Vranx User Interface for TBC

Vranx UI - Questing
Questing
Vranx UI - Party
Party
Vranx UI - Open Frames
Open Frames

Action Bar

Action bar screenshotDominos — ActionBar replacement mod. Provides you with all the features needed to fully customize most aspects of your action and related bars. Use tullaRange to color out of range action buttons.

Masque — button skinner with Masque Cainyx skin.

Buffet — generates macros that will put the best food/water available into a button, the buttons will automatically switch to health and mana potions when in combat. You can press shift to see bandages.

Clean Icons - Mechagnome Edition — replaces the default icons with a clean, better look.

LiteButtonAuras — shows your buffs on you and your debuffs on your target inside your action buttons with a colored border and timer.

OmniCC — adds cooldown text to any button with a cooldown.

Highlight Missing Hotbar Spells screenshotHighlight Missing Hotbar Spells — highlights spells in your spellbook that are missing from your action bars, including spells that have a higher rank than the one on your action bar.


Auction

Auctionator screenshotAuctionator — designed for casual everyday auction house users. Auctionator makes the auction house easier to use by presenting auction house listings clearly and succinctly and by eliminating the tedium involved in posting and managing auctions.

TradeSkillMaster screenshotTradeSkillMaster — I use this addon to keep track of item prices over time. In the screenshot you can see I am keeping track of historical prices along with market value and current minimum buyout. In order to get the prices in the tooltip you will need to install the TSM Desktop Application. Once installed it will automatically detect your classic era server.


Bags

Baganator screenshotBaganator — a comprehensive single or categories view bag addon. I use this addon in categories view. You can create custom categories.


Buffs | Debuffs | Cooldowns | Reminders

Buffwatch Classic screenshotBuffwatch Classic — buff monitoring tool for all classes which lets you easily and clearly keep track of any buffs on yourself or your party/raid, and also allows you to quickly recast your buffs at the click of a button.

WeakAuras — allows the display of customizable graphics to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information.
This addon has a learning curve so it may not be good for a casual player, however there are many premade weakauras that you can import at wago.io. If you want to make your own weakauras check out the WoWHead Guide.


Castbar

vCast screenshot

vCast — my castbar addon built using Google Gemini. Features include:

  • /vcast dark - lets you change how dark the border is, .5 is default
  • /vcast scale - change castbar scale by percentage, 1.0(100%) is default, .9 is 90%, 1.1 is 110%
  • /vcast tex - lets you choose a castbar texture from installed SharedMedia files

Chat

vTooltip screenshot

vChat — my chat addon built using Google Gemini. Features include:

  • /vchat font - lets you chose a font from installed SharedMedia files
  • can put font of your choice in addon folder, name it font.ttf
  • applies an outline to font
  • sound when someone posts in guild chat, toggle on/off with /vchat guild
  • player levels in guild chat
  • short channel names, G for guild, 2 for Trade
  • back to bottom button when scrolled up
  • edit box on top with color for chat type
  • keybinds for guild, party, say, raid/instance
  • clickable url's
  • deletes guild message of the day

Cleaner Loot Messages — reduce loot messages to a minimum for clearer information.

devnull — when you enter a capital city it will ignore /yell, spammy NPCs, duel spam, emotes except those directed at yourself, drunk spam and tradeskill spam.

CCleaner screenshotChatCleanerClassic — customizable chat filter using both white and black lists. I updated this addon for TBC: CCleaner


Combat

Loss of Control Alerter screenshotLoss of Control Alerter — gives you immediate feedback the moment your character loses control in combat. Instantly knowing you are stunned, silenced, rooted, or disarmed is crucial for survival.


Data Bars | Data Broker

Bazooka screenshotBazooka — adds information bars on the top or bottom of the screen which provide data broker plugin support. I have my bar set to only appear on mouseover.

Broker Everything — a collection of modules to display various information in game about the game. Modules I use: Gold, XP, Professions, Durability, Volume, Clock.


Fonts

I use Proxima Nova as my main UI font and Proxima Nova Condensed for chat. These are paid Adobe fonts but if you search online you can find some free downloads. For directions on replacing game fonts go to the Fonts page.


Frames

BlizzMove — makes the Blizzard windows movable.

NoAutoClose — stops most of the in-game frames from automatically closing when you open something else.


Gear

vCarrot — my mount speed addon built using Google Gemini. Equips and unequips riding gear including Riding Crop, Skybreaker Whip, Carrot, enchanted gloves and boots with spurs. Plus it should auto-equip Charm of Swift Flight while a druid is in Flight Form or Swift Flight Form, unable to test this yet.

