UI changes you want in 7.0?

A much less talked about subject that I think is important: what UI/HUD changes do you want in DT? I personally would love the option to swap the party list from showing people’s buffs to showing their cooldowns. I’m less interested in how long my dancer’s adloquium has left than I am in when their technical step comes up.

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Originally Posted by SargeTheSeagull

A much less talked about subject that I think is important: what UI/HUD changes do you want in DT? I personally would love the option to swap the party list from showing people’s buffs to showing their cooldowns. I’m less interested in how long my dancer’s adloquium has left than I am in when their technical step comes up.

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Being able to disable all the bloody confirm pop-ups. takes so long to desyth or turn in gear to the GC and worse of all the "Do you want to open this door to continue in this dungeon?"

More chat groups settings. As these are client stored anyway, the limit of 4 makes no sense.

an option or entire removal of the multiple "venture complete / venture commenced" sounds that queues one after the other when you have 5+ retainers

that one would actually be god tier qol to me.

A big "UI quality pass" is really needed over everything, and I say that knowing it was much worse before. there are a ton of minor things (like the confirm popups) or other organizational issues that are just so bad - vendor menus being the most egregious in general. Still a far cry for an actual good user experience.

On the top of my head, the ones that bothers me the most are:

1) The Party Frame. So many useless elements... I don't think I need to see a Light Party/Full Party header, nor I need to see [1],[2],[3], etc party member order labels. I don't think I need to see half of other people's buffs cluttering that list... Making all of those optional toggles would go a long way.

2) Target frame. The 'long thin line' of HP is the bane of some layouts because it's hard to fit with compact setups. I'd love the option to have it similar to how the Focus Target frame is.

3) The job gauges are lacking for some jobs. Everything that you'd need to track on the buff bar should be tracked on the job gauges as well, like they do with Huton. If people feel that it's too much, they should separate the gauges in different, toggleable, elements.

4) Retainer management. I know there must be some tech limitations to how the retainers work, but I wish it was just a single interface with tabs where you could manage them all.

5) The "You can't do [x] while [y] is active".

Crafter swap button on the crafting log.
New Party Finder
Square minimap option
Being able to assign all actions to the hotbar

Being able to separate buffs in the UI and edit them individually, so you can select what buffs are important to you and make them more visible.

Making Glamour plate chat notifications it's own unique chatlog category so you can disable them without disabling system messages in general.

Mouseover casting without having to use incredibly inefficient macros, not sure if that counts as a UI change though.

The UI to go away outside of battle. Like why do I need to see my gauge when I'm in Gridania?

The chat box should go away after inactivity, just like GW2 does it.

Also chat bubbles.

Asides what I said elsewhere.., many, many things..,

But overall..,
The Tide that Raises All Ships.

Full Accountwide/Alt-Friendly Implementation. (Starting Focus on Reduction of Gearing for alts, and One Character Users. As well as Making Relics Go Faster on Alts if your main has had one Completed/all Relics Made/Finished.)

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Originally Posted by SoraLuna

an option or entire removal of the multiple "venture complete / venture commenced" sounds that queues one after the other when you have 5+ retainers

that one would actually be god tier qol to me.

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At least let me adjust the size and location of the text

FATE JOINED as you fly through the edge of a FATE, on a non-combat job that is too high of a level to participate. I did not join the FATE, and even if I had I wouldn't want Captain Obvious shouting it at me

Basically anything you'd find on SimpleTweaks or similar low-hanging-fruit QoL plugins, e.g.,:

• The ability to set the default position on confirm popups or skip them outright. Have a list of categories and sub-categories, and allow us to toggle the default between [Default to Yes], [Default to No], and [No Confirmation].
  
  
• Ability to filter banners/pop-ups.
  
  
• Actual percentages shown for our Secondary Attributes (18.3% Crit, etc.).
  
  
• Barrier HP properly showing on Parameter Bar.
  
  
• Option to showing EXP (only or also) as a percentage.
  
  
• Options for hybrid Legacy/Standard movement.
  
  
• The arrangement gear slots (most notably due to where the Soulstone is placed) not being a mangled puzzle.
  
  
• The ability to remove titles from UI components, do you don't have to waste screenspace for the UI to tell you that the list with all your party members on it is your Party List.
  
  
• Minimap customization.
  
  
• Hide filters, so that I can have my hotbars hidden while out of combat and weapon sheathed unless holding a chosen mod key.
  
  
• Customization for Parameter Bar, Progress Bar, Target Progress Bar
  
  
• Customization for filtering Status Effects and displaying one's own (de)buffs larger than others'.
  
  
• Larger, more readable cooldown text.
  
  
• Etc.

Alongside some others that come to mind, such as...

• Showing on a cooldown slider the time until certain party actions (e.g., raidbuffs) are readied.
• Your buffs' icons show the time remaining for that buff (moving CCW and lit before reversing direction to show the remaining cooldown, if on a CD).
  
  
• Give us straight up 10 Status Effect bars to filter and place as we will, permitting or forbidding redundancies (e.g., Straight Shot Ready appearing on multiple bars) as we like.
  
  
• AoEs showing a subtle ripple or pulse twice over their indication period, to reveal when they'll go off (actuating when the second pulse reaches the edge).
  
  
• Chat fades message by message, after a certain time, with the option to make messages from certain sources (friends, certain LSs, FC chat, etc.) fade more slowly.
  
  
• Chat bubbles, ofc.
  
  
• "Relative potency" indication. For instance, in order to get the potency for a BLM's Fire spell under AF3 capable of being evenly compared with a Melee's or Tank's attack, you'd have to multiply its potency by 180%, by 130%, and by 123%. With this option on, those with damage buffs (passive or active) would see those amounts represented in their tooltips.

Display damage mitigation percent, while getting hit (similar to blocks/parry).

Lets say the boss deals 20000 Damage to you, but you have Rampart and sentinel (Obviously that doesn't add up to 50%) so Lets say 45% (I'm unsure the exact number lol why this sort of stuff would be nice), it would display 11000 (45% Damage Mitigated)

Shields to display on your Hp Bar would also be nice, other obvious stuff like Chat Bubbles

Make MIN/BTN node windows more flavorful like what was done with the achievement menu.

More clear color UI themes

chat bubbles

Better communicate what substats do, and how they are affecting your character

Shield health being displayed on your health bar

Merge 'sell items in your retainer's inventory,' and 'sell items in your inventory' to just 'sell item on the market board,' and draw from everyone's inventories

Bosses getting 'this is Thancred' style dialog boxes (looking at you Nael)

The most important UI change that needs to happen is the damned game needs to not purge our HUD settings on any element we don't use frequently. HUD settings are saved client-side, so there's absolutely no sensible reason why, when changing back to a job I haven't touched in a while, I have to re-change the job gauge back to simple mode and re-position it where I want it. There's no reason why, going back into Eureka, my elemental wheel and logograms need re-sized and re-positioned. Etc.

When I save HUD settings, I want those settings saved, permanently. Not "as long as you're using them."

Option for account wide Keybinds/Hotbar/HUD settings.
A button to automatically set all animals or all crops as being taken care of by the mammets or vise versa (Yes I still do Island sanctuary.)
A WARNING that let's you know if your portrait is messed up before it let's you queue for a duty (Only if you have display Adventurer Portraits turned on.)
More Hotbars, More Macros, More Life.. (We the Best!)