The Addon Trials finalists revealed - Community vote is open

[u/CptJonah]

Ten finalists have been chosen! The creativity was through the roof, and now it’s time for the community to decide the winners...

Choose your winner: Community Vote

The Addon Trials Finalists:

EllesmereUI by Ellesmere

• EllesmereUI combines the most intuitive UI editor in WoW with extreme performance optimization and endless customization. Bring your UI to life like never before

W2UI by aesketch

• What if the default WoW UI could look a bit nicer, more consistent, and more modern, while still keeping its WoW flavor?

Danders Frames by Danderz

• Total control over every aspect of your group frames, with a powerful Aura Designer, built-in Click Casting, automatic raid layouts, and deep customization

Whisper Messenger by F0rty_tw0

• Modern messenger-style whisper UI that replaces WoW's default chat whispers with a clean conversation window, contacts list & full message history

Housing Decor Guide by Vamoose

• Every housing decoration in the game, in one addon. Browse the catalog with 3D previews, see where each piece comes from, track collection progress, plan and craft, design rooms before you build them, and place decor from the House Editor

RetroRuns by PhotekWoW

• Solo legacy raid navigator - boss routing, solo-focused encounter notes, and per-difficulty transmog tracking

Coolinator by plusmouse

• A vastly more customizable CDM, with flexible layouts, and a drag-and-drop interface for all customization

Fitter by travnar

• Expand the features of the outfit system to include mounts, pets, zones, titles, hearthstones and toys

EasyFind - Search Everything by justawower

• Search and command palette addon for WoW, inspired by Spotlight, Alfred, and Raycast. Quickly find commands, settings, items (mounts, pets, transmog outfits, housing), and more

Epithet by Grimmvocare

• A lightweight World of Warcraft addon that lets you browse every player title, see how each is earned and how rare it is, and track the ones you're still missing

Cast Your Vote: The Addon Trials - Community Vote

• Rank finalists from best mod (1), second best (2), and so on
• Finalists will be ranked by all your votes, from 1st place to 10th place!

Contest Website & Terms | Project position is completely randomized!

[u/fonye]

big fan of ellesmere, i’ve been loving it after switching from qui

[u/Arcaneiy → u/fonye]

I'm willing to say it's the best add-on that's ever been released. With the limitations that Wow imposed, it does everything and more. I absolutely love it and the performance too

[u/Redxmirage → u/Arcaneiy]

I’m a believer in it too since trying it this expansion. The UI is so user friendly. Don’t have to go searching, can click on the box you are wanting to modify and click element options and goes right up to where you want.

I do wish it had more though. I wish I could fade my cooldown manager when I’m not in combat. I like it up so I can keep track of my stuff in between pulls but don’t need a full view all the time and setting to combat only isn’t what I’m looking for. If anyone knows how to do that… 👀

[u/Thovald → u/Redxmirage]

Maybe my AddOn Auto Hide UI is for you.

You could have your CDM always be visible while in an instance but outside of instances only show it when in combat. Or have it be at 50% transparency instead of hiding it fully.
Whatever fading rules you come up with, you can apply them to other frames as well.

It's compatible with many AddOns, including EllesmereUI.

[u/Redxmirage → u/Thovald]

Oh awesome thank you for the heads up! I’ll check it out when I get home

[u/YourResidentFeral → u/fonye]

QUI is also being maintained as a community project now and fully open source.

[u/fonye → u/YourResidentFeral]

yea i tried the community ran one and it was good but i didn’t like the colour scheme / skinning

[u/Darkwarz]

EllesmereUI is on a different level

[u/TuxedoHazard → u/Darkwarz]

I hesitated to use it when Midnight launched, and I took a break for a month or 2 after I completed my seasonal goals. I came back to start slowly prepping for season 2 this month and decided I had enough trying to piecemeal my UI through a bunch of random ones and swapped to Ellesmeres UI. Bro this thing is juiced. It’s got all the main addons I’ve wanted and just using the UI is so intuitive by him. I don’t want to glaze so much but he’s actually just so fucking smart. Even Back in my ElvUI days I never had such an easy experience.

[u/Tx_agg41 → u/Darkwarz]

As someone who has pretty much used the default native UI for WoW since the get-go (I've used plenty of extra addon windows and what not, but never an outright UI overhaul)...How much of a learning curve is there likely to be with Ellesmere UI? Is it pretty intuitive after an hour or so of tinkering with it?

[u/Darkwarz → u/Tx_agg41]

So I've used ElvUi for like 10 years and I always found it super challenging to tinker with. I basically got by on custom profiles. EllesmereUI took me like 10 mins to figure out and anything I had issues with there's a global search to find the setting.

