Built-in UI Tools in WoW Forever

Every built-in tool

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  Experience preset

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  The first-login choice between a Classic and an Enhanced starting setup for art and interface.

  Where: Asked at your first login, changeable later in the options

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  Edit Mode

  Confirmed

  Blizzard's layout editor for moving and resizing the default interface, with layouts you can share as text. It also sets up the gamepad action bar and saves a layout per UI type.

  Where: Game Menu, Edit ModeReplaces: Bartender4 (partly), BlizzMove (partly), Dominos (partly), MoveAny (Edit Mode, Windows and UI) (partly)

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  Damage Meter

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  Blizzard's own damage, healing and action meter with several windows and segments.

  Where: Options, Advanced Options, Damage MeterReplaces: Details! Damage Meter (partly), Forever Details Meter (partly), Recount - Revived (partly), Skada Damage Meter (partly)

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  Cooldown Manager

  Confirmed

  Blizzard's tracker that pulls key cooldowns and buffs from the action bar into customisable HUD elements, off by default. It covers every class, racial abilities and trinkets.

  Where: Options, Gameplay Enhancement, or Advanced Options. Chat command /cdmReplaces: ForeverAuras (partly), M33kAuras (partly), WeakAuras (partly)

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  Swing Timer

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  Bars for main hand, off hand and ranged auto attacks, built in and placed with Edit Mode.

  Where: Options, Advanced Options, Swing Timer. Place the bars in Edit ModeReplaces: Better Swing Timer (fully), WeaponSwingTimer SixxFix (fully)

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  Totem Bar

  Confirmed

  The Shaman totem bar: set one totem per element and drop all four with one cast, plus a frame that shows your active totems and their time left. Right-click a totem there to dismiss it.

  Where: Shamans: learn Call of the Elements at level 20, place the bar in Edit Mode

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  Aggro Display on nameplates

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  Blizzard nameplates can flash, change progressively or recolor the health bar when threat changes, and can use class colors.

  Where: Options, Nameplates, Aggro DisplayReplaces: Plater Nameplates (partly), Platynator (partly), Threat Plates (partly)

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  Click Cast Bindings

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  Blizzard's built-in binding of spells and macros to mouse clicks on unit frames.

  Where: Spellbook, Click Cast BindingsReplaces: Clique (partly)

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  Combine Bags

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  Blizzard's one-bag window, switched on by the Enhanced preset.

  Where: Options, Combine Bags. The Enhanced preset turns it onReplaces: Baganator (partly), Bagnon (partly), BetterBags (partly)

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  Quest points of interest on the map

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  Map and minimap markers for the objectives of quests you hold, switched on by the Enhanced experience preset.

  Where: On with the Enhanced preset, in the map settingsReplaces: Questie (partly)

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  Objective Tracker

  Confirmed

  The Retail objective tracker with a Forever override: it shows each quest's level and names its type (Elite, Dungeon, PvP or Raid), and it can list recipes too.

  Where: Right side of the screen, moved with Edit Mode

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  Track Recipe

  Beta

  A checkbox in the profession window that lists a recipe's materials on screen like a quest.

  Where: Profession window, checkbox next to Create AllReplaces: Profession Shopping List (partly)

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  Recent Allies

  Beta

  A Friends List pane that remembers everyone you grouped with, with one-click invite and pinning.

  Where: Friends List, Recent Allies tabReplaces: I remember you (partly)

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  Group Finder (Looking For Group)

  Confirmed

  Where: Meeting Stones and the Group Finder window

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  Auction House

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  The modern auction house frame with commodity buying and selling and Classic categories. A column shows the level you need to equip an item, and items with a random suffix show their full stats.

  Where: The auctioneers in the capitals

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  AddOn List

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  The character-select and in-game addon list with the Load out of date AddOns checkbox and CPU usage columns.

  Where: AddOns button on the character screen

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  Combat Audio Alerts

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  Text-to-speech and sound cues for combat events, health and resources, built in as an accessibility tool.

  Where: Options, Accessibility. Chat command /ttscombat

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  Gamepad support (Alpha)

  Confirmed

  Official controller support, still marked alpha. Its action bar, the compact bar included, is set up in Edit Mode. Settings from the old options do not carry over: click the gamepad action bar in Edit Mode and set them again.

  Where: Options, Gamepad (Alpha). Set up its action bar in Edit Mode

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  Boss Warnings (Encounter Timeline)

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  Retail's built-in boss ability timeline and warnings, switched off in Forever, so boss mods stay the source for timers.

  Where: Not in Forever