This is an in use raiding UI and works in all instances.
There is no fancy download package or detailed instrucitons.
Just rename your current wtf and interface folders then extract this file to your WoW directory.
It is zipped using winrar and when downloaded you will have a .rar file you need to unzip. You may download winrar at:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
If there is an Addon you do not want or like, merely delete the folder from the Interface\Addons Folder.
Rename the Account, Realm, and Character folders to your information.
If you have more than one account or characters copy the folders first before you rename them.
Easy.
Just a note:
Comments and questions would be welcome. I am pretty familiar with all the addons used, though strictly from a user's perspective.
I am always messing with the UI and if enough folks actually end up using it, I will be happy to put up periodic updates.
This UI is used primarily for my Warrior, but it has also adapted well to my hunter and my priest (both holy and shadow). I have sworn off alts so none of the priest specific mods (ie Grid) or hunter mods (ie autobar) are included.
The UI should easilly fit your screen if you can divide the larger number of your resoution by the smaller number and get 1.6 (called the aspect ratio).
O - and my thanks to all the addon authors, whether represented in my UI or not. You have provided me with endless hours of entertainment and I hope you find my particular use of your addons pleasing. I, of course, developed none of the addons used here and can only take credit for their arrangement.
New Addons:
Auction Addons - Not activated but you may do so. They are there.
_Cursor - My current favorite. Creates an attractive mouse trail that lets you easily and quicky find your cursor should you lose it in the heat of combat. Especially useful if you have a double monitor set up.
Digits - Movable numeric display of health and power (rage, mana, etc.)
Graph Paper - provides a configurable grid on your screen to help with alignment of UI elements.
Incubator - Mob respawn timer (very accurate in raids)
Tell Me When - Provides an icon display of abilites that are available. Very configurable and pretty new. Works well now and has a ton of potential should the author decide to keep advancing it.
Add On List
Ackis Recipe List provides list of recipes for any profession that you do NOT have.
ACP In game addon control panel
Ark Inventory very flexible bag management.
Atlas Loot Boss Loots
Auction Related Mods - Auction Mods are there but not activated for this UI. You can activate them in the Addon section of the LogIn Screen
Auditor keeps track of gold across characters and accounts. Auto repairs and Auto vendors grays.
Bejeweled nuff said
Better Blizz Options Allows you to move the Blizzard options menu.
Big Brother will track many things in raids such as buffs and cc breakers.
Big Wigs and Modules Boss Mods for raiding
Bug Sack and !BugGrabber gives you a persistent list of errors, makes trouble shooting a little easier
Button faηade allows you to change the face of your buttons (purely cosmetic, Caith is the one being used))
Chat Bar Cool looking bubbles you can click instead of typing /g, /raid, etc.
Chinchilla allows you to change the shape and position of the Mini-map.
Clear Font 2, Clear Font2 Pack change the fonts in game and within Addons.
Digits - alternative to a HUD - just the numeric values of health and power (rage, mana, etc) Movable to anywhere on screen.
Dominos great action bar replacement very flexible.
Dominos Config Load on Demand configuration for Dominos lessens memory burden.
Double Wide Expands the quest log to pretty much eliminate irritating scrolling.
Elkano Buff Bars allows you to have bars for anything from you to target and determine which buffs/debuffs will be shown.
Enhanced Tool Tip more info on the tool tip.
Enhanced Stack Split neat little utility that pretty much eliminates having to shift click to split stacks.
Equip Compare Puts a tool tip next to gear you are mousing over giving stat comparisons
Error Monster spam redirect to get rid of ability not ready messages etc.
Examiner Enhanced inspection pane.
Flight Map shows flight points on world map
FuBar bar with many plugins to make more info readily accessible.
Note: the Naming Conventions for FuBar plug ins generally look like this: FuBar_*plugin*Fu. For example, FuBar_AbrahmsFu.
Abrahms tank stats shown on bar
Ammo keeps a visible ammo count
Atlas - access to Atlas
Auditor shows whats up with gold, expenses etc on the bar
Bag Number of used/empty slots
Charms - Puts raid icons right on the FuBar
Combat Timer how long the fight was/is
Dominos access to Dominos Configuration Menu
DungeonDi Shows what difficulty level your dungeons are set at.
Durability shows the repair state of your gear
Exit allows you to single click to log out, shift-click to exit game.
Factions Reputation with factions at a glance.
Fishing Buddy fishing helper
Guild shows number and names of guildies online.
