I do not like the dragonflight UI at all. I realize it’s not finalized , but can we just have an option to use the classic UI?
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Someone will probably release a “Classic UI” addon.
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I’m sure there will be addons for that. The new ui is fantastic though.
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I don’t like the raid frames or the arena frames, also the name plates are not the same
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Current UI addons aren’t even sure they can release a Dragonflight compatible version without downgrading their features. All the backend APIs have also changed with the new UI.
Blizzard looks like it’s committed to having their UI be the UI, and even any add-ons will be stuck with the same restrictions.
It’s just a subpar version of Elvui.
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The new UI is a much needed change.
My friend is on the beta and he streamed so I could look it over. I asked him to take me through the features. I didn’t get to see if you can save profiles and if they all reset when you change specs, something I do all of the time. My UI is set up for raiding and is very cluttered; I will look forward to having a gathering UI or in-town minimalist UI or for questing even.
You can access the new UI on the PTR yourself.
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personally Im loving it. They need to add 3 or 4 more action bars so I can set it up more like dominos, but its a great start.
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I don’t use any addon’s but the only one that I’m thinking to use is nameplates addon. Wow has terrible nameplates. In order to have nameplates properly stacking you have to position your camera so it’s on the ground looking your character in the back. I play by looking my character almost from above, with a slight angle. So I have view on field, and in case anything behind me some solid object wouldn’t change my camera to zoom it in all the way.
Interrupting with blizzard name plates during bigger pulls can be tedious
It is a good start but not nearly enough to get me to switch. I’ve been using Dominos and Shadowed Unit Frames for years and as long as the authors can get them working in DF I’ll continue using using them. But I will be getting rid of Bagnon most likely.
It’s rather difficult to say it’s a good change, when, if you compare them to the UIs we have been using since 2004, they are missing things like a good casting bar with latency measurements, limited nameplates, and marginal action bar improvements. If this lack of features continues, we’ll have a new UI, but people will still have to rewrite the same addons like cooldowns, action bars, nameplates and casting bars. Very disappointing; those were exactly the addons that had to be written to improve the UI the first time.
Who cares how it looks if it has feature gaps?
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The new click casting UI is great and in line with popular healing add-ons.
HOWEVER, only in raid (but not party) frames dispellable debuffs are shown.
I’d suggest either allow the replication of the raid buffs even in party so we click cast there (and not lose the functionality of L/R click our own char) - that’s ideal - or at least show debuffs that can be dispellable in pt frames.
That’s ridiculous. The new UI is good for people who used UI addons but bad for people who liked the old UI and didn’t want to use addons. There’s no reason what so ever to favor one group of players over another. There’s no point in having a customizable UI if you can’t keep it the way it’s always been.
The new UI makes WoW look like it’s a free to play game. It’s horrible. And the inability to customize action bars is insulting. The only customization option we have for action bars allows us to fill the whole screen with action bars xD.
BLIZZ, I think you did a fantastic job with the new UI and the ability to configure it and save it for all your toons or just a single one. It does not distract from the game play, rather gives one what you need and where you need it. And, the minimalistic menu on the the lower right is spot on, easy to find and use without overlaying and blocking out too much content (which is what we really want to see).
The look is subjective and you’re just objectively wrong about the customization options.