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[2:18] of a site or domain first what is UI the
[2:21] whole point of UI is to show you stuff
[2:23] in a way that helps you make decisions
[2:24] quickly so we'll focus on that as an
[2:26] example the best key bindings are the
[2:28] ones close to West because that's where
[2:30] your fingers naturally are so let's
[2:32] imagine that but our screen your default
[2:34] is going to be looking at your character
[2:36] and that means the further away from
[2:38] your character the further away the
[2:39] information is so if you need something
[2:41] to make a decision put it closer but
[2:43] without covering up too much of the
[2:45] world so let's fix this problem by
[2:47] making a screen space tier list right
[2:49] below your character's feet is close to
[2:51] your eye but it doesn't cover anything
[2:53] up because of the camera angle and that
[2:54] means it is s tier space our most useful
[2:57] a tier space then would be around the
[2:59] side sides of your character now this
[3:01] can end up covering up the game world
[3:03] and making things feel claustrophobic if
[3:05] it's done wrong but it is really close
[3:07] and it can be useful B tier space then
[3:10] is the stuff that's just below the S
[3:12] tier space towards the bottom of the
[3:13] screen it's not going to cover things up
[3:15] and ruin your gameplay but you will have
[3:17] to move your eyes down and away from the
[3:19] action to see what's there and the same
[3:21] goes for near the top of the screen
[3:23] basically C tier space is anything on
[3:25] the outside like say chat and F tier
[3:27] space is anything that obscures your
[3:29] character or where your enemies usually
[3:31] are and rather than obsessed about
[3:33] laying everything out perfectly what you
[3:34] should instead do is avoid laying things
[3:37] out badly because it's the overcrowding
[3:40] that will make it hard for your brain to
[3:42] find what it's looking for imagine the
[3:44] dashboard of a car they look the way
[3:46] they do for a reason right distinct
[3:48] shapes in different locations lights
[3:50] that only come on when they're relevant
[3:51] a focus on dials instead of text and
[3:54] numbers all because every second you're
[3:55] looking away you risk your increase of
[3:58] crashing the Saks aren't that high in
[4:00] World of Warcraft but let's take the
[4:01] same principle the single most important
[4:03] thing while playing for most of us is
[4:05] deciding what we're going to press next
[4:07] so generally you need to know five
[4:08] things the most obvious is your
[4:10] cooldowns being able to see what actual
[4:11] abilities are available is uh sort of
[4:13] important in a game like well the second
[4:15] thing and the most obvious is your
[4:16] health and your class resources there's
[4:18] no point hammering chaos bolt if you've
[4:20] got no soul chards or you die before the
[4:22] damn thing goes off the third and fourth
[4:24] are Buffs and debuffs where of course
[4:25] you'll need to see dots in your enemies
[4:26] and your maintenance Buffs on yourself
[4:28] of course that's defensive as if you're
[4:30] a tank and the fifth and final thing is
[4:32] your enemy status because it would suck
[4:34] to perfectly execute your single Target
[4:36] rotation while you're looking at your UI
[4:38] only to look up and see that you're
[4:40] surrounded by mobs and you're dead and
[4:42] of course then if you're a Healer well
[4:44] you need to look at the health bars so
[4:45] that's the five things we need to see
[4:47] let's talk about how the good news is we
[4:49] can get our first four categories in one
[4:51] shot and unsurprisingly that shot is a
[4:53] good week ores pack they are basically
[4:55] everything you may need to make a
[4:57] decision put into one Area Health
[4:58] Resources cool down Buffs debuffs the
[5:00] whole lot complete with effects like
[5:02] glows and flashes to draw your attention
[5:04] to the important things that are coming
[5:05] up basically no matter what spec you
[5:07] play lux's class week ores are a
[5:10] fantastic set to get now of course you
[5:12] can try others for your spec but his are
[5:13] just a perfect starting place they're
[5:15] link down below basically just install
[5:17] the weak or addon and then you grab the
[5:19] import string from luxthos site so now
[5:21] we know how we're displaying info it's
[5:23] time to talk about where and it's
[5:24] obvious basically if you're using these
[5:26] weak ores put them in the S tier space
[5:28] just remember of course to keep your
[5:30] character's actual feet clear so you
[5:31] know what you're standing in and the
[5:33] good news is that our we or a friend of
[5:34] UI that you can find down below leaves
[5:36] this area open with some bars Below in
[5:38] the B tier space which basically are
[5:40] just there for some quick referencing
[5:41] while you're still learning your spec
[5:43] but of course you may not want to use
[5:44] weak ores so let's talk about that this
[5:46] is certainly a different approach the
[5:48] first thing you'll have to do is to
[5:49] track your abilities with your action
[5:51] bars and then for your resources like
[5:52] energy or holy power you got two
[5:54] different options one you can use the
[5:56] unit frame or you can use the personal
[5:57] resource display now I I think for many
