Can we get a video that goes over, like, "Liquid's Week 1 for War Within" where you go over the prep for a new expansion and what your players are expected to do in that time? Obviously no need to divulge specifics but just to get a sense of the overall level of play, mentality, and progression to be at the highest level? And how much time goes into things like planning leveling routes for your raiders, planning gear acquisition week 1 etc?

lol that warlock is a god, his party are just nameless vessels

I love the idea of gamers grading eachothers UI's as if any of us are organized or have any motivation to spend time on a UI. 99% of players fucking toggle anchors, move shit from time to time, "oops, those health bars are slightly overlapping, I'll fix that later" 5 months later: "Why are these health bars overlapping?

the DH at 28:00 is a legend. he downloaded luxthos UI and enhanced it with the most confusing hieroglyphics

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA MAX. I FEEL ATTACKED. MSBT PORKY SINCE 2007

I love that I get to see Ben's UI here because I use the same concept for my healthbar being in the middle and people hate SO much on me for my UI (Zeff UI on Wago) because it doesn't follow the normal trend of Player Left, Target Right but I really think that UI is so so personal and for me it work. Awesome video :)

the super wide picture is probably compressed to be able to share it on discord, as the original pic probably goes way above the size limit for files

I've been using a widescreen, 21:9 not the gigawide, for years and to be honest I do think its very useful for WoW, sometimes it helps clean up space in the middle by moving unnecessary windows to the sides like the chat window or minimap. I found it particularly useful on Fyrakk cause if I angled my camera the right away I could see the orbs during phase 1 coming across my screen giving me plenty of time to react. Also makes it easier to keep all enemies and mechanics on screen for a fight like Council of Dreams where the bosses are running around constantly

1:30 I still use the OG style with frames up left, buffs / debuffs top right, and action bars down at the bottom. I like the clean look, less clutter in the middle. I'm using a 27" QHD panel.

I love the UI ratings videos. Would love it to be a more regular thing

27:15 Idk why but the nameless raid frames are hilarious to me. That warlock really is the main character and we're all just nameless NPCs

5:30 is a perfect way of showing absorbs, like its so obvious and as a healer you dont wanna waste too much time seeing who you need to targetheal

31:48 The partial fill Holy Power circle is likely a timer for the Divine Resonance Judgement procs so you don’t overcap on HP accidentally.

i love that the editor is throwing shade at max, best editor keep them forever

Decursive right now is usually used for the sound byte every time someone needs a dispell and then you just regularly dispel with a mouse over macro from frames, but it is impossible to completely remove that frame so thats probably why that resto shammy had it on the side almost invisible

People are not the same. While you may have trouble when information is spread & not focused, others like create a system & purposefully divide them across the screen. At least half of the information is situational & can be looked at when the situation demands it (brain will give you a que when to take a quick peek). There is a reason why MMORPG UI can be modified & repositioned by the user..

Love these viewer UI/setup videos

i heal mythic for my guild and pove decursive as a glance over to see if any dispels need going out. just its just really easy to see

1:50 When I started in mop I remember getting headaches when I played WoW, and when I after some time moved my health bar/enemy frame closer to the middle of the screen they disappeared. Thats how bad it is.

Max’s view into the minds of us raiders is everything I wanted in WOW content

I raided with 8:00 Dreadfury during HFC. Dude was a monster of a DK and that is 100% his real UI he played with. Not just a meme

I still use decursive, never even thought to change it to something else xD

1:50 in and I already feel called out lol

As someone who completely agrees that default MSBT is awful, especially because of the Porky font, but if you configure it properly, it’s MUCH cleaner than random floating combat text cluttering the screen everywhere every single time that you AoE. Just need to change the font, remove sticky crits, reduce the size and opacity, disable the Static window, and turn off all notifications except for entering and exiting combat. Trust me, it’s MUCH cleaner than default Blizz UI floating combat text.

Thinking about atrocious addons I used, during Cataclysm (back when that was retail's latest expansion) I used an addon called "Comix" solely for the amusement I got from landing crits on the target.

As someone who started playing 6ish months ago when wotlk dropped, I still use default ui with a 27inch monitor.

Gotta admit, that warlock even tho he don't care about anyone in his raid his UI is kinda goated 26:52

I'm a healer main, to this day I use Grid. Grid customization and tracking goes hard. Like, I actually can't wrap my head around healers that don't run Grid or default frames+WA.

Holy shit my brain couldnt handle all those things in the middle of the screen. I have 3 smaller actions bars in the middle two longs from top to bottom and thats it. I got my healthbar and the enemies over my 3 action bars and thats it.