Friends Shows number and names of friends online
Instance Info What instances you are saved to.
Location gives title and sub zone and coordinates of your location.
Lucky Charms Raid icons right on the bar to mark targets.
Mail shows whether you have mail or not
Micro Menu put the wow menu on the FuBar
MSBT access to Miks Scrollilng Battle Text configuration.
Outfitter change outfits from the bar.
Performance frame rate, latency, addon memory usage
Recount toggle recount visible/invisible
Reloadui one click to reload your UI
Volume allows you to adjust all aspects of WoW sound volumes.
Xperl access to X-Perl configuration.
Graph Paper - Puts a grid on your screen to help align stuff.
Grid - there because i also have priest also can be used as a raid frame.
LD50_AP give a small moveable dynamic display of your attack power.
LightHeaded allows you to access Wowhead quest comments in game. Invaluable for leveling.
Incubator - Instance respawn timer
MikScrollingBattleText replacement for Blizzards scrolling combat text.
MSBT Options on demand configuration for MikScrollingBattleText
Mob Health estimates Mobs actual health in numeric form rather than percentages.
Omen threat meter.
OmniCC shows numeric cool downs on your bars.
OmniCC_Options on demand configuration for OmniCC
oRA2 same function as CtRaidAssist.
Outfitter allows you to design different outfits for different situations very very fast gear changes.
Pit Bull Unit frames very customizable a little intimidating at first but once you get past that awesome.
Postal Mail mod allowing lists of sendees and open all functions.
Prat allows you to customize all aspects of the chat window.
RangeDisplay a small moveable range display, tailored to your class, that shows distance range to whatever you have targeted.
Rating Buster Gear comparison tool.
Recount Damage Meter
RedRange - turns your buttons red when out of range
SunnArt and SunnArt Paravel Art Pack (there are also art packs 1-5 available) very simple and intuitive way to add art to your screen. For those of us who cant figure out KgPanels.
SWStats Damage and Raid Info Meter
Talented and Talented Options Improved Talent Window.
Tank Points assigns a value based on the gear you are wearing.
Tell Me When - a static display of abilities that are available.
TipTac, talents and options, improved too tip.
TomTom allows you to click on coordinates in Lightheaded and get a waypoint arrow on screen.
WeeVig confirmation of whom you have put vigilance on and notification of what other warriors have done with theirs.
X-Perl Core, X-Perl Options, X-Perl Raid Helper X-perl is a stand alone unit frame like Pitbull. Only reason these are here is for the awesome persistent agggro warning they give.
XRS Xraid Status customizable frame showing anything from dead to mana to buffs while in raid.
Optional Files - Blackfriday of Garona UI
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
Thanks for the fantastic collection of addons!
I am currently using it for my death knight and paladin and I am loving it
I had to tweak and remove a lot of things ofcourse, since my screen is practically smaller than yours, running mac OSX at the resolution of 1440 x 900 and I want things to be at reasonable sizes.
I found some of the addons to be outdated (as of now patch 3.0.3) though, like XRaid status which would not recognise Death Knight as a class in raid. The others I could easily find updates for. There are a few which I find not working properly like MailFu unable to tell me when i have mails until I actually check the mailbox etc, so I had to remove them.
To rydinlow: I had the same problem. I find that the problem came from SW_Stats addon which you can disable. Apparently it does some modification to the class table and it did not add death knight as a recognised class, so it failed the whole guild update altogether as it was trying to update the color of death knight. Just disable it and it will work perfectly!
I had to register to say thanks a lot and I will look forward to your future release of this kind of collection I hope you would develope some native 1440 x 900 resolution if you don't mind, because I spent a lot of time to try to fix it, and still not all things fit in perfectly (I was new at this whole interface change thinggy).
I as well just downloaded this UI and when I try to open up my guild tab I'm receiving an error and I can't seem to find the problem. Thanks for the awesome UI. Below is the error I'm receiving.
[2009/01/03 12:46:02-357-x2]: Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:672: attempt to index local 'classTextColor' (a nil value):
<in C code>: in function `GuildStatus_Update'
Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:178: in function `FriendsFrame_Update':
Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:124: in function `FriendsFrame_OnShow':
<string>:"*:OnClick":2: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Hi I downloaded this yesterday and I am really enjoying it. The one thing I do not like is that the ingame quest tracker is disabled some how. Although it is turned in within the game interface.
I kept all the add-ons and reloaded my old WTF folder and it was working again, so the issue is obviously found some where within the modifications of the WTF.
