UI Mods

[Quark]

Other players will tell you just how wrong I am, in my choice, and recommend one or more of the many other mods out there that do what some of those pieces do, such as button bars or raid info.

Though my use of CT is minimal anymore, I won't say you're wrong:P

CTMod is a very good base -> it gets 80% of what you want right off the bat, in one mod. Eventually, you may want it done better or faster, but as a beginning its ease of use puts it at top.

To counter the flow, I'll actually recommend mods to not use:)
Discord * -> memory/cpu hoarding mods. These mods generally do everything in their designated area, but it comes at a steep price. Find a mod that does everything you want and use it instead. Note Nurfed is typically as extensible as Discord, but it comes from hand-editing .lua files instead of ingame options (thus, Nurfed is faster, but harder to use).

TitanPanel -> Very useful. Also very inefficient and always hard to tell who the latest author is. FuBar is a very clean alternative.

CritLine -> (Well, it becomes unrecommended in BWL+) Fun watching your numbers go up. Also completely pointless once MCing mobs with 300% damage bonus become common and thus all your "highest" numbers are from when you were attacking your allies.


... And on the same vein ...

Elkano's Buffbar (awesome mod for compact graphical depiction of time remaining on buff / debuffs)

I don't get this. At all. No, seriously, can someone explain this to me as I've been wondering the whole time? What's the point of this mod? It ends up taking more space than the default UI, and I never understood why people can't use the icon to figure out what buff it is instead of listing a long name.