I am new to the addons world and was wondering if someone can help me setup a ui and weak aura i’ve seen on youtube ? I can’t get it to look like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_MuSSPKte4
I can’t help you make that weak aura maybe someone else can. In the meantime, I highly recommend you try the very popular ELVUI. Watch the you tube video by ironstar gaming it’s at the top when you search “elvui setup”to see what it looks like. I could not live without this addon is by far the most important. If you ever disable elvui, it reverts back to WoW UI with no issues
The addon completely replaces the standard UI, and The elvui default is So much better than the WoW UI. its very easy to customize with so many options. drag anything anywhere, add new action bars with various size and shapes, change nameplates, unit frames, chat windows, etc.
it won’t let me link the download. Google “ELVUI download” and it’s in the first link called Elvui - Tukui
To install an addon simply download the addon, and copy the folders to your WoW/retail/interface/addons folder. Paste it there.
I create 3 extra action bars, and one of them goes up under characters feet. Drag skills from your book to the bar to see CD’s and Procs. I don’t assign hot keys on that bar it’s just an extra. The bottom three default bars have the skills. You can have as many buttons and rows as you want and change size, font, etc.
I would also get Nug Combo Bar addon from curseforge. It’s lightweight addon, a small horizontal bar with circles that light up indicating how many runes you have. Drag it under your chars feet. It works with a bunch of other classes too.
Also, google “wago weak auras”. They have weak auras for every class that you can import. See if you like any of those.
I posted this for someone in another thread this might help.
I recommend weak auras 2 for tracking dots, buffs, cd’s, resources, etc. it’s one of the most popular addons in WoW.
I made horizontal bars of different colors for tracking dots. Here is an example how to make them we’ll use the agony dot. It’s fast and easy.
/wa to open weak auras 2. then click the following
New, from template, horizontal bar, debuffs, agony,
Pick your bar color, scroll down and change the width and height. I use 220, 15
Drag the bar under your chars feet of wherever you want.
Repeat for all your dots. For affliction, I have four dot bars under my character. Unstable affliction, agony, corruption, siphon life. Although you don’t always have siphon life in your build it’s a talent.
The bars allow you to immediately see how much time is left on each dot on the enemy you have targeted, you see the colored bars draining down, much better than Icons IMO.
For destruction lock immolate. Elemental shaman flame shock, BM hunter barbed shot
I also make resource horizontal bars for every character. Click resources instead of the other categories in the weak aura creation process. . when your making the weak auras . Elemental shamans would be maelstrom, dk runic power, mages, locks, and priests Mana, rogues and monks energy, warriors rage, etc.
Lastly, I make icon weak auras that disappear after you use the skill, and appear when skill is ready. Example
New, from template, icon, ability, soul strike. Scroll down and change size. Go to second tab (trigger), scroll down, change trigger to not on cooldown. Drag the icon anywhere. I put them on the lower sides of my char. I like these for short cd’s. it’s easier to hit skills Immedistely when the icon shows up, compared to watching a timer. I can see them pop in my peripheral vision.
The stuff in the middle of the screen: blue squares, progress bars, the red progress bars… that’s a weakaura setup.
Everything else appears to be ElvUI which is a popular full ui replacement.
I am not familiar ElvUI but I am with weakauras. You can do a lot with WA, but it’s like getting a bag full of mixed Legos and no instruction manual: you’re supposed to use your own imagination. This can make it very daunting for a new user
You can however use weak aura setups other people have made, very easily.
Check out
https://wago.io/weakauras/classes/death-knight
and
https://www.weakauras.online/en
- Find one you like
- click the copy import link on the website
- in game, log in as your character and open weakauras (/wa is it’s chat command)
- Click the New page and click Import
- Ctrl-V to paste what you copied from the webpage
Make sure you select a weakaura that is for Battle For Azeroth. Classes changed significantly and nothing from legion (which your YouTube showed) will work anymore. Ideally you want a WA updated in the last 6 months. Like all add-ons Weakauras uses the api’s Blizz has created and those have changed many times since bfa was released and all add-ons, including Weakauras, have to update themselves to keep working. Some WA changes also changed the data which represent all the icons, etc… behind the scenes.
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First off, while I do not consider it a necessity for everyone to use a UI mod (I don’t), it does appear that the guy in the video is using an ElvUI custom setup and skin. If you want your UI to look like that, you will need to be using ElvUI. Also unlike Anacrussys, I strongly recommend using the Twitch addons interface to download any new addons if you’re not doing so already. It takes a lot of the extra steps out of the addon installation process, and basically guarantees that you won’t be accidentally downloading a clever virus or spyware.
Second, the basic ElvUI and weak aura part is easy. Just import the strings that are posted in the description section of the video:
Weakaura: https://wago.io/Bk0y28HIz
Elvui String (requires Skullflower cont.): https://pastebin.com/NvV4vCqW
The weakaura string just type /wa into your chat bar in game to pull up the WeakAuras interface, then select “New” > “Import” > “Import from String” and copy the string of characters directly into the box that comes up. Then click “Import” and it will download the exact aura.
The ElvUI skin appears to require an additional ElvUI plugin (Skullflower), which you can probably find in Twitch as well. Keep in mind you will need both the base ElvUI and the Skullflower add-in for this to work. From there, the process should be similar, copy the data string from the pastebin link and copy it into the appropriate place in the ElvUI configuration screen.
While this process will work in general, Tinkerrific does make a good point about the expansions. Builds that were relevant or strong in past expansions (or even past raid tiers within a given expansion) do not carry over. You’re going to want to make sure that whatever you’re using is relevant to this expansion for it to do you any good.
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