Wishlist for new UI enhancements after announcements

[Feronar]

Recently an announcement was posted about the use of third-party tools. In it, the following was included:

Enhancements to the HUD and Other UI Elements

We believe that people use the aforementioned tools to expand the HUD and display more information because they feel that existing functions are insufficient for tackling high-end duties. In recognition of this, we intend to review the most prominent tools, and in order to discourage their use, endeavor to enhance the functionality of the HUD. Though it will take some time, we're determined to make it happen─not least for the benefit of those who play on consoles.

Basically they plan to Sherlock* the most popular UI addons.

* Sherlocking means building into the base software functionality that was previously handled by third party software or addons, and is a reference to Apple's practice of adding features that mimic the functionality of third-party apps, rendering them obsolete.

What new features would you like added to the base game? Here's a wish list, which I plan to update as people respond to the thread:

• Target/NPC HP displayed as a count (I.e. 75k/150k), rather than only as a percentage (I.e. 50%)
• Barriers on all health bars (I.e. player, target, target of target, focus, raid, above characters' heads, etc.) rather than just on the party frames (Mockup image)
• Speech bubbles on players
• Display onscreen the name of the song currently playing
• Cooldown tracking window
• Buff/debuff timers in the party list
• Display ping and FPS
• Favourites tab in the orchestrion window (You could also favourite unlearned songs, allowing it to double as a wish list)
• Single button ability combos
• Allow players to change the colors of AoE telegraphs
• Allow players to move the notification and boss dialogue messages
• Large font for ability cooldown timers
• A "what killed me" timeline window that you can open whenever you die. WoW has this by default.
• Differentiate between physical and magical damage in flying text
• Distance indicator from target, showing the distance in yalms between you and your target.
• Flash the taskbar icon in Windows or bounce the dock icon in Mac OS if the duty finder queue pops or you are attacked while tabbed out.
• Option to filter or disable notifications (I.e. "Your iron ore sold on the Market Board for 100 gil") while in combat, or defer the notification until combat ends.
• Mouseover casting
• Ability to filter icons on the minimap. WoW has this by default.
• Allow player to set name display rules for Free Company members, like with friends, group members, etc, thereby allowing them to stand out when you see them in the world.
• Better right-click reporting options
• Personal damage meters (You can only see your own DPS, and not other players)
• Adventure/Duty guide like in WoW. It could show a list of dungeons, raids, and trials by expansion, what bosses are present, what abilities the bosses have, and what loot they drop.
• Progress indicators built into AoE telegraphs. For circle AoEs, a second circle would start at the center and grow, when it reaches the edge the AoE will go off. WildStar had this.
• Ability to hide or display specified HUD elements such as action bars depending on whether the player is in combat.
• Blacklisting/blocking/ignoring another player should forcibly remove you from their friends list.
• Side by side player and target health bars. SWTOR and WildStar have/had this by default. Certain WoW addons such as ElvUI also do this.

(Note: I do not use any third party addons.)

[RobynDaBank]

A special window, editable in HUD layout, that tracks CDs you specify. They can appear and disappear based on the party composition. I've heard this exists as an AddOn, sounds extremely neat especially for healers.

[QooEr]

- party list buff timers is a must. while youre at it let us sort buffs in the party list or SOMETHING please so its easier to track important buffs on the party list like cards, sacred soil, etc.

- always display game fps, not just when system settings is open
- display ping
- display number of instanced area
- add a "remember" box to yes/no prompts so i dont have to press yes a million times on the same things every time.
- more waymark presets.
- decimal precision for battle countdowns
- bigger font size for skills on cooldown
- option to filter out Party Finder listings that i cannot join on my current class
- option to filter out any icon i want from map/minimap
- allow me to move/turn off boss dialog and toast notifications like i can with any other HUD element

- decimal precision for gear condition and spiritbond
- show if my desynthesis skill is higher or lower than an item's level from the tooltip
- show the expected value of stats given by food & potion based on current attributes in the tooltip

[Roda]

Chat bubbles. It is the one source of temptation for me when it comes to modifications... (Haven't yet... for the record.)

[TheGrimace]

Gimme them speech bubbles!

[lAurasl]

Chat Bubbles and party buff/debuff durations seem to be the big ones. I'll also cast my support for them.

Maybe not necessarily a UI improvement but something another plugin does that helps a lot is one that condenses combo chains into one button like how the pvp combo chain skills work. This single handedly fixes button bloat without removing any skills or depth from the jobs.

Drg has two 3 button ST combos and a 3 button aoe combo, Sam has two 3 button ST combos, a 2 button ST combo, and two 2 button aoe combos. So many keybinds dedicated to just combos when each individual combo should only occupy 1 button slot since you never use combo skills out of order.

Just seems weird to me how pvp keeps your combo skills on button and pvp doesnt even really need it since you only have access to maybe a quarter of the skills you do in pve, where pve does not have it and thats where it's most sorely needed.

[Jonglyo]

I'd like to see a countdown timer that starts ticking from the second the countdown is started and is accurate to the tenth of a second so paladin players can precast FoF and casters can precast a damage gcd without early pulling. Also would probably be helpful for other classes that I don't play. It is weird to have openers that want you to precast an ogcd at -12 or -18 seconds and not have the game tell you when that is.

[Oizen]

PVP Combos except for PvE.

Admit button bloat is a problem already pls

[lAurasl]

PVP Combos except for PvE.

Admit button bloat is a problem already pls

yeah. button bloat is easily fixable with the pvp combo system without removing any depth from classes.'

consolidation of skills that just make sense helps as well. they already started moving that way with certain skills, for dragoon, mirage dive replacing high jump for example. it just makes sense for it to replace it.

[KurenXIV]

A special window, editable in HUD layout, that tracks CDs you specify. They can appear and disappear based on the party composition. I've heard this exists as an AddOn, sounds extremely neat especially for healers.

+1

Anything that reduces the amount of time I need to look down at my hotbar would be a very welcome change.