razieh

Pantz started a thread like this on the brigand boards ( LINK ) since I love threads like this so much I made one here!!!



thats my UI, grouped with some random person to see the group window! post-em go! ( oh sorry I play on a wide screen and hate losing the resolution when I shrink it so deal with it )

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arieste

so many buttons... head hurt...i barely manage to stay on top of 1 hotbar at a time...then again, most people think i'm crazy for having 1 tool bar.

I really like the text descriptors on the buffs tho...

is yours a combination of different UIs? If so, what's the bit for text descriptors please

i dont have any custom UI, just a simple clean version of the original (at work, so screenie from guild site):

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Illuminator

No offense but when I see only a single toolbar on the screen, it becomes apparent why so many people are slow-responding underperformers especially in raids.

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Oh shit I just had a memwipe, why is retarded uncle Roger still designing raids for this game again?
Some players might bot against encounters but it seems like he bots the encounter design!

Bruised

Hotkey to change tool bar banks.

I don't use it in EQ2 (I have 6 banks), but I used a single bar in wow and used a keystroke to change between bars. MUCH faster than clicking, and I never had to look at the tool bar while in combat.

Argyuile

You know you can cast 3 hotbars with keystrokes right?

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I'll post mine later.

Mine is similar to Raz's but with a different order of keys, I also use 6 stacked bars.

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Kyrsten

I use ProfitUI, with some stuff moved around slightly. I'll have to post a screen later after work. I actually use the same layout for all of my characters.

For actually using the hotbars, years of first person shooters and touch typing has me trained to use both the keyboard and the mouse. All my priority stuff is on hotbars 1 through 3, with keyboard shortcuts active. Since I use WSAD to move around; this works best for me as I'm able to hit whatever I need quickly (MT retarget, wards, heals, cures, debuffs) and still can easily mouse select another target or spell.

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Illuminator

There are three, maybe four, and they keep getting in the fucking way when I hit them accidentally.

Shift + number
Ctrl + Shift + number?
Alt + Shift + number?

Meaning you have to do this before every command that rests on a non-visible bar. That's the sloppy alternative to simply showing more hotbars. How can you see at a glance what all your recast timers are? I'm also curious why Pantheya isn't displaying maintained spell effects and buffs; I'd think this was vital when scheduling your wards.

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Oh shit I just had a memwipe, why is retarded uncle Roger still designing raids for this game again?
Some players might bot against encounters but it seems like he bots the encounter design!

arieste

no offence, but you don't know what you're talking about. different people's memory and intuition work in different ways. while for a visually intuitive person it would be easier to spot the right icon at the 11th position of 6th row of similarly coloured buttons, for more conceptual people it's faster to remember that their regen buttons are on the 6th tool bar and in the middle.

Using my setup, I can (and have when I had some weird gfx glitch) fight complete blind and never look at my toolbar.

people are slow underperformers on raids because they suck at playing their class, not because they have 1 toolbar. that being said, i'm sure some people can benefit from re-arranging their UIs. Personally, my raid would be dead 5 times over if i had to look for a specific cure icon in that huge keyboard of buttons that Razieh has. Which is not to say that it's not the world's greatest thing for him to use. There is no right or wrong when it comes to knowing what is fastest for your brain to access.

in regards to keyboard/mouse, I use keyboard to switch toolbars and to cast the first 5 or so spells, I use mouse to cast the right side of the tool bar. I have all "CAST IT NOW!" type spells such as cures and direct heals in those first 5 and then I have the "Cast calmly" stuff on the right side. With the exception of some combos which are faster to execute using mouse click on right and keyboard key on left in sequence (i.e. ritual on mouse side, heals and cannibalize on keyboard side or emergency ward on one side and follow-up heal on other..).

To be honest, I highly doubt that anyone else in the world would find my setup convenient. But I've been a defiler since pretty much launch and the toolbars have developed and ingrained themselves in my memory in an organic way.

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oddyophile

I'm currently using Fetish Nightfall. I've got my cures on the primary hotbar as 2-7 and the /target <maintank> as 1 so I can click those rapidly while I'm moving the mouse for the next spell. I keep my buffs on a hotbar now that there are mobs that strip them during combat.