World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - UI Revamp Panel

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - UI Revamp
Dragonflight will finally update the World of Warcraft UI after 18 years!

Technology has changed a lot since the default UI was created back in 2004
People now have bigger monitors and the team has better dev tools to work with, so it makes sense to finally update the UI
The game art evolved over the years, but the UI has been frozen in time
The team wanted to allow players to customize the new UI moving things around and adjusting them to fit their needs
Addons do a lot for player customization today, but not everyone uses addons
It's about time that everyone has the chance to gain the functionality of addons in the base UI
The team added new functionality and improved accessibility in a lot of areas, as well as improving the art
The art update is a big part of the project. The current art has a lot of charm and personality and players have been using that for 18 years.
The new UI is a modern take on the old one, removing the clutter and giving the player more visibility for their gameplay.
The new minimap and health bars are larger and the action bars have less framing around them.
The team wants to bring back the iconic pieces of the old UI in a nice way
The action bar gryphons have been updated and the Horde will get their version too
There is an edit mode that will allow players to move elements around the screen
Each of the components will have various options, allowing you to save, edit, copy, or name it.
You'll be able to save layouts by spec, so that the UI will automatically change as you change specs.

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Published on 2022-04-19 05:38 PM

DarkAmbient - 2022-04-19

I'm liking the new UI, nice and clean. I used Shadowed Unit Frames so I can hide my health bar out of combat, hopefully Blizz will implement that too otherwise I'll just stick with the addon.
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Gloriandus - 2022-04-19

One thing I'm not seeing (with the limited shots so far) is better font rendering, tighter kerning, and drop shadows on those fonts. I see they're staying with Friz Quadrata and Arial Narrow; however I wonder if they'll move from the current Morpheus font to the newer variant featured on the Dragonflight website and as seen in the Grimore of the Shadowlands book.
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AcidicSyn - 2022-04-19

this bit I like. I eager to cut out even more mods.
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yyy - 2022-04-19

They are breaking classic style of wow ui that has been since classic. I dont like it.
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GotNoRice - 2022-04-19

If I wanted change, I wouldn't be playing an 18 year old game. Hopefully they don't mess things up too much.
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cuafpr - 2022-04-19

if that's the final version of the new art..it looks bad.
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BossManRoth - 2022-04-19

I guess people forgot it got an update with BFA. a small one, but it was updated
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uuuhname - 2022-04-19

I will be shocked if they make it as customizable as it is now with mods that already exist.
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lichbane - 2022-04-19

It sounds like they're taking a leaf out of FF14's book. I doubt it'll mean I get rid of all my UI overhaul addons, but if I can get rid of some, that's a bonus.
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Ragedaug - 2022-04-20

I'm happy for this change. I've never used the Default UI once I was introduced to Addons back in 2007, so that it to say I've always thought it needs improvement. One thing I applaud Blizzard for doing is implementing updates to the game that a large portion of their player base uses through Addons. If nothing else, if there's a majority of players all using certain Addons it a direct message to Blizzard that they want it in the game. Better to make include it versus forcing all the players to continue to run and maintain more addons.
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h4rr0d - 2022-04-20

And it's as ugly as any other UI redesign in the last 10 years or so. Flat design sucks. I really don't understand, why they keep shoving it down our throats everywhere.
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