Wednesday, February 11, 2009

UI update

I downloaded Dominos for my action bars and I am in love. IN LOOOOOOVE. Which is appropriate for the current WoW holiday, isn't it?

But there is one problem, which may not be a problem at all. Dominos is obviously meant for players at end-game, because it shows no XP bar. I got my rep at the top of the screen, my action bars all in the lower right corner, and no XP bar in sight. This is fine on Ideale or Ahami, since they're both 80, but I logged into Onashne and I have absolutely no idea how far into 37 she is.

It's kind of, to completely misuse a term, zen.

The problem is that Onashne needs to hit 58 around the time E. hits 58-60, so we can hit Outland together. After that, I'd be cool with vanished XP bars, but right now, I'd really like to see what I'm doing.

I guess I could comment on Curse and see if anyone has a solution.

Other mods tried: X-Perl. I tried to give it a good shot, I really did, but I keep dying in AV over and over and over again because it's literally too much information. I have a lot of trouble weeding out information — it's one of the reasons I fail at math. So having too much information, instead of helping me heal, actually destroyed my reaction time. My healing per game has dropped from an average of 275K-300K all the way down to 18K on my last match, and that was the best so far. And my deaths per game went from an average of three or so to something like 15-20.

Eventually, I'm sure I would get used to it and bounce back. A big part of my problem was the newness of it; I was constantly processing everything instead of filtering/ignoring stuff. But I'm too impatient to wait until my brain sorts itself out, plus it takes up waaaaay too much screen real estate. So I deleted it.

I'm going to try Grid — it looks much less distracting — but I don't have time today, so it will have to wait.

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