Quote Originally Posted by Soda View Post
Totally agree. It blows my mind that people are talking about stupid idiotic stuff like class-renaming, jumping, swimming, and other nonsense when I still can't even hotkey 99% of anything in the game. Why do I have to use third-party programs like AHK to remap my keys because the game STILL won't let me do it? And why do we only have ONE action bar at a time? It's like, hey, I WANT to use all the pretty skills in the game, but I can't even assign keys to the hotbars in the first place. It's like I'm always unequiping skills because I don't have enough room on my bar.

And don't stand up for SE by saying "FFXIV is meant to be played with both hands on the keyboard to access the 1-9 keys and arrows to swap through your bars in combat." Are you kidding me? Seriously? No. This game needs to be brought up to the standards of modern MMOs. I'm hoping that the new battle system improvements address these issues.

- Allow us to hotkey anything. Full customization. If you don't, players are just going to use AHK type programs to do it anyway.
- Give us more than one action bar for skills at a time.
- And allow us to toggle it to not disappear every time we're not in combat. I want to be able to see the cooldowns on my skills between fights and such.

Basically, and I know you guys hate it, but we need WoW's set up of allowing us to have a few hotbars that are always visible, with skills being able to be dragged directly to where we want, with the option to bind ANY of those buttons to ANY key combination we wish. Yeah, you may not like it, but if this game is going to succeed that is where it needs to go.

Combat needs to be easily accessible, and skills need to be easy to use. Right now, that is not the case.
I disagree with a lot of what you say. My biggest concern is that the UI takes up way too much space on the screen at the moment. FFXIV's (only) strong point is it's graphics which I find hard to appreciate when the UI in all up in my face. I liked FFXI's UI because it was simple and didn't take up much space. List's of your WS/JA/MA were brought up with shortcut commands and didn't take up much space at all. The controls and the UI were flawlessly integrated with each other. FFXIV's UI has so much shit all over the place (especially during leves) that I can hardly see what is around my character. Between my action bar, health,mp,tp bar, stamina bar, party member bars, chat log, minimap, rank/physical level bars, target health bar, debuff/buff status window, and levequest objectives window, I can hardly see anything without reducing all of these bars as much as I possibly can and shoving them into the corners of my screen. It's a huge cluster-f*** right now and what we DONT need is more f****** action bars in the way.