Text Bubbles for our abilities

[Altanas]

I think its a good idea but only shown to the player themselves and not towards the party, so basically part of their own HUD. And it should be used to tell the player that cooldowns are ready.

It would be a quick and easy way to know when cooldowns are now available again. It would compliment what we have now. I know you can do this with placing a hotbar in the middle of your screen with abilities on, but a text bubble would mean it wont be there 24/7.

It should be customisable so you can select which cooldowns per job you want popping up.

[16bitBounty]

the macro "insert favorite nonsensical anime quote" spell or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture is annoying enough in the chat log.

[Crescents]

or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture

I feel like I missed something.

[16bitBounty]

I feel like I missed something.

some macro with the words brothers in arms and they're like crossing penis'.

[Ragology]

I'd like it if there were an option to turn a party members entire body a certain color when they've been afflicted with a status I can Esuna/leeches/ED off. That way I don't have to keep my eyes darting to the HP bars so much.

[Theodric]

No thanks. There's already more than enough going on in-game where abilities are concerned and the vast majority of people would likely just turn the option to display such things off anyway. We've all met that one player who has a text macro for every ability...it gets old pretty quickly.

[Snugglebutt]

No thanks OP, I personally do not want it.

[dementiondrive]

Greetings, everyone!

User Interface

Text bubbles cause a lot more stress compared to logs. Unfortunately, we currently have no plans to implement this feature because of the impact on the hardware.

this was asked back in 2013. we got our answer there. it is still a no. to much resources and technical difficulties with much more clutter after.

i would rather keep the bubbles only for the NPCs.

[Laraul]

I think the game should show /say chat text in a popup bubble. As it is now /say text just appears in your chat log with no on screen indication of the player speaking. Chat bubbles in these situations would provide some context for listeners nearby. It could even be used to help a player locate another. If someone is coming to you for a trade or a meld or some other reason, you could use "/say Right here" to generate a small popup bubble to help that player locate you. And like /say, /shout, etc you could have the option to enable or disable chat bubbles at will.

People are far to dismissive of this idea. They fear it will be abused and clutter the screen. But how often do you see /say or even /shout comments overflow the log? Occasionally in populated areas you might see this. There's no reason chat bubbles would be used any more. If you don't like them, turn it off.