[0:00] One big critique, by the way, I've been
[0:01] getting on my videos is that my UI is
[0:02] [ __ ]
[0:03] >> Dude, almost everyone's UI is [ __ ]
[0:05] Also, everyone's UI is [ __ ] from the
[0:07] perspective of it's not their UI because
[0:09] like they're used to something else. And
[0:11] the only UIs people say are really good
[0:13] are ones that are like super minimal.
[0:15] That's like the edgy cool thing to have.
[0:17] But like bro, some of the best players
[0:18] I've ever seen play this game have like
[0:20] the most dog [ __ ] Dude, Yips play Yips
[0:23] is the goat
[0:26] and plays windowed World of Warcraft not
[0:30] full screen and because of that
[0:32] everything's like really bunched
[0:34] together and looks terrible. Like uh Ben
[0:36] played with like his And when he tanked,
[0:38] like had his health bar as like most of
[0:40] his screen. Like bro, it it just doesn't
[0:42] matter.
[0:43] >> [laughter]
[0:43] >> You know? So, uh different things work
[0:45] for different people and usually it's
[0:47] like the only way people say your UI is
[0:48] good is if it's just like really
[0:50] minimal, but that just like doesn't
[0:51] matter. I mean, you definitely don't
[0:52] want to have like information on your
[0:54] screen that doesn't matter. That is a
[0:56] universally bad thing. Like things that
[0:58] are just plugging up your screen space,
[1:00] but you're not actually paying attention
[1:03] to, objectively bad. And any player that
[1:05] has those that is great would be better
[1:07] or slightly better without it. But I
[1:08] would say, and I hope he's going to go
[1:10] into this in this video talking about
[1:11] UI, but like also number one biggest
[1:13] mistake, bro, just downloading what used
[1:15] to be like the Liquid WeakAuras pack or
[1:18] the Northern Sky WeakAuras pack and
[1:19] turning on every single setting or not
[1:21] disabling things you don't pay attention
[1:22] to and just flooding your screen with
[1:25] nonsense that you never actually see
[1:27] just to like say you have a WeakAuras
[1:28] pack. So, I mean, he's a he's a mage
[1:31] with healer frames. So, that right away
[1:33] most DPS players are going to be like
[1:35] this kind of stinks. There are some
[1:37] practical examples of this actually
[1:40] being bad other than like DPS players
[1:42] feeling like they don't need to see
[1:43] their raid frames.
[1:44] And one of the only bosses where this
[1:46] actually matters is this tier on Lura. A
[1:48] lot of our DPS players that didn't have
[1:50] Battle Rises actually hid their raid
[1:52] frames or made them extremely small
[1:53] because anything on on screen where you
[1:55] could have possibly seen a glaive in
[1:57] your peripheral vision was important.
[1:59] So, that made people really rethink
[2:01] their UIs. As a DPS player, having a UI
[2:03] having frames like this will objectively
[2:05] hurt you on Lurra. But, it's one of the
[2:07] only bosses where that's true. But,
[2:08] let's see. I mean, this thing in the
[2:10] front in the middle here is chilling.
[2:11] The stuff on top of his frames makes
[2:13] sense. All the stuff that could keep you
[2:14] alive is like right here. It's this
[2:16] [ __ ] right? Like, the only critique I
[2:18] have about his UI as far as it being
[2:20] clean is he has like a bunch of buttons
[2:22] here for no reason. Where like you could
[2:24] Like, this the the point of this
[2:27] Let me actually use my handy dandy
[2:28] little pen here. So, this.
[2:31] The reason this is good
[2:33] is that you don't need this.
[2:35] This irrelevant.
[2:37] All of these are things you do not need
[2:38] to see in combat. You can even have UI
[2:40] settings that hide this specifically in
[2:42] combat. Goated fix your UI tech.
[2:45] Watch a
[2:46] locally record one pull of one boss you
[2:48] do. I know VOD review for a lot of you
[2:50] is a little extra work and it's cringe,
[2:52] but if you do care about making your UI
[2:53] better, this is the goat.
[2:55] Look, if you don't stream, just record
[2:56] yourself. Watch one pull
[2:58] and do one thing exactly. Try to find
[3:01] something on your UI that you're not
[3:03] paying attention to at all. Whether it's
[3:05] an announcement, a reminder, some
[3:07] buttons over here on the side of your
[3:08] screen you're never looking at.
[3:10] And then, try removing that thing and
[3:13] then pull again. And then, see if you
[3:14] can do without those things that were
[3:16] gone. Okay, you can? Sweet. Now, do step
[3:18] number two. Look at stuff on the fight
[3:20] that you feel like is hard for you.
[3:21] Like, what is the mechanic that is the
[3:22] hardest for you? Is there something on
[3:24] your UI helping you with that? Oh, this
[3:25] mechanic is happening and I always
[3:27] forget to use a defensive here or
[3:28] something. That's where timeline
[3:29] reminder will help. Like, there's two
[3:31] things. Often times, people have
[3:32] reminders for mechanics that are not
[3:34] actually dangerous to them, which is
[3:36] wasting your brain bandwidth, and then
[3:38] you also don't have enough things to
[3:39] help you on things that are actually
[3:40] hard. This is a
[3:42] It's an unfortunate step,
[3:44] but it is a real step to becoming a
[3:46] better player is learning how you can
[3:49] have all of the things in this game that
[3:51] can help you help you.
