Elvui How to See Setup Menu Again

The guide was updated for Legion.

Profile to import is here.

ElvUI is a total UI replacement. It completely replaces the default Blizzard UI at every level with a new and better interface. It has multiple addons and plug-ins integrated into information technology, such every bit Dominos activeness bars and TidyPlates. Every bit such, you lot'll only ever take to update ElvUI and not worry also much nigh its individual components. This UI volition adjust your interface to be more than flexible and practical.

DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLATION

Download ElvUI from Tukui . The version on Curse is outdated.

Following the higher up link, you lot will find 2 addons to download: Tukui and ElvUI. You demand ElvUI:

Unpack the downloaded annal to your WoW Addons binder (World of Warcraft -> Interface -> Addons)

If you had ElvUI previously installed, you'd get a message request to replace the current folder - click 'Yeah':

Log in to WoW. Click the 'AddOns' push in the left bottom corner of your character selection screen. Make sure that both ElvUI Config and ElvUI are enabled in the addons listing:

Press 'Enter Earth'. ElvUI config can be reached from the Primary Menu (in game printing Esc button-> printing ElvUI button) or by typing /ec in chat.

When inbound the game for the first fourth dimension after installing the addon, y'all'll get this screen :

If you can't come across this Installation screen, type /ec in chat and and so press 'Install' push in the config window:

You'll now have a 8 step configuration process. Do not skip it if you lot don't take ElvUI already configured on some other toon.

[1] Click on 'Continue' to begin:

[2] Stride two of eight: CVars: Click on 'Setup CVars' → 'Continue'

[iii] Step iii of 8: Chat: Click on 'Setup Chat' → 'Continue'

[4] Footstep four of 8: Theme Setup: you can effort all 3 buttons (Classic/Dark/Course) to encounter the departure and click 'Continue' after yous decided.

[5] Pace 5 of 8: Resolution: choose 'High Resolution' if you take a 15 inch + monitor, otherwise choose 'Depression Resolution' → 'Continue'

[6] Stride 6 of 8: Layout: Choose the pick you lot are interested in - a role player / target / target of target Unit of measurement Frames will be at the bottom of the screen, non on the top and in a slightly different position for every role (Y'all can click on every part to meet the difference and to choose what yous like better). If you chose a Healer role, you will get an announcement asking you to install the Clique addon, simply click 'Yep' and ignore information technology, no need to install annihilation .

Click 'Go along' when you lot're done.

[8] Step 7 of 8: Auras: I would communication for 'Icons Just' - we don't need a million bars and timers for standard raid buffs. We all know that they are present. But you can select the 'Aura Confined&Icons' option too if it's you taste. Click 'Continue' when y'all're done.

[10] Step 8 of 8: Installation Complete: You're washed with the basic installation, hit the 'Finished' push button and information technology will reload your UI.

Later restarting, you'll get a screen with a support annunciation and tips. Check "Disable", so press "Hide" if you don't want these tooltips to come. I advise non to hide them until you're completely familiar with ElvUI.

Now we're going to configure your UI a bit more.

Typing /ec in conversation will open the Config window.

Full general:

There are some very nice options here that make your life easier:

- 'Denote Interrupts' dropdown bill of fare. Ready this to 'None' if you are using some other addon for it or set to any of the other options: Party/Raid/Say, etc.

- Select an 'Auto Repair' option from the drop downward card.

- Tick 'Vendor Grays' - awesome option!

- Tick "Auto Greed/DE' to automate rolling on greens. It'll automatically cull Disenchant or Greed (depending on whether an enchanter is available or not). This option works but on max level then don't be afraid to DE something useful.

- Yous can disable the Guild Hall Control Bar from here likewise.

- In the Objective Frame tab you tin can change its length.

Get through the rest of options and check whatever y'all feel useful.

MAPS:

Before Legion information technology was a dropdown menu that was changed recently to a stand up lonely config window:

While a 'World Map' tab is pretty obvious, y'all should configure properly the Minimap section:

- Pay close attention to the Minimap Buttons carte du jour (Garrison / Agenda / Mail service / LFR Queue, etc) - you tin can resize, movement, hibernate / hide in combat all the buttons.

You should pay attention to the 'Hibernate' push button. For some reason it is ticked by default so yous'll have to untick it for every button y'all desire to see on your Minimap.

DATABARS:

Aforementioned every bit Maps, information technology was a dropdown carte du jour in General tab and was changed recently to a stand alone config window:

If you are still leveling or grinding Faction Reputations, y'all can configure here

- XP Bar & Reputation

You can cull here all the standard options - move, resize, vertical / horizontal, bear witness on mouseover.

Tick 'Hide at Max level' for the XP bar - information technology's a nice option.

Antiquity Bar:

A very useful in Legion - it shows gained/needed for the next trait AP for your currently equipped Artifact and open the Traits window on mouse click.

Go through the rest of options and check whatever you experience useful.

ACTION Confined

- Tick 'Enabled'

- Tick 'Keybind Text'. Displays bind names on the action buttons.

- Tick 'Macro Text'. Displays macro name on the action button and so you'll be enlightened that pressing this push you'll run a macro and non a single power.

- Change 'Font' and 'Font Size' to whatever works for you.

'Choice Up Action Key' is the button that y'all must hold downwardly in lodge to elevate an power to another action button - prevents from accidental messing with the buttons.

Now bank check "Enabled" for Micro Bar ( this is the one with Quests, LFR, Char Info, Spellbook, etc icons ), whatever of the Bars one-6, Pet Bar and Stance Bar. Actually, yous can enable only Bar i and two or whatever works for you and disable all the rest.

