Personal Resource Display not customizable/lacking old options

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I’ve been trying to get my UI in a workable state without addons on Beta.
And I ran into the issue that the Personal Resource Display on Beta is not customizable at all. Most concerning of all it is lacking options it has on Live!

Options that are missing:

  • Show special resources on targets
  • Show Friendly Buffs
  • Show Personal Cooldowns

Admittedly the last two options are probably in the cooldown manager now. However importantly the “Show special resources on targets” is now completely missing!
Also it can no longer be anchored to your character should people still want that option. (similar to the option available for the cast bar)

Customization that would be most welcome:

  • Sizing, especially the individual elements!
    • For example I’d like my resources to be bigger, but not necessarily my health and power bars
  • Not just the option to hide health and power bars, but the option to hide either or both or the resource instead
  • Show the elements vertically
  • The order of the elements. For example Resources > Power Bar > Health Bar instead of currently Health Bar > Power Bar > Resources. Or maybe even Health Bar > Resources > Power Bar.
  • Padding/Spacing. The Resources have a pretty large gap, while the Health and Power Bar are right next to each other.

Something I would really wish to see, a way to adjust how resources are displayed.
The individual rounds just don’t work for me. On Live I have a weakaura that shows a circle with slices representing the resource and a number in the center showing how much I have.
This reduces cognitive load as I can see in 1 place at a glance what I have. Instead of having to interpret a row of individual rounds.

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To be honest I agree with the title of this thread ^^ the lack of customising options is really limiting.

  • Every resource should be on it’s own separate ‘edit mode box thing’ so I can position it where I like, and turn it off if I don’t want it. For instance I don’t necessarily want my health to be bang in the middle of my screen, but I do want to see my rage.
  • I also quite like to see a number and not just a bar.
  • Rather than the combat toggle being strictly on/off I would like the opacity to change so it can be at 100% in combat but set partially transparent when out of combat (how I have it in my UI at the moment). This is better because it’s not dominating my screen but I can still see my resource in between pulls.
  • Some classes have extra resources like paladin has holy power. Right now the personal resource just copies the graphic that’s underneath the player name. There should be an option to display this more simply. I much prefer to show holy power in simple yellow rectangles (I display combo points the same way). It’s cleaner and much easier to take in at a glance.

I do very much like that it doesn’t jiggle about anymore. That was the primary reason I never even touched this feature before, because it wasn’t in a fixed position on my screen, so well done on fixing that.

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I personally have been playing with my main rotation attached to my personal resource bar for literally years now and loved how it moved and scaled with my character as I zoomed in/out.

Having this removed as an option for those who would want to keep that is a huge downgrade. It should have been made an option for either way, not forced one way or the other.

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Agreed. Very much so. I managed to put together an UI on Beta that I will likely be able to work with. The personal resource display and the barely visible enemy cast bars are by far the biggest issues I am having. This really needs sorting out.

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Being able to have your UI anchored to the old PRD that was always centred on your character no matter the camera position was such a good option. Being force into having the UI in a fixed screen position,

a) potentially obscuring the character and

b) forcing you to have to look back and forth to different parts of the screen to dodge stuff and see abilities,

is a real downgrade. If someone wanted a fixed UI there were already plenty of ways of doing this, and now the only other option is being removed.

Having the option to have the PRD track the character again would be a welcome reversal.

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