Widescreen UI - Suggestions?

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So I recently splurged (yay Christmas!) on an ultra-wide monitor. It looks great! But… what it does to WoW’s UI is not pretty.

Other than MoveAnything (which I’ve used before when dabbling with mock-ultra-wide with the three monitors I replaced), anyone have any suggestions on how to best smooth this arrangement out?

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I’m guessing you’re using the default UI for the most part.

I suggest these:

  1. Bartender4. Bartender4 lets a user adjust size, position, rows and colums of action bars, and can be used to adjust the menu bar, rest/rep bar, bag bar, et cetera. With bartender4 a user can have an element moved to a particular portion of the screen, and only shown on mouseover (great for the menu bar, or exp bar). Elements can also be shown or hidden if a modifier key is pressed.

  2. Shadowed Unit Frames: SUF lets a user move, resize, and otherwise adjust every health/power bar, or hide them.

  3. Sexymap: Sexymap lets a user move, resize, and reshape the minimap. Maybe your your ultra-wide monitor you could make it HUGE and off to one side.

  4. Glass: Glass makes a user’s chat look way better and requires minimal time to adjust/customize.

  5. Quartz: Quartz lets a user adjust the cast bar, and can make it function as a swing-timer.

  6. Dynamic Cam: Dynamic cam lets a user adjust the field of view so that their character appears lower on the screen, that way more of the environment will be shown. It also lets a user set different zooms for different situations, if desired. I’m only recommending it for the first field of view option, I haven’t played around with situational adjustment because that seems like it would be time-consuming to get just right.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I was already using a few of these, but I’ll take a look here.

A super enlarged SexyMap (again, one of the ones I was using) might actually be a good idea as MoveAnything doesn’t handle moving the Quest/Main map well. Maybe it’s a mod-conflict, but when I do, the option to Zoom In is apparently on another frame, and what it does to full screen view is awful.

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ElvUI has different setups for different resolutions and will replace the need for most of the addons in Barty’s list.
https://www.tukui.org/

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