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The New Guild Panel and How to Go Back - Season of Discovery
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Season of Discovery Phase 4 introduced some unexpected changes. One of the most controversial changes was updating the Guild panel to match its Retail counterpart. This change is likely a part of the continued effort to unify the multiple clients Blizzard now has to work with, but there has been no official statement yet. While most players reacted indifferently to this change, there was some outcry on various forums.
While many players have called this the "Cata UI", that statement isn't true. The original Cataclysm Guild panel was much closer to the original panel than the Retail panel, being contained to one single-width window while covering parts that didn't make it into Cataclysm Classic, such as Guild Levels.
What Changed?
The first and most obvious difference is that the overhauled panel is twice the width of the original. This allows more information to be visible while removing the necessity for the big yellow arrow to swap from ranks and notes to classes and levels. The downside is that the panel obscures a large amount of the screen whenever it is open. At higher resolutions and adjusted UI scale settings, this will likely cover a little less than half your monitor's width.
Despite the increased size, some information that was always visible is now in a separate tab. The guild message of the day is relegated to the "Info" tab, together with Guild Information and a new addition, Guild News. Something that was brought up in the initial discussions was the swap from class names displayed as text over to class icons. Players that used ElvUI will likely not have noticed a difference here, as ElvUI already changed that particular element.
A large amount of space on the new panel is also dedicated to separate communities. Unfortunately, this function is not available in Season of Discovery, meaning this is instead wasted space. The new "Note" section also has a habit of truncating text that could have easily fit. Despite the obvious minimize arrow in the top right, shrinking the window this way will only allow you to access the Guild chat history and little else.
All of the previously available information is still available. Tabs can be sorted in many different ways. The only absent detail appears to be the members' current zone and their "Last Online" has been combined into one column. Online players show their location, while offline players show when they were last logged in. You can still click on a player in the roster to see their last known location. Unfortunately, Guild control has always been a bit fiddly, and this UI does not seem to have massively improved the Guild Master experience either.
"This Isn't Classic Anymore"
The community responded to this change negatively primarily because this is straying farther from the Classic UI players grew up with, and more toward the modern expansions. While it isn't unreasonable for players to want to play the game as they remember it, it is worth keeping in mind that the more things can be unified between clients, the less likely they are to have their unique issues.
For players that still sit firmly in the #nochanges camp, one player has created both a WeakAura and a standalone addon to bring back the old Guild panel. This has been possible to do manually with the command "/guildroster", but that window has a habit of closing itself semi-randomly. If you'd like to have the old Guild panel back, check out the links below.
ClassicGuildFrame Addon ClassicGuildFrame WeakAura
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