Well my Autobar finally died yesterday, I had been getting errors regularly but the addon was still running, I made the mistake of trying to do an upgrade (may have ended up being a downgrade) and the mod has poohed itself to the maximus

After a little look around I found nothing that really met my requirements, being;

• Something that didn’t use my hotbars
• Something that could be easily hidden when not needed
• Something that was easy to use and setup

I also think that my use of Autobar was minimal (i.e. I didnt use it to it’s full potential) in the sense that I really used it for the same things generally haha, food, flasks etc. I was regularly using the same buttons and used maybe 15% of the buttons available.

Enter OPie , after looking around I found this mod and decided to give it a shot on the basis it looks bloody cool. I had seen it before but decided to pass at that time

Basically you create a series of ‘rings’ that you trigger through hotkeys (as setup by typing /opie), you can then ‘quickly’ (once your used to it maybe haha) trigger your rings and make a selection.

Warning: you DO NOT need to be on the selected icon to make a selection, it will auto select the highlighted option based on your mouse location to the ring (I wasted a couple of flasks haha)

The default install comes with some defaults; Trade, Quest, Raid Markers etc etc but I dont think I will use them too much (at least not for now), my primary need arises from needing to quickly (and easily) buff and flask up in raids etc. I don’t need a quest ring because in reality I dont quest that much anymore

The configuration is pretty easy, drag and drop any number of macros, spells, items into the ring config and your off, set a key binding (i chose ALT+Mouse Button 5). So all I did was drop on my common items; flasks, hearth, buffs, food etc.

Then in game I click ALT+MB5 and the ring appears, then mouse your curser to the appropriate action and KABAM it’s done

The real advantage of this addon is that it frees up even more area on my ui.

Now am I going to map all my spells to a ring and not use key bindings, hell no! It’s too much of a shift for me and I dont see that it would improve my performance, also the mouse action philosophy would really stuff my mouseover macros haha.

All in all the module is a great idea, well developed and I have deleted Autobar completely. It meets by requirements and has that wow-cool factor I like sometimes haha