PLEASE add more icon slots to Action Bar 1

The new UI is supposed to be all about customizability right? Yet there’s literally no way to get the action bars to look like the old default that I’m so used to using and actually like. I don’t like having 3 bars stacked on top of each other, everything had it’s place before and now it’s a whole cluster. Yes you can disable the bar art and line them up but I LIKE the grypons/wyverns and I WANT them there, but I can’t make the bar any longer than 12 slots, so that’s not a solution. Then I think I find a solution to just make the bar itself bigger, take my skills off of it and cover it with the other action bars to fit the length I need but bar 1 overlaps the others as do the lines around each slot so that doesn’t work in the slightest.

There’s a really simple solution to this and it’s to make the max number of icons on Action Bar 1 18 instead of 12, to mimic the old bars. The other bars don’t even need them because you can line them up side by side above it, but bar 1 is the one with the gryphons.

This is driving me insane, please for the love of everything just add more max slots to the first bar so that you can have 18. It make me and probably a lot of others who wish their action bars looked like how they used to so much happier and less frustrated!

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Would you be able to line up a 12 bar with a 6-12 bar?

You can’t line anything side by side with the first bar and keep the gyphons, that’s the problem. And putting them off to the side just looks bad and leaves a random gryphon and blank space in the middle.

i have gotten it pretty close to the old UI if all bars were used. this is the code to try how i set it up out, unfortunately the gryphons had to be turned off.

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You were never able to have an 18-slot bar with the gryphons?

correct, it was 12, plus 6 added just to the right of it after the last revamp. so 18 across the bottom 2 rows high. If you turned on all action bars. then the two on the right 12 high.

I totally agree with you and it would be nice to have 18 row icons w/ gryphons. Let’s make it happen Blizz. Hello? Blizz?

I have asked with “Many Others” in the beta UI thread for this along with many other QoL additions. A lot of good player feedback in that thread. Not one blue Dev response. But hey… at least we got snapping. Kinda

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There were 18 slots on the 2 bars in between the gryphons. They were separated, but it’s still 18.

you are correct, i just looked at my photos of my old interface, my bad, i apologize.

No there weren’t? Do you have a screenshot?

Like, that’s 12.

if i new how to add screenshots i would happily send mine

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https://imgur.com/a/Tc7MXbK

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Just upload it to the web somewhere and post a link.

I have no clue, how does one import this UI string?

You’re missing the point, I don’t want to hide the bar art. The reason I don’t like ElvUIand such is because there’s no art and everything is basic and boring.

All good, no need to apologize haha

Not sure if I can post a screenshot but I’m taking about have the other bars enabled. There were 2 rows of 18, just had the annoying space in between.

What is that, action bar 2?

All right, you two win. I never had other bars displaying.

i dont remember what they called it. i always have just ran all the bars.

did any of those import strings we linked work out for you?

Hit Esc, go to edit, click the layout dropdown, click import, copy/paste and name it.

Where did you put all of your skills? O.o lol