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What UI addons are you using? Which are your must haves? Why not share a screenshot of your UI!
You can download addons here.
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Share time!
What UI addons are you using? Which are your must haves? Why not share a screenshot of your UI!
You can download addons here.
My must haves:
Bijii Plates - replacement name plates. Makes healing and focus targeting much much better by giving great visibility
Interrupter- adds a giant bar when an interrupterable ability is being cast by an enemy. Helps queue you to interrupt - since interrupting is EVERYONE'S responsibility this helps prompt healers and DPS who aren't so inclined to pay attention
JunkIt - Auto sells junk loot. Yes please.
Potato UI - alternative unit frames. Highly recommend you at least check this out
My UI misc addons:
Better Combat Text - Anything that improves the terrible default text in the game is a winner
Better Quest Log - the default quest log is a monster, it's way too big. This helps with that
Commodity Stats - Gives graphs, etc of historical prices for commodities on the market. I dont have any great feelings about this one yet, it hasn't been working for me ;P
Galaxy Library - Allows you to view the models of all items in the game
Galaxy Meter - DPS meter. Helps optimize your rotations, etc. I'm not usually a huge parser guy but with this combat system I find its a huge motivator to optimize
Grid - Just added this - but its the standard healer frame that shows all health bars in a grid. I imagine as a healer this will end up as an essential
IconLoot - highlights what you've looted
LocalTime - adds the local time to your lower bar
NavMate - keeps a nav arrow to your current objective on the screen. Hasn't been working lately sadly
RestXPReminder - if you go to log out not in your house it reminds you to teleport home.
SCastBar - Alternative cast bar
SpaceStash - alternative bag UI. Just downloaded, more thoughts to come.
I will second Biji Plates. It's kinda surprising how much better than they are than the default name plates. The standard ones are surprisingly bad.
Biji plates and potato UI are awesome, I noticed grid and i remember a very similar addon, also called grid, for WOW, and I wonder if it is made by the same person O.o??? But RJO, awesome list, I will have to check more of those out.
I'm definitely going to use your list as a reference for my addons. I think I will wait until beta is over to see the final result of the UI before I change anything around.
I'm a fan of minimalism, if anyone finds and good ones to cut down the clutter please let me know. Very excited to see grid here.
I like this one
Classic Quest Dialog - makes the quest chat and rewards look more like WoW but i found that it was a little easier for me to see and read and understand.
I need to give that one a run. I kinda of like how slick the take on quest dialogue is in the default UI. The problem is I think it's so frictionless that you get tempted to skip dialogue, etc and miss out on the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by reddragn87
Putting it in a weighty window like this might get me to pay more attention and I really do want that.
Bijii plates was interesting until I realized that it displayed them 100% of the time, regardless of if you were targeting something or not. Made everything look like a nightmare field of meters.
You can change it - there are a lot of options.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kordesh
if you want to minimize their screen time I recommend disabling the bars "when full"
Ahh, I haven't messed with the mods and didn't know it had settings you could adjust. I'll have to try it out again then. It was otherwise cool, I just didn't like seeing them up on screen constantly.Quote:
Originally Posted by RJO
Exactly why i like it. While I am skipping the dialog in beta to get a feel of the gameplay, I tried it out and I actually felt like I read more of the dialog.
Thanks for the list guys, definitely need to check these out!
A couple things I'm using that I don't think we're mentioned here:
1) GroupRadar - allows you to actually find your group mates
2) Protomail - Allows "open all" mail items. A must for me ( I play the AH a lot... )
3) Simplebuffbar - Puts the buffs up at the top of the screen, like WoW. Feels very de-cluttering
4) Autorepair - Repairs all of your equipment whenever you're at a vendor that can do so
I've also just started running the Jabbithole client. Jabbithole is looking to be the go-to repository for item percentages and such, similar to... oh man, it's been long enough since I played WoW competitively that I don't even remember what that website was. There's also a Jabbithole addon, but it looks like the stand-alone client will make submitting the data easier.
Protomail!!!!!! I was hoping someone had done this. I've been working the AH and clicking through things has been awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by telepath
AutoRepair I would strongly advise against. Repairs in Wildstar are SUPER EXPENSIVE and most of the time you really don't need to repair.
You're probably right. The money is a bit harder to come by than what I'm used to in WoW.Quote:
Originally Posted by RJO
Whoa whoa whoa wait... I was watching your Stormtalon vid (http://www.aureusknights.com/showthr...oes-Stormtalon)... does Grid do party member direction now? I haven't used Grid since I healed in WoW/Cata, but I don't remember that particular feature.
And PotatoUI is pretty sweet. I can't wait for his TinkerFrames addon to come out.
YAY PROTOMAIL! I am excited for this the same as you guys...i miss playing the AH like i did in WOW. i would log in most days just to play the AH, haha, havent found a good market since then, ffxiv if sort of bad. Hope that wildstar is better come launch
So, yeah, update...
Grid replaced my need for group finder, and is a much less obtrusive direction finder. I'd like to use it to replace my party frames, but I can't figure out how else I can accomplish the "party management" tasks such as loot rules.