[6:00] people the personal resource display
[6:01] will actually win out for two reasons
[6:03] number one is positioning and that's
[6:05] because it's right below your character
[6:07] so you'll always have an eye on it and
[6:09] reason to is the next item Buffs
[6:10] basically in the game you need to track
[6:12] your Buffs but only some of them and
[6:14] we're usually so swimming and procs and
[6:16] things that if you just look at all of
[6:17] your Buffs it kind of drowns out
[6:18] anything that's useful and the good news
[6:20] is the personal resource display after
[6:21] blizzard of attitude over the years now
[6:23] shows you almost everything you need to
[6:25] make the big decisions but without any
[6:27] of the fluff so between that and the
[6:28] spell alert system you can basically get
[6:31] 90% of the way there that only leaves
[6:33] debuffs but I'll cover them in a little
[6:35] later so that's weor and our weak or's
[6:38] alternative sorted out basically your
[6:40] personal resource display with action
[6:41] bars now your personal resource display
[6:43] is always in that s tier space under
[6:45] your character so next let's move over
[6:47] to our bars now with the default UI edit
[6:50] mode you can basically just move things
[6:52] about freely just make sure that all of
[6:54] your main combat abilities are on one or
[6:56] two bars and that those are as close to
[6:58] S tier space as as possible that way
[7:00] then you've got one place for your cool
[7:02] Downs your Buffs and your resources then
[7:04] you can throw some bars into the B tier
[7:05] or C tier space just for things that you
[7:07] might need to glance at but that aren't
[7:09] really that important it's definitely
[7:11] better to do things that way than just
[7:12] having your whole screen just crowded an
[7:15] icons to the point where you can't
[7:17] really inue it where things are and of
[7:19] course if you want this all done for you
[7:20] just pick up our no weak or is UI as the
[7:22] starting point for this basically I
[7:24] think the default options are fine for
[7:25] these but if you want some more advanced
[7:27] control you can get tons of add-ons like
[7:29] bartender or Domino's and then a quick
[7:31] Pro tip we've also got our key binding
[7:32] guide and seriously if you think UI is
[7:35] impactful man key bindings are almost
[7:36] more impactful and they can make the
[7:38] game feel so much more fun so after
[7:40] you've got your UI good with this video
[7:42] hit up the key binding one and get that
[7:44] right too name plates then so debuffs
[7:47] and enemy status are the thing we got to
[7:48] deal with and name plates will do them
[7:50] now you can't decide where these go so
[7:51] instead just make sure this entire space
[7:53] in your screen is free from anything now
[7:55] as for customization the default name
[7:57] plates are basically fine but I'd highly
[8:00] recommend you use pler instead and
[8:02] that's because the informational
[8:03] Advantage is just far too strong you got
[8:05] things like colored cast bars special
[8:07] marks for health ranges custom debuff
[8:09] tracking and way more things but of
[8:11] course I know so many people hate it
[8:12] when you download add-ons and suddenly
[8:14] wow doesn't look like wow anymore so we
[8:16] have made a profile for pler that looks
[8:18] as close as possible to as default while
[8:20] keeping in those nice extra features
[8:22] that's how to press your button sortage
[8:23] you'll be looking of course at the asure
[8:25] space for your abilities and your Buffs
[8:26] and then at enemy name plates for
[8:28] basically everything else which keeps it
[8:30] nice and simple but of course the game
[8:32] is a little bit more than doing just
[8:34] that often you also want to know what
[8:35] your enemies are doing so that you can
[8:37] handle it now for trash mobs this
[8:38] basically means enemy Health cast bars
[8:40] positioning and Buffs and for bosses it
[8:42] means mostly the same but also the added
[8:44] option of Boss timers and the good news
[8:46] is that almost all of this is already
[8:48] handled by name plates and that means
[8:50] that you can make decisions and
[8:51] interrupting or stunning like which mob
[8:53] to hit basically all of that stuff
[8:55] pretty easily but I did say almost the
[8:57] game has came a long way with like call
[8:59] out some mechanics being visually
[9:00] obvious but the thing is we still have
[9:02] got eight Dungeons and eight raid bosses
[9:04] which is quite a lot of stuff now you
[9:05] can do fine without add-ons but even for
[9:07] Heroic mode people largely do want to
[9:09] take just the advantages where they can
[9:11] find them which means boss mods like DPM
[9:13] and bigwigs these will handle timers for
[9:16] like every relevant mechanic for you
[9:18] they'll allow for the automatic marking
[9:19] of people for tactics and they'll give
[9:21] you instructions either in the form of
[9:23] text or now with a quick voice quip now
[9:25] I often find that their defaults are
[9:27] just way too aggressive and honestly a
[9:29] overloading so I'd recommend you turn
[9:31] off the full screen flashes and the
[9:33] audio alerts unless you need them now
[9:35] the timers usually take the form of bars
[9:37] all across your screen what some people
[9:39] like to do is to move them off into the
