How To Make Your UI Great In World of Warcraft

[00:00] One big critique, by the way, I've been

[00:01] getting on my videos is that my UI is

[00:02] [ __ ]

[00:03] >> Dude, almost everyone's UI is [ __ ]

[00:05] Also, everyone's UI is [ __ ] from the

[00:07] perspective of it's not their UI because

[00:09] like they're used to something else. And

[00:11] the only UIs people say are really good

[00:13] are ones that are like super minimal.

[00:15] That's like the edgy cool thing to have.

[00:17] But like bro, some of the best players

[00:18] I've ever seen play this game have like

[00:20] the most dog [ __ ] Dude, Yips play Yips

[00:23] is the goat

[00:26] and plays windowed World of Warcraft not

[00:30] full screen and because of that

[00:32] everything's like really bunched

[00:34] together and looks terrible. Like uh Ben

[00:36] played with like his And when he tanked,

[00:38] like had his health bar as like most of

[00:40] his screen. Like bro, it it just doesn't

[00:42] matter.

[00:43] >> [laughter]

[00:43] >> You know? So, uh different things work

[00:45] for different people and usually it's

[00:47] like the only way people say your UI is

[00:48] good is if it's just like really

[00:50] minimal, but that just like doesn't

[00:51] matter. I mean, you definitely don't

[00:52] want to have like information on your

[00:54] screen that doesn't matter. That is a

[00:56] universally bad thing. Like things that

[00:58] are just plugging up your screen space,

[01:00] but you're not actually paying attention

[01:03] to, objectively bad. And any player that

[01:05] has those that is great would be better

[01:07] or slightly better without it. But I

[01:08] would say, and I hope he's going to go

[01:10] into this in this video talking about

[01:11] UI, but like also number one biggest

[01:13] mistake, bro, just downloading what used

[01:15] to be like the Liquid WeakAuras pack or

[01:18] the Northern Sky WeakAuras pack and

[01:19] turning on every single setting or not

[01:21] disabling things you don't pay attention

[01:22] to and just flooding your screen with

[01:25] nonsense that you never actually see

[01:27] just to like say you have a WeakAuras

[01:28] pack. So, I mean, he's a he's a mage

[01:31] with healer frames. So, that right away

[01:33] most DPS players are going to be like

[01:35] this kind of stinks. There are some

[01:37] practical examples of this actually

[01:40] being bad other than like DPS players

[01:42] feeling like they don't need to see

[01:43] their raid frames.

[01:44] And one of the only bosses where this

[01:46] actually matters is this tier on Lura. A

[01:48] lot of our DPS players that didn't have

[01:50] Battle Rises actually hid their raid

[01:52] frames or made them extremely small

[01:53] because anything on on screen where you

[01:55] could have possibly seen a glaive in

[01:57] your peripheral vision was important.

[01:59] So, that made people really rethink

[02:01] their UIs. As a DPS player, having a UI

[02:03] having frames like this will objectively

[02:05] hurt you on Lurra. But, it's one of the

[02:07] only bosses where that's true. But,

[02:08] let's see. I mean, this thing in the

[02:10] front in the middle here is chilling.

[02:11] The stuff on top of his frames makes

[02:13] sense. All the stuff that could keep you

[02:14] alive is like right here. It's this

[02:16] [ __ ] right? Like, the only critique I

[02:18] have about his UI as far as it being

[02:20] clean is he has like a bunch of buttons

[02:22] here for no reason. Where like you could

[02:24] Like, this the the point of this

[02:27] Let me actually use my handy dandy

[02:28] little pen here. So, this.

[02:31] The reason this is good

[02:33] is that you don't need this.

[02:35] This irrelevant.

[02:37] All of these are things you do not need

[02:38] to see in combat. You can even have UI

[02:40] settings that hide this specifically in

[02:42] combat. Goated fix your UI tech.

[02:45] Watch a

[02:46] locally record one pull of one boss you

[02:48] do. I know VOD review for a lot of you

[02:50] is a little extra work and it's cringe,

[02:52] but if you do care about making your UI

[02:53] better, this is the goat.

[02:55] Look, if you don't stream, just record

[02:56] yourself. Watch one pull

[02:58] and do one thing exactly. Try to find

[03:01] something on your UI that you're not

[03:03] paying attention to at all. Whether it's

[03:05] an announcement, a reminder, some

[03:07] buttons over here on the side of your

[03:08] screen you're never looking at.

[03:10] And then, try removing that thing and

[03:13] then pull again. And then, see if you

[03:14] can do without those things that were

[03:16] gone. Okay, you can? Sweet. Now, do step

[03:18] number two. Look at stuff on the fight

[03:20] that you feel like is hard for you.

[03:21] Like, what is the mechanic that is the

[03:22] hardest for you? Is there something on

[03:24] your UI helping you with that? Oh, this

[03:25] mechanic is happening and I always

[03:27] forget to use a defensive here or

[03:28] something. That's where timeline

[03:29] reminder will help. Like, there's two

[03:31] things. Often times, people have

[03:32] reminders for mechanics that are not

[03:34] actually dangerous to them, which is

[03:36] wasting your brain bandwidth, and then

[03:38] you also don't have enough things to

[03:39] help you on things that are actually

[03:40] hard. This is a

[03:42] It's an unfortunate step,

[03:44] but it is a real step to becoming a

[03:46] better player is learning how you can

[03:49] have all of the things in this game that

[03:51] can help you help you.

