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Vitriola — Thu, 08/13/2009 - 16:02

Vit's UI

Garreth, here is the UI shot.  I did not know how to get this to you in a more private way as I do not expect anyone else to be interested.  ah well...

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I'd cut down on all of your

Agoney — Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:43

I'd cut down on all of your buttons... Do you need all of that stuff shown? I was guilty of not hiding my buttons, but the more I think of it there's really no reason to show any (combat wise) since everything should be bound..

Also, move your UF's to a more central location, they seem too far spaced out. Same with your cast bar.. If it works for you thats fine, but just looking imo it seems like there's too much of a range to be looking at on your screen..

 

The bottom is really cluttered.. Again with the buttons, maybe organize and eliminate some.. Chat window is huge, slim it down even though you can see through it.. This will help on fights with ground dmg/ae.. The more options you give yourself to move (and the closer they are) will result in an inc in dps.. why run 20 yds to the right if 5 yards behind you is clear of fire, you know?

 

 

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As a caster DPS in a raid

Dufe — Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:51

As a caster DPS in a raid setting, there is a small handful of things that are important.

  1. Your castbar.  This should be front and center, not up and out of the way at the top of the screen.  Maximizing your DPS in raid is going to be about seamless casting, CD's and proper cycles.
  2. As mentioned above CD's are generally crucial to your DPS.  You want to pop all that you can as often as you appropriately can.  Your CD timers (visible anyway) are pushed way off to the right with little growth room.  I would suggest making these more central and more visible.  Then again, maybe your main ones are, and they just aren't showing in this shot.
  3. Your target should not be a tiny afterthought as it appears to be in this screenshot.  Knowing the target's health let's you know when to dump mana, get more mana, push threat harder, etc, etc.  This needs to be more central and much larger.
  4. Threat is probably the other killer element.  Yours is probably sufficiently sized/placed.

Less important to DPS, but potentially important to staying alive on some fights, is having a close look at your own health and having a generally clean ui area.  Fubar should help you un-clutter you mini-map.  I usually suggest that people drop the cutesy fonts and such nonsense in raid.  Clarity and readability are more important, though maybe not enough to get in a fight over.

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Thanks for taking time for

Vitriola — Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:12

Thanks for taking time for the assistance.  I know that the setup is odd but I have the cast bar and sundries at the top as that is where my eye tends to be.  I look at things from above and that makes the main target appear at the top where I have the casting stuff. 

I do not use those CD timers that you mention.  You will see two icons just under the casting bar.  The left one is spell priority which tells me the most important spell that is ready to cast.  The one on the right is just a dot that is instant cast and I use it to show me the global cd.  So, the combination of that and the casting bar tells me when to cast.  Spell priority tells me what to cast.

Also, there was no target in this particular SS as I was doing AE.  Usually there is, of course.

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