The User Interface - Mouse and Keyboard Users

[Firesped]

I have been playing FFXI for 8 years now. I imported the game cause I wanted it so badly and I use keyboard only. I like having the keypad (on a full keyboard not gamepad) to move around with and using the arrow keys to control my camera. With my right hand, I can control all movement and camera function.

AS to point #1: Drag and Drop. I think this would be good but maybe not in the context that you are thinking, or maybe it is in that context. Within the actions equip menu, we should have drag and drop function to equip abilities and actions. This may be what you are asking for but from my first reading your post, it sounds like you want to drag the action from a menu to the main screen UI action bar.

As to point #2: main menu system. The menu side bar comes from FFXI. I'm ok with this except for the arrow keys being dedicated to control it. Other MMOs use hotkeys to access all the various menus.

I think SE should add an option for us to select the controller type we are using. The old keyboard interface from FFXI, the gamepad interface FFXIV uses now, or keyboard and mouse interface people are using. Players can use a keyboard on a console too.

[Khaap]

The pop up action bar system is so frustrating.

All I would ask like others is to have the option to toggle on or off the three actions bars (Normal / CTRL / ALT) so I can have all three visible all the time (no pop up). There is unneccessary processing being done to redaw these elements on screen which can never be good and this is happening a lot when you are getting into the high levels and using abilities from every bar.

Macros cannot be assigned to the main bar so usually have my heal (with aoe toggle) on a macro, given that is one of the most used spells for a mage I'm bouncing between the main bar and the ALT bar all the time during a fight and to be honest its frustrating more than anything else.

When I press ALT / CTRL the system shouldn't have to be wasting cycles working out which bar is on screen and then wasting GPU cycles processing the slide up animation of the bar. Just keep the bars on screen if I want to and lets have a much more responsive system.