The new pop-up help display is annoying

[Bayohne]

Thanks everyone for the feedback about the popup help. We're currently working to implement the ability to turn popup help on or off by widget, as well as which sections you'd like to have the text pop up on. These features are currently on track for 1.21 release.

[Estellios]

While we're at it Bayohne, would it be possible for us to have an option for "Ability Names Only" on the action bar popup help? I really can't tell a couple of Archer icons apart but I don't need the huge descriptions now that I've set everything up and know what combos to what.

[AarosLunos]

Thanks everyone for the feedback about the popup help. We're currently working to implement the ability to turn popup help on or off by widget, as well as which sections you'd like to have the text pop up on. These features are currently on track for 1.21 release.

I know this is a little off topic. But could the same be applied to UI locking? For instance when it is toggled every widget + windows are locked into position. It seems a little bit much.

[Noir]

I like being able to see the descriptions of my abilities on the action bar (at least the names), but dislike the popup text on everything else. Disabling it, as stated above, unfortunately gets rid of both of those.

Agreed. SE , please, let us keep the skills descriptions at the attack bar, but let us disable it for the gear tab. It's really annoying!

[Jinko]

I feel that party invites and raises should have a pop up box in the middle of the screen (Similar to the guildleve stuff), either that or allow us to change the position of the pop up text.

I keep missing party invites and raises :S

You should consider adding a pop up box when you are K.O'd similar to FF11. (ie, Do you wish to return to your Home Point?)

[Jinko]

Found a bit of a glitch in the pop up text.

When selecting armour and items in the inventory/gear window the pop up text obscures the view of the item information.

Image below.

[Tempestmoon]

^ this please fix right away!

[Altanas]

Sort of related in a way, but reading massive walls of text for each skill to see what order to combo for different effects is a bit annoying, i know we will learn our roles again soon, but i dont play every class every week.

The purple circle is good to show what combo is next to use in the heat of battle, but I also want a better visual way to know -in advance- which combo route to take if I'm after inflicting a debuff, wanting more accuracy, etc etc.

Then there's the issue of remembering to be in a certain position around the mob... lots of things to visualise.

Things like that you will forget in the heat of a HNM battle for example.

The present way is cope-able for us as we have many months in game time, but I would wonder how utterly annoying combos would be for new players when even quite a number of people had to wonder why certain combos were'nt proc'ing until moving around mobs, then reverting to Zel's thread (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ic-Combo-Guide) and keeping it open while playing!

A more visual way for showing the whole route of the combo would be handy.

It almost makes one wonder why SE bothered with positioning around mobs so much, why not go a different route like combo route A will incapacitate legs which will slow, combo route B incapacitate head which will blind or silence etc

Remember, this will only get even more complex as the level cap raises and more combos are introduced T_T

[Kiara]

I like being able to see the descriptions of my abilities on the action bar (at least the names), but dislike the popup text on everything else. Disabling it, as stated above, unfortunately gets rid of both of those.

Agreed with this.

With the New Battle / Spell Icons, it's handy to have the Tool Tip / Info *just* for those icons in battle, but be able to turn it OFF for everything else.

Thanks!

[CoDeWa]

Haven't seen any decent complaints in awhile. Good job Square, get that pay to play rolling and clean these forums up. I want to see some interesting posts now.