That New Trailer and the UI – Hawtpants of the Old Republic

SWTOR released a new trailer about upcoming features including (these are the high points for me) guild bank and UI customization.

While I’m thrilled with UI customization, it’s… a start.

What it addresses:

Resizing all the things. IDEALLY this will include buffs/debuffs in ops frames, but there’s no way to tell.
Moving all the things (YES!)

What it (probably) does not address. At least from what I can tell…

Mouseover macros
Targeting companions (i.e. putting companions in ops frames)

So… yeah… I think these improvements are great for the general playerbase and will probably deal with a lot of the issues for DPS and Tanks, the UI still needs more work to be healer-friendly.

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That New Trailer and the UI — 6 Comments

Wolfsong on January 20, 2012 at 10:56 am said:

There’s also no sign of target-of-target capabilities. So unless a group follows a strict kill order and target marking plan, it’s still absurdly easy for a dps to switch to the wrong target and pull aggro. This also continues to make things more difficult for a healer when running solo with a tanking companion, since it’s more difficult to see when and what an enemy is casting for interrupt purposes when you have your companion targeted for healing.

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Reliquary on January 21, 2012 at 5:55 pm said:

as a healer i’d still like right click self cast along with healing macros

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Gunsandmissles on January 23, 2012 at 11:14 pm said:

I just hope I can enlarge those stack icons,not only are they too damn small to see,they all look the same.Much needed.

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Peal on January 25, 2012 at 12:39 pm said:

I’m happy with it. Those changes are not all the ones we need but any progress is good progress.

*holds up her ‘WTB Click-To-Cast Healing’ picket sign*

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- Njessi on January 25, 2012 at 12:40 pm said:
  
  Click to cast – NO KIDDING. I find myself shift-left clicking on frames, realizing that it does NOTHING, and then swearing profusely.
  
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Umbra on January 30, 2012 at 5:13 am said:

Love the scalable UI announcement, can’t wait until this get’s implemented. I think the announcement I am waiting for (which still may be months away) is the guild ships. Something I have wanted from the beginning. Even though I am still in the midst of a break from the guild scene I still want this badly 😀

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