Okay so, I left Wow after 5 years because it has become a "Hand Out" game. The fun had completely gone missing.
Then I found EQ2.. Truth be told.. I had tried EQ2 on 3 separate occasions, and didn't like it at all. It felt clunky, and weird. However, on this most recent endeavor into the game.. I must say I have fallen in love. In fact.. I am having a hard time figuring out how on gods green earth I let it slip through the cracks for so long. Don't get me wrong there are a ton of things "I" personally think need improvement. But all in all, I am having Waaaay more fun than I ever had play wow. The community is 100x better as well...
Anyways, to make a long story short, I have been working day and night to get the UI to feel a little less clunky, and so far this is what I have..
Out of Combat
In Combat
If I had to describe this UI, I would have to call it a "heavily" modified DrumsUI. However, there are a few questions I have, and a few things I would give anything for.
1. Somewhere along the way I completely lost my "Target Rings" I have toggled every single option I can find, I have tried scanning my install, I have tried downloading a modified target ring, and alas It's still AWOL. If anyone has a fix or an Idea for how to fix it, I would fully be willing to kiss them right on the mouth.
2. Chat sounds!! .. Why in the hell is this not in the game, I have trolled the forums day and night and from what I gather this is impossible with an addon due to how the game itself is designed. I can however use ACT to make sounds on triggers but running a third party program is fail, and the fact that there is sounds for personal tells but nothing else makes me wanna cry. Anyone that can figure something out, or suggest some sort of options other than ACT will be awarded with the same payment as listed above. :P
3. Sloppy windows. Okay .. bear with me .. Lets take for example the detrimental window.. I like where I have it, it works, but as I am slaughtering baddies in Common Lands, Suddenly I get jumped by an angry elephant, but as I am moving around and trying to target him with my mouse, all of the "Invisible" Backgrounds for all the windows on my screen seem to get in the way. Now.. I am aware that I can set these things to "Click Through" but then how do I cancel Buffs, or interact with any window that I have set to that?? ..
This makes Gezus a SAD PANDA! .. and we don't like sad panda's!
4. Tab Targeting .. WTF is this all about! .. Smashing monsters in Walling Caves, and again I get jumped by an add. I end up spamming [Tab] 417 times because EQ2 has decided that rather than target the mob thats currently punching me in the face, I should be made aware that there are 25 other mobs, 7 harvesting nodes, and 4 shines. Please for the love of everything holy (Or unholy.. /highfive Sk's) .. Someone tell me there is a fix for this.. ? .. Out of everything that EQ2 does this 1 thing drives me %$*&#ing MENTAL! .. lol
5. In game Browser.. Everything about every browser I have tried (and thats ALL of them on this site) works perfectly. Except 1 thing... When I click my quest helper "Zan/EQWiki" button and I start browsing the nightmarish details to the epic Heritage quest I am trying to do (Most likely 7 levels to low).. I always find the Waypoints system a MAJOR help. However.. Zam and EQ2Wiki have a handy little button that lets you click to "copy" the waypoints.. but NOT in an in game browser. I know this seems trivial, but when your in the questing mood, manual cut and paste is LAME! :P .. I mean C'mon.. this is 2011 here! .. Anyways. I did some research and from what I understand, the problem is most likely the fact that these websites are using waaaaaaaay newer versions of Java than the in game browser is using (honestly I don't even know if the in game browser uses, or can use Java.) .. But I am pleading with you UI gurus... Can something like this be added or fixed in any way? ..
6. Last but not least (For now) .. "Full Screen Windowed" .. this drives me bonkers! .. I have to play in a window because I use 2 monitors, and there is soooo much stuff to be researching and reading about this awesome game but you can't just mouse into the other monitor and start clicking away at your browser.. I am assuming that this is something that can't be fixed by the UI community.. but if we all jump on board, perhaps we can get a fix... Plus.. who knows .. you guys rule at everything maybe there is a fix.. :P /Crossesfingers.
/EndRant.
Anyways.. I love you guys, I love this game, I apologize for my wall of text crit, and I thank anyone and everyone who had the patience to read it and perhaps shed some insight as to why I am crazy for drinking as much coffee as I do. :P
I also am going to try to figure out how to share this UI for anyone that is interested.
**Please remember zero credit goes to me, all I did was move it all around, and take the time to sift through it all.**
On that note, I bid you all good evening, and hope that your adventures fill your bags with Legendary loots of Tiers that don't even exist yet!! Happy slaughtering!
Gezus!
P.S SOE .. Fix stats! .. Don't become Wow! .. Please.. please.. please x2.
