With the free customization of interface elements such as the action bars, bags, world map, party frames, buff and debuff indicators, and many other features, addons such as ElvUI, Bagnon, and Bartender, for example, will become obsolete. In a blog post, the developers present the possibilities of the HUD overhaul in Dragonflight.

A tidier HUD and even more visibility

The new HUD of WoW: Dragonflight should please above all minimalists, who save the installation of additional addons in the future.

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The obvious changes will immediately catch players’ eyes. For example, the mini-map and health bar are more noticeable, and some elements have been removed to create more visible space. The developers have kept the familiar design, but have cleaned up the appearance of the action bar a bit.

They also added a new set of griffins and created wyverns for all the horde fans (can be optionally removed). The loot and inventory display has also been given a new look and players can the Combined Backpack feature to find and sort items in the inventory faster.

Edit mode like in ElvUI

In Edit Mode, you now have the ability to reshape, customize, and move (almost) everything everywhere to your heart’s content. Various elements of the HUD are movable and each individual component offers a variety of options so that everything is exactly where you need it.

Using the new edit mode in WoW: Dragonflight, you can freely move and resize all interface elements framed transparently here in the image.

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So your target and focus target, group frames, companion display, your stance display, buffs, debuffs, spell bar, special ability button, and even the NPC conversation display window can be customized.

Once you’ve customized everything to your liking, you can name, save, edit, copy and share your version with the community. And for those of you who change specializations often, the feature also remembers which specialization you use. When you change specializations, the feature knows what HUD layout you created for that specialization and changes it accordingly.

Set up action bars yourself

WoW: Dragonflight: Preview of the new user interface options (2)

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When you click on your action bar, a new window opens in edit mode. Here you can set up whether individual action bars should be displayed vertically or horizontally, how large the icons of the abilities should be, how many rows you want to have and when the action bars should be visible.

Optionally, you can hide your action bars and only show them when you are in combat. You can assign hotkeys directly to abilities via the Quick Key Assignment button. If all this is a bit too complicated for you, you can also access the old interface menu for action bars via the Action bar settings button.