I’ve been looking for a new WoW UI compilation for awhile now and figured what better time to change my UI than a week before the new patch hits the live realms. Hmm… maybe that wasn’t the wisest of ideas. After combing through the various UI compilations and suites on WoWInterface, I settled on the Onslaught UI.

Flame Keeper Molsan in Dalaran

AddOns

It contains many of the same addons I’ve been running, including ArkInventory and FuBar. It did not contain Auctioneer, but I manually added the current preview version of Auctioneer, which supports the importing of their database file from auctioneerdb.com.

I love the creative way it uses FuBar to organize addon information along the bottom right-hand side of the screen. I can add all the additional FuBar-related addons I want, and it bunches the icons and/or text down in the corner.

Molsan Standing in the Empty Dalaran Bank

The Onslaught UI comes with Dominos for managing action bars. I’ve been using Bartender for almost two years now, but I don’t see much of a difference between them for my basic needs. I also appreciate how the buffs and buff timers are organized. I had been allocating almost the entire right-hand side of my UI for buffs, but Onslaught pushes them all the way up to the top of the screen, displaying them horizontally.

Performance

I did not change any of the video settings that Onslaught had configured. My in-game experience and performance did not suffer, even though Onslaught set the video effects to “Good.” I had been running with the video effects set to “Fair,” with an 18-22 frame rate in Dalaran, and a 40-55 frame rate out in the world. I was pleased to see that my fps stayed around this range after the installation of Onslaught.

Themis Rides Through Dragonblight

June 29, 2009
Sole — my Warlock — hits level 80 in Feralas by completing one of the Midsummer Fire Festival quests.

June 29, 2009
Only 274 experience points shy of level 80 after turning in two Midsummer Fire Festival quests in Silithus.

June 17, 2009
Switching back to protection for the Grand Widow Faerlina fight. I was assigned to tank the two Naxxramas Followers.

June 11, 2009
My first night in Naxxramas as a Retribution Paladin came to an end with Gluth. I’m certain my glowing Whale-Stick Harpoon had something to do with it.

June 9, 2009
My Warlock dinged 78 so it was time to put his Tailoring skills to work. Here he is in Dalaran after crafting all eight pieces of the Frostsavage set.

June 8, 2009
Taken after a two-man clearing of Drak’Tharon Keep (regular) with Grozlok (level 80 Hunter). Achievements, quest turn-ins, dream shards, and fun times were had.