Last night my main, Deadicus made the jump to a new realm, Eitrigg and re joined his old buddy and dueling partner Bolt. The transfer went well and took all of 20 minutes to complete, yahooo.

Now the bad news…….. 6 months worth of interface development and addon fine tuning is UP IN SMOKE. When I started up Dead on Eitrigg all my custom interface, addons and macro preferences got left behind on Stormrage, or at least in the Stormrage folder. I figured out how to move my macro files over and now all 60 of my macros are available. But, I can’t figure out which addon .lua files to move to restore my addpn preferences. I’ve made copies and dropped them in all the folders I can think of with no luck. Anyone got any suggestions for which files need to get moved and to where I should move them?

Before anyone asks…… YES, they are enabled and up to date from todays patch.

The other day I posted about my new UI based on Discord Action Bars which is commonly referred to as Flexbar without all the coding. Today Jonas Luster posted a screenshot of his Flexbar based UI along with some details of what’s going on. Since the shot looks like it was taken mid raid there’s a lot going on, I’d love to see what it looks like without being in a group or having anything targeted.

The learning curve is steep but the speed makes it worth the investment of time and money. Imagine not having to look at your keyboard or having to mouse click a talent on screen. I’ve got Deadicus, lvl 57 warrior all set up with three stance modifier keys and all his talents accessible with my left hand. My right hand is on the mouse for click and double clicking. My eyes never leave the screen and I don’t have to grab those quick glances at the keybindings. Since it’s only day 1.5 with the N52 I’m still messing up in ultra fast 2-3 mob pve but I figure another 3-4 weeks and I’ll be as good as ever.

After a month a pestering by Michael I finally took the plunge and set up Discord Action Bars. I’d been running quite a few UI mods prior to this but what I wanted was less stuff on my screen, not more and DAB seemed to offer just that. In hindsight I’m kind of pissed that I didn’t take a “before” image, but I’m sure this post will serve as the “before” with my next round of tweeks. This was my first try, but I think I have something pretty workable at the moment. Here’s what the UI looks like for Paineater, my lvl 41 undead shadow priest, in default mode - that is with no targets selected (basically for just running around):

Before I get asked, that circular health bar around my toon is SM Unit Frames, the info at the top is Titan Bar and the XP bar at the bottom is BEB. So how do I do anything? Good question, keep reading to see some of the other modes.
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