Pimp My UI – Episode 102

Written on October 10th, 2009 by Xenoroninno shouts

University is underway. I have a laptop and a stable(ish) schedule. I am back.
Ubuntu Linux owns btw.
Mod subject of this week

Rogue Mods
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Pimp My UI – Episode 101

Written on September 6th, 2009 by Xenoroninone shout

Just being happy atm. Quitely happy. Oh and I now have a website thanks to Toshoba! I’m going to make you read on to find out where

Mod subject of this week

Mage Mods

Tiny Caster Stats – Displays spelldamage, crit chance, haste, in a nice readable format on your screen.

Link

Scorchio – Tracks Improved Scorch, Winter’s Chill, Shadow Mastery, Torment the Weak, Living Bomb, Slow and Polymorph on multiple mobs, as cast by multiple mages, and gives you warnings and notifications when the debuffs need reapplying, or have expired completely.

Link

PortalBox – A simple addon that gathers all of your portal and teleport spells into a single aesthetically-pleasing window and tracks your Runes of Teleportation and Runes of Portals.

Link

ElementalFlux – Shows the remaining lifetime of a Water Elemental and Mirror Images.

Link

Living Bomb Tracker – Puts a small tracking-frame next to your cursor, whenever you are in combat and your mouseover-target is an enemy, not dead and not level 1.

Link

PortMe – An addon designed for portal invite management. It responds to the phrase ‘port me’ in various channels. Read the info in the link for more info.

Link

Coolfloat – CoolFloat is for people who like the stock Floating Combat Text included with WoW, but would like to be advised when their spells and items are off cooldown and ready to be used.

Link

AzCastBar – A highly customizable and lightweight casting bar replacement addon, with support for saved profiles and plugins.

Link

Oh Snap! – An addon that will help you to improve your PvP awareness in arenas and in battlegrounds. Not really a mage specific addon but being aware of buff/debuffs is always nice in PvP.

Link

CCBreaker – Simply Put, this is an addon that displays breaks in crowd control. The output will always show privatly just to you, and can be set to display in party, raid, or raidwarning.

Link

SpellLight – A small add-on designed to help you find which spells in your spell book have not been assigned to a slot on your action bar.

Link

Qexoblast – A simple addon that plays a sound when you fire an instant Pyroblast due to Hot Streak.

Link

Macro of the Week

Name:

Author:

Macro:

Worth Checking Out

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Featured UI of the Week

Image:

Raid

Solo

Party

Download:

Mods used:

!!!Zoom!!! – Speed up your UI load by turning off garbage collection
!StopTheSpam – Finally! No more AddOn loading spam.
Altoholic – Provides information about your alts
AtlasLoot – Shows the possible loot from the bosses
Auctionator – A lightweight addon that makes it easy and fast to buy, sell and manage auctions
Automaton – Reduces interface tedium by doing the little things for you.
AzCastBar – Casting Bar Addon with Plugin Support
BadBoy – A light, automatic spam blocker & reporter.
BadBoy_Levels – Filter whispers by level, minimally.
Bagnon – Single window displays for your inventory, bank, and keys
BankStack – From bags we came, to bank we return
BasicChatMods – Basic Chat Mods!
Broker_CPU – A lightweight Data Broker plugin to visualize AddOn CPU/Memory usage, Framerate, Latency.
Broker_Equipment – LDB Equipment Manager plug-in
Broker_Location – Keeps track of your current location.
Broker_RaidSave – Minimalistic LDB plugin that allows tracking of raid IDs across characters.
Broker_Transit – Provides a right-click menu for teleportation spells and items.
Buffet – Food/water macro generator
BugSack – Toss those bugs inna sack.
caelNamePlates – Custom minimalistic nameplates
Cartographer – Addon to manipulate the map
Cartographer_QuestInfo – Quest library for mob location and other information
CastBy – Show caster’s names when you mouseover buffs/debuffs.
CastYeller2 – Announce important spell events.
CharSheetPlus – Adds two more Attributes blocks to the default Character Sheet
ChatIcons – Adds icons to your chat.
Chinchilla – Minimap addon of awesomeness. *chewing sound*. It’ll nibble your hay pellets.
Clique – Simply powerful click-casting interface
Crossdresser – Dual-spec equipment set switcher
DamnAchievementSpam – Reduces the spam in guild chat for people getting dungeon achievements
DataStore – Main DataStore Module
DBM-Core – Deadly Boss Mods
Dominos – A main actionbar replacement
DrDamage – In-game theorycraft. Calculates actual damage/healing based on gear, talents and buffs.
EnhancedCharStats – Enhance the Character Sheet tooltips to display more information.
ForteXorcist – Powerful Class AddOn for Raiders
Fortress – A display for LibDataBroker-1.1
FriendsWithBenefits – Syncs your friend list
GearScore – Mouse over any friendly player and that player’s tooltip will show their gear score and talents.
GFW_FactionFriend – Switches WoW’s builtin reputation watch bar automatically and helps keep track of faction turnin items.
GnomishVendorShrinker – Compact scrolling vendor frame
GoGoMount – One-key solution for mounting/dismounting, supports spells, shapeshifting
InFlight – Statusbar timer for your flightpaths.
Inquest – Quest log and tracker addon
Invataxi – Taking retards to Battlegrounds since 2009
LitePanels – Pure awesomosity panels!
MikScrollingBattleText – Scrolls battle information around the character model.
OhSnap – Monitor for PvP skills and spells that you should be aware of
OpenAll – Open all your mail
OptionHouse – Addon control panel and performance monitor
oRA2 – A CT_RaidAssist alternative
Overachiever – Tools and tweaks to make the lives of players seeking Achievements a little bit easier.
PartyTime – Removes ‘You aren’t in a party’ messages.
pError – Hide those pesky errors!
picoFriends – Minimalistic LDB-based friends display
picoGuild – Minimalistic LibDataBroker-based guild display
rActionButtonStyler – Styles the standard ActionButtons
Reagent_Broker – Reagent Tracker for LibDataBroker
ShadowedUnitFrames – Shadowed Unit Frames: So easy a caveman can do it.
Skada – Modular damage meter.
SmartBuff – Cast the most important buffs on you or party/raid members/pets. Use /sbm for options menu.
tekability – Simple item durability readout in the character frame.
tekKompare – Simple item compare tooltips
TipTac – Highly Customizable Tooltip Enhancement Addon
TradeskillHD – Improves the TradeSkill Frame for higher resolutions and widescreen displays.
TradeTabs – Adds spellbook-style tabs to the TradeSkillFrame for easy swapping between production skills
xDamageFont – Change your Damage Font.
XLoot – A remake of the built-in lootframe. .
XLootMonitor – A live monitor of loot picked up by yourself and your group
Xparky – Standalone of FuXPFu – Now sticks to anything!
Notes:
This UI is partly inspired by Caellian’s UI ( http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9974-oUF_Caellian.html ), mostly by the unitframes. Made it with ShadowedUnitFrames, since i find it better and more useful (even tho it’s a bit more in resorces).
Another note is that this UI covers everything you ever need to have! Everything from questing, pvping, raiding to… well, i can’t count everything it shows, it pretty much sums it up with those 3. You won’t need another mod after this!

Mod websites

Curse: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/default.aspx
WoWUI: http://wowui.incgamers.com/
WoWInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/index.php

How to submit

An Image in JPG or GIF format as a link on an image-hosting site
Your nickname + realm
Which mods you used
Maybe some notesWhen you submit a question please provide the following information:
Your nickname + realm
The question (In English)When you submit a “Name That Mod” please provide the following information:
An Image in JPG or GIF format as a link on an image-hosting site
Your nickname + realm
What you want to know about the screenshotAll submissions can be send to xenoronin@gmail.com with the subject “Pimp my UI”

Previous Episodes

As always:

Yours sincerely,
MVP Xenoronin (xenoronin@gmail.com)

Credits

Xenoronin – Author
Schwick – Original Author

Additional credits

Blizzard EU – Support and sticky’ing
EU community – For countless times of support

Disclaimer

If you see a link or AddOn which is not behaving the way it should, please let us know, so we can review.