[9:40] corner for reference but more recently
[9:42] some people have been using this weak or
[9:44] the turns it into a timeline and this is
[9:47] a super like space efficient way of
[9:49] looking at this information it's really
[9:51] easy to see and understand so basically
[9:53] get that weak AA on top of your boss mod
[9:56] and then just drop it in some of your a
[9:58] tier space and you'll never miss a
[10:00] mechanic call out again then on top of
[10:02] Boss mods every season somebody usually
[10:04] cozies makes a massive weak or pack for
[10:06] Dungeons and rids now what these do is
[10:08] they will show you mechanics that will
[10:09] affect you and they'll just have a
[10:11] one-word summary of what to do and
[10:13] honestly these tend to be huge and
[10:15] they're designed to basically go in the
[10:16] middle or the top of your screen I'd say
[10:18] maybe move them into the B tier space
[10:20] and drop the size a little bit but if
[10:22] you do struggle with just not really
[10:24] knowing what to do these can be a really
[10:25] helpful pointer and of course once again
[10:27] everything's linked down below including
[10:29] DB M profiles now if you want a personal
[10:31] recommendation I would say to avoid
[10:33] using weak cores not because they're bad
[10:35] they're amazing and super powerful but
[10:36] honestly for most people it's better to
[10:38] start off with nothing and then slowly
[10:41] add things on top until you get
[10:43] something that actually fits your needs
[10:44] for a lot of people they basically go
[10:46] they Google top World of Warcraft
[10:48] add-ons they install two dozen things
[10:50] then they feel overwhelmed and they've
[10:51] got a big cluttery messy UI that garbles
[10:54] up their brain it's honestly like one of
[10:56] the number one Noob traps in wow so
[10:58] definitely keep that in mind World of
[10:59] Warcraft is an MMO though not a single
[11:01] player game even if you're not a Healer
[11:03] there is still some amount of helping
[11:04] out other people almost every class in
[11:06] the game can do something to help the
[11:07] group even if that's just a rogue
[11:09] throwing out an emergency blind to give
[11:11] the tank a little bit of breathing room
[11:13] and that's why our party and raid frames
[11:14] are real important now now some selfish
[11:16] DPS will just Yeet these off into C tier
[11:18] space but honestly you shouldn't I think
[11:21] you should maybe even have them in some
[11:22] a tier space as long as they don't get
[11:24] in the way but the point is you get
[11:26] awareness of the rest of your team
[11:28] that'll actually make you understand the
[11:30] Dungeons and the raids and the delves so
[11:32] much more and on top of that if you need
[11:34] to help somebody out your mouse will
[11:36] literally get there faster now some
[11:38] healers even swap things around and they
[11:40] put their bars or their weak ores in C
[11:42] tier space and their frames in s tier
[11:44] space just because as a Healer well
[11:46] those frames are so important now in
[11:48] terms of customization settings here
[11:49] there's not much to do without getting
[11:51] into add-ons but the raid style frames
[11:53] I'd say are way better than the party
[11:55] style ones with that said then let's
[11:57] talk about everything else honestly if
[11:59] you've got those things sorted the rest
[12:00] is a matter of preference some people
[12:02] like their mini map at the bottom others
[12:03] like their action bars or if they don't
[12:05] need them their action bars off to the
[12:06] side rui by Design is the most blizzlike
[12:10] we could make it in its nature so just
[12:12] pop open edit mode and move things
[12:13] around to your own taste but just
[12:15] remember the tier of information should
[12:17] match where you're putting it now there
[12:20] are a bunch of extra add-ons that do
[12:21] fall under UI but I'll dive into some of
[12:24] those in an in-depth add-on guide later
[12:26] for now I'm more focused on you having
[12:28] clear gameplay an easy decision making
[12:30] and we've basically covered everything
[12:32] that's vital to that except for one key
[12:35] ingredient to any good UI the damage
[12:38] meter look unironically a DPS meter can
[12:40] help you make decisions maybe you're
[12:42] wondering who do I pi as a priest who do
[12:44] I focus on as an Oker who do I battle
[12:46] res but we don't want details to show up
[12:49] and ruin our default friendly UI and uh
[12:52] that brings me to this this is a crazy
[12:54] blizzard style detail skin that is made
[12:57] just for this purpose it's amazing big
[12:59] shout outs to Carl and smoko for making
[13:01] this skin and the add-on to install it
[13:03] now if this all looks a bit much to you
[13:05] I've also got a basic details profile
[13:07] that uh does look great with blizzard
[13:09] defaults but seriously I would check out
[13:11] their profile if you want to put in just
[13:12] a little bit more work but certainly get
[13:14] a great visual reward so that's it
[13:17] you're sorted you can hit up the links
[13:18] below check out our guides and of course
[13:20] after this video do go and watch the
[13:23] keybinding one it'll help you out a lot
[13:24] and a big thanks to the hundreds of
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