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World of Warcraft User Interface Recommendations

Nameplate Mods

Aloft acapela

An addon that allows you to customize and enchance how nameplates and nameplate casting bars appear in the game.
WoWInterface

atrNamePlates Atrophia

Nameplates made to accompany atrUF, though they should also work seperately.
Config: Lua
WoWInterface

caelNamePlates Caellian

Sexy Nameplates addon. Features: Reskinned the default nameplates: both health and castbar, Reskinned the aggro colouring system, Reuse Blizzard code keeping memory usage down to 9kb, Automatically enable nameplates when entering combat, Automatically disable nameplates when leaving combat, Hidden level text if the unit is not elite and same level as the player.
WoWInterface

DocsUI Nameplates dr_AllCOM3

Highly customized nameplates made from scratch. Fast (99.2 FPS with these, 100.0 FPS no nameplates), Custom bar texture, Aggro border with automatic tank mode, Unique buff and debuff display, Totems displayed as icons, ToC Faction Champs colored like PvP.
WoWInterface

evl_Nameplates evl

Minimalistic name plates, available in various UI packages including Ryas UI.

kNameplates kandarz

Relatively simple addon that recreates my Aloft nameplates but without all the extra gunk. Features: Lowfoot memory print (18kb), Compact Frames, Name and Level text inside status bar, Level = level if unit HP is 100% otherwise shows remaining HP, Custom Threat Highlighting (same as Aloft default override), Stacking points text for Druids: Combo Points (cat), Lacerate (bear), Warriors: Sunder Armor, Rogues: Combo Points, Paladins: Seal of Vengeance/Corruption stacks.
Curse

NameplateModifier Shadowed

Nameplate Modifier is meant as a basic mod to allow you to expand what nameplates can do, if you want to be able to modify every single little thing then this isn't the mod for you. Can do basic configuration like font and shadow configuration, as well as being able to change the texture of the status bars, or hiding the bar of cast and health.
WoWInterface

ncNameplates nightcracker

ncNameplates is a nameplates modifier addon. There are a lot of nameplate modifiers out there, but this one has the unique function of adding class icons to the nameplate. Well, this isn't completely unique, because Aloft can do this too, but I wanted a lightweight addon that can do this because Aloft is 3MB. Credit to Caellian, pretty much completely copied his code, adapted the fonts, textures and a little mechanics and ofcourse added the class icon.
WoWInterface

TidyPlates danltiger

Tidy Plates modifies the standard unit nameplates, making them a little bit more compact and legible. Most of the standard features have been integrated; Casting bar, aggro indicator, and raid icons.
WoWInterface, Themes

VirtualPlates Saiket

Nameplates are hard to look at. They fill your screen and make an absolute mess when you're fighting lots of mobs. _VirtualPlates gives them depth, so they fit into the game world instead of covering it.
WoWInterface, Curse

Nameplate Graphics

The nameplate graphics are inside the interface/tooltips folder. You need to maintain that structure by placing them into your own interface/tooltips folder inside your WoW folder and they will overwrite the default graphics. If you dont have a tooltips folder create one.

Delsim's NamePlates

Modified graphics for the original Blizzard name plates. These graphics are part of Delsim's UI package.
WoWInterface

Denalian's NamePlates

Modified graphics for the original Blizzard name plates.
Download

Elegance NamePlates

Modified graphics for the original Blizzard name plates. These graphics are part of the Elegance UI package. I believe the original creator is Camma.
WoWInterface

MetzRemix UI

This graphic looks like Tys NamePlates. These are included in the Metz UI package.
WoWInterface

Tys NamePlates

This isnt a mod, they are modified graphics for the original Blizzard name plates. To get them to work you download, unzip and then place the two folders inside your Interface folder.

These graphics were created and posted by Tys in the wowace forums which were changed so the graphics were lost. They have since been reuploaded by Melikae here.