Mystery Bar

I don't want to go on any huge theories here but... in the 2.0 screenshot they have revealed, I'm having trouble identifying a few things.

To the left of each person's name, in the party window, there is a bar that seems to be filling up, and above it says 'T1' 'A2' 'B3' A4' 'C5' 'A6' 'T7' 'H8'.

My personal speculation would be some sort of Limit Break bar or something. I also have no clue what the letters and numbers mean. At first I thought coordinates on the map, but a lot of those players are really close to each other.

On the other hand, the numbers match the numbers next to their LS symbol.

Second is the bottom right. All the colored squares. I'm at a complete loss and don't really have any theories.

Now, under some of the skills in the skill bar, it has a TP cost listed. But on some skills it has what appears to be a cog symbol.

Everything we think up is speculation, but I'd like to know what ya'll think some of these mystery elements are.

I believe the colored squares are some type of "icon" oriented inventory management.

I don't have a clue what the designated letter/number combination is nor would I have a reasonable guess.

I guess the number is the order of the party member? so you can easily using F1-8 to target the partymember

I notice, your name wont be displayed ( damn I took time searching which one is Delita) lol

I have no clue on the grids

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Originally Posted by Alerith

I don't want to go on any huge theories here but... in the 2.0 screenshot they have revealed, I'm having trouble identifying a few things.

To the left of each person's name, in the party window, there is a bar that seems to be filling up, and above it says 'T1' 'A2' 'B3' A4' 'C5' 'A6' 'T7' 'H8'.

My personal speculation would be some sort of Limit Break bar or something. I also have no clue what the letters and numbers mean. At first I thought coordinates on the map, but a lot of those players are really close to each other.

On the other hand, the numbers match the numbers next to their LS symbol.

Second is the bottom right. All the colored squares. I'm at a complete loss and don't really have any theories.

Now, under some of the skills in the skill bar, it has a TP cost listed. But on some skills it has what appears to be a cog symbol.

Everything we think up is speculation, but I'd like to know what ya'll think some of these mystery elements are.

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Threads in the JP forums have speculated the 'T1' 'A2' 'B3' A4' 'C5' 'A6' 'T7' 'H8' might mean T=Tank, A=Attacker, B=Buffer, C=Caster, H=Healer and the numbers correspond to party order (with you being 1 and PC2~8 being 2~8). Under the new UI, it just might be possible to assign specific roles to each party member and quickly see which party member does what in any given party.

As for the bars right next to it, we speculated that they were 'hate' bars - the higher they are, the more hate you have. If it's any proof, you'll notice that T1, the tank, has his bar full and the mob is looking directly at him.

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Originally Posted by Stanislaw

Threads in the JP forums have speculated the 'T1' 'A2' 'B3' A4' 'C5' 'A6' 'T7' 'H8' might mean T=Tank, A=Attacker, B=Buffer, C=Caster, H=Healer and the numbers correspond to party order (with you being 1 and PC2~8 being 2~8). Under the new UI, it just might be possible to assign specific roles to each party member and quickly see which party member does what in any given party.

As for the bars right next to it, we speculated that they were 'hate' bars - the higher they are, the more hate you have. If it's any proof, you'll notice that T1, the tank, has his bar full and the mob is looking directly at him.

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makes sense...and now for the bottom right grids.....

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Originally Posted by Aion

makes sense...and now for the bottom right grids.....

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Gah! Those grids are really screwing with me. The suggested inventory system is nice and all but....gah!

A(ttacker)
B(uffer)
H(ealer)
T(ank)
C(aster)

That is what i think.

Buffer is represented by the archer, as he become bard with jobs system, i put it as a buffer there.

And the number is the assignated number of member's party, look at the ennemy bar, it's easy to recognize who have the most hate, as it show the number on it, and the red bar must be the enmity bar based on your target or the target of the members in the party.

Betting its the new drag and drop inventory system (seems like we get bags of 30 probably with quests to increase the capacity this would make sense since didn't they say we'd have to select a certain number of items to take over to the new version with us?) As for the colors...no idea especially since with the inventory system we'd have to consider crafting items and those wouldn't be colored but there is no plain colored in the pic they are all either grayed (under your level) or brightly colored...

Anyway for the other stuff seems like everyone has the same general idea (hate bar and Letter-Number) as for the "cog" icon, I bet that refers to JOB SPECIFIC abilities, which could mean that some existing abilities will become job only (because is that not Aegis Boon with the cog next to it?)

Theory 2 would be that is some kind of a cue system in place, where we will be able to cue up to 3 abilities and they will go off one by one until done.

Also if no one noticed the numbers next to the enemies (there are 3 of them: ghost > chimera > imp from left to right) those numbers are representing which party number they are currently attacking, as we can see the imp is looked directly at the monk (No6) and there is a '6' next to the imp's name/HP.

Icons on the bottom (quick menu) are

(top left to right):
a person standing alone (attributes maybe?)
a magnifying glass (content finder? party search? or both)
a group of people (party list)
a smiley face and a frown face (friendlist and blacklist)
a linkpearl (given)
an envelop (mail system!)
a series of diamonds that form a grid (no clue, best guess is inventory which would back the icon color grid theory)
a knight emblem? (GM maybe?)
XIV (configuration menu perhaps?)

Bottom list (from left to right)
a sword (active/passive switch)
four lines and a person standing there maybe looking at it (maybe this is attributes, but then what is the top one?)
an open bag? (maybe this is the inventory list, or possibly a loot list button...)
a big star? (this is grayed out so either you cannot do it while in battle or the player doesn't have the pre-reqs for use)
an exclamation mark (there is a number '3' at the bottom indicating this is how many monsters that have aggro on the party; since there are three monsters in the picture)
a ringing bell (this also has a number, but it displays a '7' this could be a <call> type system to alert other party members, or tell how many party members are engaged in the current battle?)
a smaller star (no idea what this could do, but its not grayed out like the other one)
an unfurled map (the map of course!)
a "warp-like" icon (icon for Anima teleport? or return? it is grayed out so you cannot use it during battle)
A home (return to homepoint, or possibly a new function to warp us to our estates? this one is also grayed out suggesting the same as above)

Okay that is what I got from a quick glance at the image, let the speculations commence @.@/

EDIT:
Delita has 142 potions of some kind that is able to be equipped to the action bar for easy use (so maybe items will stack higher than 99? or maybe the game detects multiple stacks and uses from them all, either way its kinda cool)

Also there is a 4.2 in the center of the targeting icon on the Chimera, that could possibly tell us how far we are from the targeted object, also another cool little bit of info, okay I'm done snooping the photo.

I just made a post about all you said before you said it on the french forums xD

here a pictures i have photoshoped.

There's 6 bars available on the main bar.

the upper bar should be either ctrl/alt bar or one of the 6 bars that is shown with possibly chance of resizing them.

Also there's a macro icon on some skills, least it's look like a macro icon.

lol! Great minds think alike :D