For every bar, there is a 'Mouse over' tick box - this will simply hide the bar until you mouseover it, which is useful for bars that are irrelevant during raids.

In enabled Bars, you can cull the number of buttons per bar and vertical or horizontal style.

- The 'Buttons' slider volition allow y'all to set how many buttons a bar volition accept (the push button cap is 12 though, you cannot take more than that in a single bar).

- 'Buttons Per Row' - cull 12 if you want a horizontal bar, choose one, if yous want information technology vertical bar.

Really you lot don't have to accept exactly 12 buttons per bar. Information technology can be any amount from one to 12 or even two rows of 6 buttons or whatsoever other configuration that you prefer.

If you want to hibernate an Action Bar in a specific situation, for case during a raid, y'all have to type

[vehicleui] hide; [overridebar] hide; [petbattle] hide; [nocombat] hide; show;

in the 'Visibility State' window.

Moving elements

Now nosotros volition sort the confined on the screen. Click 'Toggle Anchors:'

You will then become this screen:

Merely mouse elevate your bars to the proper position.

If you feel that your confined are stick to something all the time, merely untick 'Sticky Frames' pick in the key Carte.

In improver, you lot get a 'Nudge' carte du jour with arrows and numbers on every bar you are clicking - you can use it for fine tuning (if y'all are interested in extremely precise positioning ^^)

When you're done, click on 'Lock' in the fundamental Menu.

Key Bindings

To configure Hot Keys on your Action Bars, click on 'Keybind Mode.'

You will get this window pop-up:

Tick Character specific Central Bindings merely if yous want different positioning of hotkeys on the bars for different characters . You'll go an explanation of what to exercise on the screen. Do not forget to click 'Save' when you lot're done.

Numberless:

Click 'Enable,' if y'all want to use ElvUI'southward bag arrangement. Information technology's nice, tidy and flexible in size and positioning. If you accept an external bag addon, you will accept to disable ElvUI's purse system or you lot'll become both of them messed upwardly.

I personally preferred to disable ElvUI handbag system and use AdiBags addon. It's the aforementioned graphic style simply has very good smart section division by default including different gear sets - no need to configure annihilation. In add-on y'all tin can have all the Currencies you want to track at the bottom line.

Looks like this:

BUFFS AND DEBUFFS

Both 'Enable' and 'Disabled Blizzard' must exist checked.

Conversation:

You tin can play here with the options or go out it untouched, move and resize chat  windows, remove / split existing or add new, add timestamps, enable chat history, etc.

Let'southward effort to add together a new chat window, and then you'll know how to do this.

[1] Right click on the 'General' tab of your Chat window and select 'Create New Window' from the menu.

[2] Name this window 'Raid.'

[3] Right-click on the newly created 'Raid' chat window and select 'Settings.'

[four] From the 'Chat' category, untick everything except 'Party, Political party Leader, Raid, Raid Leader, Raid Warning, Instance, Instance Leader.'

[5] From the 'Global Channels' category, untick everything.

[6] Click 'Okay.'

Call up that you can motion chat windows - you will take to untick 'Lock Positions' option to practice this.

DATATEXTS:

Datatexts are all the additional data that could be displayed at the lesser of chat windows, Activity Bars and Minimap.

You can too collaborate with the datatexts . For example, clicking on Fourth dimension will bring up Calendar, on Durability - your Grapheme Info, on Spec - will change it to the secondary, mouseover on Arrangement - shows your addon list with the memory used, etc.

There is a nice tab 'Currencies' where y'all may configure which currencies and in what format y'all want to come across in Datatexts.

Frankly, there are a million possibilities to try :)

NAMEPLATES

If you are using external addon for the Nameplates, you'll have to untick "Enable" here.

Check "Enable" in tabs you want Nameplates on (I personally cheque only Enemy NPC but it's completely your choice):

There are a lot of options to runway and to cull from but they are all very user friendly so I wouldn't explicate them one past one.

Pay Attention that the Elite Icon was finally added to ElvUI so you don't need to write custom texts to track Rare and Elite mobs anymore.

SKINS / TOOLTIPS / FILTERS

Doesn't matter. Do whatever you want here.

UNITFRAMES:

Enable only the Unit of measurement FRAMES tabs that are relevant for you. All the rest - keep them disabled .

You should disable all the Blizzard frames - keeping both Blizz and ElvUI frames creates unnecessary mess on your screen.

For example as a raid healer I disable all the party/raid frames because I'one thousand using VuhDo for it.

You lot can utilise Clique and mouseover macros with ElvUI Unit Frames.

ElvUI Raid Frames are very flexible: you tin move and resize them, choose vertical or horizontal positioning. Whatsoever target information, buffs and debuffs could be configured separately for every kind of group. You lot can add and remove targets of your target, focus or pet, their bandage bars, proper noun, HP, level, raid icons, etc.

If you are interested in tracking incoming heals or  threat, there are options for this too.

PROFILES:

The most awesome thing about ElvUI is that after y'all did it once, no demand to configure the addon for every character. Just choose the toon or a named profile that y'all want to re-create the settings from. If you have a viable offspec, you lot can as well 'Enable Dual Profile' to configure it.

Or you tin just save different profiles for 10-human / 25-human raid or for tank / dps spec.

Another overnice selection is to share your profile with other thespian (apparently they should take ElvUI too) when targeting them.

I'm sharing my profile here for those who prefer non to beginning from scratch.

Use 'Import Profile' button to import :)

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