Extended Character Stats screenshotExtended Character Stats — lists all the available stats not displayed in the character info pane by default. You can configure per character all the values you want to see and hide the ones you don't care about.

Simple Item Levels — show item levels on: the character panel, the inspect panel, weapons, armor, and artifact relics in bags. Shows missing enchants and gems on character panel.

SimpleSet screenshotSimpleSet — lightweight equipment set manager. Save and load gear sets from the character panel with two dropdown menus. Adds a lock icon to items included in a set in your bags.


Graphics

Clean Icons screenshotClean Icons - Mechagnome Edition — replaces the default game icons to change the look without using a mod.

SharedMedia — inserts media (textures, bars, borders, etc.) into LibSharedMedia's storage. They can then be selected by any addon that supports LibSharedMedia. I have collected many fonts and statusbar textures which I insert into my own SharedMedia for my UI.


Healing

Clique — simple addon that enables click-casting and hover-casting on your unit frames and in the game world. You can bind virtually any mouse or keyboard combination to a spell or macro. In its normal configuration this enables you to use the bindings over your unit frames in order to cast spells directly on that unit.


Interface Options

Leatrix Plus screenshotLeatrix Plus — a collection of game settings. There are many available settings, I use the following: Automate Quests, Automate Gossip, Sell Junk Automatically, Repair Automatically, Block Duels, Hide Combat Log, Block Drunken and Duel Spam, Hide Error Messages, Enhance Quest Log - Double Wide, Enhance Trainer Frame, Show Wowhead Links for Quests, Show Flight Timer Bar, Manage Buff Frame, Set Weather Density, Max Camera Zoom, Mute Various Game Sounds, Faster Auto Loot, Faster Movie Skip, Easy Item Destroy.


Inventory

Syndicator screenshotSyndicator — shows in tooltips where your items are in all your characters bags, banks, mail, auctions, and all your gold and currencies. In the screenshot I have a total of 460 Mistletoe spread across 5 characters bags and banks.


Looting

Clam Pulp — automatically opens clams once looted.


Macros

Ground Clutter Macro

Clicking it will alternate between no ground clutter and high ground clutter. This is great for finding herbs or quest items that can be hard to see in tall grass.

/run local g="graphicsGroundClutter";SetCVar(g,GetCVar(g)=="0" and 9 or 0)
Left/Right Click on One Button

Left click will cast one ability, right click will cast the other. In the example left click casts Blessing of Might, right click is Blessing of Wisdom.

/cast [btn:2] Blessing of Wisdom; Blessing of Might
Modifiers on One Button

Click will cast one ability, holding shift or control while clicking will cast the others. In the example click casts Teleport: Stormwind, Shift-Click Teleport: Ironforge and Control-Click Teleport: Darnassus.

/cast [nomod] Teleport: Stormwind; [mod:shift] Teleport: Ironforge; [mod:ctrl] Teleport: Darnassus
Weapon Swap Macro

For Paladins and Warriors, this will swap your 2H weapon with your 1H/Shield. Works in combat.

#showtooltip
/equip Name of Shield
/equip Name of 1H Weapon
/equip Name of 2H Weapon

Mail

Gnomish Inbox Shrinker screenshotGnomish Inbox Shrinker — replaces the default inbox UI with a minimalistic, scrolling list that gives you a much better overview and no paging.


Map

Leatrix Maps screenshotLeatrix Maps — adds enhancements to the World Map. You can show dungeons and raids, travel points for same faction (flight points, boat harbors, zeppelin towers and tram stations), travel points for the opposing faction, spirit healers and zone crossings.

TomTom screenshotTomTom — your personal navigation assistant in World of Warcraft. Provides a draggable coordinate display, WorldMap display of player and cursor coordinates, and the ability to set waypoints based on coordinates.


Minimap

vMinimap screenshot

vMinimap — my minimap addon built using Google Gemini. Be aware that the configuration is at the top of the lua file and must be done with a text editor, there is no in-game config. Features include:

  • Hide the top zone text button, toggle button, and header border
  • Hide game time texture
  • Hide tracking frame
  • Hide zoom in/out buttons
  • Mouse wheel zoom
  • Make frame darker

Misc

Addon Manargl screenshotAddon Manargl — addon manager that has filters, grouping by dependencies, profiles, autoload profile, ElvUI skin, and many other flexible settings.

SpellBook Abridged — adds a "Rank Filter" to the spell book. Selecting the "Rank Filter" checkbox, you can toggle between displaying the entire spellbook and displaying only the highest rank of spells. Also has a basic Auto Up Rank function. When you learn a new spell that is a higher rank than one you know, this function will replace the previous rank of the spell in your action bars with the newest rank.

