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ARTICLE

TACKLING WOW WITH

DISTRACTIONS

By Ashleigh Ayn Sult

h, ADHD. There’s nothing like going to do units, and UI mods like Tidy Plates hold my dot timers. I try

something, and then wondering why you’re in to avoid any wasted space.

Athe action of doing it mid way through. “Why am

I in Dalaran?” “Why did I go to the kitchen?” “Why did I ever If any of your addons are repeating the same information,

open up a Google Document?” A lot of people suffer from it might be worth it to get rid of an addon that is providing

ADHD, and some people just suffer from various amounts you with the same information that your other addons

of scatter brainedness. For some people, trying to power already can, or customize your addons again to reduce

through their day to day activities with focus is actually a screen clutter. Similarly, avoid using flashy versions of

challenge that even extends into their daily gaming lives. your mods, and look for the clean bar versions of things

WoW is full of distractions for a normal person, let alone like DBM and more.

anything else.

SET UP A PLAYLIST OR PICK A SONG FOR EACH

So, in honor of trying to improve for the new year, here’s BOSS OR RAID THAT YOU’RE TACKLING:

a few tips that can help you neaten up your WoW life,

and reduce the amount of time you spend spacing out or I personally find that assigning a song or a playlist to

running laps around Dalaran for no reason at all. a boss while you’re learning it makes remembering how

to do the fight later on a million times easier. Especially

LOSE THE BUSY UI: so if the boss isn’t dropping coveted tokens and trinkets

and is a side boss. If your group skips the boss for a week

The more things you have on your screen the more or two and your guild returns, you’ll have an easy method

easily distracted you will get. I no longer build my UI, but for triggering your memories of how the fight works and

instead use a very simple pre-packaged UI that reduces where exactly to be each time you return. Once your group

the amount of things I see on my screen. If I don’t need to is doing swift clears, one or two songs will cover most

see the map or chat, I can even collapse those with a click bosses even.

of a button. Name plates are turned off besides enemy

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