Thread: I'm drowning with skills!

My LM is level 57, and i'm drowning in skills. It's not the rotation that it's hard, but i takes up like half of my screen.
Does anyone have any UI tips?

My lvl 60 hunter had the same problem. I found a UI plugin called the "wheel" here http://www.lotrointerface.com/index.php that helped him out. I should think some of the UI plugins for quickbars on that site should help you. My LM is only 22 so don't know what exactly will work for him after he gets a bunch of skills yet. I'll have to cross that bridge later haha.

There is also a Plugin called TonicBars on the same site

It has Class specific bars pre defined. But you can change them to suit

Example.
Using the Plugin Manager from character select screen. Have TonicBars load for ALL characters

You login your Hunter
Open Tonicbars (/tb) you will see bars for Stances, 3 Focus skills, 5 focus skills

Login Minstrel
Open Tonicbars, you will see Tier 1 ballads, T2 Ballads, T3 Ballads etc....

and so on

I use the buffbars plugin for potions and a 4th bar on the right side of the screen for food, mounts, ports, etc.

This is how my UI setup was when I hit 75.....almost is the same at the moment with a few changes here and there....leaves most of the centre screen empty and all the skills AND potions and stuff fit nicely enough without any plugins

There's options to undock all the quickslot bars and stuff and even make them vertical if you wish.....I'm a clicker so I dont go for the vertical bars ......so place them as you feel comfortable.....also, almost all UI elements can be sized up or down as per your preference....I usually reduce the size of fellowship/raid vitals because thats the only thing that takes up a lot of screen space....

Also increase the resolution of the game as much as your computer can support

As my characters advance, I determine what core skills fit my playstyle best and center those on the main shortcut quickbars (recently I've reduced that even further so I can access those skills from a gamepad's 5 buttons + Ctrl and Alt) The rest I put off to the side in click-only bars. Some skills I find that just don't ever use and those I get off the screen. If a situation arises where they are needed, I add them back in temporarily. I find that I enjoy my playtime more with fewer skills staring me in the face. (This is probably why I really enjoy playing my Warden. Gambits rule!)

Originally Posted by silverblade5445

This is how my UI setup was when I hit 75.....almost is the same at the moment with a few changes here and there....leaves most of the centre screen empty and all the skills AND potions and stuff fit nicely enough without any plugins

There's options to undock all the quickslot bars and stuff and even make them vertical if you wish.....I'm a clicker so I dont go for the vertical bars ......so place them as you feel comfortable.....also, almost all UI elements can be sized up or down as per your preference....I usually reduce the size of fellowship/raid vitals because thats the only thing that takes up a lot of screen space....

Also increase the resolution of the game as much as your computer can support

Could you list all the UI stuff you have enabled/disabled? I like it.

LOL you'll love my UI .

Originally Posted by ShotgunStalker

Could you list all the UI stuff you have enabled/disabled? I like it.

I havent disabled anything in the UI....just go to the quickslot options.....activated and undocked all the quickslot bars (there are 5 but only 3 I think are activated by default....you have to manually activate the remaining 2)....and once undocked, use Ctrl + \ to drag them around to the lower and corners of the screen so that they dont hinder visibility.....in mine, the quickslot bars are moved to, 1 is under ths chat window, 2 are arranged in side by side above the default bar and 2 directly above them.....

Mostly I've just rearranged and moved the UI elements using Ctrl + \ and moved them as much towards the edges and corners as possible....the 5 quickslot bars (and the 1 default) are quite enough to hold all the skills....

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not bad for keeping the centre clean. but where is your pet bar? and targeting?

This has worked well for me. Using a theme with a minibar and I reduced to quickslots to .70 (takes only a little getting used to).
I keep the travels over on the left vertically and out of the way.

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Originally Posted by silverblade5445

not bad for keeping the centre clean. but where is your pet bar? and targeting?

The pet bar is right above the bar with all the potions and healing/rezzing skills....targetting is where it is by default....by the time I did find out about this whole UI customization tricks and ideas, I had gotten used to the position of targets vitals and stuff....so I dint change that