Reader UI of the Week: Raiding without the clutter

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Each week, WoW Insider and Mathew McCurley bring you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs as well as Addon Spotlight , which spotlights the latest user interface addons. Have a screenshot of your own UI that you’d like to submit? Send your screenshots along with info on what mods you’re using to readerui@wowinsider.com , and follow Mathew on Twitter. One of the more common criticisms that commenters and players make about most user interfaces they see anywhere, this column included, is that interfaces that are made for raiding never show their true colors. Raiding players have a huge amount of clutter on their screen, from timer bars and boss health frames to cooldown notifiers and a bunch of meters. Well, not all raiding user interfaces are cluttered messes, and it’s actually easier than you think to contain the cacophony of interface elements. Our featured UI this week was crafted by Scalions, a raiding rogue on the Stormrage server. His UI takes all of the cluttered, messy aspects of the common raider’s user interface and works with those pieces to add them to the whole, rather than tacking them on as an afterthought. Let’s talk raid UI elements! Continue reading Reader UI of the Week: Raiding without the clutter Filed under: Add-Ons , Reader UI of the Week Reader UI of the Week: Raiding without the clutter originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink