IntroHi guys, my name is Lunminas, I'm a discipline priest main playing on Icecrown known for having created the Beautiful and Updated UIs for every class! project a year ago. I eventually stopped playing and dropped the project, leaving some classes without an UI, but now I'm back.
What is this about, again?If this isn't the first time you've seen me, I've made countless UIs using the addon Weak Auras for a number of specs. This addon is so impactful, it's essentially a founding pillar of customization in WoW. It allows people like me to build interfaces that look clean, compact and efficient. So that's what I did as soon as WA got backported to Wrath of the Lich King. The problem is, I was fairly new at this hobby and made a good ammount of mistakes that ultimately lead me to drop the project entirely. I did not keep up with the quality I wanted and I wasn't feeling motivated enough to fix all the auras.
What's new this time around?
Ever since I came back, I wanted to reboot that project, but turn it into something I can be proud of, and deliver a good experience for the people that thought my last UI was great and wanted more. Furthermore, I wanted to improve on my shortcomings and have an extremely resource efficient, smart, compact and easy to understand interface.Apart from the overall aesthethic of the UI, I wanted to be a little bit more aggressive and eventually partnered with a few people from the backport discord community, namely, Nethanos. He's done a really good job, making some extremely clean looking UIs with ElvUI and other addons. I stumbled across his ElvUI profile and realized he had a great work in the making that I wanted to be a part in, so I volunteered to develop all of the weak auras for all classes, since that was one of the only things missing.
complete overhaul of the entire UI based on Naowh's UI, a tank from the guild Echo on retail. He's been around for ages now and has one of the cleanest UIs I've ever seen. This overhaul aims to completely change the appearance of the following addons:
So, we are essentially making aElvUI
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Since the aim of this project is to make the UI look homogeneous, there are some dependencies between addons that can easily mess with the look of the UI if you choose not to include everything. When downloading and importing our project, please pay attention to the following:
- The Addon
SharedMedia has all fonts and textures used for the UI, and as so, it is mandatory to have it installed, otherwise fonts and texture bars will default back to blizzard's style. The same goes to Naowh's fonts.- For the DBM profile to look the way it does, it is required that you have ElvUI enabled with the AddOn Skins Plugin also enabled. Also, the specific profile we're using for the UI can only be imported by following "Step 2" of the Download process, otherwise it won't work as intended.
- There are a number of steps needed to be followed for the ElvUI plugins to be successfully implemented, if you fail to follow "Step 4" of the Download process, they simply won't show anything different.
DownloadBefore downloading, there are many dependencies on this UI. Make sure you have everything correctly setup by checking the
Pre-requisites section, even if you're not using parts of the UI. As this is an overhaul, with multiple addons and custom fonts/textures being used, the installation process is extensive and somewhat complicated, but I'll do my best to keep it simple! Please, make sure to follow these steps thoroughly!Don't feel like reading? Watch my tutorial video!
Step 1:
Download the following AddOns and put them on your Interface/Addons folder.
Nethanos' ElvUI Fork - Download
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ElvUI Enhanced Plugin - Download
ElvUI AddOn Skins Plugin - Download
Bunny's Weak Auras - Download
Bunny's Details - Download
Zidras' Warmane DBM - Download
Kader's Custom SharedMedia - DownloadStep 2:
Add the following files to your WTF/Account/(Name of Your Account)/SavedVariables
DBM Profile - Download
Step 3:
Import all profiles to their respective addons.
Details - Import
Weak Auras - Import
ElvUI - ImportOptional:
ElvUI Standalone (Without Weak Auras) - (
Work In Progress)Step 4:
After having installed all addons and imported all profiles, you'll need to manually setup some ElvUI configurations as they're not saved on the profile. This includes the Enhanced ElvUI plugin setup.
* It has come to my attention after a few months of launching this project that the backported details has been discontinued. Although functional, this addon has perfomance issues with event handling, and will drop frames severely depending on the encounter, especially Anub'Arak. It should work fine on high-end PCs, but I should mention that there are Naowh-like skins for skada/recount out there. Use them if you're having issues.F.A.Q
- ElvUI/General/Media - Set Combat Text Font to "Gotham Narrow Ultra" and Name Font to "AvantGarde"
- ElvUI/General/Chat Bubbles - Set Chat Bubble Style to "Remove Backdrop", set Font to "AvantGarde" and Font Outline to "OUTLINE"
- ElvUI/Enhanced/Blizz UI Improvements/General - Enable all three options
- ElvUI/Enhanced/Blizz UI Improvements/Character Frame - Enable all three options and their backgorunds
- ElvUI/Enhanced/Blizz UI Imrpovements/Minimap - Enable Minimap Button Grabber
- ElvUI/Enhanced/Blizz UI Imrpovements/Interrupt Tracker - Enable
- ElvUI/Enhanced/Blizz UI Imrpovements/Lose Control - Enable
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Since we've just released the UI, it's expected that it has a decent ammount of bugs with a larger player pool. Please do not flood your inquiries on the backport server, instead, join our own private server for further support. Join here.
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