What do you want to see on Astrologian?

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Originally Posted by Cynfael

Yeah, that makes your experience a bit different than that of the average player. Maybe someone with similar difficulties can make suggestions as to how to improve the UI further if possible.

Although, if it helps (and if you haven't already done so), try mapping your most commonly used actions to the keyboard or mouse. I use Q, E, R, Space, Z, X, and +Shift combinations thereof to minimize the need to click on the UI. Whether that at all addresses your problem I don't know, but personally I find clicking on the UI to be a slight annoyance regardless of eyesight.

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Agreed. I know it isn't an option for everyone, btu I have a gaming mouse myself, its an entire extra hotbar on your thumb. So I have the normal hotbar and my mouse button hotbar, and both of those further modded with +shift and +alt, giving me essentially 6 hotbars at my fingertips. But if your UI issue is more with the party UI and such, I am sorry I can't help :(

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

I'm legally blind.

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Pardon my ignorance (and genuine interest), but wouldn't a blind person be unable to play at all a video game ? Is there some special feature to allow blind people to play even if they can't react to on screen signals ? (not to mention PNJ interaction)

Or is this an expression to describe something I am not aware of (english isn't my 1st language) ?

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Originally Posted by LycorisSelunis

Basically you can still see, but not very well even with vision correction.

http://www.visionaware.org/info/your...criptions/1235

This can include poor focus or poor peripheral vision. I am nowhere near legally blind myself, but without my glasses I cannot read a bold-print tshirt form more than 3 feet away. In these cases, not only is loss of detail a thing but if the details are small, I could even have a loss of color (black print on a white shirt becomes a grey smudge). If this happens with buff/debuff icons, I could see that being monstrous to play with.

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thanks for the insight, and effectively regarding that, the UI may suck a lot in this situation. Though there are a lot of efforts made to allow the maximum of people to play (Deaf people got the sound visuals to assist them in fights where it might be needed, such as Leviathan for example), maybe they'll do something for that too.

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Originally Posted by Kuwagami

Pardon my ignorance (and genuine interest), but wouldn't a blind person be unable to play at all a video game ? Is there some special feature to allow blind people to play even if they can't react to on screen signals ? (not to mention PNJ interaction)

Or is this an expression to describe something I am not aware of (english isn't my 1st language) ?

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Basically you can still see, but not very well even with vision correction.

http://www.visionaware.org/info/your...criptions/1235

This can include poor focus or poor peripheral vision. I am nowhere near legally blind myself, but without my glasses I cannot read a bold-print tshirt form more than 3 feet away. In these cases, not only is loss of detail a thing but if the details are small, I could even have a loss of color (black print on a white shirt becomes a grey smudge). If this happens with buff/debuff icons, I could see that being monstrous to play with.

Well this sucks I wrote like the longest post yesterday but due to the limit had to post and then edit to post the rest but looks like only the first of like 5 paragraphs posted :(. How is it too hard to flip into CS cast some damage and flip back out? The interface is so easy, maybe it's harder on PC? I have CS set to left trigger and left D-pad arrow, hit that quick do my damage spells like Aero II and CS is usually off cool down by then to flip it off. I personally think healing would be boring if it wasn't for that, as there's many many times where you'd just be standing around as everyone is full health. Even Titan HM or EX, there's no reason that you can't at the start flip into CS, hit Virus and Aero II before anyone even starts taking enough damage to warrant healing. In fights like that with just 1 boss I typically will let the tank get aggro, then Medica II to take care of the DPS's that take minor damage, and then I blast away some DPS.

To the legally blind person, as I just saw that part, maybe try using the controller? I'm at the point where I generally don't even have to look at the crossbar any more as I just know that R2 plus down is Cure, up is Cure II, right D-Pad is Medica II, left is Esuna, down is Medica, swiftcast raise macro is L2+R2 and dpad up, etc. To be fair, if you set the UI to 140%, it's pretty large. I'm assuming you're on a PC but if you set the resolution to 720p as well vs 1080p, that literally doubles the size of everything (that's how I play it on my laptop as it's not a gaming machine and can't handle 1080p but 720 is fine, it's just that the UI is seriously massive).

