Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum der World-of-Warcraft-Gilde "Eastern Sun"
http://www.easternsun.de/forum/
Successful raiding involves successful management of information. Information overload leads to decision lock (wasted time trying to decide what to do) or plain distraction (staring at the wrong thing, thus missing important info causing loss of DPS or death).
One thing I'd like to stress is placement. Many of the mods listed allow you to organize items on your screen to your desires. Even if you do not choose to use many mods, something like Move Anything can grant phenomenal improvement in your gameplay.
In the Vanilla UI your health and your target's health are in the top left of your screen. Debuffs on your target just below their health. Your buttons (with the default grey swirl cooldown) are at the bottom. Your toon is in the middle of the screen. So in order to raid effectively you're looking back and forth from the top left, the middle, to the bottom. You suffer incredible time loss. Staring at a target's health, then looking down at your cooldowns you could entirely miss the fire in which you are hibernating. Staring at the toon you may not notice that you're under 20% and want to use Hammer, or that Judgement is now off cooldown. Or miss the proc that appears in the top right of your screen.
I once heard (and may misremember) that when driving a vehicle at 60 MPH in the time it takes to glance down at your Speedometer you've traveled something like 100-200 feet. Those are 100-200 feet you didn't see, or caught out of the corner of your eye. Raiding is similar - the further you have to move your eyes, the less you can effectively see.
The mods listed by Zurm help manage information, and as such are phenomenal. Which to use and how to use is the personal element. Do not simply copy other UIs you see on screenshots or Youtube. What works for them does not necessarily work for you. Experiment with placement. I like things centralized around my toon in the middle (around - so I can still see fires under or near me), others like things at the edges of the screen to give a wide field of view. Whatever works for you is the "right" answer.
As Zurm said, having that mount button bound to 1 is counterproductive - so is having the icon to mount three inches high in the middle of your screen.
Ich bin total begeistert .... ein mächtiger Krieger mit Buttons die rosa Schleifchen haben *fg*Slidder wrote: Extra für Lili der Hello Kitty style!
Das hab ich mir alles zu Herzen genommen und mein UI nochmal überarbeitet, das Ergebnis will ich Euch nicht vorenthalten.Successful raiding involves successful management of information. Information overload leads to decision lock (wasted time trying to decide what to do) or plain distraction (staring at the wrong thing, thus missing important info causing loss of DPS or death).
One thing I'd like to stress is placement. Many of the mods listed allow you to organize items on your screen to your desires. Even if you do not choose to use many mods, something like Move Anything can grant phenomenal improvement in your gameplay.