[03:52] The more you reduce your mental

[03:54] bandwidth of things you have to pay

[03:55] attention to via tech or whatever, the

[03:57] more you can play better. This is an

[03:59] important skill of anyone who's great at

[04:00] this game. It's also a lot harder to do

[04:01] now because weak auras don't exist, so

[04:03] good luck. When I was looking through

[04:04] timeline reminders, I noticed a few

[04:06] things. So, if you guys don't have

[04:07] timeline reminders, this is the this is

[04:09] a Patreon walled thing that um this used

[04:11] to be ran by Liquid, I think, or it was

[04:13] part of like Liquid's uh subscription or

[04:15] Bart's subscription. Now, it's

[04:17] Is there not a publicly non-Patreon

[04:19] version of this available? Don't other

[04:21] add-ons have this?

[04:23] I'm I'm unfamiliar because our guild has

[04:25] our own personal one that is not this.

[04:27] Northern Sky Tools doesn't let you set

[04:29] custom ones. MRT Reminders is free and

[04:32] works fine. Okay, so MRT has this, but

[04:34] I'm assuming if people are spending

[04:37] money on Patreon to get access to this

[04:39] one, it is I'm assuming this one's

[04:41] better.

[04:42] Cuz Bart is supporting it. He's the

[04:44] developer for it, I believe. Um and I

[04:45] can link his Patreon down

[04:46] >> Dude, dude, yeah, you can link his

[04:47] Patreon. By the way, this is

[04:48] confirmation that Bart is still alive.

[04:51] Now, it sounds insane that I have to say

[04:53] that, but you all keep saying that he's

[04:55] dead. But clearly he can't be if he

[04:57] >> Hello, and you can get access to this.

[04:59] I'm going to get guild access, too, so

[05:00] that you can like link it to your your

[05:02] guild and stuff, which is pretty cool.

[05:03] Basically, this is just like a form of

[05:05] reminders, and you can probably do some

[05:07] of this in Wild Utils, but I find that

[05:08] it's really nice to have it in game

[05:09] because then you can customize it a lot

[05:11] easier.

[05:12] And I noticed that when I clicked on the

[05:13] anchors, there's four different types of

[05:14] things that you can do. You can do text,

[05:16] you can do icons, you can do circles,

[05:17] and you can do bars.

[05:19] Um and I found like when I was looking

[05:21] at the circle Before he even says

[05:22] anything else, definitely play around

[05:24] with this because there are certain

[05:25] things that certain players this is

[05:27] where personal preference comes into

[05:29] play. I love bars. Bars are great for

[05:31] me. Text is great for me. I often watch

[05:34] Fire Dep's POV.

[05:35] Everything has to be text because bars

[05:37] do not work in his brain. Just straight

[05:39] up. Like him seeing a bar, completely

[05:42] his brain can't process it. It's bad.

[05:44] So, there are no bars on his UI. But for

[05:46] some people, bars are goated. I love

[05:48] bars, right? Same thing with icons. I

[05:50] can't do icons. Icons for me are just a

[05:52] complete waste of space. Text goated,

[05:54] icons bad, bars good. Text good, circles

[05:56] fine. For some people, it's completely

[05:58] flipped, right? This is like actually

[06:00] the most personal preference thing of

[06:02] all time. It is very good for you to

[06:03] acknowledge which one of these you

[06:04] actually like. Oh, yeah, mystical. I'm

[06:06] big on color-coded bars. Every bar is a

[06:08] different color. I visualize ability by

[06:10] color, not name. Exactly. The best way

[06:12] to do this is like look at his timers

[06:14] here. So, these are all blue, right?

[06:15] But, like a good thing I like to do is

[06:18] color the bars based on the type of

[06:20] mechanic it is. If one of these things

[06:22] is like big raid damage, I'm just going

[06:24] to make this up. That's going to be a

[06:26] red bar. It's going to be a red

[06:27] background instead of a blue. If it's a

[06:30] healing absorb, we'll always make sure

[06:33] it's yellow.

[06:34] If it's a silence, it'll always be

[06:37] orange. If it's a dodge mechanic,

[06:40] it'll always be blue.

[06:43] So, when you're doing a fight,

[06:44] subconsciously, you're seeing a timer,

[06:46] but even though you're do you don't have

[06:48] to like fully parse the ability name,

[06:50] just now that you've created a color

[06:52] system in your brain with what certain

[06:54] things are, you may not remember exactly

[06:57] what tornadoes do exactly, especially

[06:59] early on on a boss pull, but you know

[07:01] that it's something you have to watch

[07:02] out for because of the color you've

[07:03] assigned to it. Wait, THT said that's

[07:05] the colors I used on Vanguard. Is this

[07:06] going to be a meme where everything is

[07:08] like a holy-looking shield? Oh, yeah.

[07:12] Yeah, exactly. So, green always means

[07:13] raid damage, blue always means

[07:16] what? Swap to add because there's a

[07:18] shield or a dodge?

[07:20] Probably swap to add because there's a

[07:21] shield. Or, maybe you just made it

[07:23] Uh yeah, that makes sense.