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Reader UI of the Week: Frogs of Korgath

Elizabeth Harper
Updated ·5 min read


World of Warcraft allows an unprecedented ability to modify the user interface to meet our needs. Each week WoW Insider will bring you a fresh look at reader submitted UIs. Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send it to us, along with info on what mods you're using, to readerui@gmail.com.

After a couple of weeks /afk, Reader UI of the Week is back with a Druid UI on our hands from Frogs of Korgath. I'll let him explain his setup from here:

I'm a raiding resto druid, though I don't have much time for that as a full-time student. But I've been a UI fanatic ever since I was a wee young lowbie, years ago, and like to have a neat and well designed interface. Here's what I like in a UI: first of all, it must show all the information I need. Namely, I need a unit frame, cast bar, action bars, and chat, as well as the other less important things like damage text, minimap, and buffs. Secondly, it must not be cluttered: everything should have its place and that place should not be in front of a void zone. I like to have as much free space as I can manage. Thirdly, it must look nice. I like to look at my UI and see something to be proud of. So, how do I do it?

Hmm, I wonder! Full details from Frogs after the break.

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What you see all the time (in the first screenshot at the top of the post):

  • Unit Frames: Pitbull - The most customizable unit frames I know of, and an old favorite of mine.

  • Action Bars (below that): Bartender4 - Another old favorite, and as much as I could ask for in an action bar mod.

  • Action Bar (bottom right): Autobar - Takes care of all the random consumables I'm too lazy to put on my bars myself.

  • Info Text (bottom center, top left, and around minimap): SLData Text - Not maintained much any more, but it's simple and it works.

  • Minimap: Chinchilla - Does everything I could want in a minimap mod, including moving miscellaneous things like the capture bar to where I want them.

  • Buffs: Bison - Takes up less screen space than Elkano, and looks pretty nice.

  • Chat: PhanxChat - Doesn't do timestamps, but does everything else.

  • Button Skinning: ButtonFacade (Xyrr) - Ooh, shiny.

  • Font: Fontain (Arial Narrow) - I like my fonts consistent, and this works better for me than Clearfont.



What you see in raids (and battlegrounds, like in the screenshot above):

  • Raid Frames: Grid, with GridStatusHots - My raid frame of choice. The squares in the corners are my four different hots.

  • Combat Text: Mik's Scrolling Battle Text - It goes in front of my timers, but I can't think of another place for it. I switched around with combat text mods and eventually settled on this, after others broke.

  • Timers: ClassTimer - Very easy to configure, and adding custom timers couldn't be more simple.

  • Cast Bar (between player frame and target frame): Quartz - I still haven't found a replacement for this. Maybe it's because it just works so well.

  • Cooldown Timers: OmniCC (not in screenshot) - Puts the information right where you'd think to look for it.

  • Raid Warnings: BigWigs - An old favorite. Is it better than the competition? I don't really care.

What you don't see most of the time:

  • Atlasloot - Who doesn't have this?

  • AuctionMaster - I replaced auctioneer with this a month or two ago, and am very happy with it.

  • Badboy - Blocks all gold spam. All of it.

  • Bagnon - Another old favorite: I can't bear to leave this mod, especially because it still works as well as ever.

  • BankStack - Sorts my bags, bank, and guild bank, and does it a lot faster than the old MrPlow.

  • Butsu - A nicer-looking loot frame.

  • Cartographer - The map mod of champions.

  • DrDamage - Puts all sorts of spell info in spell tooltips, like how much healing a spell will actually do, it's healing per mana, the benefit of an extra 1% crit... useful for theorycrafting.

  • FishingAce - Right-click fish casting!

  • Friends With Benefits - Synchronizes friends between alts and mains.

  • GnakedGnome - Puts a button on the try-it-on window to undress your character. I like to see what things look like without my gear getting in the way.

  • GoGoMount - One-button random mounting.

  • ImprovedErrorFrame - Takes your error messages and sticks them in a minimap button. Very convenient.

  • kgPanels - Makes my UI look pretty, with a little effort.

  • Lightheaded - This, with Cartographer_QuestInfo, makes questing a breeze.

  • OPie - A genius addon. Press a button, and up pops a wheel of my buffs or tradeskills or quest items. Both useful and stylish!

  • PhoenixTooltip - Changes the green "On equip" text on item tooltips to be more like the white text. For example, "Equip: Increases spell power by 59." becomes "+59 Spellpower"

  • Postal - Masterfully manages my mail.

  • Ratingbuster - converts ratings to percentages, and does item comparison too.

  • Recount - The popular damage meter at present.

  • Talented - Puts the talent window into one big nice-looking frame and saves specs for easy switching.

  • teksloot - A nicer-looking (and movable) roll window.

  • TipTac - Does everything I want in a tooltip mod.

  • Unitprice - Shows price per item on the auction house.

  • VisualThemes - Does cool minimizing effects when opening and closing windows. It hasn't been updated in ages, so it gives me an error every time I launch WoW. But it works, and that's why I have ImprovedErrorFrame!

  • TradeSkill HD - Makes the tradeskill window twice as wide, and much more legible.


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