TinyPad screenshotTinyPad — simple but powerful notepad addon that's easy to use. I use this addon to store information I can look up quickly, like zone levels in the image. It has not been updated for TBC 2.5.6. Here is an updated version: TinyPad

What's Training? — adds a list of trainer spells to the spell book so you can see what is available, what is coming up and how much they will cost.


Nameplates

Platynator screenshotPlatynator — an easy to customise powerful nameplate addon. It has a nice nameplate editor with instant visual feedback.


PvE

Attune screenshotAttune — collects and shows you your current attunement progress. Gives a clear visual representation of the quest chains that make up the attunements.

GTFO — provides an audible alert when you're standing in something you're not supposed to be standing in. In some cases, you'll be warned before you start taking damage. It's particularly useful for individuals that play with their spell graphics turned down or for those that just need a little extra help.


Quest

Quest log screenshotLeatrix Plus — Leatrix Plus makes the quest log double wide, adds quest levels and adds Wowhead links for quests.

Mob Search — allows you to quickly find and target a specific mob in the game. You can either type in a name or target a mob and hit Add, they will be assigned a raid icon. Each time you click the icon it will target the next closest mob matching that name.

Questie screenshotQuestie — shows where you can pickup quests, turn in quests, where to find mobs and items required for quests, etc. It puts colored markers on your map and minimap for quest objectives. Makes sounds on quest completion. Has an option for quest tracker. Puts icons on your map/minimap for NPCs like trainers so you don't need HandyNotes.

WoW-Pro Guides screenshotWoW-Pro Guides — questing and leveling guides from the WoW-Pro community. I have tried all the major leveling guides: RestedXP, Zygor, Dugi, Guidelime. Most aim to get you leveled as quickly as possible. I like WoW-Pro because it just puts the quests in the right order so you don't have to backtrack. It never tells you to grind or die. If there is an elite quest you can't do just mark it off and move on in the guide.


Reputation

DungeonRep screenshotDungeonRep — adds reputation tooltips to the Reputation panel. Hover any faction to see which dungeons give rep (Normal vs Heroic), what still gives rep at your current standing, whether you own the heroic key, and simple guidance for reaching Revered when needed.


Tooltip

vTooltip screenshot

vTooltip — my tooltip addon built using Google Gemini. I moved the health bar to the top of the frame to look like rTooltip by Zork. Be aware that the configuration is at the top of the lua file and must be done with a text editor, there is no in-game config. Features include:

  • class colored name and health bar
  • guild and guild rank
  • target of target
  • custom texture for health bar
  • quest difficulty coloring for mobs based on your level
  • scale and positioning
  • dark border or item colored borders
  • show names with no PvP titles

NOTE: The quest info is being added by Questie.


Tradeskill

Leatrix Plus — Leatrix Plus makes the tradeskill frame double wide.

Molinari — allows the player to hold down the Alt key and click on an item in their bags to disenchant or lockpick.

Profession Cooldown screenshotProfession Cooldown — tracks the cooldown of profession abilities across the characters on your account.

ProfGuide screenshotProfGuide — step-by-step TBC Classic profession leveling guide. Tracks your skill, shows what to craft next, includes shopping lists and farming spots for all 14 professions.

Recipe Tracker screenshotRecipe Tracker — tracks unlearned profession recipes and shows where to obtain them. When you open a profession window, Recipe Tracker scans the available recipes and compares them against what your character has already learned. Any unlearned recipes are listed along with their sources, such as profession trainers, vendors, or world drops.


Unit Frames

vUF screenshot

vUF — my unitframe addon built using Google Gemini. Be awware that the configuration is at the top of the lua file and must be done with a text editor, there is no in-game config. Features include:

  • /vuftex lets you select a texture from installed SharedMedia files
  • choose between character photo or class icon for each class
  • scale player, target, focus, party and pet below what edit mode allows
  • class colored health bars
  • dark frames
  • hide rest icon and glow
  • hide reaction color on target frame
  • hide red combat glow, still shows combat icon
vPortraits screenshot

vPortraits — I am not currently using this addon, but I wanted it to still be available. I created this addon to go with Matt's Minimal Frames. It is a movable, resizable portrait frame with level and elite indicators. It has 4 commands:

  • /vp scale (scale 0.5 is default)
  • /vp lock (toggles locked/unlocked)
  • /vp level (toggles level visibility)
  • /vp border (toggles Default/Class)


Vendor

GnomishVendorShrinker screenshotGnomishVendorShrinker — creates a simple, compact vendor frame. Recipes you do not yet know are highlighted in blue, items you cannot use are highlighted in red.