WoW UI's look like someone threw a ball pit at the wall and headed off to raid

Decursive used to be huge when debuff frames were worse. I used it on my mage ALL the time/was required

ive been playing wow since 2004. I was born in 2001, so its fair to say I grew up pressing keys for my dad and over 20 years of experience I know how to make good UIs. Holy crud, what are these UIs XD

I still have my debuffs on top right but moved bars somewhere around middle... I still play with the default bars, having abilities both at bottom and right side of screen... Ive also kept me wa's to a bare minimum only using some extras for my class, dragonflying and for any bosses if needed

The only thing that bugs me about some of these is the fact that the cameras are always zoomed out. I hate playing with the camera zoomed out like that.

Honestly it doesnt matter what your UI is as long as you are comfy and perform its fine. I look at Yoda for example man doesnt even use a whole as Weakaura bar just Procs, buffs ect for his class and got all his bars in the middle. I thought for the longest time i cant tell anybody that mine is the same but oh well :D

I imagine it like a batter's box in baseball. You're fucked if your UI is in the center of your screen and your vision of the close-proximity of your character is compromised. Nothing belongs in the middle except damage numbers. There's a reason top PvPers use near default UI

Never had an addon for my ui, default baby!

Dude I need that guy with the transparent frames to show me how to apply that to my raid frames so they can be like 60% instead of solid

I use one but I am visually impaired so it allows me to increase the size of all my mods which makes it easier for me to see important details. Mine's only a 34 inch but it is helpful.

I absolutely hate having everything in the middle of my screen. makes me claustrophobic.

I still use the classic ui. My ret pally dont need all that fancy stuff

How do I get details to look like 26:55 ? Anyone know the texture?

Reupload?

23:44 made me LMAO so much -from a main mage.

as a healer almost everything is mouseover for me, it's so fckn easy

what addon are you using for your UI and can u send a Import String for the Settings as well pls? Yours looks pretty clean i want that 2 mate ! :D

I have the same healing standard ui as him, it might not look as clean, but I have the boss bars on the right side, special abilities goes off mid top screen, so I continually uses my eyes all over my screen so I don't miss anything happening in the room, because iam an old school player I only need to see the mechanic once to get it so I don't need auras to tell me what's happening other than when a player is going to get hit by a dangerous ability

I've personally have trained myself and used my UI to make it so I dont have to look at my bar or skills to be optimal

probably not common but I play only with controller and use the addon "consoleport" for ui. when I play aff I either have a wa or an older addon called warlock wizz that puts dots around the middle of the screen on the sides of my character

Just play warrior or rogue and deactivate raid frames. Don't need that ish

I think placing everything in the middle is stupid, partially for the reason that was mentioned in the video, but also because you end up blocking a lot of the middle of the screen, where there'll often be mechanics going on. I use a very minimalistic default-like UI where I have my hotbars at the bottom and the side bars and I have the raid UI on the left side. Most of my information is therefore on the edges of the screen, which means I only have mechanics to worry about in the middle. If you tend to have tunnel vision then that's obviously not good, but you'll only reward tunnel vision more if you place everything in the middle, making it even harder to get rid of it.

What I don’t understand about some of the UIs is, what’s the point of having multiple personal resource bars close to each other… for example last UI. Guy has health and mana display in the middle, to the left there’s another personal resource display, a bit higher there are party frames where he can see himself in group (for some reason people keep that?) where he can see his personal resources ONCE AGAIN! I mean, if you got 5 people in the group display 4 party members and use basic character info frame as 5th option 🤷‍♂️

10:55 Gcd tracker is so bis. I stream my char progression and watch the vod back to see what I can do better/ what I did wrong. It’s great for learning your rotation as well. Record yourself for 5 mins then watch it back and question every button press.

Yo I got a question not about the uis but about when u launch a character why does it look different in the selection screen is it an Addon?

I treat my game ui like I use my eyes while driving, need to be in the center for basic stuff but look around the view box for abnormalities. If that makes sense.

Hey there, question for all the healers (especially decursive users). I'm newish to WoW and very new to healing. For cleansing, I've just used the standard mouseover through healbot. When I first saw decursive I thought it'd be annoying to have to move my mouse away from the frames and then click to cleanse. I thought it'd take more time to do that and that using my mouseover on normal frames makes it more clear who I'm even cleansing. I already have my frames change color based on the type of debuff affecting someone so I'm doing fine with that too. Basically I feel like I don't have any issues with the way I already do things, tend to even have top dispels when I raid, but am I just totally missing something that would actually make my life easier here?? I'm seeing so many people saying they love it.

Love decursive

man, GPU temperature made me laugh so hard omg

My question is can you share that desktop wallpaper? 😂

I legit play with standard UI and only a few macros / bare minimum addons. Maybe time to upgrade soon. So tidious though to setup.

anyone know where to get the dragonriding ui from 2:00 ?

