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Action bar

The Action Bar is the left-most part of the Interface Bar at the bottom of the screen, and is used as a ready source for command shortcuts (abilities and spells). Player may drag and drop icons into the Action Bar in order to create a customized interface. Experienced players will give great attention to the layout of their Action Bar(s), as it represents the primary means of interface in combat, and is critical in allowing for quick action in an environment where 1–3 seconds delay can mean the difference between victory or a wipe.

Basics[]

Holds any spells or abilities you place here from your Spellbook and Abilities window. Once placed, they can be activated with a quick hotkey or mouse click.[1]

  • To the right of the command shortcuts are gold up () and down () arrows to switch to alternate Action Bars (see below).

When you learn a new rank of an ability or spell, all buttons on your currently active spec's action bars which previously used the highest available rank will be updated to use the new highest rank. Buttons which used downranked versions of spells and abilities and buttons on your inactive spec's skill bars will not be updated.

Additional bars[]

The advanced interface options allow a player to add up to five other action bars (bottom left, bottom right 1, bottom right 2, right 1, and right 2) to the screen. Doing so reduces the number of alternate Action Bars that are available via the up and down arrows situated to the right of the primary action bar. This means that a total of seven action bars are available for the interface to handle regardless of the manner in which they are displayed.

A player may choose to have these action bars accessible via toggling of the gold arrows (the benefit being a screen with less clutter and better field of vision, an option sometimes chosen by melee classes), or may choose to have those bars displayed at all times (garnering the benefit of rapid access to a greater range of abilities and spells, an option typically chosen by casters).

There are 15 action bars, and they are allocated as follows ("Action Bar #" are shown with Edit Mode):

Action Bar Action slots Used for/Edit Mode
1 1-12 Action Bar 1
2 13-24 Action Bar 1 - Page 2
4 25-36 Action Bar 4
5 37-48 Action Bar 5
3 49-60 Action Bar 3
2 61-72 Action Bar 2
b1 73-84 Bonus Bar 1 (Druid Cat Form/Rogue Stealth)
b2 85-96 Bonus Bar 2 (Druid Cat Form Stealth)
b3 97-108 Bonus Bar 3 (Druid Bear Form)
b4 109-120 Bonus Bar 4 (Druid Moonkin Form)
b5 121-132 Bonus Bar 5 (Dragonriding)
b6 133-144 Bonus Bar 6 (Unknown)
6 145-156 Action Bar 6
7 157-168 Action Bar 7
8 169-180 Action Bar 8

Gallery[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Complete overhaul, eight bars are now able to be shown at once using Edit Mode, with six "bonus bars" and second page of action bar making 15 total bars
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Moving the bag slots and micro menu off the Interface Bar, 6 more additional slots were added with the "Bottom Right Bar".
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): All Warrior and Monk stances removed. Priest Shadowform and Druid Moonkin Form no longer count as stances.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2016-03-01): Fixed an issue where changes made to the action bar may not be saved correctly when entering an instance such as a Dungeon, Raid, Battleground, or Arena.

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