Why keep this UI now?

[Physic]

there is way too many skills for the ffxi menu system to work. scrolling through things with long lists suck, thats why ffxi casters needed macros, by the time you scroll through 30 something skills, you will have wasted massive time, especially now that there is no stamina, you will be wasting a lot of dps/actions since its a cooldown based system.

[Anty]

Actually quite used to using WASD + mouse - Seems pretty standard for 3D games nowadays.

they need to make 2 UI solutions that cater to the wasd + mouse crowd (i like my controller but if i have a good ui for wasd it works great for me as well) and the controller users. I tried the game with mouse and wasd but the menus, the action bar etc. just doesn't work good, its a bit better with the controller but still not very good.

but i doubt we'll see good changes or 2 different UIs since all SE is doin atm is patchworking and fixing around. And instead of "overhauling" i see minor changes or even better they just scrap things instead of improving them so don't count on it.

[Ferth]

Actually quite used to using WASD + mouse - Seems pretty standard for 3D games nowadays.

I can use WASD and mouse as it works in WoW, or in LotRO. But right now the mouse integration is awful. I'd still prefer the level of control I had in FFXI, which is why I hope that when it comes down to it, we have the choice.

[Irana]

there is way too many skills for the ffxi menu system to work. scrolling through things with long lists suck, thats why ffxi casters needed macros, by the time you scroll through 30 something skills, you will have wasted massive time, especially now that there is no stamina, you will be wasting a lot of dps/actions since its a cooldown based system.

I dont really remember well how it worked for most mages but you could always reorganize spells in whatever way you wanted... at least I could with blue mage.

[Answa]

I like the UI. I just wish the menus would refresh quickly. You can click on anything easily with the mouse, no need for any arrow keys or tab-targetting. Only thing you need is Home and WASD and the mouse (and the "c" key to unlock from targets...).

Also, there IS key mapping available in the game. Go to Config and look for it. I already mapped a bunch of things in (like inventory).

The macros in this game are awesome, much better than FFXI. They're easy to see with the icons you can set on them and have very broad capabilities.