Hello everyone,
Lately I saw a lot of cries from people in-game and a few friends also, about missing "the greatest addons from recent expansions". Someone cried about nameplates, someone about unit frames, healing grid, debuffs, etc. My question was "Did you ever hear about ElvUI? instead of those things you're calling UI and addons?" and they respond "We don't use that crap, blah blah..".
Before you judge by the look of my settings you should first check everything inside this guide and set ElvUI as you like! Yes, it's 100% customizable and moveable. You can place, move, or lock everything you see on your screen wherever you like. Including bonus addons you use (Recount, maybe Cartographer, etc..), I'll give you a few notes about them.
This is how my ElvUI looks like right now.
Let's return to basic things and setting everything up properly.
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Why should I use ElvUI?
- You'll find the answer using it. In short lines - the more you use it the more you'll like it.
- ElvUI is simple. Beautiful. It has everything you need. It requires little time to set up. Good for PVP, great for raiding! Awesome for everyone, 8+ or 88+.
Download ElvUI:
GitHUB | Download Last Version
Info and notes:
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Extraction and placement:
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Beginners Guide for ElvUI
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Instant Installation:
- My advice for you, at the start disable all other addons just so you can set it up without any distractions.
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An IMPORTANT thing to do after your interface finishes reloading is moving the things you DON'T like or would like to reposition.
In ElvUI you have an option to do so by using GRID system, a set of horizontal and vertical lines you can use to get rid of your OCD ;)
GRID and Anchors:
- Hit the Enter button on your keyboard and type /ec or ESC and click ElvUI button on your screen.
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Everything else you would like to enable or disable is inside the Settings window of ElvUI (type /ec).
When you're satisfied with the look, you can simply lock everything and proceed with everyday use if you like. For more custom things, and things I did personally, there's a section bellow.
Advanced Guide for ElvUI
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Sections of Advanced Guide:
1. General Settings
2. Action Bars and Keybindings
3. Auras
4. Bags
5. Chat
6. DataBars
7. DataTexts
8. Maps
9. NamePlates
10. Tooltip
11. UnitFrames
12. Plugins
13. Profiles
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1. General Settings
- A lot of things to play with. Let’s cover the important ones.
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2. Action Bars and Keybindings
- Every "pro" player, and every MMORPG player will normally use keybindings to make his plays faster by simply binding spells to keys and getting used to them. We all know - there's no good healer without mouse-over reactions, tank without defensive cd's and dps without fast keybindings and good rotation.
Keybindings ARE important.
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3. Auras
- Playing with the Buffs/Debuffs section near the minimap, the things you ask for when you're screaming for Paladin buffs.
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4. Bags
- ElvUI has pretty interesting way of managing your bag space. If you enable this thing all your bags will be displayed as ONE big bag full of different things you collected, similar to the Bagnon addon.
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5. Chat
- I bet you’ll like it a lot, you’ll have so much freedom to experiment with the chat, freedom that you never had before.
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6. DataBars
- I have them both enabled, XP bar and Reputation Bar.
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7. DataTexts
- Use this to make custom things to follow bellow each of the chat windows, down in the left corner and down in the right corner.
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8. Maps
- With Cartographer this one is good, without it, it can be even better!
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9. NamePlates
- Here you can find a lot of things to play with, but ElvUI default set for this is extremely good and I would not change a thing.
Go through them, read everything and change something if you’d prefer it in another way.
Enemy Player Frames and Enemy NPC Frames are good for me, I love them and I changed only a few things there. I like to see class color when I'm attacking someone, and I also like to see the NPC level and Elite Icon.
10. Tooltip
- When you mouseover something or someone in the game, you see a little popup message which we call Tooltip. This is an option window, and you can customize it. There's no need for me to go through things because it's good and you shouldn't change it.
11. UnitFrames
- Important for you. Important for everyone. Play with this a lot!
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12. Plugins
- On ElvUI Github I linked above you can download all the plugins you want, need, or you can simply skip them.
You install them by downloading and Copy-Pasting to Addons folder. NOT inside ElvUI folder. Remember!
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13. Profiles
- You can Import/Export the whole Profile or some Filters so you can move to another computer or friend. Also, you can make each profile for different spec and in one click change them whenever you change the spec.
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If you liked this guide, you can send some tips via in-game mail. Also, share your ElvUI Settings with us. Enjoy! :)