I know it seems small but I don't like the Questhelper tracker, I like how the ingame tracks as you are on a quest. Questhelper seems to track too much and cluttler the screen.
Have you heard of this before and / or have any suggestions.
One basic problem with wowmatrix is a moral one. The wowmatrix client has ads embedded in it, which make wowmatrix money. What the client does is initiate a direct download of each addon from curse/wowinterface/whatever to your machine. Wowmatrix gets money, the hosting site gets its bandwitdh leeched, and host site gets no revenue for this. A common argument is "well I use adblock so even if I go to curse or wowinterface they aren't getting ad revenue from me". That's a pretty disingenuous argument since the number of uses who use something like adblocker is pretty low over the number of users total. Ultimately, whether you care about the addon site's revenue stream is up to you, but it would really suck if they went away, no?
There's an argument that wowmatrix is breaking laws by leeching bandwidth and profiting by it, but there's no clear precedent either way to point to at this time to say yes or no.
Another basic problem is that not all licensing schemes are the same. All of my addons use the GNU Public License, so anyone is free to copy and distribute however they like, no problem. Not everyone uses that license, though. Wowmatrix is breaking copyrights all over the place for quite many authors, and there are many accounts of authors asking wowmatrix to remove their addons but are ignored. They aren't very ethical.
I hate wowmatrix because they do not, nor do they care to, distinguish between anything. If I put a beta version of SBF up, sometimes it gets updated several times in a day. These guys do an update once a day at the fastest, possibly even slower than that. When I am in a development cycle, wowmatrix users get the broken build from a link to wowinterface that is very old (comparatively) in the wowmatrix database. There are probably 3-4 new releases since wowmatrix last scanned but these people get the old and busted one. Most people don't even understand the concept of a beta test; they just see a higher version number and get that. As a result, I get easily 3-4 times the amount of email I should, telling me about the grievous errors they are getting - that I have already fixed. Even better is the abuse emails about omg you suck how could you release an addon in that state? Asshats. So yeah, I despise wowmatrix too.
In the end, convenience sells and people use wowmatrix because it is undeniably convenient. Whether you care about the various issues is up to you. Honestly, though: You do not need to update every day. Or even every week. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Thanks for that info about "Forsaken Threat Meter" - got rid of it now.
As far as updating goes, I love the way WowMatrix works for that. I just used your download as a main base mod and then modded bits and pieces here and there. It really is fantastic, and I've got several others from Dreadmaul using it (with slight modifications) now.
Sorry I didnt' respond sooner but I was out of town for a week.
For the threat grid that shows up - I am sorry but I can't remember the name of the Addon and I don't use it any more. I belive it had "threat' in the name so look in the addon folder and rename anything that looks like it might be a threat add on and see what happens.
As far as updating, it is something I do sporadically as the mood hits me and generally only pay attention to the main addons like pitbull, dominos etc.
I tend to hold to the theory that if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Within the next couple of weeks I will update the current ui and upload it. It is a bit leaner than the last one but has everything important.
Thanks for the kind words. I will keep it updated whenever there is something significant done or changed.
I just love the look and feel of this addon collection. I must say that you did a great job! Though there are a ton of addons of yours that are out of date (Fubar_guild does not work at all) but with wowmatrix I updated 61 of the addons to the new versions and have not noticed and bad effects but one. The only one that you do not want to update is fubar_exitfu, because before the update it logs you out with out a wait but after the update it make you sit the wait 20secs before logging your toon out.
Also you forgot to add in two addons that are needed for Auctioner, echtooltip and stubby.
Also with about 1 hours of work I was able to keep the look and feel of you addon comp but mod it to 1024x768 res (yeah, I am blind so I need lots bigger text).
The only design "flaw" that I see in your pack is the size of everything is super small...you must have really good vision because I could not even see it with my trifocals...lol.
Originally posted by Blackfriday Thanks for the input! Very nice to hear. I am glad you are finding it useful. What class are you using it with?
I'm using it with a Warrior mainly, but it's also handy for my Shaman, with a couple of little modifications. Easily the best UI compilation I've used in my years, though.
Quick question - what is the addon that puts the threat grids across your character whilst in combat? I'd like to disable it as I mostly look at omen for threat measurement.
I hope you would develope some native 1440 x 900 resolution if you don't mind, because I spent a lot of time to try to fix it, and still not all things fit in perfectly (I was new at this whole interface change thinggy). 
Disabled Quest Tracker?
