If I had to pick a single feature of WoW that really endeared it to me – that feature would undoubtedly be the almost limitless level of customization it allows. Be it simply adding a few more buttons to you action bars or completely replacing your interface there are many, many addons out there to help you.
Obviously this is a rather large subject to cover in one post, so I’ll be going over some of my favorite’s one by one – starting with…
“Bongos is an action bar replacement designed to be both low memory, and easy to setup. It is not as feature rich as other bar mods, but should include the features most commonly used.”
I used the stock Blizzard action bars for quite awhile, but by the time I hit about 40-50 I had so many blessings, seals and trinkets that I’d filled up almost every available slot on the bars. I tried a few of the other bar addons like TrinityBars and BarTender but found many of them had many features I didn’t need or were still a little buggy after one of the big patches. finally I tried Bongos and found it to be at the sweet spot of being very powerful and customizable but still being lightweight and relatively easy to setup.
To illustrate – here’s a shot of my UI before I moved to Bongos:
And this is how it currently looks – although it’s still a work in progress:
You can setup however many bars you need or even separate all 120 buttons for individual placement. They can all be dragged around and will snap into line with other buttons you place them near. You can even setup modifiers, so hold down shift and all (or any you setup) of the buttons will change – I have it setup to show my lesser used spells, hearthstone and longer duration buffs when I hold control, so Bongos both added to my total available buttons while reducing the screen area it used. It also supports stance bars if you happen to be a warrior.
Another great thing about Bongos is the key binding – it’s simple as switching to binding mode, hovering over the button you want to bind and hitting your desired key.
That’s it for Bongos, I recommend you check it out for yourself as there are a lot of features I’ve not covered here.
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