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[trag3dy]

The simple solution to the font thing is to create a folder called Fonts in your WoW (the main folder that has wow.exe and the Interface folder and so on) Directory. Then you can put any 4 fonts you want in there they just have to have specific names.

The fonts need to be named:

ARIALN

FRIZQT_

MORPHEUS

skurri

You can put any fonts you want in there, they just need to have those names. So you could copy any font from your font folder in windows in there and just rename them. Or there is ClearFont2 or tekticles, which is a stripped down version of ClearFont2. Anyways, if you do the first suggestion you don't really need an addon for fonts specifically. Although Clearfont will allow you to adjust font sizes in game.

Yeah..I spend just as much time messing with addons as I do playing, I think it's pretty sad but I like customizing.

Also I don't know if ClearFont2 has been updated to work with Wrath or not.

Edit: After rereading your post I'm not entirely sure I answered your question. The chat addon I use is Chatter. I think it may do what you want.

Edited January 13, 2009 by trag3dy

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Thanks for the info. If you go back a ten posts, you'll see a screenshot posted by Xilo. Basically, that's how I want my UI to look (minus the boss mods). :ermm:

By the way, I'm loving the tekticles mod. Chat text looks so much better now. Thanks again!

[Slane]

Edit: Oh yeah, two really essential addons imo are QuestHelper and Lightheaded. Questhelper will help you easily locate quest objectives, while any that aren't very clear, you can look up in lightheaded wich gives you access to wowhead.com in game. Reduce your alt-tabbing by 90%.

I also use Questhelper and Lighthead when I do all my questing, but I use another mod, called Doublewide. It makes it alot easier to read quests and what not. It makes two windows instead of one for your quests, and combined with Lighthead it's three across, one that list all your quests, the second is the quest itself of whichever one you have selected and the third is Lighthead giving ya info about it and what not.

As for chat addons, I know alot people use Chatter, I personally enjoy Prat.

[trag3dy]

I forgot all about Doublewide. I use that too. But I came across another addon called QuestGuru that has the same functionality built into it along with some more enhancements to the quest list and quest tracker.

Thanks for the info. If you go back a ten posts, you'll see a screenshot posted by Xilo. Basically, that's how I want my UI to look (minus the boss mods). :ermm:

By the way, I'm loving the tekticles mod. Chat text looks so much better now. Thanks again!

He's using a UI created by someone else I believe. He's using Alekk UI. I know this because my current UI is a heavily modded version of the widescreen version of his. If that makes sense.

Edited January 13, 2009 by trag3dy

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Again, many thanks trag3dy. I found a 1680x1050 version of Alekk UI. I'm going to try it later tonight. For now, I must nourish my body with some yummy burgers. :p

[Minifig]

I've finally finished tinkering my UI..

Probably just in time for it to break with the next patch.. but here it is:

Every single thing I need in one easy to read format. :)

[Spookie]

Ok few things puzzle me about your UI:

- Why do you still need the menu buttons? Once you hit level 10 the key binds are normally perma burned in to your memory till you get Alzheimers later in life!

- You need the bags at the top? Combuctor has them built in. If anything you need one button if your B key doesn't work.

- Why the MASSIVE empty space on your hotbars? Why not set them to shrink if you aren't using the buttons or hide them completely till you hover over them if you aren't using them?

- You need two XP bars? Titan Panel LOOOOOOOOVES ram you might as well disable one of them.

Sorry I have OCD when it comes to UI's, their practicality and how neat they are. :p

[Minifig]

Ok few things puzzle me about your UI:

- Why do you still need the menu buttons? Once you hit level 10 the key binds are normally perma burned in to your memory till you get Alzheimers later in life!

- You need the bags at the top? Combuctor has them built in. If anything you need one button if your B key doesn't work.

- Why the MASSIVE empty space on your hotbars? Why not set them to shrink if you aren't using the buttons or hide them completely till you hover over them if you aren't using them?

- You need two XP bars? Titan Panel LOOOOOOOOVES ram you might as well disable one of them.

Sorry I have OCD when it comes to UI's, their practicality and how neat they are. :p

I like the actual visual appeal of seeing the second XP bar.

I suppose I could hide the bags, thats a good point.

Massive empty space for hotbars is because they're organized according to what they do.. Useful things (like Cower animal, and crafting things), Buffs and cures, self buffs or self usable things, and finally attacks.

[trag3dy]

Try Geist. It uses the default bars (action bar number 9 and 10 for me), but you can hide things you don't really need very often until you hit a hotkey that you designate. I put things like my hearthstone, mounts, tradeskill buttons, and food in there.

Edited January 14, 2009 by trag3dy

[Minifig]

Try Geist. It uses the default bars (action bar number 9 and 10 for me), but you can hide things you don't really need very often until you hit a hotkey that you designate. I put things like my hearthstone, mounts, tradeskill buttons, and food in there.

Right.

