't really [9:46] going to worry about, you know, your [9:47] arena frames covering it or anything [9:49] like that because more than likely you [9:52] aren't going to have damaged equipment [9:53] whilst you're in in an arena. You can [9:56] just put it like that and it will pop up [9:58] really obviously when you are damaged. [10:00] It is a good idea to make the spit [10:02] bigger as well, just so you really don't [10:03] miss it. So, we can go ahead and make [10:04] that 150% and it should be really, [10:07] really, really obvious. I'm actually [10:09] going to move the boss frames on there [10:11] as well. So, let's just move these arena [10:13] frames out the way. Put the durability [10:16] right here cuz this is where my quests [10:17] are going to go. So, I don't want that [10:19] space filled for any particular reason. [10:21] You're never going to have the arena [10:23] frames and the boss frames active at the [10:25] same time. So, you don't really need to [10:27] worry about those two conflicting. They [10:29] can be in the same location happily. [10:31] Let's go ahead and save that. Now, I [10:33] feel like we're at the point now where [10:36] we might need to start activating that [10:37] advanced option. One more thing for me [10:40] to change is the chat frame. I quite [10:42] like having a bigger chat than typically [10:44] other people might like just so I can [10:46] see more messages a bit easier, but some [10:49] people like having a really small chat [10:51] right out the way. It's entirely up to [10:53] you what you prefer. I really like a [10:55] chat box a bit like that. Pressing this [10:57] button at the bottom right of the chat [10:59] frame allows you just to edit it without [11:02] you needing to mess about with the width [11:03] or height or anything like that. It's [11:04] entirely up to you how you choose to do [11:06] it. So now we're going to press the [11:08] advanced options mode and you'll see [11:10] there are some additional things here [11:12] which will really really help you such [11:14] as the cooldown manager. I'm going to go [11:16] ahead and show you exactly how that [11:18] works. So we're going to press save. [11:21] We're going to press exit. And then [11:23] we're going to go to our menu and press [11:25] options. In the options, we're just [11:27] going to type in cooldown [11:30] manager. And this will allow you to [11:32] basically enable it. If you don't enable [11:35] it here, you won't see it when it's [11:37] actually in game. So, I'm going to go [11:39] ahead and enable that right now. So, it [11:42] will only enable once you hit level 10. [11:44] So, do just keep that in mind. For the [11:47] purpose of this video, I'm going to swap [11:48] to one of my higher level characters so [11:49] you can see what it does. Okay, here I [11:51] am in my secret banking location and I'm [11:55] going to go ahead and press that edit [11:56] mode. Switch to the subscribe to my UI [11:59] video [12:00] mode. And now we're going to edit it [12:02] from here. Again, cool down manager [12:05] isn't activated. So, we do need to go [12:07] ahead and activate that right now. So, [12:10] I'll go ahead and just type in cooldown [12:13] manager. Press activate. And now you can [12:15] see you've actually got like a weak or a [12:18] builtin game without any add-ons needed. [12:21] This is really cool. So here you can now [12:24] see this is no longer grayed out. You [12:26] press cool down manager and you can drag [12:28] that up to actually see what it is [12:30] you've got. You got tracked de you got [12:32] tracked buffs. Then you've got your [12:34] utility cooldowns. These are really [12:35] useful just to see and it's a good idea [12:37] to make these bigger. There you go. [12:40] They're nice and big now so that when [12:41] we're in combat, we can actually see [12:44] what is happening without too much work [12:46] or hassle at all. This is going to be [12:49] useful just to enable you to do more [12:51] damage in general. Your personal re [12:54] resource display. This is something I [12:56] don't typically worry about because I [12:59] can see that for myself on my party [13:02] frames and my player frames really [13:04] easily. So, I personally don't use [13:06] personal resource display very often. [13:09] Boss warnings, however, is a very, very [13:12] useful thing to have in game. This will [13:15] prevent you from dying in game quite a [13:18] lot. So, always make sure you have that [13:21] enabled, especially if you plan to do [13:22] raiding. This uh boss timeline on the [13:25] side here will tell you when important [13:27] abilities are coming. And this will give [13:29] you a pre-warning to move out the way or [13:32] to do something that your character [13:34] needs to do to react to that mechanics [13:36] to survive or help dis like defeat the [13:39] boss. So, make sure that is activated. [13:42] Brilliant. Now, we're going to go ahead [13:44] and activate the damage meter. Again, [13:46] open up options and type in damage [13:49] meter. There we go. This will