05-01-2005, 02:58 PM
CosmosUI has many handy things, but is extremely bloated and interdependent - you often can't get rid of something without disabling 5 other things. Most of the 'essential' parts of this mod were put into the official UI by Blizzard. in my opinion (buff timers, quest tracker, extra bars).
GypsyMod is sort of the anti-Cosmos. It is designed in several packages to be independent of eachother - you can install only the parts that you want, and even when you do, you can turn on and off all the bits. This UI mod mostly concentrates on allowing you to move all of the screen elements around, as well as giving you a bit more information on party members, yourself, and enemies.
The RealOrang's Mods, including Flexbar and Popgroup, is unfortunatly out of bandwidth for the month. Flexbar is a mod which adds additional, totally programmable and moveable buttons. It is not 'user friendly' as such, since it is set up mostly by command-line, but it is extremely, well, flexible, and powerful. Popgroup is a handy mini-mod which pops up little names of all of your party-mates when you hit a beneficial spell (say, while you are targeting a monster). Very handy for quickly healing, de-poisoning, un-cursing, etc. your party-mates.
Those are the ones I have experience with. Good idea to make a sticky or a guide with some of this info. There is certainly no 'best' ui mod, it is very personal, but a guide to the advantages and disadvantages would be great.
GypsyMod is sort of the anti-Cosmos. It is designed in several packages to be independent of eachother - you can install only the parts that you want, and even when you do, you can turn on and off all the bits. This UI mod mostly concentrates on allowing you to move all of the screen elements around, as well as giving you a bit more information on party members, yourself, and enemies.
The RealOrang's Mods, including Flexbar and Popgroup, is unfortunatly out of bandwidth for the month. Flexbar is a mod which adds additional, totally programmable and moveable buttons. It is not 'user friendly' as such, since it is set up mostly by command-line, but it is extremely, well, flexible, and powerful. Popgroup is a handy mini-mod which pops up little names of all of your party-mates when you hit a beneficial spell (say, while you are targeting a monster). Very handy for quickly healing, de-poisoning, un-cursing, etc. your party-mates.
Those are the ones I have experience with. Good idea to make a sticky or a guide with some of this info. There is certainly no 'best' ui mod, it is very personal, but a guide to the advantages and disadvantages would be great.