We've Made It SIMPLE! The Bellular War Within UI: A Lightweight, Clean & Optimal Setup

[@BellularGaming]

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[@Gruggo]

20 years later, and I'm still trying to find the best way to customize my UI.

[@Drockzoids]

Honestly, it's the most fun aspect of the game for us weirdos. I love changing things around, reorganizing, restructuring, finding new things crazy people built and seeing how to integrate them etc.

[@metaphyzxx]

Tweaking my UI has actually been what the game was for me for several years

[@Drockzoids]

This video was extra quality edited, kudos to whomever did the editing on this one.

[@JoyfulRiverbank-kn4xt]

I really love that you included the Helping the Team section. Those kinds of players are the most enjoyable ones to play with!

[@MrSlaughterrific]

I always spend more time on the UI than I do leveling

[@ibbatta]

same bro, same...

[@ShadowsOfThePast]

I hate it every time I start to tweak my UI it becomes a multi-hour process 😂

[@Aloplop-t5m]

I feel you

[@dimasliberato1752]

Hahaha ...me too it's a nightmare ..seriously a nightmare

[@metaphyzxx]

I thought it was just me

[@Schrodinger99]

Wow Bellular really taking his video quality to next level. Please keep making good video's like this and the keybinding one!! They're better than Skilledcapped Could you make a video about all the interface & graphic settings, best options for low end high end etc

[@gregww101]

Luxthos is a champ.

[@Valyn]

I tend to build my UI similar. But only using one side of this A tier space. This gives me an easy quick turn/angle to see things that might be behind UI elements.

[@topdeckortutor]

i love using weak auras to highlight actual buttons on my action bars. so like I have in combat trigger that will highlight my dot button if its not present or about to fall off. another to let me know things like my next press of a non-cooldown skill will do something special based on the game state, for instance, on my mage I have a weak aura that highlights spell steal when there's actually a buff on my target that stealable. the fact you can change the color of the highlight so that it is different from the standard blizzard highlight is key. so basically my action bars are in that S space and I don't need extra ui components.

[@JpDeltell]

This new series of videos has been incredible

[@michaelscrivener4937]

the plater profile isnt working for me its giving me an error, anyone else have this issue?

[@dariusshaban8490]

thank you for helping out just started the warwithin

[@ButtercupSoukup1]

Through this video and the keybindings guide I was able to find your keybinds for Action Bars 1-7, but not for Action Bar 8. Can you please share those settings with me? Example: T,Alt+T,F1,F2 were not shown.

[@appelsap]

I guess I am doing something wrong because whenever I import any of the strings nothing changes..

[@RickheadWashington]

Finally a streamer that shares his UI and add-ons he actually uses

[@KillchainGames-xg2lg]

yea not like luxthos or afenar or quazii or half of liquid raiders or naowh or anyone of those guys that keep it close to their chest....

[@romekbull]

​@@KillchainGames-xg2lgluxthos is free afenar no longer updates and noawh rest of liquid you have to sub to get there ui

[@frenchbassguy]

There's just a handful of functions Blizz would need to add to their UI, and I would be able to drop all my UI addons. Fingers crossed they'll get there soon!

[@robbymystic3819]

I remember back during cata I had the entire bottom quarter of my screen one giant console area with maps, trackers, actionbars, health bars and chat frames all with masque and customisable artwork backgrounds and borders. I look back at screenshots of those days and wonder how the hell I managed xD

[@eivind261093]

I'd be interested to see your take on a setup like this tailored to healing; healers, especially in raids, have very different UI needs to DPS and tanks, and I'm not sure your suggested UI necessarily reflects that - though I'm also not entirely sure how I'd go about "fixing" it! Edit: I'm asking this because I really enjoy your "Blizz adjacent" UI design philosophy, and I would love to see a similar-looking setup that's more functionally tailored to my preferred role. Most other healing UI's I've seen rely heavily on addons to achieve their end result, and while I don't necessarily mind addons, I WOULD like to try and get by with a bit fewer of them, especially now that Blizzard have implemented so much functionality that used to be addon exclusive. (AtlasLoot will be missed, however...!)

[@Balloonbot]

The principles still apply, except the party frames move way up in the hierarchy. To me its in the "A-Tier" space

[@petermontgomery7323]

I use the same ui setup on all of my toons. Healbot to the left of my character and a damage meter above my chat. I keep is simple

[@etforde]

I use the same setup when healing as a paladin as when I’m or dps. I just increase the size of the health frames a little and move them a bit closer to the middle. When you’re a paladin you’re expected to chip in witha clutch heal, a shield or a movement boost, so I’m already having the frames in the A-tier area. But for sure keep different profiles for dps/tank and healer.