now show [13:51] you the default damage done. So, we can [13:54] go to edit mode again and we can move [13:56] that down to where it is. where we might [13:59] want it. For me personally, I actually [14:01] want it right above the chat so I could [14:04] easily see it and it's never in the way [14:06] of the party frames. The party frames [14:08] are pretty much always going to be up on [14:10] the left side of the screen. So, I want [14:12] to make sure that they are always there. [14:15] Brilliant. That's actually completely [14:17] done. Now, now if you want to make [14:19] multiple windows so that you can record, [14:22] for example, the damage done and then [14:24] you want to record the healing done, you [14:27] can just press that cog button above the [14:30] damage done and it will allow you to [14:32] press create new window. You create new [14:35] window and then you can select whether [14:37] you want it to record healing or if you [14:40] want it to record any other things like [14:42] interrupts. Having this in Mythic Plus [14:44] is really useful. having like a dungeon, [14:47] uh, having a damage done, a healing [14:49] done, and an interrupts is really, [14:51] really useful. So, now we're going to [14:52] press edit mode, and we can edit these [14:55] pretty easily. For the frame width, I [14:58] like to kind of go for the lowest frame [15:00] width possible. And then for the height, [15:02] I like to go for the minimum, but make [15:04] sure it has at least five people in [15:06] there. For padding, you don't really [15:08] need a lot of padding, to be honest. It [15:10] gives you a lot more padding than you [15:11] actually need for it. So, it's entirely [15:13] up to you what you go for, but I [15:15] typically like to go for like the [15:16] minimum on that. It doesn't look as [15:18] good, unfortunately. So, I'm going to [15:20] probably go for more of a bore there on [15:22] that one. Now, if you don't like the way [15:24] it looks, you can just mess about with [15:26] the default. You can have it default [15:28] like that. You can have it bordered. You [15:29] can have it thin like so. It's entirely [15:32] up to you what you go for. So, we can [15:34] press save there. And then we can move [15:36] these in. Now, we can press escape and [15:38] get out of the edit mode. And we can [15:40] actually edit this healing bar to be [15:42] pretty similar to that one. Like so. And [15:45] then that way it's nice and simple. So [15:47] that's typically how you could play the [15:50] game with your both healing and damage [15:53] done and everything like that. I'm going [15:55] to go ahead and remove these just [15:56] because I don't need them on this [15:58] particular character, but if you did, [16:00] it's pretty easy to edit them and to [16:03] change them off this import if you do [16:05] choose to import this. So let's press [16:07] edit mode. And then we can just untick [16:10] the damage meter. Boom. That's unticked. [16:15] So now if I go to options and I press [16:18] damage meter, we get rid of the damage [16:21] meter. It's gone. It's disappeared. We [16:22] don't need to look at that. I think in [16:24] in this instance, I'm actually going to [16:26] move the stance bar to the left of the [16:29] top bar and then actually move the pet [16:31] bar down more and then the cast bar even [16:34] further down. I think this will just [16:35] make it look better in general. I might [16:37] move these up slightly just so that [16:39] they're not interfering with each other. [16:41] And then that should actually look [16:43] better. I'm going to have to turn off [16:44] the snap to elements just so that I can [16:47] move it exactly where I want it to go. [16:49] And then we can move the cast bar up [16:51] like so. That's brilliant. We can press [16:53] save. And then look at that. That's [16:55] perfect, isn't it? I can see this is [16:57] slightly off. So, I'm just going to [16:59] press edit and then move this across [17:02] slightly just because I can really tell [17:04] this is going to have to be uh turned [17:06] off on the snap again and try it again [17:08] to make this look really good. Perfect. [17:11] We can press save and that should look [17:13] pretty good. Now, we're going to put [17:14] snap to element again as make sure this [17:16] cast bar is kind of centralized. There [17:18] you go. Lovely jobly. Press save and [17:21] press escape. Look at that. That's [17:23] excellent. So, that's if we're close. [17:24] That's if we're further away. And let's [17:27] just select someone. so we can actually [17:29] see what it looks like. There you go. [17:31] So, that's exactly what you'll be [17:32] operating with. And this is really, [17:34] really useful. Now, here's one final [17:36] little tip. It's not really a UI tip, [17:38] but it kind of is. It's going to help [17:39] you a lot in combat to do even more [17:42] damage. Press the options again and just [17:44] type in highlight. Go down to gameplay [17:47] enhancements and click on assisted [17:49] highlights. This is going to really