Functionality wise the new UI is better but design wise it is hot garbage, it lost all its personality and just looks generic. They did the same thing to the UI in the Demon’s Souls remake and i hated it then. I wish companies would quit trying to push this stupid generic minimalist UI in games.
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I dove into it for quite a while last night.
I’ve had to make some compromises, but I’ve got a fairly useable (for me) UI.
XP bar HAS to sit where it is for now, at the dumbest place ever… Why there Blizz?!
Had to move UP my and target portrait so that my pets are visible. Why this isn’t a moveable frame as well I’ll never understand.
Scalable mini-map would be welcome.
Edit: Moveable Onebag, who didn’t think this was necessary?
WeakAuras, MikScrolling, and Details are the only addon’s I’m running currently.
All in all it’s better, there’s just some pain points that need to be addressed for sure.
At first I disliked it but took the time and basically made it look almost exactly like the old UI. The one wowhead posted comes close but feels off for me. Only thing I dislike is not being able to move the xp bar.
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Why should people play the game the way you like to play the game? Why should players who liked the old UI be left with only unofficially supported ways to have a UI that is comfortable for them? How would it affect you if Blizzard brought back the classic UI as an option alongside this new flavor for players like you?
Whether one UI is better than another is completely subjective.
You can’t move every UI element and there are artificial resizing restrictions on most elements with the new base UI. Neither of these limitations exist with ElvUI. For the aspects of the UI you care about the base UI might be better, but for anyone who finds it important to be able move or resize those elements, the base UI does not meet the need ElvUI can fill. Eventually Blizzard may update the UI to no longer have these restrictions, but today those restrictions exist.
It’s likely there were some backend changes required to support the new UI which may have been destructive for the old UI. Additionally, keeping two flavors of the same thing means committing to keeping both flavors updated in perpetuity. It’s very desirable in software development to not have to maintain multiple flavors of the same thing more than once.
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New UI is pretty good. One thing I am not a fan of however is that it seems like i cant use bag addons like bagnon to make all of my bags open as one large bag. Other than that its cool. 9/10
I like the new system. Lets go PvP!
It took this “old person”, gen x here, maybe five mins to set up my UI.
Fair.
But the new raid/party frames are terrible and lack the ability to quickly move and position as needed. They went backwards with that… basically now forcing people to look for unit frame add ons that never used them before.
What a shame, they were really decent before.
So, some good stuff, but some bad stuff as well.
Hold on there buckaroo, while I agree the new UI looks sleek and clean there is one small thing id change about it and thats the spell casting bars. I literally have to add a addons that tells me what spells I can interrupt and which ones cant and its VERY hard to tell the difference with the new cast bar type. Lets also remember that not EVERY change is a good one
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Nah. This is a buggy mess. A bug filled unnecessary change that had issues reported in beta and ptr that were ignored.
People have every right to complain about it. If you want to eat turds and pretend that it’s brioche, have at it but don’t expect everyone else to do the same.
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Can’t use it the scaling is too small or too large it sucks
As someone that’s played since year 1 (with a few breaks) this is not the first UI change WoW has had. Definitely the most significant, but not the only one. Tuning this UI to be how I wanted took me one afternoon, and I could apply the same setup to all of my toons since I use the same action bar spots for “resource generators”, “resource spenders”, mobility CDs, defensive CDs, and “OH S#!T!!!” buttons. Setting up Weak Auras for individual toon was far more arduous and crazy-making. Now I can just put the buff window next to my character, make the icons bigger, and it’s good enough for alts/off-spec. For the main toons/specs I plan to do mythic raids with I’ll probably still set up Weak Auras, but I only ever set it up for them anyway. Plus, as has been said, there is already a “Classic Mode” preset. For the true purists, by the time Dragonflight launches there will be over a dozen mods making it exactly how it was before.
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For me, it’s a somewhat worse functioning and substantially worse looking version of the setup that I’ve used with the Domino’s addon for the last 16-17yrs, which to an extent is good because at least this way I’m familiar with setting up Domino’s action bars.
That awful mini-map had to go though.
Side note:
Did the button on the mini-map that opened the World map get permanently removed or can I just not find it.
There is a setting to do that…dont know if you knew that or not
The thing is we shouldn’t have to get another addon to recreate the old UI…we should of been given opt to either keep the old UI or use the New UI plain and simple.
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Yeah and have everyone quit. Too many people in this day and age wanting to force people to do what they want.
I actually did not know that. Thanks for the tip!
Honestly? Its kinda par for the course . . . every major change to something old in this game has been met with fear, anger, sorrow, or some combination of those. Fel look at when they undated the player models back in WoD and folk were begging to be able to “keep the old player models”, how many folks proclaimed the new models were ugly and ruined the game.
Fact is, change scares folk, makes em uncomfortable, but give it time and folk will adapt.
also for those having issues with that, heres a way to “kinda” get back.
too many people are scared of change.
too many people want to live in the past.
…pretty sure this is what classic servers are for.
And why does it affect you if they do? Why should someone be forced to update to a new way of doing things with no option for continuing to do what’s comfortable? Even if the new way can be objectively determined as a better way to do something, doesn’t that mean those who want to “live in the past” are only hurting themselves?
WoW is a game and changes to things like the UI can be distractions to the game. For players who are comfortable with the UI, having to take time out of their day to fiddle with the new one is not enjoyable for many. Even if that setup time is short, it’s still time they would rather be enjoying the game through the lens they know and preferred. Throw in the fact that some things simply cannot be tweaked back to how they looked and felt before and even someone willing to put the time into customizing the UI how they like it has no ability to get back to that old UI. And that’s to say nothing of the gaps in accessibility for players who need it created by the new UI.
That’s great if you like the new UI and the advantages it brings for you. But someone else wanting to continue using the old UI has no impact on how you can enjoy the game.
Classic is a completely different game. Nothing about the addition of usability improvements is affected by the UI look and feel. Nothing about the content put in the game is affected by the UI look and feel. Nothing about the philosophical change to shorten the in-game grind requirements is affected by the UI look and feel. For someone who wants to play Cataclysm, MoP, WoD, Legion, BFA, Shadowlands, or the upcoming Dragonflight content, classic doesn’t meet that need regardless how more comfortable they would be with the UI.
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