I made a list from the start of ways the game could be more convient. I won't suggest game-changing changes but rather a few tweaks to make it more smooth to navigate trough the game and some changes to keep track of what I'm actually doing. I know these changes won't make the top of your priority list but I hope to see them in the future.
For starters, the companion screen is not visable while on a mount/speeder. I'm currently done with gearing my character so I'm in the progress of gearing my companions. I found that it is really hard to navigate trough my companions' gear and stats because they are ''inactive'' while on mounts or speeders. I think these little downtimes are ideal to review my companions' gear etc but they're not visable because they're not summoned while on a vehicle.
A second thing I'd suggest are inspectable companions. Like I said I got mad gear for my companion and I want to show it off!
While we're on the topic of inspecting; I think it'd be nice to be able to have both my own character screen and an ''inspect screen'' open at the same time. This way I can more easily compare my own gear to someone elses. This goes for more screens aswell, only being able to have 2 screens open maximum can be a hasle when crafting for example. Screens automaticly closing instead of overlapping can cause confusion aswell.
From what I get Bioware is going for a closed modding system meaning we can't create modifications ourself(right?). While I am a fan of an open modding system I suggest you make a forum about which addons/ui mods are most desired. For me, as a fan of raiding and being awsome, a few key addons/ui mods are:
- DoT timers; it's extremly hard to keep track of the timing of dot's and hot's. To keep track of which one is who's, when there are more of the same class in a raid, is nearly impossible.
- SCT; a better scrolling combat text. As it is now you can be out of range of the SCT and there is no way of tracking the dps or healing in a clear way. There are advanced mods in other mmo's that help keeping track of what you're actually doing. For me as a healer it would be nice to have my total healing grouped for example so it doesn't show 8x500 healing ticks (all over my screen), but just 1x4000 rolling down my screen. And I'd love to see how much of my healing is overhealing for in the SCT so I know if I'm doing it right...
- I'm a sucker for numbers. I love to crunch numbers for DPS and healing and I know there are more like me that like to ''theorycraft'' and things such as damage meters and healing/threat meters are extremly fun. Like I said, I don't expect you to open the UI/mod system, just make a way for us number-fetishists to get our fix! I know some people hate them but in theory, someone could jsut tag along and press ''1'' the entire raid and no one would notice (except the boss 'cause he'd enrage and still be alive at the end of the day). Damage/healing meters help keep track of people's performance, thats all.
Oh, and can we please get itemlevel numbers on things such as relics aswell. A /roll function would help also.
I have no clue if you guys (Bioware) even read these posts and I can't imagine if you do that you run to the designers with another set of ''great'' idea's. But hey, atleast I tried.