WoW Bartender Addon Guide

Bartender is one of the most popular addons players download for World of Warcraft. Bartender allows you to fully customize your interface, moving every bar anywhere you want on the screen. There are quite a few bar addons out there but Bartender is one of the most well known ones and most supported. I personally can't play this game without Bartender anymore, it's the first addon I download each time I return to the game and the first addon I update after a patch.

Once you add Bartender into your addon folder you will want to login to the game and type /Bartender to bring up the Bartender menu. From this menu you are allowed to configure up to 10 different hot bars, making them bigger, smaller, changing the rows and how they're configured, how many buttons are on each bar, the space between each bar... pretty much everything about the hotbar you can change. Also in these options there are ways to turn off Blizzard's art bar and mess with other important game features like your bag bar, micro menu, stance bar and more.

Below is a picture of the window that comes up when you type /Bartender.

As you can see there are many options available as aforementioned. With Bartender you are almost fully able to customize your entire interface. The only thing you can't do with Bartender is customize your Unit Frames, they'll take another addon which we can get into later. Now to give you an idea how pretty your interface will look with bartender I took a few pictures of mine. It's a bit spotty considering Blizzard recently removed a lot of abilities with 5.0.4 but you will be able to see the layout and how much different it looks than the normal Blizzard Interface.

First picture are my 3 main bars where 90% of my hotkeys lie. These are on the bottom left side of my screen:

As you can see with that picture you can customize your bars really however you want. Although Bartender doesn't make the buttons circles, that's Buttonfacade, a completely different addon. This next picture is my entire interface. I used Bartender to fully customize it but I used Masque/Buttonfacade to make the circles. You will have to click on the picture in order to enlarge it.

That is pretty much all there is to say about Bartender though. It is by far one of the most useful addons I have ever downloaded and would strongly recommend it to anyone that plays the game. I would go as far as saying Bartender is a requirement to play at your best potential but I don't want to start any wars between other players out there. Either way I give the addon a solid 10/10 and recommend you download it immediately!