User Interface improvements: What's your wishlist?

Cool.

Now tell us the truth: did you see this in Neverwinter and thought "Hey, that's cool we want this!" or was this in the planning before?

Most of what I would like to see has been mentioned, but I'll just put a big "ME TOO", with regard to debuffs, and making the cleansable ones more readily apparent. A cleansible debuff needs to be able to stand out from every single other buff/debuff on a character.

Also, dual-speccing needs to be properly in the game. Sure, i can do a free respec from dps to healz or tank to dps, or what have you. But my action bars, and possibly my entire UI layout can often need adjustment as well. By the time I re-work my skills, adjust my bars/keybinds, enlarge/shirnk UI elements, swap my gear, etc., etc., etc., it can really take a long time. What we need, and the UI is certainly a big part of supporting this, is a pretty simple swapping button that will remember EVERYTHING for 2 specs, and in one magic click, swap between them.

Not sure if it's been said yet, but personally, I'd love to be able to change the color of the UI. Give us the color control we get with text and also how transparent the frames could be and I'd be happy. Other than that, for an ingame UI, I think it's one of the better ones out there.

I'd love some attention to the ability highlighting. So if you proc something, the linked ability gets highlighted. And to add on it, if you have a DoT/HoT on a target you can see a time left just by looking at your ability bars.

In short, avoiding staring at your/targets buffs/debuffs and focus more on seeing what is going on!

I made a topic about some time ago in the suggestions forum:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=628321

At work but love this thread!! A couple items that have been knawing at me have been mentioned already...



I want the tooltips NOT so transparent more than anything else changed in the UI right now. It is much more difficult to read in the new and improved format than before.

Slightly off topic, but please forgive me! Hopefully Mr. Musco sees this, but would it be possible to bring back the pre 1-2 UI? Updated, of course with the "things" it would need, ie: Ancient Hypergate score card. I'll post a link below to give an idea of what I'm referring to.

Naturally, players can choose to customize the UI that was given to us with 1.2 but the option (IMO) should be there for players to choose a pre-1.2 UI or post 1.2 to give some variety.

http://mikeramblesaboutstuff.com/wp-...Mastermind.jpg


Would love to see this come back as I really really liked it and was a little disappointed to know we were unable to retain it after 1.2 was launched.

Pretty much what I want has been said, but just in case they're counting votes I'd like to add mine to:

-Everything that's been said about buffs/de-buffs. Maybe even have party members' panels change color in the raid frame when they get a cleanseable debuff/dot.

-Grey out party members that are out of LoS. This annoys the @#$% out of me as a healer. *I* can see my tank, so why isn't this heal going off? Oh, crap... my dude apparently can't see over that 4' tall crate. Oops, tank died.

-Target of Focus Target. This would be a healer's best friend.

-More obvious procs - even the ability to set a notification when ability on quickslot X, Y, or Z is available

-EXPORT/IMPORT KEYBINDS!!! This is a serious PITA when setting up a new character, especially since my setup is pretty radically altered from the default.

Oh, and one that just came to mind - have toolbars lock in combat, whether you've locked it manually or not. Would have saved me embarrassment that one time I stealthed up to a CC target with my Sawbones and hit what SHOULD have been my CC but had apparently been inadvertently swapped with an attack during the heat of the previous battle.

Not a major concern but a QoL improvement: the ability to filter out recipes I already know from a GTN search.

There's one thing I would really like to see with the UI -- I play a Jedi Shadow, and (especially since 2.0) there are an awful lot of 'stacks' of effects that buff/modify my various abilities. I find it hard, at times, to pick things out quickly, when I'm in a situation (FP or Ops, especially) with tons of buff icons to search through.

I'd like to have stack indicators placed on the actual ability icons they affect. For instance, if stacks of Breaching Shadows would actually display on any Force Breach icons I have slotted in my hotbars. Stacks of Circling Shadows could be shown on Shadow Strike icons and so forth. This would make it a great deal easier for me to see at a glance where I am, as I already have to keep an eye on the hotbars for the cooldown status.

It would likely be easier to implement simply putting 'stacks' in a separate (user-movable) frame from the buffs, but placing indicators on the ability icons themselves would be the ideal solution, IMO.

I would like to see some QoL improvements to some of the UI windows. I'd like them to remember the last state they were in when they close. Specifically, windows like crafting. I'd like to be able to sort it and have it stay that way until I change it. Or crew missions as well. When leveling crew missions and a new tier is unlocked, you have to keep selecting the previous tier tab when there are not enough of the new missions to take. It's just tedious.

I would also like to 2nd a previous request for GTN changes to selling items. An item should be able to be dragged to the buy search box and have it automatically run a search for that item. Selling multiple items on the GTN is just a pain.