I am loving this thread. I recently twiddled with my UI fairly significantly, but after this thread got started, I went back and made some tough decisions on what was there because it needed to be, versus what was there "because I could" (yeah, I had raid target frames :P), and managed to strip out a lot of redundant or distracting stuff. The biggest thing, functionally, was removing my player, target, and target's target frames, since these resided in the top left corner of my screen. I found myself fixated on my player frame while raiding -- watching energy, threat, and CPs, and having all that information so far removed from the heart of the action can be dangerous (like not noticing that I'm standing in a cave-in until I've taken a tick or two, which sucks on grow #10).
I've kept my action bars (although I've scaled them down considerably) -- I find they're just too handy not to have. One thing I would like, though, is to be able to adjust the alpha of my action bars so that they're faded out when I'm OOC -- a similar idea to what, say, IceHUD does. I'm using BT3, but that option doesn't seem to be available (there's a fadeaway option, which I'm using for non-essential abilities like GotW and professions, but it's all-or-nothing, no option to set the alpha for that). Is there another bar mod out there that allows you to set the alpha for in-combat/out-of-combat that still offers the features that BT3 does? Or have I missed an option in BT3?
The other thing I'm looking for is a decent cooldown bar mod that fully supports druid abilities. I had one that looked like what I wanted, but irritatingly did not display cat form or bear form cooldowns unless I opened the spell book and flipped to the Feral tab (so, pretty much useless). Or it would do funny things like call Enrage Innervate. I don't recall which mod it was, it might have been oCD. Any druids out there have a cooldown bar mod that doesn't do this (preferably one that displays timers for abilities and items)?
edit:
Okay, here's what this thread has done for me:
Before
After
Changes include:
- autohiding FuBar
- Removing Player, Target, and Target's Target frames (since that info is all available via IceHud)
- Removing my Shapeshift bar (I should know those buttons by now)
- Removing the Bag Bar
- Setting the action bar on the side of my screen to fade out
- Cleaned up my Mini Map
- Got rid of those silly Raid Target frames (just because you can, doesn't mean you should!)
- Using Aloft now for targets
...incidentally, the before pic was taken mere seconds before Benevolent Mr. Pinchy picked a fight with one of the channellers while we were still setting up, wiping the raid. Best wipe ever!