How do you get that text font in the beginning?

12:58 disc has like 4 buttons to cast for DPS, and renew/pws/pwr😂😂

I am playing old school all the way and I am consistently in the top of my ranking. looks like a players skill problem to me :p

i really like the Warlock UI, is it custom or Wago or seomething?

I use the default WoW UI, but i move the character portraits and target portraits to the middle next to my screen. Pretty much it. I hate the admin and the shit ton of addons needed for all these modern UIs. there it soo much stuff on the screen. Default UI with some minor weak aura and Dmg UI stuff is enough for me.

As a zoomed who religiously uses decursive on my healers. Watching max roast decursive and chat calling it a boomer add on is so real. I use it because my dad used it but it’s so good. But I get clowned on by everyone for using it because they have no clue what it is. xD

Decursive is awesome

where was the ranking brother

I only heal really, i keep my HP frames pretty small it blocks way to much for me if they are big and less mouse movement between frames

Porky is for classic and crits

as a long time healer, the concept of having a heal absorb show as an effect is really not good, theyre pretty fuckin rare and theres already enough color and gradient based shit going on with raids and health bars, the number tells you quickly who needs a heal, those numbers appear so rarely in a raid that its immediately obvious it needs to get healed or something i have played wow off and on since vanilla beta with bind on pickup was introduced to the game, decursive originally was incredibly op and made all your choices for you, that ended at some point during vanilla, they blocked addons from making decisions for you, since that time i have had raid/party frames colored for dispells (blue magic, purple curse, green poison, yellowish disease, and only shown if its something you CAN dispel) but lately there are so fucking many different things taht matter to dispell its becoming an issue because magic is the most common, but there are sometimes other more important dispells that i need to do but theyre hidden behind the blue magic box, they have gone so far overboard with how many dispells need to happen its become very painful (in m+)

i would love for him to see my ui lol

how can i get ur ui max ?

@1:14 I don't understand how/why anyone would play a game with this much clutter on the screen. By all that is holy it just gets worse the more of the video I watch.

Wait the #1 raider in the US only started in Cata? Wtf I had no clue. So no wonder you didn't play classic. You never had that nostalgia to began with. You gonna place "Classic" Cata?

I dont think a custom ui is worth it the wow standard ui does everyting really

im also a healer my ui is more fked i use healbot and smacked it middle of the screen so i can't see anything else and just wait and listen to DBM scream and GTFO to tell me to move haha... i disabled my actions bars so i only use healbot

wait you don't have your hp bar in the top left anymore?

My fav UI is the default UI. I want as little clutter on my screen as possible

see over

Ppl always pad, I just laugh

NSCT > MSBT, it's just superior

My man is runnin CCleaner in 2024, nothing can stop him

I hate how WoW is so over reliant on the UI for gameplay information, it is just a perfect example of shit game design. You can entirely ignore in-game models and just focus on the UI with all your stupid bars and icons and frames. It has gotten so bad that when a mob is doing something you should be aware of you don't pay attention to the mob's model but its frigging UI frame. Due to this I've lost all feelings of immersion I used to have with the game. All you look at to "pLaY aT mAxIMuM pErFOrmaNCE" is the position and current animations of the UI. "oh shit no there's a healthbar over there and it is filling up a purple bar, somebody go press their interrupt ability on the healthbar!".

I play with the "old school" style UI and on a 50" Tv. Never had any issue tracking anything... I don't really need to stare at my buttons and why do I need to know my exact % of health. I know when I got hit by something without staring at my health. UI in the middle of the screen makes no sense... You can't see the game. wth.

Bro's talking about looking at a screens like it's a fuckin formula 1 car. Learn to eyes bro. it's not that complicated. Unless you're using an Imax screen?

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anyone that thinks UI makes a big difference like this is delusional, I use base WoW UI and perform better than majority of players and I barely play the game nowadays.

i'm a big decursive hater

i came back to wow to know that users are selling their UIs. lmao what a bunch of jokers.

twitch chat on screen is SO annoying

The worst part about games today is that some of them are only kept alive because streamers play them everyday for money. If streamers didn’t exist, world of Warcraft would not exist today. Same with a lot of other games that should’ve died

The first few minutes of this video, I agree. I try so hard to get crap out of the middle of the screen cause that's where my view focus usually is at, and I pay good attention to my peripherals as well. Although at the same time, I jerk the camera around like a whip so I also don't use my peripherals outside of boss fights.

Guy with cursed UI rating other's cursed UIs What a mess

default UI with recount, needing any more is because your bad.

when i heal i like looking at damage taken, just because i can see who's regularly standing in stupid shit to give them special attention lol