[@eivind261093]

@@Balloonbot I play with WeakAuras, and I like having raid frames right underneath the WA space... but knowing general principles for how to set up your UI is very different from having an actual suggested and fully functional setup. My point is just that it would be neat to see what someone who's a bit more invested and experienced with this than I am could come up with, using few - if any - UI addons. With the various new-ish improvements to the game, HealBot and various fancy raid frame addons are much less necessary than they used to be (though they do still offer more functionality than Blizz raid frames) - and built-in mousover casting has even made macros more of a preference thing than a requirement. The 'needs' of a current UI are vastly different than they were even a couple of years ago, and most UI guides/suggestions, aside from Bellular's, don't really reflect those changes - so I'd be interested to see how he'd set up his UI for the role that has different needs from what he shows in this video.

[@Ankerstjerne1982]

@@eivind261093 i agree, as a healer i need to fit a 40 person overview in there (40v40 BG's).. if i don't make all frames super small, it takes up so much A tier space

[@cptnano]

How do you get your playerframe showing the class color? For me with the standard ui my playerframe is always green.

[@wesleilucas863]

change to raid view and change config raid view to class color

[@thebusboy1]

How come when I import this preset, I can't enable any additional action bars? They don't show up anywhere when enabled, even in Edit Mode

[@grozznuy]

Wonderful, thank you Bellular team.

[@puppydestroyah]

Anything like this for ultrawide? 1440p preset doesnt line up quite right on some elements

[@nikeby3]

Damn, that's everything I was looking for!

[@martinveres7912]

What's the addon, that makes your health bar match your class color?

[@RetroFrito]

Add-ons should be an enhancement, not a requirement. Blizzard needs to go back to designing Boss counters without add-ons in mind

[@tiagopassarela]

I recommend Quazii's UI, it's clean, simple and his plater profile is perfect

[@desertbum8]

But if you use his UI good luck using bellulars keybind guide. It's been crazy helpful for building muscle memory with alts

[@turdferguson7686]

im going to assume there arent a ton of people using 57" 7180 x2160 monitors but it is both a blessing and a curse with UI related things and it seems like nobody else is talking much about it. it opens up soooo much more screenspace for everything. using sunnart viewport makes even better b tier zones while still leaving a huge amount of space in the a/s tiers. if youre stupid like me and able to spend ridiculous amounts on a computer setup i highly recommend it. just so much screen space to play with you can have so much info showing at once without taking away from the more important middle of the screen area.

[@aweisen1]

I really like that dps meter. Almost looks like the default Ui

[@blahblahgdp]

we might need the combined power of the pantheon to fix WoW's addon and UI problems

[@DewtehDew]

This video has been so helpful, thank you.

[@nanithebeast3934]

my wife is a big fan of your original elvui profile, do you guys plan to update it or atleast use it once to get an updated import string?

[@Paeddl]

Either im doing something completely wrong since i never used pastebin but when i copy the plater profile it doesnt work

[@GamerStacks]

hey, i got the luxthos warrior WA, but i dont see my healthbar in combat, any idea how to fix?

[@nickAlviar]

Excellent video

[@t0zu]

this comment section with the "everything as far to the sides as possible" people shows very clearly why most players aren't really that good at the game in raids and m+

[@Krunkeridleios]

To even considering blocking the games view to have a game advantage feels like you purposefully destroy the game. L behavior

[@t0zu]

@@Krunkeridleios oh don't get me wrong, if you just want to experience the game and have a good time it's completely fine to have everything to the sides. just stuff where multiple people rely on you playing well and you need to spin multiple plates, that's where it is important to not have your eyes jump around on your screen.

[@the-sunstrider]

My primary rotation, trinkets + consumables, and defensives action bars are directly right and left of my character. Albeit quite small in icon size via ElvUi. But im fast as f*ck in my reactions compared to others

[@tamaskulcsar7304]

hi! where should i put skills on mouse buttons if i don't have mouse buttons? :D

[@leonsayer4010]

Why have weak aura health and power centred when you have your unit frame next to it?

[@Divoria]

The Plater import string does not work for me. Does anyone have the same issues?

[@1steditiongamer276]

Glad you didn't do another start with ElvUI. These are some good tips.

[@diegostrossen6751]

I'm used to elvui because of the amount of information it can handle but yeah it's been weird lately, many bugs just taking me out of the experience. I've been looking for addons that do their best in sticking to the feel of the original UI

[@8bit_nacho825]

God I wish class weakauras weren't so damn necessary.

[@sickish]

The pastebin UIs dont match the screenshots. Just a heads up

[@w7zard]

did you ever find a fix? the importing is not working for me

[@sovkan]

Open the raw text and copy that. I had the same issue so I think it has to do with copying it from the initial pastebin box.

[@jonatanwidlund7062]

I cant get the Details import to work...

[@simonjacksons]

Wish blizzard would just add a bunch of UI preset layouts and design themes. And then also have an optimal spell and hotkey placement based on either top player or most popularly used or have a dedicated team create these options.

[@BasedSallad]

But.. what about the details skin??

[@Kranitoko]

S Tier actually = anywhere not in the middle of the god damn screen making everything so damn claustrophobic, I cannot fathom why anybody would want to...

[@RichardHarlos]

Have you seen some people who play wow took part in an eye tracking study? It's pretty interesting to see where their eyes go. And with those tracers as a reference, it provides information that helps to make bad UIs good, and good UIs great. Pretty cool.

[@LK-mr6rf]

This right here is the truth. When you get older mmos are 90% color and effects vomit and the UI is not helping one bit. Anything that lets me enjoy the game while actually seeing the game is a win.

[@Doug4130]

this would be true if blizzard didn't design every class around procs and mini upkeep buffs that appear in the top corner, away from where the action is. the lack of visual clarity combined with the button bloat in wow is atrocious. it's like they actively want players to struggle picking up any class

[@IncubusGamer]

@@Doug4130 This entire game is a monolith of esoteric information a new player has to glean. No modern MMO comes close. The UI is simply an extension of that and there's no fixing it with a game quite this old. It's systemic at this point.

[@stormstrider1990]

I'll just stick with the Dragonfligth UI. It's rather convenient, and I've gotten used to it.

[@dreamercloud2796]

UI links dont work

[@etforde]

If you’re going down the WeakAura path and downloading a whole pack, do yourself a favour and delete the trackers that you’ll never use. Visual noise is your worst enemy when trying to keep your mind focused. I use Afenar’s packs, and I delete almost 60% of the pack because I don’t need a tracker for non rotational spells.

[@Yanatau]

"So many people hate it when you download addons and suddenly WoW doesn't look like WoW anymore" Can't relate. I do everything in my power to make WoW UI not look like WoW UI. It's pretty diabolical for 2024 standards. Those people need to play other games too once every decade or so 😅

[@Onkuty]

i play with classic UI addon

[@bloodymortifying]

Belullar casually presenting a UI video like it was a school project.

[@nigelrichens3938]

If it’s got free I’ll get it for sure !

[@mooncloud6563]

Nope, everything to the sides get that crap out of the middle of the screen. Download add-on dynamic cam get the vision right

[@drakebane9527]

Casual

[@Kithhurrn]

I agree. I use DynamicCam & have it zoom to max, also adjusted so my toon is a bit below the center of the screen to max the distance I can see in front of me. As a tank I want to see as much of the space around me as possible. I use Raven for buffs/debuffs so that I can have my debuffs on my target more mid screen but it doesn't really take up much space. Since I can make as many buff/debuff bars as I want & filter what I want them to show it's a simpler, cleaner setup than WA. I've tried WA a few times but there's just too much clutter & they cover too much of the screen & even some of Luxthos strings can be memory hogs. I also use IceHUD so don't have big clunky looking Player/Target frames. Tho I still have regular frames but keep them way down at the bottom of the screen. I keep them more for out of combat & don't really pay attention to them in combat unless I'm checking Target of Target.

[@Balloonbot]

Do you do any challenging content with UI off to the sides?

[@Kithhurrn]

@@Balloonbot Raids, some M+. I sit well back from my screen which makes it easy to see the entire screen without really looking away from mid screen.

[@danielmeagher9007]

Obviously there is a trade off of immersion in favor of performance. If your not chasing 99% parses then immerse yourself away

[@tomasrytir9211]

Plater pastbin doesnt work

[@Narque]

I use addons to give me the old classic UI still XD what can i say i dont like change haha

[@Biggamehunna]

The car analogy is hilarious because they have gone towards screens rather than tactile elements like dials and buttons.

[@turbotwo1]

Many car companies are going back to buttons.

[@tordb]

Looks the same as Perl Unit Frames

[@RickheadWashington]

Weak aura is a ton starting out. It has just too much. It's like a whole other game.

[@mykeCA82]

Quazii has an entire video breaking down the WeakAura addon.

[@harrylong2796]

Personally my F tier space is waaaaay bigger than that because otherwise I can't fkin see anything

[@SonOfGuardians]

And here Im a clicker with only a slightly modified classic UI 😅

[@Junqers]

WoW one of the very few games in this day and age where you get content creators making tutorials on how to set up your user interface so you can play the game xdd

[@OakenTome]

You can play the game perfectly fine with the base ui, especially with how they've improved it over recent years. The customizability of the UI is one of WoW's greatest strengths imo.