Also, I saw this interesting post on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/com...ght_ws_needed/
Still playing around with it... but I have to admit, having the left mouse button work for my 1-spam in combat is fairly nice. The other pieces are a little harder to get used to, but could come in handy.
I'm experimenting with CustomFoV as well, set at 60 right now. It's a noticeable difference, but I'm not sure I experienced this "fatigue" that everyone else was mentioning.
Grid also does hover targeting! Whoever you hover over gets targeted. So good.
I will add some more for ppl to try.
ProcsHUD: Popups for procs.
AuraMastery: Track skills how ever you want, much like the one in wow
Movable Frames: Move/resize stuff, though I really only use it to lock stuff in place.
Steer: Uses Wildstar's native Mouse Lock functionality, binding it to movement among other things.
Cheat Simon: Use if you hate the Simon says memory game.
Has anyone tried deadlock? I tried it for a bit but couldn't get used to it. I need to look around too much while tanking.
I have to play around with all of these suggestions. I grabbed a few to try out last night and they were welcome changes, thanks guys!
Thanks for bringing up ClassicQuestDialog, I'm one of those guys that prefers a bit more verbose text writeups over the Twitter style that is the default, and this lets you see all the conversation options without having to do extra clicking.
I use Deadlock and Keybindfreedom (among many others).
I've bind the lock cam on "q" and I use the ïnteligent mode". WIth the keybinf I've maped 1 and 2 on the right and middle click. It's perfect to use the spam skill of my war and the 4 hit combo. I almost feel playing Tera :)
Thanks for the list of addons, I'll be checking them out for sure after launch, since today is the last day of open beta. Which means launch is coming soon!
Finally tried ClassicQuestDialog. Simpler... but something about the click-through process makes it feel more real to me. Having to click to ask the question, instead of having all of the questions spelled out for me in one list, I don't know, it felt more like a dialog.
By the way, somewhat add-on related... I got very tired of the 30 second pre-order advertisement (since I've already pre-ordered). There's a Carbine addon called "GameExit" within the addon section that can be disabled, so that you don't see the ad while waiting your 30 seconds. You also don't see the timer, which kind of sucks, so it's a lesson in patience.
Fast Target Frames - Amazing addon that increases FPS :D
I didn't play with many addons during the beta as I wanted to see what Carbine's UI concept was first. The fact that the whole stock UI is modular is a great decisions by the dev. I actually like quite a bit about the stock UI, with the exception of the nameplates, which I replaced with Biji Plates. I'll start tweaking the UI as I level during early access and am glad to have a nice list of addons to check out.
For those of you interested in Addons, there is an unreleased video in this video where they talk about the design philosophy of their addons. Unreleased vid starts at ~6:20 but the whole thing is worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbI...Rhyu76qOvf_R-C
Keep watching for discussion of it and questions following.
They have made their addon/UI creator fully available to the users, there is nothing you cannot do that they could not. The editor is installed and updated with the game so you have full, easy access to the complete API and even their addon source code. If you dont like the way something is done or want to have something included, you can always write it yourself.
Let me update my UI list one last time before launch (I doubt I'll add/subtract anything between now and Saturday):
BetterCombatText
BetterQuestLog
BijiiPlates
ClassicQuestDialog
CommodityStats
Galaxy Library
Galaxy Meter
Grid
IconLoot
Interruptor
JunkIt
LocalTime
NavMate
PotatoUI
RestXPReminder
SCastBar
Scrappy
I found using CustomFoV made my life a little easier, along with Movable Frames.
BetterCombatText has gone under and is being replaced by:
http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wilds...570-anothersct
Does anyone know if there is a easier way to set a way point for a quest location with NavMate, other than going to the map and setting a point?
Literally looking for NavMate alternatives atm..
Check this:
http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wilds...ap-and-minimap
StickyHint seems promising
Seems like it has an issue with Datacron addon. Hopefully it gets fixed because it would probably do the job.
Remember when I said I was done with mine? I lied.
Current list:
AnotherSCT
BetterQuestLog
BijiiPlates
ClassicQuestDialog
CommodityStats
CustomFOV
Galaxy Library
Galaxy Meter
Grid
IconLoot
Interruptor
JunkIt
LocalTime
NavMate
Nexus Panel
Potato UI
RestXPReminder
SCastBar
Scrappy
SpaceStash
Bold = highly recommended
Hey so I guess I'm late to the addon party, but I was wondering if:
1. Should I start playing the game first and download the addons 1 by 1 to see how things change and if I like them or just add them all at once before even launching the game?
2. Is there any threat of viruses downloading these things? My gaming pc has nothing other than games and I would love to keep it that way as long as possible.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albytaps
I was literally just coming on to ask if I should just start out with default UI, quests, etc.... or if I should just go ahead and addon
Personally if I had to go back in time to my first day in beta... I think I'd just start with addons... but that's because I see the value in them, have played with/without them. Starting out fresh, maybe its worth starting vanilla and slowly adding things to appreciate the value and fine tune?
Virus wise I believe there's no reason for concern. LUA is a super high level scripting language that should only be able to call on WildStar's API. My reco: Just use Curse.