help [17:51] you if you're newer to your character [17:53] and you don't quite know your character [17:55] yet. This is going to help you know [17:57] which button is probably best to click [17:59] on to do the most amount of damage based [18:02] off your class and your spec. This is [18:04] going to basically give you a general [18:06] highlight uh on your bars when you're [18:08] just playing the game. And that's going [18:10] to be really quite useful just in [18:12] general. I used it a raid last night and [18:14] out of 20 people I was the top DPS using [18:18] just the button highlights. It was very [18:20] very very useful indeed. If you are [18:22] looking to expand your UI and make it [18:25] look even cooler, I can recommend one [18:27] add-on which I really like. It's a [18:29] pretty cool add-on. It is called sexy [18:31] maps. Now, to edit sexy maps, you just [18:34] have to press escape, click options, go [18:36] to add-ons at the top, and then go down [18:38] to sexy maps like so. And this will have [18:41] a bunch of default presets that you can [18:43] choose from, which you might like. Look [18:45] at that. It's changing the map each [18:47] time. Let's just make it bigger so you [18:48] can actually see what's going on here. [18:50] There's loads of really cool different [18:52] ones that you might like. For this one [18:53] in particular, I don't really want the [18:55] outside to be rotating or anything like [18:57] that. I'm going to go ahead and actually [18:59] delete that one and only keep the inner [19:01] one as I really really like how that [19:03] looks just in general. Then I'm actually [19:05] going to go ahead and just make it [19:06] bigger as a whole. So, let's just make [19:09] it a little bit bigger and then move it [19:10] across to exactly where it is you want [19:12] it. Look at that. That's all done. We [19:14] can lock that in now. And that's [19:16] perfect. Look, that's Isn't that a [19:18] really nice setup? we've got right [19:20] there. I'm really happy with that. Let's [19:22] try it on one of my other characters as [19:24] well and just see what it looks like. [19:25] Okay, I'm on one of my other characters. [19:27] It's going to switch to the new UI. And [19:30] we've got too many action bars. So, [19:31] we've got to turn one of those action [19:32] bars off. There we go. And that's the [19:35] the kind of new UI right there. As you [19:37] can see, this whole stance bar, I don't [19:39] typically use it. What I could do on [19:41] this character is just pull it right at [19:43] the bottom like so. It's just out of the [19:45] way. Or I could even pop it under here, [19:47] which might even be a better place to [19:49] keep it in general. So, let's just press [19:50] save. And oh, that's much nicer, isn't [19:52] it? It's much cleaner, much simpler. [19:54] Then, if we go to combat. So, let's just [19:57] find a target dummy. And then we can go [19:59] ahead and we can show you it in action. [20:02] Now, I do just want to turn on the [20:04] cooldown manager. And then also, I want [20:07] to turn on assisted cooldowns. Now, if [20:10] there's any particular version of this [20:11] that you don't like to see, for example, [20:13] you don't like the top bit, but you do [20:15] like the bottom bit, you can just go [20:17] ahead and press edit mode. You can click [20:18] on what you don't like, and you can just [20:20] press hidden, and it will always hide [20:22] it. You'll never see it again. It's [20:24] quite cool like that. So, uh, say we go [20:26] into combat. Uh, we are now using the [20:28] assisted. So, we just go here and just [20:31] charge in. We use just the buttons it [20:33] tells us to use. Nice and easy. And [20:36] look, we're doing the damage. It's [20:38] perfect. is exactly how you need to be [20:40] playing it. And it's s super simple, [20:42] super easy, and it's pretty fun to do [20:44] like this as well, I think. Anyway, [20:46] super easy. Look at that. There's no [20:48] messing about at all. And we're just [20:50] pressing exactly what it tells us. It's [20:52] also got quite nice little like [20:54] highlights of here of exactly what [20:56] buttons and things we need to see. If we [20:58] want to press edit mode again and make [21:00] this show, uh we can have it only show [21:03] when we're in we're in combat as well, [21:05] which is quite useful. So, if we press [21:06] save here, uh, this should all disappear [21:09] now and only reappear when we get into [21:11] combat. So, if we charge back in, you [21:13] should see it activate. Boom. There you [21:16] go. You can only see everything now. And [21:18] it is going to tell you when you got [21:20] really important, you know, abilities [21:21] you need to be pressing and things like [21:23] that. That's going to be really useful [21:25] for you to, you know, keep track of [21:26] things and do the most damage or most [21:28] healing possible. I really hope this [21:30] video helped you. If it did, please hit [21:32] that subscribe button. 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