One of the most iconic components of ProfitUI is the custom Player window with its Self > Target > Implied configuration. An alternate Player window is available on the ProfitUI CE server that is 50% larger than the standard window (see image above). There are no changes to how it works, but you may find the larger size to be more comfortable to use.
Thanks to Darq Side members Myxx and Krafoogoo for their help with testing and fe...
2023-06-12 11:56:56 +0000 UTC
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Here's a handy new trick. We're all familiar with the "quantity" popup. It's that tiny window with tiny controls for specifying an exact amount or quantity of something. It appears in all sorts of places -- moving coin, splitting stacks of items, grabbing a few crafting supplies out of the depots, buying harvestables from a seller's stockpile on the broker. The list is long.
No matter the context, it's always an awkward transaction. This is one of those places where I wish for voice con...
2023-06-06 23:13:24 +0000 UTC
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Not long ago we introduced the Timed Channel Announcement premium feature, which has been well-received except that players who use the feature tend to need more than one announcement. Instead of reconfiguring the one and only message for each situation, now you can pre-configure several different message tabs and choose from among them. Take a look!
2023-06-03 15:54:29 +0000 UTC
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Son: Nice beard, Dad. I thought you didn't like them?
Dad: It grew on me.
Here's to all our dads and their brilliant, enlightening jokes. Happy Father's Day!
An Ounce of Announcement
The Chat window has been getting some attention in May with a new improvement to the recent Timed Channel Announcement feature. It's now Channel Announcements,...
2023-05-30 13:40:17 +0000 UTC
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Update: This change is now live, so checking for updates will give you the newest version on Live servers as well as Test.
If you have characters on the Test server, there are some interesting changes to the Character window that you'll want to get. Using a copy of the utility located in \EverQuest II\TestServer\UI\, check for updates and choose "Test server" from the gear icon. Then hit the Update files button and you're all done!
Click the screenshot ab...
2023-05-14 17:12:59 +0000 UTC
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Q: Why should you never buy Mother's Day flowers from a monk?
A: Because only you can prevent florist friars.
(With apologies to all our moms. Happy Mother's Day!)
The UI had a bunch of small but useful UI tweaks earlier this month, and you can see most of them in the April Feature Pack post. With so many excellent ideas for features on the boards, we've been continuously busy writ...
2023-04-29 03:20:36 +0000 UTC
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Group 30? Yikes! How many windows are in this UI anyway? Here's another grab bag of components that you'll probably encounter along your journey. All of them are in the Extras package this time, so getting them will be a snap.
One For the Books
This enlargement includes player-made books, regular house item books (e.g. "A History of Antonica"), greeting cards and th...
2023-04-20 03:49:20 +0000 UTC
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Here's a handy new bit of data that should improve the efficiency of your Gear Buff Macros. Instead of wondering when you can recast a clicky buff contained in the macro, now you can configure a new timer bar right on the button that counts down the reuse time. No more guessing! Take a quick look at the video above for more info.
Big thanks to Darq Side member alakazzam for making the suggestion, and to Rosyposy and Viper for additional...
2023-04-19 00:51:13 +0000 UTC
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Here are some tweaks to existing components that I think you're going to enjoy using. Between Tradeskills/Harvesting, Achievements, Custom Timers and the new Beta, there's a little something here for everyone.
Suspended Animation
The Harvesting Helper was updated a while back to stop whenever you get aggro while trying to harvest. Then later it was updated to optionally resume harv...
2023-04-08 23:53:08 +0000 UTC
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A new version of the DarqUI Unified Utility is available at eq2interface.com.
If you are unsure about how to install or upgrade DarqUI, look here.
Utility version 3.1.3.4 offers the following changes and improvements:
● Normal, Large and X-Large sizes of EQ2MAP
2023-04-01 05:38:03 +0000 UTC
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One improvement that members have been asking for since the beginning is larger maps for their higher resolution systems. I've been resistant to spreading the reach of DarqUI into the EQ2MAP realm, but now that we have a large chunk of the UI available in 2K and 4K sizes, it makes sense to see what can be done while keeping a light touch.
Today you have access to four mapping alternatives.
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2023-04-01 05:32:59 +0000 UTC
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So far we've seen a gratifying response to the new Loadouts feature, and there are a couple of changes on the server today based upon member feedback that will smooth out certain things.
It's In the Bag
For many of us, current-tier gear includes lots of little gotchas in the form of restricted adornments and gear pieces. RELIC, LORE-EQUIP and o...
2023-03-25 19:32:30 +0000 UTC
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Loadouts is a feature that you may find in other games, but nothing like this! The DarqUI version stitches together eight configuration steps like Gear Sets, AA specs, and up to 18 player-selected spells and buffs that are cast automatically to prepare your character for raiding, crafting, or any other activity. Take a look at the video and give it a try!
Big thanks go to these Darq Side members: Lhaffinatu for inspiring earlier features that laid the groundwork fo...
2023-03-22 03:28:36 +0000 UTC
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Here's one of those tiny but useful improvements that make you wonder why we never added it before. Thanks to Darq Side member PiousVenom for requesting the XP percentage display, and for testing out a couple of different ways to skin the Kerra. For those of us who are still not at max Overseer level, now we can verify that the XP is not in fact going backwards. Click the thumbnail above to check it out.
The Overseer window has gotten some other attention in the pa...
2023-03-19 04:32:06 +0000 UTC
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Recently a request was made to improve upon the usefulness and aesthetics of one of our popular custom components. Until now, the DarqUI Stat Monitor has been fitted with five stat tiles, and as long as the window displaying all five slots is arranged horizontally or vertically, there's no wasted space. But in any other layout there is always an inefficient gap at the end.
Now...
