Combat icon screen

[kellyxxx]

When you move your mouse over a combat icon we used to get a little screen up top left corner. Now the damn screen is huge and it is right in middle of my combat. Is there any way we can get rid of that screen??? The game has become unplayable as you can't see whats going on and on top of that the auto attack to next critter does not always work.

[Ledaig]

The tooltip for combat abilites is anchored to the character portrait. By moving the portrait, you can also change where the tooltip appears. For example, I moved my portrait to the bottom of the screen between the chat window and the combat skill bars, so now the tooltips appear next to my chat window. Not the best solution, imo, but better than having the tooltips in the middle of the screen

My auto attack next critter seems to work just fine, except that all skills are grayed out as if unusable (and not just the ones on cooldown). But when I press them, the game still changes target and attacks the next mob (if that's what you mean with auto attack).

[Erthiel]

Good to know, I though the tooltip was just staticly placed in top left. Well, the tooltip being anchored to the portrait with the status bars is not very optimal in combat either. I fight be clicking the ability icons and my mouse hovers over them lot of the time. How about anchoring the tooltip to the quest tracker or the minimap? Those are quite useless during combat and do not have that important info.
I keep my portrait and party status bars in top left corner and the tooltip covers them all. I think the Old UI tooltip had a bit of transparency which made it less obtrusive in the original location?

[kellyxxx]

Yes I know if I move the portrait back to the top left that clears the screen. Since we can move the char portrait why does the info screen have to follow it. By removing the 2 globes I put my portrait where the left globes was and I placed the critter portrait to the right globe spot. This allows me to keep my eyes on a line at bottom of the screen instead of looking all over the screen.

[DamageIncorp]

I totally agree with Kelly. That combat description box is gigantic and not only obscures my vitals but also most of my combat interaction. I was testing some stuff last night in GK and got frustrated and quit playing. I would want thatwindow having the combat skill description to be much much much smaller and placed elsewhere other than over top of my power, life, and armor bars.
It would also be great to have an option for the bars to all be horizontal instead of vertical like we had in AC.
Two other things i wanted to touch on were the numbers over top of inventory items. They are so big they obscure the item icon. Can they be changed without affecting something else?
The other thing was not having a vendors scroll bar go all the way back to the top after purchasing an item or 1 of a stack. Makes for very frustrating shopping.
Overall, i think the first rollout was a huge success and many great options came with it.
Huzzah to all devs for an amazing job.

[Roekai]

if you select the item you want to buy, there is an option to select how many of said item you want to buy; it even shows you how much it will cost total subtracted from your councils so that you know how much you'll have left after you make the purchase.

I too was originally upset by the new UI (who likes change?) but after playing for a day or two I worked out most of my issues simply by using settings; got rid of the diablo bubbles, figured out how to buy stacks, etc.

The only thing I can't figure out is how to save a loadout over an existing loadout - I've had to keep a loadout clean so I can juggle my loadouts when I need to save for a new item or skill.

[Tagamogi]

The only thing I can't figure out is how to save a loadout over an existing loadout - I've had to keep a loadout clean so I can juggle my loadouts when I need to save for a new item or skill.

You can erase your existing loadout, and then save the loadout into the newly empty slot. ( I assume there will be some updates to how the loadouts work eventually, but for now this works fine.)

[Citan]

The anchoring of tooltops is a very annoying problem to me because I would very much like to make people happy with their position, but I can't seem to please people.

First: in the old GUI, ability tooltips were anchored in the top left. They could not be moved. They were about the same size as the new UI, too. (People who say their ability tooltips are "huge", I don't know what you're seeing. They're tiny little boxes for me, so I'd love to see screenshots.)

In the first preview of the new UI, I had tooltips appear overtop the abilities directly, like typical tooltips do, but people complained VOCIFEROUSLY. As in, they fucking hated it. So I anchored those tooltips out of the way, in the upper left, like they were before. I anchored them on the character avatar since it is in the top left by default.

Now, I can definitely anchor them on something else. But please understand here: they MUST be anchored on something. You cannot move them like regular windows because tooltips disappear when you move. And they can't be free-floating with the new UI. I MUST anchor them on something. So the million dollar question is: what do you think I should anchor them on? I picked overtop the avatar window because people already complained it was useless: it is redundant with the orbs, after all. Fair enough. But other people hate that too. So... what do you want?

(And yes, I can add some hacky thing to let you pick. But it won't be elegant and will just be some hacky special command. Let's ignore that for now. What I want to know is: what should the DEFAULT BEHAVIOR be? Where do you think it will be out-of-the-way for most people?)

[ShieldBreaker]

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(And yes, I can add some hacky thing to let you pick. But it won't be elegant and will just be some hacky special command. Let's ignore that for now. What I want to know is: what should the DEFAULT BEHAVIOR be? Where do you think it will be out-of-the-way for most people?)

Because people don't seem to be complaining about the left side bars tool-tips, I'd say attach it to the left side bar. If you move the tool-tips that do come up for the left side bar, say a fixed distance to the right of the icon instead of mousex, that would clear up the overlap there, but that pretty minor, the tooltips on the left side bar work pretty well as is. A toggle key to turn on and off tool tips I still think is a better solution, and if there was an option just so they need to be toggled on during combat that would maybe make people happy. It is only in combat that they get in the way. Sorry we complain :|

[kellyxxx]

As we already know what these combat icons do we really don't need to see it. We can always go to abilities and see the spells if we want to change them. When the box was up top left i bet people never really looked at it. You were to busy fighting to really care about it.