Nice UI, but needs more customization

Community General Discussion
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Hello, Blizzard.

Just logged in and I’m fiddling with the UI options in Edit Mode. I like it so far and had a lot of hope for this feature, but it seems like addons will still win by an absolute mile.

Here are a few things that IMO would be very nice to have, that were left out of the new options (or are very well hidden lol):

• Player Frame:

  • Option to make it smaller than 100%;
  • Option to Show/Hide the character’s face;
  • HP bar height and width slider;
  • Option to separate HP and Mana bars.

• Target Frame:

  • Option to show HP bar with class color, if it’s a player;
  • Option to Show/Hide the target’s face;
  • Option to Show/Hide the target’s mana/similar resource;
  • Option to choose what kind of buffs/debuffs are shown. We don’t necessarily want to know if the target has consumables, map buffs (like Tirnenn Wrath), but we probably want to make it easier to spot any combat-related buffs/debuffs.

• Action Bars:

  • Let the number of Icons go from 1 to 12 (instead of minimum 6);
  • Make padding 1 or 0 possible;
  • Option to hide unused buttons.

• Spec Resource Bar:

  • Add this, so we don’t need to look at our buffs to know information like how many stacks of Maelstrom Weapon we have (would work for things like warlock souls, rogue/druid combo points, arcane mage stacks, etc).

• Experience / Reputation Bar:

  • Make it movable.

• Bags:

  • Make it movable, both the Bags Icons and the Opened Bags Frame;
  • Customizable rows/lines of item icons inside bags.

• Main Menu (that thing with Char Info, Spell Book, Specs, etc):

  • Make it movable;
  • Option to Hide and to Show only on mouse over.

• Minimap:

  • Option to make it square;
  • Option to resize it.

• HUD Tooltip:

  • Options to pick which information is displayed.

• Talking Head:

  • Option to Hide it.

Things related to Edit Mode itself:

• Options Window (to edit each Frame):

  • Don’t move it to default position all the time we click a new frame to edit it.

• Frames Boxes (that blue thing we click to drag them that becomes yellow when you select the Frame):

  • Option inside the HUD Edit Mode window to preview the entire UI without those blue boxes.

• Party/Raid Frames:

  • Option to view random classes instead of yourself repeated over and over.

• Cast Bar:

  • [Bug?] When we cast a spell in Edit Mode, the Cast Bar box disappears (need to exit and reenter Edit Mode).
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2

In the pre-patch notes, it does say more UI options coming soon. Personally, I hate that I cannot move the bags or the micro menu, but all in all, I do like it.

3

Yeah, I wanted to put the minimap there, but those things were in the way… rip. That reminds me:

• Minimap:

  • Option to make it square;
  • Option to resize it.
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I would like to add some thoughts:

  • Option to hide the name
  • Option to hide lvl
  • Option to hide rested
  • I would love to see resource options too. As an elemental shaman, I would love to remove my mana and use my maelstrom bar instead.
  • More control over numbers/percentages. For example: if I’m in full health/mana it could hide my points and %
  • Change charges text size
  • Add mouseover option to display list
    You can remove unused buttons (Edit mode → select action bar → uncheck “Always Show Buttons”)
  • Add an option to change the color of the player frame based on debuff instead of an icon

- Guardian/pet frame

  • Make it customizable

- Target of target frame

  • Make it customizable

- Buffs

  • Add some kind of filter to show/hide certain buffs

- Player Cast Bar

  • Add timer current/left/total
  • Change text position
  • Change color

- Enemy Cast Bar

  • Same as the player
  • Change color based on interrupt condition. For example: if you can/can’t interrupt or if you can interrupt but your interrupt is at cooldown

- Nameplates

  • Make it customizable. Examples: Color, font size, cast bar, show only first/last name, display only health %, etc
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Wow, I didn’t see that because that option doesn’t exist for Action Bar 1! Why though?? LOL
Thanks, I’ll hide the unused buttons now! :smiley:

About your other ideas… yeah, there are so many things addons were able to customize for us. It’s pointless to make a new UI so we don’t need to use addons while not doing all the things these addons can do. I really hope they’re able to add a lot more UI options!

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I’d love all this and being able to go back to coloring player & target frames according to health percentage. Having it all green throws me off in a fight