The devs said they are looking into how to enhance their user interface and this is my answer. These changes would completely revolutionize FFXIV for me. If any of these were implemented I’d surely use the heck out of them and be overjoyed.
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Timestamps:
0:00 User Interface Changes I Want
0:22 FFXIV Devs are banning people and saying they will change UI and HUD Elements
0:50 Party Frames
1:12 Mouse Over Party Frame Skills
3:00 Party Frame Configuration for Buffs Debuffs Icons etc
4:13 Buff Duration AT A GLANCE
5:24 ONE BUTTON TAP GROUND AOES PLEASE
5:42 MP Bar is Useless for Many Jobs
6:30 Customizable MP Bars
6:57 Customizable Bars for Any Character Stat or Attribute or cooldown or duration
8:01 LOVE Weak Auras in World of Warcraft
8:50 Auditory Notifications
10:13 Where to store this configuration information
11:05 How to make it work
12:25 As a developer myself this would be FUN
12:44 What do you think
Hey guys it’s yo boi evyx.
I have been corrupted and told I should say that, should it be Cole instead? I dunno so lemme know in the comments. I’m going to be discussing the UI changes that would shake up my game experience significantly. Like these are things if implemented I would be freaking out absolutely jumping for joy!
Past few videos have been about how people have been getting banned for third party tools.. But in the article about the bans and the clamp down they talked about how square enix was going to try and make some of the user interface changes a part of final fantasy 14.
So that’s what I’m here to do because unironically this is something I am highly invested in. We’re going to go from some pretty basic things to more advanced things building on those basic things and I’m going to timestamp out this video.
First up is party frames, and this is a game changer.
This impacts all tanks and all healers to a revolting degree, but also summoners, redmages, dragoons, bards, dancers– oh and black mages absolutely black mages too with their teleport. Basically this next point impacts everyone!
I want mouseover party frames where I can right click or left click or some key combination to cast something on that particular target.
Take tanks for instance, dark knights can make a rather intimidating user interface with macros and bars beside the party frames. This however is not only extremely hard to set up, uses a lot of macro slots, is fragile to breaks and changes but also suffers all of the problems of macros to begin with such as you cannot queue macros.
It would be infinitely easier to click on the party frame like I can on my resto druid.
Same idea with swapping Kardia targets, or an emergency lustrate or applying Krasis or throwing down excogitation. Basically this would allow you to focus your attention on the main target, the raid boss and not need to constantly swap back and forth. This was such a huge quality of life increase as a healer when I tried world of warcraft it was genuinely jarring.
If this was implemented properly and configurable you’d boost my fun as a healer significantly!
Next point is related but stands on it’s own, I want to be able to configure party frames to show specifically what information I want at specific locations. Take for instance the Kardia target, I need to know who it is on and who to swap to. I’d like to be able to specify a specific location for this in the party frame for quick reference. In my druid user interface there are clear locations for a bouquet of personal defenses, other stuff, but more relevant here is specific locations for each of my heal over time effects and I can configure their size even.
I need to be able to quickly glance, know what’s up and who has or hasn’t been hit by a cooldown of mine like kerachole that is heal over time effect and 10% damage mit– if they don’t have that I want to know so I can try and save them. Or panhaima or basically any party heal or buff with range really.
Lastly that obviously gets into buff timers where I can in my druid’s user interface clearly see the remaining duration before falloff. That kind of info is extremely nice for me. I also could use a cooldown tracker where cooldowns I specify to track for each job are tracked but that’s less of a concern of mine honestly– if you don’t know how to align buffs into a 2 minute window
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If these were implemented these would be GAME CHANGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cheat for proper mouseover support, and I really don't want to. It needs to be baseline so bad.
Mouseover support would put controllers at an even greater disavantage for healing. Not that i care, i just don't see them doing it for keyboard/mouse without first making healing easier for controllers.
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They said prior to endwalker launch they would spare NO EXPENSE going forward for getting hrothgar and viera up to par with other races so – hrothgar losing ears, more new gear and paid items that dont work, waiting for scraps each patch for maybe 1 good hair option- of course I believe yoship and dont think hes a dirty lying PR Bot at all
Confused about the first point – you can already "/ac Cure <mo>" to cast on whoever the mouse is over?
my problem with alot of these videos is they make suggestions too pc players but never console, take the mouseover talk, how would you make that better for console. One button press aoe's can be macroed, i have asylum, sacred soild and earthly star macroed to single press and it drops the aoe on me no questions asked
I want the burning down the house ability to moving housing items implemented in game. And a better list filter system with locations for gathering like gather buddy has.
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Bigger timers on cooldowns, removing MP from jobs that don't use it, adding bigger/better ways to track buffs/debuffs for jobs such as monk, warrior, reaper, ect, a method to check or see damage types. I could go on. There is so much they could do.
You should start with "Hey guys it's you boy Coyx." Just to make both sides happy 😁
There have been many times on dancer that I hear the sound that my gauges are full and I need to look at which one it is.
I would love a bing for feathers and a tick for espirit or something like that
OH MAN! I'm SO glad you mentioned the auditory thing. I fully admit that I use addons (not in anything competitive, nobody get upset please) because they offer functions like this. I have it set so that specific buffs or debuffs I apply make a single gentle sound effect 5 seconds before they're about to run out and it's *amazing*. It lets me just focus on watching the actual fight instead of constantly watching the buff and debuff bars and the more I can enjoy myself by keeping my eyes on the battle the better. It's seriously such an amazing improvement and not something enough people focus on as a potential upgrade to the UI.
It made Bard actually fun for me, whereas before it sucked trying to keep track of things and I switched away from the job entirely because of that. I use it for other jobs too because it's great, but also like, it just makes sense for Bard! If anything for that job I'd actually love if like, I could set specific orchestrion rolls to play when I'm applying specific songs in that job, I think that would be super neat and allow for another use of orchestrion roll collecting.
They could even make it so that the songs started to fade out 5 seconds or so before the buff ended to help better indicate when to switch to the next song.