I’m honestly really excited for the UI overhaul, there’s just a few things I really hope it allows us to have built into the game, so that addons are not required for specific functions.
-Can we have a keybind or some kind of function that allows us to automatically use ANY quest item, if the requirements are met. For example, You can have three quests with on use items, but seeing three different icons distracts you from which one to use sometimes. I personally wish that we could just hit a button and the game would know, “this quest item works here, the others don’t”, and immediately use the quest item as intended. Wildstar had this feature and it was fantastic! I’m sad WoW didn’t copy that.
The next request is in two parts.
-Can we have collapsing action bars. As in, Elvui allows us to have several action bars, but sometimes you don’t want to show all the action bars of a specific bar. Can we have the option to dictate how many bars an action bar displays. This would really improve our quality of life greatly.
-Secondly, Can we potentially get the functionality of an addon called Opie, with some slight tweaks? What this addon does is fantastic. It allows you to dramatically multiply keybinds into a single click. You press the button and a scroll wheel appears around your mouse and you scroll and let go of the keybind to select the selection. Overwatch also uses this same feature with pings, emotes and other things. This is personally how I access my hearths, my mounts, food, flasks, teleports, etc. This is such a huge QoL feature that could really do well in the new UI overhaul!
-All in one bags. with more functional sorting systems. I personally just Elvui’s bags because I can’t stand how Adibag sorts and makes it difficult to split stacks or keep individual stacks not stacked. An all in one bag would be amazing for the new UI!
-Is it possible later down the line that variants of the action bars are released as skins? I personally don’t like how the portrait frame looks, the weird circle with … idk how to describe it, the weird blip on the side of it. Looks… not good. I would love to be able to customize how the frame’s skin would look. This would be great with action bars and other elements too, maybe even make it affect every ui page like the spellbook and talents. Just having a different background or effect on them to make different uis stand out more and feel our own.
-I would like to see alt tracking functionality finally added to the base game. It would be nice to be able to see all the gold on our characters on a server. As well as have the game have built in alt detection at the mail box! It’s one of the reasons I still use postal, despite loot everything having been a thing for a few years now.
-This is another strange request, but I feel like others might have the same opinion. Can we, or are we, going to have Elvui’s “panel” and “data bar” systems. What i mean by this is, on WoW’s minimap, normally it displays the search icon and the clock, to see the time. Elvui has functionality to display other information underneath our chat or attached to other panels, that can display time, our gold, durability, our ms/fps, addon usage, friends online, etc. This would be really amazing to include in the UI overhaul as well. As for the panels, these are just boxes that you can change the opacity to, similar to the chat box’s natural function of doing that to the background. This makes it really nice to put damage meters behind or if you guys allow us to add more, put behind out action bars to give really nice stylized action bars.
-Also, can we have a square minimap if we choose to use it? It just displays more information and fits more cleanly on the screen.
I know these things are monumental tasks and editing UIs and the coding going into them is a lot of work. I also know that most of the UI changes seem to only be “move things around”. I really really hope that the UI Overhaul attempts to put more player customizations into the game and not just let us move things. I have used addons like Opie and Elvui for years, because of what they do. I want wow to make me not have to install Elvui updates ever again. It eats up so much memory, it constantly has to be updated, configured with skin addons to make the game not full of black boxes. I’m not a fan of everything being black. I only use elvui for the action bars, the chat panels, the inventory, and minimap. Everything else i disable in its functions and use weakauras for. I wish i didn’t have to. I wish the game could just do these wonderful things!
