Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Laifon]

I believe that the vanity slots that we are planning for patch 2.2 will come close to addressing this request. We do not have any plans to make it so you can completely separate the setting of cosmetic gear and gear with stats.
*The difficulty is, as this would increase the amount of information transferred for each character, we'd see additional stress on the server.

Isn't this the case with a lot of things... Stress...

[ForteXX]

Hello,

I’d like to share another daily dose of UI comments from Hiroshi Minagawa.

There was also a quick follow-up about the comment made on vanity slots.

Well, both of those chat notifications don't sound decent at all. By default, all 3 of the normal chat tabs are constantly getting messages sent to them. Maybe just have it look for you first/last name, role, or class/job and blink on those (in addition to when you receive a tell)

[Altanas]

Following on from Minagawa's response:

1. Wouldn't it be a fair compromise to simply allow Player Speech bubbles either for a) party/alliance members only and b) within dungeons? If someone is not reading their chat log, they are probably watching the action in the centre of the screen.

2. Alternatively, allow for 100% transparency of chat window UI like in SWTOR so it is not so ugly to place the chat windows around the screen.

[Zoner]

Following on from Minagawa's response:

1. Wouldn't it be a fair compromise to simply allow Player Speech bubbles either for a) party/alliance members only and b) within dungeons? If someone is not reading their chat log, they are probably watching the action in the centre of the screen.

2. Alternatively, allow for 100% transparency of chat window UI like in SWTOR so it is not so ugly to place the chat windows around the screen.

I would love speech bubbles, even if its for in-party only

[Naunet]

stuff on vanity slots

Please, do not try to be "innovative" with your vanity system.

For the love of all that is holy, just go take a look at Rift's wardrobe system and copy it.

[Bufkus]

It sounds like they are going to go with Aion's vanity system - where you changed the look of your gear by reskinning them with the items you wanted them to look like.

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

[Naunet]

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

You bet I'd complain about that. Why go with a subpar system when perfection already exists?

Of course make limitations like "Class/Job must be able to wear it" or "No seasonal gear".

Why? You mention Rift's system and then champion class/job restrictions in the same breath - that's silly! No restrictions are necessary.

[Skies]

[QUOTE=Naunet;1552994]You bet I'd complain about that. Why go with a subpar system when perfection already exists?/QUOTE]

Perfection already exists. Unfortunataly you want a vanity system so you can't have perfection.
Have to at the very least try to remain sane at this point

[Klutz64]

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

Yeah... I'm going to be one of those people. I don't like transmutation. Particularly in this game where it's already difficult to keep track of all your equipment. Now I'd have to keep track of which equipment stats are on what piece of gear. And if I want stats from my AF armor on something else will I lose my AF armor? Or is that going to be un-transmutable because of that. And if all the unique high level gear is un-transmutable, that just defeats the purpose of vanity slots to begin with.

I was really hoping for just a simple wardrobe system, like RIFT or LotRO. I feel like that would take just as much processing as one extra gear set, but I don't really know anything about stuff like that.