A clean Forever UI with five addons

Full UI packages look great in screenshots and are a pain when a patch breaks them. A lighter approach: keep the default frames, move and trim them with a few small addons, and you have less to fix when something changes.

The five

1. MoveAny or the game's own Edit Mode, to put frames where you want them. Edit Mode handles most frames already; MoveAny reaches the ones it doesn't.
2. Bartender4 or Dominos for action bars you can size, fade and hide out of combat.
3. OmniCC to put cooldown numbers on buttons, once it has a Forever release. Until then, look in the game's Action Bars options for a cooldown-numbers setting; modern clients have a basic one.
4. Leatrix Plus for dozens of small options: hide gryphons, tidy the minimap, faster looting, and so on.
5. Details! Damage Meter, shrunk to a small window in a corner.

Twenty-minute setup

• Start with the default layout and the Enhanced preset.
• Open Edit Mode and drag player and target frames slightly below the middle of the screen, so your eyes stay near your character.
• Set up action bars in Bartender4 or Dominos: two bars of twelve under the player frame, everything else hidden until you hover.
• When OmniCC is available, set its minimum duration to about two seconds so global cooldowns don't flash numbers.
• Go through Leatrix Plus once, top to bottom, and switch on whatever annoys you in the default UI.

Why not a full replacement?

ElvUI and similar packages are excellent if you want a complete look and are happy to wait for their Forever updates. The light setup above has fewer moving parts: if one addon breaks, the rest of your screen still works.

Check each addon's Forever status on its page before installing; we update them as authors ship releases.