New Actions and Traits Screen

I have been playing with this new screen/menu for Actions & Traits and I have to say:

I really really really love it.

It is VERY well designed. It's very PRETTY to look at. AND it is so usable.

I don't know what happened when the previous interface went in, but I can tell a lot of good thought and design work went into this one screen (I can imagine countless days trying to perfect it!)

Using this new one is just orders of magnitude better than the previous interface.

Major kudos to the design team that put this piece together! Your efforts are well appreciated!

Yes this beats the last one by far. Thanks guys

there are more than the UI to thank SE for this patch even though there are few thing need to tweak and need to know explain in detail but +1

bah da da daaa i'm lovin' it.

my only feedback would be to filter exclusive abilities from the additional abilities section. other than that, lookin good

I agree. The new UI for ability selection and placement is great. I think they're really on the right track here with their UI changes, and I look forward to what's in store.

Thank you Squenix! ^^*

Also, some questions about the new names and animation tweeks that snuck in. I was using my set up and somehow it didn't look familiar and had some new actions. I lost raise and now it's only accessible to lv.18 Cor I think. Anyway, enjoying the weekend with this revision.

As stated, filter the exclusive abilities in some manner. Also, make the additionally selected skills drop into the currently selected slot, and not just at the first avalible spot.
After that it's pretty perfect IMO.

I love it

I agree. This new setup is a nice improvement on the old one:)

Hope all of you involved working on FFXIV can enjoy and relax in the holidays, cause you deserve it ^^

I think by adding a red box or some suddle but viewable design to the class exclusive abilities should be a help. That way I know what I can equip and what I can't :)

I also like how much more responsive or feels :)

Agree. Well done SE!

Well the first thing I noticed is that it doesn't have drag and drop for action buttons on my bars with my mouse. I am like this is pretty cumbersome why wouldn't they have a basic feature that like every other game has.

i like it, it has a few things I dont get, like why show my skills twice? or why show traits when its always same and the icons are all identical and still no drag and drop.

I like it but the lack of drag and drop did erk me a but but I guess that will appear in 2.0 it's a step in the right direction

Drag and Drop is most likely a system that would be implemetned and affect a wide part of the configuration (and perhaps other?) aspects of the system. I feel if they would put that in, now is probably not when it needs to go in. On the grand list of Priorities (which is how they determine what goes in when), drag & drop is lower on the list than what they have put in so far. Perhaps in a later release (perhaps if they revisit the entire text editing, as it is rather 'clunky/slow' when typing in macro names and actions).

But still, this dialog is soooo amazingly pretty to look at. Although now I'm distracted by the Achievements dialog which also looks very pretty ^^. I think they hired on a new graphics design lead ^^;

Agreed the dev team did a good job with this, hopefully the upcomming UI/mouse/keyboard changes will be just as awesome.

To the post above I was under the impression that UI is the next thing on the list of things to be tackled after battle changes.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Well the first thing I noticed is that it doesn't have drag and drop for action buttons on my bars with my mouse. I am like this is pretty cumbersome why wouldn't they have a basic feature that like every other game has.

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It's not a basic feature for console games -- Which XIV is also being designed for as well (and you can't have your console version being radically different from your PC version on a base level), thus the UI is being designed with both games in mind at present time.

When they create separate UIs then drag and drop will be implemented, till then it's not that much different just selecting actions to equip, takes about the same amount of time.