UI Customisation - What do YOU want?

DISCLAIMER: I am making this thread as part of my own personal interest, not as a representative of Intrepid Studios.

Intrepid have said that the UI in Ashes will be fully customisable but they haven't said yet what exactly you can do with it. So, I'd like to know what kind of customisation options YOU would like to see.

I'm going to hold off on stating my own opinions until a bit later because I'm curious to know what the other community members think.

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Immortalmage

I would like a setting where all my chat events are saved to a text log on my computer. And a hide interface keybind so I can take screenshots without UI elements.

Vhaeyne

Immortalmage wrote: »

I would like a setting where all my chat events are saved to a text log on my computer.

That is a path to DPS meters. I would not count on text logs being a thing.

Leiloni

Need a raid UI that looks clean and has necessary customizability for healers. Let us move/resize it, options to show HP/MP numbers and/or percentages. Have settings to track various things - maybe I want class colors to show, maybe I want to track certain buffs or debuffs on the target (I may want just specific ones, but not all), maybe I want the healthbar or the frame around it to turn a certain color when there's a cleansable debuff. Settings to use raid frames in parties. Setting to hide buffs/debuffs I decide not to track to keep it clean. Ability to move individual parties around in the UI (as opposed to moving the entire raid window). Focus target and target of target features.

Multiple hotbars that can be moved and resized individually. Really let me move and resize everything. Little things, too like customizing each UI element and offering specific choices for that UI element - for example on the various target bars you can give me options how to show buffs/debuffs (top, bottom, all or only mine, priority system for them, etc.). Other UI elements will need different types of options. Also let me hide certain UI elements. Let me move all the windows in game as well at will (and lock them if desired). So if I want to move my quest window, map, inventory, character sheet, etc. around on screen let me do it. Don't lock it to a spot.

Let me save profiles for keybinds as well as UI setup so I can import it on alts, or maybe for saving different setups for different uses on the same character.

That's all I've got for now.

akabear

Custom skins springs to mind.

Prefer also to have what ever mods somehow controlled off my pc.. With work, playing from different PC in different locations globally, really would like to be about to download, update and go.. Not fiddle around with 3rd party mod managers and sync data.

Wandering Mist

akabear wrote: »

Custom skins springs to mind.

Prefer also to have what ever mods somehow controlled off my pc.. With work, playing from different PC in different locations globally, really would like to be about to download, update and go.. Not fiddle around with 3rd party mod managers and sync data.

Hmm this is probably unrealistic but how would you all feel about being able to upload custom assets and graphical designs to your UI?

Noaani

akabear wrote: »

Custom skins springs to mind.

Prefer also to have what ever mods somehow controlled off my pc.. With work, playing from different PC in different locations globally, really would like to be about to download, update and go.. Not fiddle around with 3rd party mod managers and sync data.

All UI settings should be able to be saved both locally and on the games server, so you can use the same settings with multiple accounts, or with the same account on multiple PC's.

With enough customization, there should be no need for UI mods.

odanrot

Wandering Mist wrote: »

DISCLAIMER: I am making this thread as part of my own personal interest, not as a representative of Intrepid Studios.

Intrepid have said that the UI in Ashes will be fully customisable but they haven't said yet what exactly you can do with it. So, I'd like to know what kind of customisation options YOU would like to see.

I'm going to hold off on stating my own opinions until a bit later because I'm curious to know what the other community members think.

Honestly I think Intrepid the best move would be to hire a couple of the modding teams that made some of the popularui"s like elvin UI or bartender or any of the super popular ones reach out and talk to that community and see about maybe hiring them on to work on a ui

xydrassial

A damage meter :P

tiltowait

I want full buff/debuff tracking and displaying ability, so I can set up big popup icons when an important buff falls off.

consultant

Well in WoW there was a function were if an ability was out of range the ability would dim a little and light up when in range. Same thing happend when you did not have the enough mana to cast a spell. Also if be cool if when you were silenced or cced abilities would dim abilites that could not be used and only abilities that were lit up were lit up (not lit up just not dimmed). Really small game mechanic but very useful tool WoW in fact is full of this type of things really a lot of addons are not needed in that game could just use standard UI.

I like the clock wise circular count down really cool when cool downs are less than 20 seconds. But some cool downs are like 5 min and that case the clockwise hand that count down moves really slow and really hard to see when actuall comes of cool down like last 15 seconds. This could easily be fixed by lets say when the cooldown reached 15 seconds it would count down from 15 seconds that way not force to use numercal count down for all cooldowns.

Usually MMOs have one main Action Bar were you can page down or up well if you page down ounce or up that is possibly a two button sequence or three (page up, ability, page down) So you can go up and down fairly quickly giving you acces to two more bars fairly quickly. Rune Scape has two bars that can be paged down and up. So insteadof accessing two bars fairly quickly you can access extra bars really quickly. So if Bars are 12 blocks long and you have 2 of them that is 72 quick and fairly easy keybingings. Be pretty cool if ther was function that you could toggle that would make it so that ounce you page down hit ability the it automatical goes back to main action bar. In WoW this could be don through a macro.

Another function is to have a bar appear when a page button is pushed. Which is basicall a page up or down function but works this way. You push the Page1(1-10 depending on number of pages) button. After which the Page 1 bar appears above or below your main action bar and after ability is in the page 1 bar the bar just disapears.

Sneakz

1) My number one for me is I need the ability to move my Unit Frames in the middle of the screen, I personally don't know how people play with it in in the top left-hand corner, I must be weird but I prefer it center of the screen like the attached photo, it lets me focus more on hp/ mana, I also have on a /align feature which allows me to make sure everything is even and keeps my OCD in check :P I obviously turn it off once I have lined everything up to the position.

https://imgur.com/b8L9fKq

2) The bar in the photo you can see at the top has everything I need to know on hand, XP, ammo left in slot, gold, bag space, location, quick access to messenger, etc

3)Proper Messenger - Like the below photo, so much easier to track convos.

https://imgur.com/4A67oyN

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