Redoing My UI: X-Perl
The next part of my UI that I decided to tackle was the raid frames. As you can see in the screenshot below of my old UI, I had the standard raid frames (sections 2 and 3) - big, clunky, and not very pretty.
When I wrote my last article on my UI and mentioned that I wanted to work on the raid frames next, a couple of my readers suggested that I try either Pitbull or X-Perl. I’ve heard good things about both of those, but I’ve also heard that Pitbull is not very user friendly and can prove difficult in setting up. So I figured I’d try X-Perl first and see what I thought of it.
Here are the preliminary results, from a raid in Gruul’s last night.
I have to say I’m pretty pleased with things so far, but not entirely satisfied yet. I really like the raid frames’ new look, and I’m able to get a lot more on the screen, but everything is very cluttered now with the amount of stuff that I’m showing. As you can see in the screenie, I’m showing every buff for everyone in my group, which isn’t necessary, and I’m also showing a box for everyone in the 25-man raid, which is also not totally necessary (although I do like being able to see the entire raid at a glance).
So I think I’m gonna play around with the buff and group display options some more and hopefully whittle some of that down. Overall I’m very pleased with X-Perl. Very easy to get set up, intuitive options and menus, and it saves your settings across all of your characters (per account) so you don’t have to configure it for each new toon.
Other Notes
If, like me, you have multiple accounts and want to use the same settings across all of your characters, your X-Perl settings are saved in WTF/Account/AccountName/SavedVariables/XPerl.lua. Once you’ve gotten one account set, just copy that file into your other accounts and you won’t have to configure them manually.
Also, in that second screenshot, see how I’m number one on the DPS chart? In the interest of being totally honest, I must say that it didn’t last long.
Table of contents for Redoing My UI
- Redoing My UI
- Redoing My UI: Bartender
- Redoing My UI: X-Perl
- Sorting Through The Buff Clutter
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