Improvements to the Action Bar and Unit Frames ?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LuciBlack

I admit that I started this post with a childish rant.

But, can I ask, those who cant see what icon they are on. Are you relying on reading the huge black bar that pops up when your on an icon that tells you the name and what the abiltiy does?

I find that to help.

I think thats annoying tbh. I like to see more of my screen, not less.
But, it also helps to memorize where you put abilitys, and press the button corosponding to it.
Of course thats for they keyboard users.

---

not when we're on intense battle, furthermore as a tank, we need to careful on what action that we use. no lag on the brain helps the battle.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Aion

not when we're on intense battle, furthermore as a tank, we need to careful on what action that we use. no lag on the brain helps the battle.

---

Well lag is only due to unsufficient pc components and/or net speed.
Im fortunate enough to have a more than standard pc to run xiv.
Im a Glad main. And I do just fine tanking intence battles, (aka. ogre).
My bars are full of enmity abilities, and im waiting for the recast timers more than anything.

The action bar problem I see is big, but I really hoping the shield skill sp issue is fixed in 1.18a. For conj/thm not as bad, for GLA brutally bad.

I think it just comes down to a companionship with your keyboard and/or mouse.
If you know how to manipulate it, you can do just fine.
Someone once told me you cant be a tank in this game unless you have "fast fingers".
I guess i have fast fingers then lol.

Besides theres a lot less you have to worry about now what we have auto attack.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LuciBlack

I think it just comes down to a companionship with your keyboard and/or mouse.
If you know how to manipulate it, you can do just fine.
Someone once told me you cant be a tank in this game unless you have "fast fingers".
I guess i have fast fingers then lol.

Besides theres a lot less you have to worry about now what we have auto attack.

---

read my post, lag on the brain. it means I must look carefully and confirming where is my skill selection is now, coz I am using controller. That split second will sometimes deciding the outcome of the battle (and its annoying).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Aion

lag on the brain. it means I must look carefully and confirming where is my skill selection is now, coz I am using controller. That split second will sometimes deciding the outcome of the battle (and its annoying).

---

Dang, im glad i dont use controller ;p

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LuciBlack

Dang, im glad i dont use controller ;p

---

well I found my gaming experience increase ten fold when I am switch to controller(when 1.18 up). And then I just realized this game is really designed for Controller user, before I was ignorant about this.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Aion

well I found my gaming experience increase ten fold when I am switch to controller(when 1.18 up). And then I just realized this game is really designed for Controller user, before I was ignorant about this.

---

I find that very interesting, cause i have no problem with keyboard... it must be personal preferance.

The other interesting party is your idea that this was made for controller. When its controller users who seem to have all the problems.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LuciBlack

I find that very interesting, cause i have no problem with keyboard... it must be personal preferance.

The other interesting party is your idea that this was made for controller. When its controller users who seem to have all the problems.

---

Overall, the focus has been on controller users pretty much throughout the process, from what I can tell. Don't get me wrong, I like that they're fixing this for the controller users out there. I just wish they'd give us some sort of progress report on when they're going to throw us keyboard/mouse users a bone. . .

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LuciBlack

Improving something thats already good, can make it worse.

---

Well thank god it's not good then or we might have to worry.

1. Remove the information of thr skill when an ability is highlighted. (or display only the name of the ability, whitout all the description).

2. Make the skill icon bigger when is highlighted. Improving visibility of you skill chooise.

3. An exlusive slot to toogle on or off the autoattack.

4. Bigger party information.

5. Ability to enlarge or make smaller the action bar.

6. Moore slots for action bar... Not more "bars"... Meaby instead of 3 bars of 10 slots will be better 2 bars of 20 slots. (this will be great for controller user).



Ok. That's all for now. Think. Hope to see your suggestion and see how developers response.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Galka75

1. Remove the information of thr skill when an ability is highlighted. (or display only the name of the ability, whitout all the description).

2. Make the skill icon bigger when is highlighted. Improving visibility of you skill chooise.

3. An exlusive slot to toogle on or off the autoattack.

4. Bigger party information.

5. Ability to enlarge or make smaller the action bar.

6. Moore slots for action bar... Not more "bars"... Meaby instead of 3 bars of 10 slots will be better 2 bars of 20 slots. (this will be great for controller user).



Ok. That's all for now. Think. Hope to see your suggestion and see how developers response.

---

You don't want 20 slots long bars for a controller.

And 10 is a nice number because F keys and 1-0 map nicely to a 2 rows bar. But really I would love for them to let you pick to a reasonable point whatever rows x columns amount, and map each slot to an arbitrary key.

Yea, i can see myself getting annoyed scrolling along from 9 to 19 on the bar, when I could just press the down key and I'm right there.

In other topic was good suggestion

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ChaoticUno

Pugulist and Gladiator for sure have abilities that they can only use after a successful counter or block. These abilities should be greyed out just like the abilities that have not had enough TP built up for them. I cannot count how many times I find myself trying to use heymaker whenever I cannot actually use it because it is illuminated as I can use it.
Thanks,

---

Really it's a quick fix for the devs. All they had to do was add a dark backdrop or something to that effect. They're probably even finished with most of it since it's "Testing in Progress." For all the trolls questioning SE's priorities, they probably pulled 1 or 2 people out of the UI team for a couple days to redesign this. I don't understand why people act like Yoshi instructed the entire UI team to fix the UI visibility. The lot of them are probably working on the Materia System, Job System, achievements, and help menu interfaces.

You can check where SE's priorities are at here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...ent?order=desc

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Yazoo

In other topic was good suggestion
Originally Posted by ChaoticUno
Pugulist and Gladiator for sure have abilities that they can only use after a successful counter or block. These abilities should be greyed out just like the abilities that have not had enough TP built up for them. I cannot count how many times I find myself trying to use heymaker whenever I cannot actually use it because it is illuminated as I can use it.
Thanks,

---

They said they are on it but it would require server side changes.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Black_Rose

well, i had problems seeing which action i'm on in bright areas, like sunny thanalan.
the yellow ring of the action bar often got almost invisible due to brightness.
i'm happy about this change!

---

Exactly this. I was actually running into this problem the other day. To be honest, when I saw the new lodestone topic I was like... what's different? Then I was like... lol that's nothing. Then I was all.... Oh wait, neat!