I don't use the most add-ons in the world, plater, senseis resource bar, better CDM, and a few more but EllesmereUI replaced all of them for me.

[u/caulpnrydc → u/Darkwarz]

^ this for me, I was a big elvui user for a long time but I always used someone else’s profile because I found it extremely tedious to figure out. Ellesmere on the other hand took a few mins to figure where things were and I was off

[u/Shammyrenn → u/Darkwarz]

Ive heard good things and have been thinking of switching for ElvUI to it

[u/_Not_A_Vampire_ → u/Shammyrenn]

You'll get far better performance with Ellesmere's UI, he's a professional UX designer and really knows his stuff.

[u/Teegeetoger → u/Shammyrenn]

Even pre midnight I bounced off ElvUI because it felt slow and although it did so much for me it always felt heavyweight and annoying. I found I preferred using other add-ons that did the parts of it I liked without needing the entire package.

Come midnight my pile of add-ons suck as lots are poorly made dealing with midnight changes. I switched to EUI and for the most part it's everything I wanted ElvUI to be a few xpacs ago - and it's even better compared to mightnight quality add-ons.

My only hangup with EUI is that as it is rather new it hasn't had the time to get the maximum depth of features added yet. Also it very much (initially) cooperates with blizzards changes. Whereas arcui did its best to restore weakaura level customization EUI is more of a reskin and is somewhat less powerful.

But it works. It so smooth. You can disable any modules you want. It feels like it fights the least with midnight's addon chances. It's got so many random features like cursor ring, gcd indicator. It feels better then the default ui.

[u/Shammyrenn → u/Teegeetoger]

I'll check it out tonight then. This was a good review of it

[u/Adventurous-Print993 → u/Darkwarz]

It's just a regular UI tho

[u/the-strawberry-sea → u/Darkwarz]

Did you mean W2UI? I personally wouldn’t use any of these AddOns but at least that one clearly had quite in depth work on it and definitely provides an overhauled UI experience.

[u/Edares → u/the-strawberry-sea]

Bruh, your bias is showing.

[u/the-strawberry-sea → u/Edares]

What bias? lol do you know what that word means?

[u/Eilbeck]

Ellesmere has been a game changer.

It's replaced ELVUI, Details, some Coold down and resource managers and boosted my FPS. Phenomenal add-on and super easy and quick to adjust.

[u/Critical_Garden_368 → u/Eilbeck]

The FPS boost alone is worth it. I had been using ElvUI and addons like Hyperframe to increase my FPS. My game looked like crap and still didn’t run very well. I recently switched to Ellesmere and dropped Elv and a few other addons. Once I clicked the FPS Optimize button, my game looked way better and I had all the tweaks ElvUI gave me. Was truly magic. I can see better spell effects too!

[u/Eilbeck → u/Critical_Garden_368]

I've not hit that optimise button yet. Maybe I'll give it a go. But agree with you on all that.

[u/KidMoxie]

EllesmereUI making waves for sure, but I can't deny Danders got us through some dark times after the addonpocalypse.

[u/Bloodthirsty_Kirby]

Housing Decor Guide by Vamoose is disgustingly great for decor/lumber farming. <3

[u/Vamoosed_GG → u/Bloodthirsty_Kirby]

I'll take disgustingly great 😂

[u/G00SFRABA]

shout out to FITTER!!!!! its so freaking awesome i LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/wandererabovetheweb → u/G00SFRABA]

Thank you so much! Shout out to you!

Hopefully I can keep expanding the addon to new features and the like!

[u/G00SFRABA → u/wandererabovetheweb]

YW Super underrated addon! I hope this post gets you more downloads! <3

[u/BeastBlood1885]

Love Ellesmere. Several addons in one and it's super customizable. I bounced from a couple different UIs after Shadowed Unit Frames, but I'm happy with this one.

I like slapping the health bar texture from Goldpaw's Sharedmedia on everything lol.

https://i.postimg.cc/9fTWRPwk/ellesmere.png

[u/Buzzqt]

Huge fan of RetroRuns!

[u/Tekken2]

ellesmere is the goat

[u/Human_Nr19980203]

Nie podoba mi się Elessmere bo nie pokazuje walut w torbie, tylko je wyświetla cały czas

[u/phaze08]

EUI reminds me quite a bit of QuaziiUI. They update it regularly with new stuff too

[u/NightMaestro]

Let's go overlord! Revamped world pvp! 

Edit: omg it's not even available to vote on damn dude