With your guys advice.. here's the new screenshot:

Geist took a ton of crap off my hot bars.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Andrew-DB

[trag3dy]

A quick question. Are you meant to go through both Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra? I'm assume that it doesn't really matter to much.

[I am Redbeard]

Either zone is meant to start in, but no, you don't have to go through both of them.

I believe Howling Fjord's Lore achievement is only 105 quests where as Borean Tundra's is 150.

If you're like me you'll end up doing both zones.

[trag3dy]

Yeah, I was planning to. I like me some gold and the few blues I can easily pick up.

[Shaun N.]

Right.

With your guys advice.. here's the new screenshot:

Geist took a ton of crap off my hot bars.

I prefer the old one

Edited January 14, 2009 by shaun2312

[Slane]

A quick question. Are you meant to go through both Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra? I'm assume that it doesn't really matter to much.

Everyone should go through both, as even though the quests are would be green in most cases it stills give you full XP like it was yellow. Doing Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra, fully to get the quest achievement in each zone, should put you around 74-75, maybe even 76 if you have enough rested XP. Then I would move onto Grizzly Hills and then Zul'Drak, and hopefully once you move onto Sholazar Basin you will ding before getting the quest achievement, leaving all of Icecrown and Storm Peaks to do that would give full gold at level 80.

[Bawx]

Can anyone help me with my Mage? I'm level 43 and going Frost. I'm looking for the best place to put my points in the talent tree, and can't find one that goes up to level 43. So I have 13 points sitting here and don't know where to put them.

[trag3dy]

I used to play a mage (and still do sorta) so maybe I can help a bit. What's your armory so we can see what you have now?

Some pretty standard tips:

You want talents that increase your dps

You want talents that reduce cooldowns

You want talents that reduce damage you take

You want talents that reduce cost of skills

Maybe not in that order however. Damage is your priority though. You can have all the survivability in the world but if you can't kill anything it's pointless. For soloing that is.

Try something like this.. mage talents

With 2 points left over to put into whatever. I'd probably put them into Improved Blizzard.

Edited January 14, 2009 by trag3dy

[Spookie]

No Brainfreeze? (Free 2k hit on a 15% chance proc with no cooldown)

No frostbite?! (Chance to freeze the mob on your first attack follow up with FB+IL in quick succession and the mob will be on 25-40% before it even begins moving again)

:s

I'd take:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0VcZZAIcc00o @ 43.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0VcZZAIcc0ch0M @ 50.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0VcZZAIccofu0fdgfkt by 80.

From there if you're going PvE go FFB spec. PvP you'd have to ask someone else. Personally I think it's a pile of **** in WoW so don't delve in it.

[Bawx]

Yeah I don't plan to PVP.

So it's ok to put some on Arcane? In other games it was always better to go 100% one tree.

[SMELTN]

Yeah I don't plan to PVP.

So it's ok to put some on Arcane? In other games it was always better to go 100% one tree.

if you are leveling? Screw that put all 61 points in frost.... When you get 80 that is when you start looking at respecing into some points arcane.. or hell after the patch, you may want to go more acane that frost...

My mage

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...ul&n=Smeltn

I am frostfire spec.. BUT remember it is only useful at 80 and after you have "SOME gear".. Honestly I am not geared enough to be doing good dps yet as frostfire.. I would be better off doing frost/arcane.. But I am not really worried about maximizing my dps yet, I am worried about getting gear... And I want to get used to the spec

[Slane]

I am frostfire spec.. BUT remember it is only useful at 80 and after you have "SOME gear".. Honestly I am not geared enough to be doing good dps yet as frostfire.. I would be better off doing frost/arcane.. But I am not really worried about maximizing my dps yet, I am worried about getting gear... And I want to get used to the spec

Truth in this statement. Seen FF spec mages go for lowly 1.5k-2k dps to 4-5k dps after on week in 10/25 raids and getting gear.

[trag3dy]

Ahh. It's been 10 or more months since I really played my mage. Back then the raid spec was fire. Unless you had the right gear to go arcane.

[Spookie]

if you are leveling? Screw that put all 61 points in frost.... When you get 80 that is when you start looking at respecing into some points arcane.. or hell after the patch, you may want to go more acane that frost..

Up to you, but I'm anal about my mana usage and getting the most XP/h. So I <3 clear casting I can chain pull **** tonnes without having to sit down.

I am frostfire spec.. BUT remember it is only useful at 80 and after you have "SOME gear".. Honestly I am not geared enough to be doing good dps yet as frostfire.. I would be better off doing frost/arcane..

See now I tried this after having a good decent set of blues and a couple of heroic purples. My DPS went from round the 1.8k mark being frost/arcane to the 2-2.2k mark (beware FFB is horribly streaky). It's heavily reliant on crit any where round the 30%+ crit on FFB (including glyph, talents but not including the imp scorch) would be a good time to shift focus imo and tbh. To get to that doesn't take long at all.

[Bawx]

Anyone play on Firetree?

I want a good helpful guild with people that play daily.

[Prosidius]

4K Gold later...