Well, if you make the UI TOO large... it is very cluttering and then it becomes tough to dodge aoes and things because all your screen is UI.

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Originally Posted by LycorisSelunis

Well, if you make the UI TOO large... it is very cluttering and then it becomes tough to dodge aoes and things because all your screen is UI.

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Agreed but I mean you can't have your cake and eat it too. If someone says they are legally blind and have issues seeing things, other than making the UI larger I'm not sure what other concessions SE could do since in fairness I'd assume it's not a large percentage of players it would impact. You also don't need to do all elements, like even just your own status effects making that largest type thing.

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Originally Posted by 416to305

Agreed but I mean you can't have your cake and eat it too. If someone says they are legally blind and have issues seeing things, other than making the UI larger I'm not sure what other concessions SE could do since in fairness I'd assume it's not a large percentage of players it would impact. You also don't need to do all elements, like even just your own status effects making that largest type thing.

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good point, cuz frankly I forget that you can scale the components separately ><;; derp on my part.

In a small effort to say something actually topic related..... I have been muddling over how royal road and spread will interact. For example can you use royal road and then activate a spreaded card, setting aside the dmg reduction buff to be aoe in an emergency? Or would you have to use royal road first and then use spread on the then-drawn royal road buffed card, which would be random? Perhaps even some limitation to those two cds interacting?

Also we know you get 'draw' right off the bat at 30 but no idea when spread, shuffle, and royal road will be learned. I am curious to see the order and how slowly they add these interaction mechanics to the learning curve of the class. Plus we -still- don't know if the basic spells like benefic and whatnot are 'learned' at a level lower than 30 for the purpose of level syncing below 30 for dungeons/fates/etc. Speaking of levels and learning spells I wonder when they will get their esuna/leeches spell. CNJ gets esuna at what, 18? While SCH gets it at 40 as a job skill. I remember sorely missing esuna in Brayflox when I was a SCH if I had a bad group. So will their 'detriment' (still don't see why that is the translated name for this spell so far makes no sense) come at a level for that? In time for Cutter's hopefully, the dot on the second boss is brutal and paralysis too.

Just had another thought...wondering if Light Speed will limit WHICH spells are instant cast. Can we use this to spam resses? Though MP would go down the toilet of course (oooh, mp cost reduction card I am looking at YOU) and if the potency is lowered, would targets res at so low health that it wouldn't be worth it? *sigh* ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS before I can just start fiddling with this myself and have all my questions answered.

So now the question for astrologians should be...

Should we use our buffs to up the output of the lowest DPS in the party...or the highest DPS in the party for when we get the Attack Speed and/or Attack Damage buff? What about Spire's reducing ability Cooldown?

The TP Down and MP Down buffs could do wonders to help the bards manage party TP and MP, and will go on whoever needs them (Or get Spread, or Shuffled or Royal Roaded back to the deck).

Look at it this way.

If you're boosting the guy doing 500 DPS by 10%, they're doing 50 more.

If you're boosting the guy doing 200 DPS by 10%, they're doing 20 more.

As nice as it is to make the worse DPS look better, your pity is just gimping you overall in the grand scheme of things. If people can't be arsed working for their numbers, then they can happily remain without external buffs. :p

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Originally Posted by UOdhn

So now the question for astrologians should be...

Should we use our buffs to up the output of the lowest DPS in the party...or the highest DPS in the party for when we get the Attack Speed and/or Attack Damage buff? What about Spire's reducing ability Cooldown?

The TP Down and MP Down buffs could do wonders to help the bards manage party TP and MP, and will go on whoever needs them (Or get Spread, or Shuffled or Royal Roaded back to the deck).

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The only dps class I have leveled is Bard (I don't count having a SMN I didn't level as that job and I am not great with it) and I just....I just want to put the recast buff on them because popping 5 cds at the start of a boss fight. So much cd pop!