[@Junqers]

@@OakenTome oh ye hell nah, the game is at the stone age in terms of UX considering its' complexity

[@OakenTome]

⁠​⁠@@JunqersUX and UI aren't synonyms.

[@zydian_]

Not in pvp you cant

[@Junqers]

@@OakenTome UI is is part of UX

[@w31rdan0maly]

And just like that it's time to say goodbye to Elvui and toxiui. Great video as always!

[@desertbum8]

I'm trying to convince myself to leave toxiui. I just love how it looks. But I'm using bellulars keybind guide so I kind of want to go this route to make it work seamlessly

[@Z3ROR]

Good guide. Thanks. I personally am against using a damage meter. It's not important. I mean it's pretty simple. If your group does enough damage you make it killing the boss, if not the group dies. That's enough damage meter for me.

[@desertbum8]

If the group dies it's good to know if you're the dead weight or not. If the boss dies it's still good to know if you're the dead weight being carried through the game.

[@Z3ROR]

@@desertbum8 Yes, true. And that result in most cases in a vote kick rather than supportive feedback. And that is why i am against damage meters.

[@thedoink]

Awesome video!

[@etowngftddummy]

You posted this one minute after the video went lice! Didn't even watch it yet lol

[@miriareu]

Too much going on the middle.

[@captainclink1038]

my PC cannot run the game well if i have heaps of addons. I think many people are the same as me and it is annoying when all tip videos are just what addons and weakauras to get.

[@BellularGaming]

That's part of why this video is as light weight as we could make it

[@captainclink1038]

@@BellularGaming I see! Thanks for the reply!

[@AlanRedrew]

Click with the mouse, just be faster than the global CD ;)

[@nullifye7816]

It's all awful, I can't handle any of it. I even hated it when they moved the character profiles to just above the action bars and moved them up. Maybe it's autism but even vanilla it's almost overwhelming for me. If I could have zero UI and just play with keybindings I would but there's just too much to keep track of without click buttons.

[@RndnamexD]

This UI looks awful to me i could never play like this 😂

[@pshpsh5247]

My ui looks just like asmongolds, tons of bars at the bottom like the OG ui with domino's and meters and tomcat and skada odd to the right with health bars at the top left as it should be

[@RichardHarlos]

_"as it should be"_ One day you're realize that your preferences are just that; *YOUR* preferences. It's ok to prefer things, but it's not ok to presume that what you prefer is somehow objectively better than everything else. Step down from the pedestal. Live and let live. Cheers!

[@pshpsh5247]

@@RichardHarlos Haha get offended more old man. Who takes a post and assumes it's directed squarely at themselves as though it was a personal attack on their own tastes. What I said was in a bubble of my own preferences and how I want them, I'm not some UI dictator demanding everyone else do the same thing. So go cry me a river boomer.

[@builder101-x9j]

wow has the worst UI ive seen in any game its a total mess what ever you do there so much crap on the screen

[@etowngftddummy]

I'm currently the only human in this comment section lmao

[@ozeriossable]

Nice try, bot

[@NeonKix]

It's such horrible design to force their player base to spend literal hours trying to clean up the UI just to make the game playable. Retail is SUCH GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roll your face on the keyboard and do millions of damage.

[@2thezaza]

you dont even play wow since bfa lets be real

[@PhxSml]

I still click on spells with my mouse

[@trap4925]

Don't know how anyone can play with all that shit covering the screen, move it to the sides

[@OakenTome]

Having things in the lower middle makes it easy to keep an eye on it all in one spot. There's generally not a lot going on in that part of the screen so long as you've got the camera angled well.

[@robertbalassan]

nah never in my life i will use this layout. i still use old school layout, my eyes have 20 years old training to look in those spots without an effort. its impossible to find anything on screen with such ui... middle of the screen is for weak auras not for hps and other bs :D

[@dagowow]

using anything default from blizzard = bad

[@bnpictureperfect]

Lol the comments 🤣

[@in2it85]

*Addons is teaching WoW Players to become Braindead and Handicapped.* *Instead of getting better, players rely more and more on Addons and Scripts.* *The funniest thing is, WoW is not even the most difficult MMORPG for Endgame.* 🤣

[@RaduUrsache]

horrible and unusable… even the stock UI is better.. just dont use this

[@Darkclowd]

Stock ui 🤣🤣🤣

[@RichardHarlos]

Learn to distinguish between 'what you prefer' and 'what is'. If you don't like it, don't use it. But, if you don't like it, then own that. Say "I don't like it" rather than that it's "horrible and unusable". Let me guess: you're the kind of person who says "That's a good movie" instead of "I liked that movie", right? /smh