Improvements to the Action Bar and Unit Frames ?

[Zangetsu]

From what I can gather from the negative comments about this subject I can see some want quantity over quality. I myself want both and know it takes time to achieve that. People complain enough about bad UI but once they put effort into making it better they are suddenly wasting time? Please explain......

[AeraLucis]

Also, they mentioned changes to the party roster. Gladly welcome changes to make that more visible/aesthetically pleasing.

[Sweetheart]

I'm actually very happy they work on Action Bar. It obviously improved a lot since beta and it's not bad atm, but it still need to be better

I would really like to see implemented feature, when I can actually see when I'm pressing or clicking buttons on Action Bar, cos that's something it's missing atm and it would improve Action Bar a lot in my opinion.

I dont like this idea... i mean i wouldnt prefer to use it...
I like to see more of my screen, not less.
Just my opinion.

I think that is a must have feature, if u think about more skills in future etc, however I'm sure they will consider to having an option to enable and disable that function.

[Dreamer]

Action bar visibility is fine. Please work on something more worthwhile. Like chocobos. Their visibility is pretty bad right now.

[MattyWS]

Jesus.. the UI artists cannot work on chocobos or armour sets, or environments or anything else that isn't UI. people have specific roles in the studio, you guys have no idea how retarded you sound when you suggest SE is wasting time on reworking the UI when they could be reworking zones or adding content of some sort.

[Mudd]

Maybe u dont have any problem with it but on bright areas as Thanalan regions it's difficult to see what exactly you have selected, and is worse if you play with a controller cause you have to scroll through the abilities.

Most of the people who didn't understand are probably people who select skills either by number presses, or by clicking; such as myself since I click my skills for the most part, and press numbers for the others. I know I didn't quite fully understand why this change was needed until I read this post.

Kind of wish it was the first post instead of people just being ****s to the TC ;v

[Felis]

Are 95% of the players blind?
Why is SE spending time on this?

"Action bar graphics will be enhanced to improve overall visibility"

Theres nothing wrong with my action bar visability...

old action bar: http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8...lleisteold.jpg
current action bar: http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2...lleistenow.jpg
new action bar: http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...3e1acfbaa8f404

You see?
In the old action bar, the cursor was more visible than in the current. Now they make it more visible again, what is very good for control players.

[Tsukino]

This is mostly a controller issue, and more Japanese players expressed problems with it than you may have seen here (because more of them play with a controller). If you play with keyboard+mouse and use the number keys to activate actions (like I do) you won't perceive this as a problem because you don't care which ability is highlighted at all.

It's a pretty big issue if you're playing in a bright area and using a controller or the arrow keys to pick actions though. And since it takes a couple artists no more than a few hours to a day to fix, why not do it? It's not like it's going to take any time away from chocobos or whatever other big thing that's already coming out in 1.19 whether they do this or not.

[kukurumei]

Yes, I've messed up a few time losing track of the semi glowing halo myself. This is welcomed.

[Soma]

yes im happy with this. hopefully SE will give us some options to change the color. (although it doesnt look like it)
adding bars is a good thing also. just give us the ability to toggle as many as we need.
if they add more bars maybe that will fix the issue were i have to click or retarget mobs to scroll threw the bars.