Interface Suggestions! A list before implementing housing.

[Delfofthebla]

There were no new features in UI revamp?! Prior to the big UI update you couldn't reposition most of the UI elements at all, so a "lock UI" feature would have been... a bit premature, let's say. That update also added everything from item-highlights when gifting, to right-click item menus, the ability to get more info on items, the ability to scale the UI at all(!), and that's just a few off the top of my head. I'm sorry you think its uglier, but the idea that it didn't add any features is bizarre and insulting.

And since that update I've continued to work on the UI, including the crafting panel, the group panel, dialogs, the sales screen ... my point being that I do in fact improve the UI, and I do want suggestions. So please don't tell people what I will or won't add. Let people offer suggestions.

My apologies. I will refrain from making such statements in the future.

I just feel that being able to lock your UI is the barest minimum requirement for a game's UI, and not having that for several years has made me a bit bitter, I guess. Every single time I log in I have to fix something and it grates on me. But if you are actually taking suggestions...

Top 5:

1) Let us lock the UI please. I'm not talking about crafting windows and loot popups either. Just let us lock the core elements. Hotbars, target frames, the buff bar (including the box around it!), the pet window, and chat. I'd love for a "per window" lock but just giving us a generic button to lock the core elements would be enough to keep most people happy I'd think.

2) Fix the Pet stance button bug.
* If you aren't aware, the buttons on the Pet window that let you change them from follow/assist/ect. often bug out and do not do anything when you click on them. Once one (or god forbid, both) of your pets are broken like this, resummoning them will accomplish nothing. The right click menu continues to work, but is really tiresome and not really feasible in dungeons.

3) Remove the pet window and chat window from the "Close Last Panel" hotkey. That or give us a new hotkey that only closes "real" popup windows.

4)

Please allow for collapsible subcategories within a given craft skill window. For example, Tailoring has many recipes and those recipes are dividing into certain catagories such as rough, quality, nice, etc... please make large groups for which each recipe can be catagorized and further collapsed to allow for easier navigation of the crafting interface.

^ This

5) Separate abilities from the skills window into their own UI. (I feel like it was like this in pre-alpha...). When I'm messing with hotbars it's a huge pain to scroll through all my skills to find what I need. It's also a pain that I have no way to sort the "general skills" section. There are a lot of general skills and I only actually use a quarter of them. As it stands right now I have to scroll to that section and then I have to scroll to the bottom of that section just to swap a single ability out. It's a pain to be sure.

But generally I agree with everything the OP listed as well. And while it's less important, being able to type "/h words here" for help chat, and "/t words here" for trade chat would be pretty nice...