Pimp My UI – Howto: Quartz

Written on August 28th, 2009 by Xenoronin2 shouts

Quartz: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/quartz.aspx
SharedMedia: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sharedmedia.aspx

This is the first ever “How to” video we have ever made so don’t judge it too harshly. We will be improving over time so bare with us.

Quartz is a modular castbar addon and looks fairly awful in its default state so we will be showing you know to pimp your castbar.

Pimp My UI – Episode 100

Written on August 26th, 2009 by Xenoroninone shout

Episode 100!!! It is finally here! And with 2 new sections! And lacking one! Woo! More exclamation marks!!!!!
The Podcast and How to video are a work in progress so think of them as Betas for now… We will improve upon them as we do more and actually write some form of guidelines to stop us wandering off topic. Read on to find out what I am waffling on about.
Mod subject of this week

Xeno’s favourite Mods

Scrap – An easy to use, loot management addon. That is nice talk for: it sells your greys and other unwanted items at the click of a button.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8223-Scrap.html

Combuctor – A very clean bag addon which allows you to view items in one big bag, by colour, by type etc. Really awesome stuff.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8113-Combuctor.html

Satrina Buff Frame – A very configurable buff addon which isn’t a nightmare to setup.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7876-SatrinaBuffFrames3.html

StUF Unit Frames – Because it has more options for configuring your unitframes than I thought humanly possible.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11182-StufUnitFrames.html

BasicMinimap – You rarely need more out of your minimap than what this provides. The name says it all.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9101-BasicMinimap.html

OPie – It feels like the swiss army knife of actionbar addons. Just flick out a spell. Hold a hotkey down and move your mouse to select a spell you rarely use out of a circle. It is more useful than you would think.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9094-OPie.html

Lightheaded – Quests are difficult at times. Seeing all the comments on practically every quest from WoWHead can give you the tips you need to complete it. It also gives you a reason to open the questlog so you might actually read the quest text for once. Dive into that lore.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html

pMap – I love the simplicity of this addon. It just works so well. I used to use Mapster but that is a bit out of date(but still works) and it is slightly heavier than this. Move while map is open, make it slightly smaller, remove the black edging, and enable coordinates.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8385-pMap.html

kgPanels – I wonder at times if I would be able to play WoW without this addon anymore. I like to add panels or artwork to my UI to spruce it up a bit and this is the best addon to do that with.
Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/kg-panels.aspx

Aloft- Making nameplates bearable to look at since… sometime a good while ago. Allows you to modify the nameplates in many different ways.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10864-AloftBeta.html

Cowtip – No other addon comes close to providing as much customisation as this tooltip addon does.
Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/cowtip.aspx

Bartender4 – It is a close race between Dominos and Bartender for my favourite but I think Bartender works out as the winner simply because I have been using it for longer… even though I am using Dominos atm. They both do their jobs very well though.
Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/bartender4.aspx

Macro of the Week

Name: Misdirection
Author: Claypigeon
Macro:

Q u o t e:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead][target=pet,exists,nodead] Misdirection

Misdirects your focus if it is not dead and it exists. Otherwise it misdirects onto your Pet. Useful for the transition from solo play to instances. Just make sure to focus your tank before you use this though

Pimp My UI: Podcast

From now on I will be bringing you weekly (subject to change with all that is going on with moving into college atm) Podcasts with my co-workers Kelebra and Lexishikari/Claypigeon. Lex was on holiday so he wasn’t present for this episode but he should be there for the next one. This podcast is very obviously a little old now as it was recorded just before 3.2 hit and I was waiting for the right moment to release this upon the public.

