Kerp UI (16/20)

Even though I was referred to Kerp UI from my post on the World of Warcraft UI forums, it was not my first time to see Kerp UI in action. When my guild was learning Lady Vashj, I downloaded a movie of a guild killing Vashj, and found an awesome UI, which ended up being Kerp UI. I then took some ideas and some of the mods from Kerp's interface and used it in my own UI, which I may review at a later date. But for now, lets get on with the review.
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The Installation (2/5)
Upon downloading KerpUI, which is a .rar, you are confronted with the following 5 folders; AddOns, Fonts, WTF for 1152x864 and WTF for 1280x1024, as well as a readme.txt. So the first file I opened up was obviously readme.txt, thinking that it would at least guide me through the install of the UI. I was wrong, the only thing inside the readme was a message saying, if you have any questions, please see my forum post, with a link to said forum post. So I went to the forum post thinking at least there it would tell me where these files needed to go. Wrong again, I was left to fend for myself. So, using many mods in my days of WoW, I know where these folders go, the AddOns folder goes to C:\World of Warcraft\Interface\, and the Fonts folder goes to C:\World of Warcraft\. But the tricky part was the WTF folder. Im using 1280x1024 resolution, so I slammed into the hierarchy of the 1280x1024 folder to find the character folder, which was "Kerp", I copied all the contents, opened to "C:\World of Warcraft\WTF\MY ACCOUNT\MY SERVER\MY CHARACER\" and pasted all the saved variables in there, then I launched the game. On my first launch what I got was what you see in the screenshot on the left. I was a little distraught, as the UI did not look ANYTHING like the screenshot. So I played with it for a bit trying to get it to look like the screenshot, but remembered, there were some more saved variables for the server and for the account. Thinking those variables might be needed, I exited the game, and deleted my entire WTF folder, copied Kerps whole 1280x1024 WTF folder, and renamed the Account, Server and Character folders respectivly, and then launched the game again. And I was greeted with a UI that looked EXACTLY like Kerps, see my screenshot on the right.

Cleanliness (5/5)
After getting all my binds recreated and all my WoW options (Music off, Auto Target for Bandaging, Mouse Sensitivity, etc.) the way that I like, I was ready to rock and roll. The UI is extremely clean, and there is nothing really on the UI that you don’t need, even when it comes to raiding. The default UI install had damage meters and a threat meter on it, but since I am testing it using my lowbie warrior alt, I removed those from the screen, to save some space. Nine times out of Ten, I will hate on someones UI if they have one of those huge bars at the bottom that completely covers up the screen. But in the case of this UI, it fits it perfectly, and it is very unobtrusive. One of the things I really liked was the Potion/Food/Hearth/Bandage Auto Bar right above the action bar, even though, on all the UI's that I have made, I have put that kind of bar floating right next to my character on the screen, but in this case I can get used to it.

Ease of Use (4/5)
To start this off, I will say that I have never heard of the mod, Duece Commander, and from now on, I will suggest it to all who make custom UI's. What it does is it sums up all your custom mods into one action button on Fubar, so instead of having 12 different Mods across your Fubar or on your minimap, Duece Commander puts them all into one single, easy to access bar. This is a really big plus for this kind of UI where someone may want to change a bunch of things, but not know where any of the mods are. Well look no further. The only thing I would give a negative on this category would be that everything was extremely small on my screen. I have a 19" monitor, and all the text and all the action buttons were really small.

Resource Usage (5/5)
According to my Memory usage before I installed KerpUI and after, there was no real big difference. I have 2 Gigs of memory, and the game was as smooth after installing the UI as it was before having KerpUI. The only problem was the first load, where it loaded all the addons for the first time, it took maybe an extra 10 seconds, but every load after that was fine. I even maintained my normal 40+ FPS in cities, and 60+ FPS outside in the wilderness by myself.

Summary (16/20)
All in all, I would say that Kerp has put together a really awesome package. For many users who don’t like to, or cant put together their own custom UI, this is a definate solution. Even though the install was a little tricky, I eventually figured it out, but for some new player who wants a custom UI, he will be completely lost, and will be going to go post on Kerp's forum, asking a question that has probably already been answered 50 times, which could have been fixed with a semi-detailed readme.txt. I will absolutely recommend this UI to anyone looking for a good, small and easy to maintain UI for raiding, but for the average WoW player, I think it has a bit too much.

You may download KerpUI HERE.