[3:52] The more you reduce your mental
[3:54] bandwidth of things you have to pay
[3:55] attention to via tech or whatever, the
[3:57] more you can play better. This is an
[3:59] important skill of anyone who's great at
[4:00] this game. It's also a lot harder to do
[4:01] now because weak auras don't exist, so
[4:03] good luck. When I was looking through
[4:04] timeline reminders, I noticed a few
[4:06] things. So, if you guys don't have
[4:07] timeline reminders, this is the this is
[4:09] a Patreon walled thing that um this used
[4:11] to be ran by Liquid, I think, or it was
[4:13] part of like Liquid's uh subscription or
[4:15] Bart's subscription. Now, it's
[4:17] Is there not a publicly non-Patreon
[4:19] version of this available? Don't other
[4:21] add-ons have this?
[4:23] I'm I'm unfamiliar because our guild has
[4:25] our own personal one that is not this.
[4:27] Northern Sky Tools doesn't let you set
[4:29] custom ones. MRT Reminders is free and
[4:32] works fine. Okay, so MRT has this, but
[4:34] I'm assuming if people are spending
[4:37] money on Patreon to get access to this
[4:39] one, it is I'm assuming this one's
[4:41] better.
[4:42] Cuz Bart is supporting it. He's the
[4:44] developer for it, I believe. Um and I
[4:45] can link his Patreon down
[4:46] >> Dude, dude, yeah, you can link his
[4:47] Patreon. By the way, this is
[4:48] confirmation that Bart is still alive.
[4:51] Now, it sounds insane that I have to say
[4:53] that, but you all keep saying that he's
[4:55] dead. But clearly he can't be if he
[4:57] >> Hello, and you can get access to this.
[4:59] I'm going to get guild access, too, so
[5:00] that you can like link it to your your
[5:02] guild and stuff, which is pretty cool.
[5:03] Basically, this is just like a form of
[5:05] reminders, and you can probably do some
[5:07] of this in Wild Utils, but I find that
[5:08] it's really nice to have it in game
[5:09] because then you can customize it a lot
[5:11] easier.
[5:12] And I noticed that when I clicked on the
[5:13] anchors, there's four different types of
[5:14] things that you can do. You can do text,
[5:16] you can do icons, you can do circles,
[5:17] and you can do bars.
[5:19] Um and I found like when I was looking
[5:21] at the circle Before he even says
[5:22] anything else, definitely play around
[5:24] with this because there are certain
[5:25] things that certain players this is
[5:27] where personal preference comes into
[5:29] play. I love bars. Bars are great for
[5:31] me. Text is great for me. I often watch
[5:34] Fire Dep's POV.
[5:35] Everything has to be text because bars
[5:37] do not work in his brain. Just straight
[5:39] up. Like him seeing a bar, completely
[5:42] his brain can't process it. It's bad.
[5:44] So, there are no bars on his UI. But for
[5:46] some people, bars are goated. I love
[5:48] bars, right? Same thing with icons. I
[5:50] can't do icons. Icons for me are just a
[5:52] complete waste of space. Text goated,
[5:54] icons bad, bars good. Text good, circles
[5:56] fine. For some people, it's completely
[5:58] flipped, right? This is like actually
[6:00] the most personal preference thing of
[6:02] all time. It is very good for you to
[6:03] acknowledge which one of these you
[6:04] actually like. Oh, yeah, mystical. I'm
[6:06] big on color-coded bars. Every bar is a
[6:08] different color. I visualize ability by
[6:10] color, not name. Exactly. The best way
[6:12] to do this is like look at his timers
[6:14] here. So, these are all blue, right?
[6:15] But, like a good thing I like to do is
[6:18] color the bars based on the type of
[6:20] mechanic it is. If one of these things
[6:22] is like big raid damage, I'm just going
[6:24] to make this up. That's going to be a
[6:26] red bar. It's going to be a red
[6:27] background instead of a blue. If it's a
[6:30] healing absorb, we'll always make sure
[6:33] it's yellow.
[6:34] If it's a silence, it'll always be
[6:37] orange. If it's a dodge mechanic,
[6:40] it'll always be blue.
[6:43] So, when you're doing a fight,
[6:44] subconsciously, you're seeing a timer,
[6:46] but even though you're do you don't have
[6:48] to like fully parse the ability name,
[6:50] just now that you've created a color
[6:52] system in your brain with what certain
[6:54] things are, you may not remember exactly
[6:57] what tornadoes do exactly, especially
[6:59] early on on a boss pull, but you know
[7:01] that it's something you have to watch
[7:02] out for because of the color you've
[7:03] assigned to it. Wait, THT said that's
[7:05] the colors I used on Vanguard. Is this
[7:06] going to be a meme where everything is
[7:08] like a holy-looking shield? Oh, yeah.
[7:12] Yeah, exactly. So, green always means
[7:13] raid damage, blue always means
[7:16] what? Swap to add because there's a
[7:18] shield or a dodge?
[7:20] Probably swap to add because there's a
[7:21] shield. Or, maybe you just made it
[7:23] Uh yeah, that makes sense.