Why should I listen to the podcast?
That is a tough question but the main reason should be to hear my sexleg voice… I joke, no, you should listen to the podcast because we will be bringing you all the latest UI news, reviewing AddOns, UIs, Videos and explaining how to do stuff like using KgPanels, setting up PitBull, using Grid and much much more.
This weeks episode isn’t that good and it is probably best to avoid it if you are adverse to the odd curse word which might slip in. Mostly it was a test episode to see could we do this and how long should the podcast be. We were working from a notebook with headings which I wrote up in all of 5 mins and no script so the explanations are quite bad.
Things will improve! Now that we know it is possible and that we have somewhere to host this stuff for free, we can start working on bringing you a better quality podcast.

When will you be releasing more of these?
There is no set schedule at the moment. Weekly is an aim so check back on PMUI regularly!

Where is the link to this awesomeness!
Why here it is!
Link: http://xenoronin.podbean.com/

Pimp My UI: How to

GASP! Two new things in one week! Are you nuts Xeno? Well that is a good possiblility since I am talking to myself at the moment.
Again this is also a test since the sound is a little low and I really can’t be bothered rerendering this not too good video
For now Kelebra and I shall be showing you how to setup Quartz, a modular castbar addon. We will move onto more interesting things in the future but for now you will have to suffer with the basics.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gufEUVobw

Lex was also unavailable for this video but you will eventually hear him. He might also control kelebra and I, to stop us constantly rambling.

Enjoy Pímpsy the UI gnome!

Featured UI of the Week

This weeks UI was submitted by Ishtara of Norgannon US.
Image: Healing UI: http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=healingui.jpg
Leveling UI: http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=levelingui.jpg
DKUI: http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dkui.jpg
DPS UI 1: http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dpsui1.jpg
DPS UI 2: http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dpsui2.jpg
DPS UI 3: http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dpsui3.jpg
Download: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=11091
Mods used: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw30333.jpg
Notes:
Not one but 6 UI’s are included in this package. You must read the ReadMe before you try anything but it is fairly straightforward to get it to work. All UI’s are made for 1680×1050 resolution monitors but it is possible to fit them on other screens… just not small screens as pixel lines are the sworn enemy of small resolutions.

Mod websites

To find mods for your own, you can use the following websites:
* Curse: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/default.aspx
* WoWUI: http://wowui.incgamers.com/
* WoWInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/index.php

How to submit

When you submit a UI please provide the following information:
* An Image in JPG or GIF format as a link on an image-hosting site
* Your nickname + realm
* Which mods you used
* Maybe some notes

When you submit a question please provide the following information:
* Your nickname + realm
* The question (In English)

When you submit a “Name That Mod” please provide the following information:
* An Image in JPG or GIF format as a link on an image-hosting site
* Your nickname + realm
* What you want to know about the screenshot

All submissions can be send to xenoronin@gmail.com with the subject “Pimp my UI”

Previous Episodes

Last episode: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=10543786611&sid=1
Archive link: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=2405318292&sid=1

As always:

Have a nice week and enjoy this week’s issue!

Yours sincerely,
MVP Xenoronin (xenoronin@gmail.com)

Credits

* Xenoronin – Author
* Schwick – Original Author

Additional credits
* Blizzard EU – Support and sticky’ing
* EU community – For countless times of support

Disclaimer

Neither the authors nor Blizzard are responsible for the content of any Addon or any site which is linked in this post. We do our best to only provide links to “allowed” AddOns and websites whose content is free of material which might not fall under Blizzard’s EULA and/or ToS. Always use a software which scans for viruses and/or keyloggers/Trojans; AddOns and the sites they come from are used at your own risk.

If you see a link or AddOn which is not behaving the way it should, please let us know, so we can review.

Pimp My UI Podcast 001 – Welcome

Written on August 26th, 2009 by Xenoroninno shouts

Hey,
This is the first ever Pimp My UI Podcast and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it. There will be a podcast every other week make sure to look out for the Pimp My UI Weekly Blog in the Blog category on the homepage !.
Thanks
~Xenoronin and Kelebra

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