If there's one thing I think would improve the new-player experience, it would be UI

[Jojoya]

For a healer at level 90, every ~12.666 of piety adds 1MP recovery per tick.

If you've sliced off the last two digits, you've possibly made a change to MP recovery. No?


On top of that, as a SGE, I know that casting a 'chole will get me 7% of my maximum MP back. If you've knocked off the last 2 digits, then a 'chole will have to become 0.07% of MP restored, and that calculation is just too hard for a lot of people.

Actually, no. 7% restored is still 7% restored. Knock 10,000 down to 100, and your 400 MP cast costs 4 instead of 400. Your 7% restored is now 7 out of 100 instead of 700 out of 10,000. Percentage of total mana remains the same, the flat numbers just change. It's more or less the same thing we dealt with when it came to the stat squish at the start of the expansion. We quickly adjust.

I'd question whether a number is truly needed when the bar itself gives us a good idea of how much MP is left since it's a static 10k max regardless of job, level or gear.

I miss my Grid from WoW. The bars would give me enough information about available HP/MP with no need for their numbers in most cases. I could adjust the information being displayed to what was pertinent to the fight.

I don't need to know that the WAR is using Defiance yet that still takes up room in my party frames. I don't need to know that the MNK is in Raptor form but that still takes up room in my party frames. I don't need to know that the BRD is Shadowbite Ready yet that still takes up room in my party frames. Each piece of irrelevant information displayed is something I need to mentally filter out so I can focus on what is relevant to my role. When the irrelevant icons start to have similar appearances to relevant icons, it's an even bigger problem.

My chat window is small in the corner. I never understood people who made them huge. It blocks the screen and stuff happening.

I have almost every constant UI element set to small, with windows set to 200% depending on what it is.

The UI you get at the start has everything necessary on screen, and should be customized to fit each user after. I think the real problem is people don't know how customizable it actually is. I spent hours making mine right for me.

While it's got a good amount of customization for element location and size, element design is lacking in many cases (again, I hate the party frame and would love to change some of the simplified job gauges as well).