I decided to make myself a new UI using various addons, and I would very much like to hear your thoughts and suggestions about it.
I'm a relatively new Hunter (I made Ehawee around 5 days and 5 hours ago, dinged 85 about 18 hours ago or so), so I still have a lot to learn.
I figured that you people who are more experienced than me at playing a Hunter could give me a few pointers on how to improve my UI a bit more.
('cause I'm fairly certain that I overlooked something...)
Ehawee UI / Ehawee UI with annotations.
And in-case people are playing it safe, here are the links in their address forms.
http://s1097.photobucket.com/albums/g34 ... eeUI-1.jpg
http://s1097.photobucket.com/albums/g34 ... ations.jpg
I was going to post with image tags but it seems like it wouldn't work.
My UI. [Suggestions & thoughts wanted]
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Golden
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Re: My UI. [Suggestions & thoughts wanted]
Oooh, that looks very nice. How do the round things work? I assume they're from something like uPie, but I don't seem to get how exactly you use them - presumably they're hidden until you hit a specific keybind, then what? Clicking? If you only have one of these bars visible at a time, you may want to consider having them all in the same place to avoid having to move your eyes around the screen too much.
You may also want to clear some unused skills from them, or maybe even merge some into a single icon. (Assuming it's possible...) For instance, I have Dismiss Pet and Tame Beast macroed together. Also I do not know about anyone else, but ever since pet happiness was removed, I haven't used Feed Pet once.
Another thing I would like to point out are the cast bars. It might be different for you, but to me it's really hard to see what's going on with them if I have my and my target's cast bars stacked up like that. For the short time I had them positioned similarly to yours, I would constantly fail to notice my target was casting something crucial.
All in all I love the balance your UI has, and the specific spots for your most crucial cooldowns.
You may also want to clear some unused skills from them, or maybe even merge some into a single icon. (Assuming it's possible...) For instance, I have Dismiss Pet and Tame Beast macroed together. Also I do not know about anyone else, but ever since pet happiness was removed, I haven't used Feed Pet once.
Another thing I would like to point out are the cast bars. It might be different for you, but to me it's really hard to see what's going on with them if I have my and my target's cast bars stacked up like that. For the short time I had them positioned similarly to yours, I would constantly fail to notice my target was casting something crucial.
All in all I love the balance your UI has, and the specific spots for your most crucial cooldowns.
Re: My UI. [Suggestions & thoughts wanted]
Hey Golden! 
They're indeed the OPie rings, they're hidden until I hit specific keybinds ('Q', 'E', 'R', 'F'), I won't have to click anything, I've memorized where they are on the screen and just have to drag my mouse towards it and it will use it automatically once I let the keybind go. (They appear where the mouse is, I only placed them where they are so it would be easier for me to merge the different screenshots into one.
I wasn't sure if they had removed pet happiness or not, I just never really got around to checking it out. (I know, that was a bit stupid.) But I am indeed going to clear some spells and skills out, thanks for the reminder, I had actually forgotten that I was supposed to do that prior to taking the screenshots.
As for the casting bars, I agree, they are a bit hard to notice sometimes - I just couldn't find a great spot where I could place them, so I actually came up with another solution after I took the screenshots.
I'm using Power Auras to track skills that I will need to dispel/interrupt/keep an eye on - all conveniently placed placed left and right of my minimap. (Left is for some skills that I consider to be of low priority and the right side is for skills that I consider to have a much higher priority than the others.)
I'll definitely work on the things that you pointed out, thanks a lot.
They're indeed the OPie rings, they're hidden until I hit specific keybinds ('Q', 'E', 'R', 'F'), I won't have to click anything, I've memorized where they are on the screen and just have to drag my mouse towards it and it will use it automatically once I let the keybind go. (They appear where the mouse is, I only placed them where they are so it would be easier for me to merge the different screenshots into one.
I wasn't sure if they had removed pet happiness or not, I just never really got around to checking it out. (I know, that was a bit stupid.) But I am indeed going to clear some spells and skills out, thanks for the reminder, I had actually forgotten that I was supposed to do that prior to taking the screenshots.
As for the casting bars, I agree, they are a bit hard to notice sometimes - I just couldn't find a great spot where I could place them, so I actually came up with another solution after I took the screenshots.
I'm using Power Auras to track skills that I will need to dispel/interrupt/keep an eye on - all conveniently placed placed left and right of my minimap. (Left is for some skills that I consider to be of low priority and the right side is for skills that I consider to have a much higher priority than the others.)
I'll definitely work on the things that you pointed out, thanks a lot.