I've never been entirely happy with the default WOW UI and have for years tinkered with it via a series of add-ons and unit frames. The result was generally mediocre, often cluttered and with a restricted field of vision. In the back of my mind I always had this idea to rebuild the whole thing to be more to my needs. A new UI had to fit the following requirements:
- Be compact but readable
- Be able to display a large amount of data without overly obscuring the view of the action
- Be relatively easily customizable for my different characters.
About a week ago I stumbled across the Halstrom Casters DPS UI (hosted on WowInterface) which did a lot of what I needed. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was a good base. I installed it and set about stripping out the stuff I didn't like (Pitbull, Grid, Ora2, etc) and adding in the stuff I did (X-Perl, Monkeyquest) and so on. The whole thing is still a work in progress (and likely to be messed up by the 3.1 patch) but I'm fairly happy with how things stand at the moment.
; "Rotface down!")
; "Gnomes are scary")
; "More Gnome than you can shake a stick at")
; "The Big Gnome")
; "Aren't you a little big for a Stormtrooper")
; "Victory!")
; "Saurfang Down!")
; "Maebh Tuskarr")
; "Buliwyf the Tuskarr")
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The quest for a better ui