2005-02-23

The world's most persistent belt salesman

Finally, here it is: My long-awaited UI mod list:

This is the list of all UI mods that I use, what they do, and why I use them.

  • AllBagsOpen - When you go to a vendor, the auction house, a mailbox, the trade window, or anything along those lines, it automatically opens *all* your bags instead of just your backpack. Perhaps the greatest mod of all time. Replaced 'VendorBags', which I used before discovering this mod, which only did it for vendors.

  • AlphaMap - Allows you to display a transparent copy of the map of the zone you're in on the screen, and you can adjust how transparent, from invisible to completely opaque. It doesn't interfere with controlling your character at all, so you can look at the map and still do whatever it is you're doing.

  • Available Only - Sets the default filter when visiting trainers to showing only the abilities you can learn. I'd rather see those first, then switch to everything, then the other way around.

  • Bag_Status_Meters - Displays little bars on each bag, as well as an overall meter, that tell you how full your bags are.

  • bc_ActionBarDrag - Disables dragging buttons off of the toolbars, which can be toggled with a key-bound press. I don't play sitting in a chair, so I look for things like this.

  • bc_AutoMailSubject - If you drag an item into the 'Send Mail attachment' slot, and the subject line is blank, it automatically fills in the subject line with the name (and number, if stackable) of the item.

  • Gatherer - Displays icons for gatherable resource nodes on the minimap and realm map, for future reference. Lilie goes nuts over this mod.

  • Goodinspect - Allows you to bind 'Inspect target' to a key, and increases the inspect range.

  • Jotter-K - Creates a little in-game notebook. I use it to write down what equipment each of my characters is using, so I can tell if something another character finds or can make would help out another of my characters, that kind of thing.

  • KillLog - Tracks your kills across each level, session, and overall. Also tracks max damage for each kind of attack/ability, max crit damage, Xp breakdowns, Deaths this session, etc.

  • LeetSpeak - Gives you two new slash commands - /lsay and /lyell that transform your input into ultra-leet speak. Good for annoying people on PVP servers.

  • LootLink - Tracks every item any of your characters have ever seen in a searchable database, and remembers sell prices as well.

  • myClock - Replaces the little day/night icon with an actual clock, which you can adjust to display your time, instead of the server time.

  • PlayerLinkMenu - Allows you to click on player names in chat to get a menu with 'Who', 'Invite', 'Tell', etc.

  • SCT - Adds damage and events to your character as scrolling text, much like the enemy has, which allows you to see damage and what-not without having to watch your character's portrait.

  • CT_Mod - This is the large package I use, though I've disabled most of the features. I just use it for the extra toolbars (up to five total; one above the main toolbar, one to the right of that, one above that one, and one going down each side of the screen.) You can drag, rotate, and resize them. Also allows you to drag and rotate the petbar, hide unused button spaces, show quest levels, disable the quest text-fade effect, show map coordinates, and have different ways of displaying your and the enemies health and mana. Among the things I don't use are a revamped buff-bar, item buffs, something about the party, and, um, something about bags. A great mod pack, since it doesn't interfere with anything else (like stupid Cosmos), and is very light-weight and encapsulated, so you can even delete the parts you don't want.


On a personal note, yes, I do hate Cosmos. I see it as my personal goal to stop people from using Cosmos (I have David to thank for saving me from a similiar fate. I was originally going to use Cosmos, after watching Lilie play, but he exposed me to CT_Mod). I consider saving Lilie from Cosmos and introducing her to granular UI mods the greatest act of love I have ever performed.

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