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Modernized World of Warcraft UI Coming in Dragonflight

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The World of Warcraft User Interface (UI) has been vastly modernized in Dragonflight.

Key Takeaways from the Deep Dive Panel:

  • Technology has advanced since the WoW UI was first developed in 2004.
  • Players now have larger monitors, so the development team revamped the WoW UI by creating a new layout that allows players to customize and move elements of the UI around their screen to better fit their needs.
  • Not everyone uses third-party addons and to meet the community needs, Blizzard is adding some modern elements to the base UI.
  • This allows them to add new functionality, improve accessibility, and make aesthetic updates to the art.
  • A sample screenshot of the new UI is depicted in the official blog post linked below.

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System Updates

HUD and UI 

It’s been some time since we’ve updated our UI and technology has advanced since we first developed it in 2004. Players now have larger monitors, and the development team has better tools to look at revamping the UI to accommodate the times.

With the update in Dragonflight, we wanted to create a layout that would allow players to customize and move elements of the UI around their screen to better fit their needs. We recognize that add-ons today provide many opportunities for players to customize their experience, but not all players use them. With the help of our user research team, we are working to meet the goals our community needs and add those elements to the base UI. This allows us to add new functionality, improve accessibility, and make aesthetic updates to the art.

A key component of our changes is maintaining the charm and personality of the UI that players have been using for the past eighteen years while still presenting a more modern take. You’ll see with these changes the minimap and health bar appear larger, we’ve removed some of the clutter to provide more visibility to your gameplay as well. As a part of maintaining the charm of the design, we’ve also taken the time to update the gryphons and wyverns on the action bar at the bottom of the screen.

Not only will you be able to move various elements of the HUD around the screen, but each component has various sets of options that you’ll be able to work with. You’ll be able to save, edit, copy, and name it. It will also remember which specialization you’re in so when you switch between them, it will remember the HUD layout that you have for that specific spec.

As with anything in development, it’s still a work in progress. We look forward to getting more feedback from the community as they experience these changes and more.

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Just to get a vibe of what they're going for, they're essentially just folding in their version of add-ons like bartender and elvui, right?

Or are they actually doing an interesting revamp? I didn't catch that from their deep dive yesterday.

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34 minutes ago, TyZone said:

Just to get a vibe of what they're going for, they're essentially just folding in their version of add-ons like bartender and elvui, right?

Or are they actually doing an interesting revamp? I didn't catch that from their deep dive yesterday.

Pretty sure the idea was to bring addon functionality into the base game.

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1 hour ago, TyZone said:

Just to get a vibe of what they're going for, they're essentially just folding in their version of add-ons like bartender and elvui, right?

Or are they actually doing an interesting revamp? I didn't catch that from their deep dive yesterday.

Pretty much, you will be able to customize your ui, like move your action bars around.

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1 hour ago, Arcling said:

Pretty much, you will be able to customize your ui, like move your action bars around.

Tbh if I can have this clean UI without beeing tied to Elv (not that it is bad at all) would be awsome!

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2 hours ago, Carradin said:

Tbh if I can have this clean UI without beeing tied to Elv (not that it is bad at all) would be awsome!

It's one less account to have to manage. Agree.

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