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In no particular order, just some things I've seen that would be nice to have addressed:
- The ability to add a note to people on your friends list. (So you know why they're there).
- The ability to make your own mapnotes (to keep track of things like which areas have which gathering nodes and mobs and such)
- The ability to right-click and Add to Blacklist from chat (it's at least an easy fix until the gold spammers get taken care of)
- A preview window for items and dye colors, etc.
- The ability to slot gear for appearance override (to get some use out of things like the event gear that will otherwise be dropped in the back of a bag and forgotten) or the ability to change the look of one piece of gear with the look of a similar one (this is done already with a few MMOs, with much success, IMO)
- Two suggestions for inventory management:
- An option to change the inventory from the current icon blocks to a list style (as with most non-MMO Final Fantasy games, since there's already a counter for slots on each tab) that could be sorted by name/item type/whatever
- An option to have the Armory lock items by position rather than swapping position with gear sets (that way it could be sorted a bit without getting unsorted after a few class changes)
- The ability to pull up the Character window, Inventory, and Armory at all quest completes (so that the options for gear can be compared with what's in those places, since the quests that have the cutscene-type thing going on tend to give the better gear anyways)
- A bit of quest tracker control (the ability to set which quests are tracked and disable non-relavant quests as desired... for example, clearing quests when running instances, since I don't need to see what I was doing outside the instance while I'm in there)
- The ability to talk to NPC's (for shopping or quest stuff) while mounted, or an auto-dismount option (also an auto-dismount when entering cities)
- A small display for latency/framerate (with an on/off toggle... perhaps in the HUD management area)
- A larger radius for prospecting (I feel like it should at least be as large as a zoomed-out minimap)... also, the nodes could display on the overlay map if they're in range
- The ability to see in the fishing log which fish were caught with which bait (unless it's just a live/artificial and freshwater/saltwater thing... I haven't fished enough yet to notice a pattern); also a size record on an individual fish basis, rather than just a small handful of categories as it is now
(Sorry for multiple posts... was too long for 1)
And I've never been great at taking a hint ;)
These are quite common sense abilities that somehow were missed.
- Item Sorting: The ability to sort items in your inventory and any other window that belongs to your character while another window (specifically NPC) is open. Currently you cannot sort or move any items in your inventory, character, armory, etc unless you are in those windows alone.
- Enemy Tabbing: Monsters tabbing is horrible (it has been mentioned countless times).
- Skill Queuing: Why do you have to wait until one skill has finished before you can queue up your next attack? This is like 1998 mechanics. You need the ability to queue your next skill so that when your currently casted skill is done, it automatically casts the next you picked in line. If you allow Macros, then there is no reason NOT to have this...
- Okay, Okay, Okay? : Hurdles, hurdles hurdles. It is well known that Squaresoft/Enix has pedantic developers (after all it took 2 hours just to find the client download using a CDKey). But having to confirm, confirm, confirm everything and every menu, without the option to turn it off, makes me want to claw my eye-balls out.
- Giant V: Why can't I get rid of the giant V over the top of the person who I have selected? Too much menu and UI clutter I should be able to get rid of or customize.
I'll add more later...
- Also, some sort of ability to scan the markets when posting things for sale while interacting with the retainers, so you don't have to check prices, summon your retainer, post a few things; and back and forth until all your stuff is listed.
- And some better way to track nodes for Botany and Mining than the Gathering Log, which only lists by sub-zone. Perhaps a map like fishing, maybe even only once the thing has been discovered? (Forcing people to use the random wiki sites for these sorts of things just seems like a bad move)
You can check prices and see past sales at your retainers by hitting the circular button to the top right on the screen that you set the price.