2023-03-11 20:58:32 +0000 UTC
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You may remember that we had some browser drama back in December of 2021 when the development team kicked the aging Awesomium browser to the curb but didn't replace it with anything. The default help system suffered quite a bit during that time. When you tried to view help you'd get an awkward pop-up asking if it was okay to open the external browser, and then a separate external browser window wou...
2023-03-11 20:54:01 +0000 UTC
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I asked ChatGPT for Tom Hanks' password. To my surprise it answered: 1forrest1
Promises, Promises
In February we had a feature request that started out as a quick side item, but turned into an almost two-week project. (Time estimates are impossible with this UI, but that never stops me from trying.) Bag Sorting Presets turned out to be a nifty new premium feature,...
2023-03-01 03:56:18 +0000 UTC
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Ugh. I won't forget the first time I clicked that evil Bag Sort button years ago. I sat there dumbfounded and bug-eyed at the meticulously packed and alphabetized inventory that just moments prior had been my carefully constructed train wreck of bag contents. After recovering, I decided never to go near that button ever again.
Over time of course, player requests and simple curiosity led me to finally learn the arcane inner secrets of bag sorting, and I finally concluded that the featur...
2023-02-20 19:18:56 +0000 UTC
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If you're still slogging through Overseer levels like me, that big green XP bar can seem like it's crawling slower and slower. One of my frustrations was tracking how many points each Overseer quest grants. Yes, you can infer that longer missions grant more points than shorter ones, and blue (Treasured) missions don't reward as much as Legendary, Fabled and Celestial tiers. But exactly how much XP are we talk...
2023-02-09 17:39:00 +0000 UTC
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Q: What did the plate say to the glass on Valentine's Day?
A: Tonight, dinner's on me.
Macroergonomics
Recently some improvements were made to the Tradeskill window's automation to include familiar swaps along with gear sets and mounts, to simplify getting into and out of your tradeskill spec. Naturally the question was raised: Can we leverage that feature to create ...
2023-02-01 02:17:02 +0000 UTC
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The Desert of Ro has concealed many mysteries during this Age of Destiny. But one of the great unanswered questions is, "How can we make POI icons easier to see on the map?"
We are fortunate to have a cartography system that provides us with hundreds of colorful maps and thousands of data points in a crowd-sourced database that is updated constantly. In fact, some of our own Darq Side members a...
2023-01-30 05:32:20 +0000 UTC
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One of the coolest new premium features for tradeskillers has been the tradeskill mount and gear preset controls and the auto-swapping of said mounts and gear sets. Since we also have access to Familiars that contribute crafting and experimentation stats, it made sense to Darq Side member Naviaz
2023-01-25 21:07:49 +0000 UTC
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Here are some wintery cool patron-only updates that you can try out right now.
Wide Examine
No matter which UI size you prefer, the Examine window often has that annoying scrolling area where the effects on gear items and adornments are shown. Darq Sider Jrox recently asked in Discord if anything could be done to make this area easier to deal with, so we took another look at it.
It's nearly impossible to resize that area vertically without b...
2023-01-18 23:10:08 +0000 UTC
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What's my favorite New Year's resolution? 3840 x 2160 of course!
-Darq
Here are some of the things on the to-do list for January. And we might even be able to sneak in a couple of extra tweaks here and there. ;)
Getting Familiar
Not long ago some convenience controls [1]
2023-01-06 17:41:17 +0000 UTC
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Text chat is a key aspect of MMOs, and EverQuest II is no exception. Here are two nice improvements to the premium DarqUI Chat window.
Bigger Is Better
You may have watched the Darq Side daily video that talks about setting a global chat font size in Options up to a limit of 20 pixels. It also gives pointers for setting larger font sizes on individual tabs. At first glance, chat text larger than 20 pixels may seem useful only for high resolutions. But even if you ...
2023-01-05 03:18:30 +0000 UTC
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One component that gets its own group? Well once again, as with Group 28, the answer is yes. It's been a very interesting process getting the AA (Alternate Advancement) window to behave nicely enough to offer it on the premium update server. Check out the video and you'll see what I mean!
Because this window is the only one labeled as "Experimental," you'll have to choose it manually when you check for update...
2023-01-04 03:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello Darq Siders, and Happy New Year!
We have two new Patreon membership options that I'm excited to share with you.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Annual memberships at Patreon have been available almost as long as the Darq Side has been around and a number of players have mentioned it, most recently in Discord just a few days ago. An annual option can make all of your Patreon memberships more pleasant to deal with -- by not having to deal with them! A goo...
2023-01-02 18:38:16 +0000 UTC
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Here's an improvement to the Setpoints feature in the premium Maintained Spell Monitor.
If you're still using the "Lite" monitor, you should definiely give the Standard monitor a try. Check for updates with the utility, then scroll down to the Maintained Spell Monitor and choose Standard from the gear icon.
(Main tutorial: Maintained Spell Monitor)
2022-12-28 01:24:25 +0000 UTC
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Here's another nice improvement to the DarqUI Clock that I think you'll enjoy. In that video we discussed a default countdown timer, configurable up to 99 minutes. But what if you want to track a zone reuse timer without hitting Alt+Z over and over, or maybe get a reminder for your food and drink duration? Those are most often measured in hours, not minutes. Darq Side member badndash raised the que...
2022-12-19 00:53:13 +0000 UTC
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Things may seem to be quiet during the first few days of December here at the Darq Side, but that doesn't mean we're not on the ball. As the year winds down and the new expansion heats up, here's a variety of miscellaneous items that are either done and published, or being worked on actively.
On Location
Our favorite game has an odd habit of sending random windows into outer space every now and then, and you already know the Locate feature in Window Settings is th...
2022-12-11 23:53:47 +0000 UTC
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