I love the game, i really do, but as time goes on you’re bound to run into one or two things and think “why would you do that?”, “why isnt it like this”, “now thats just silly” just to name a few, this might sound like a rant, its really not, i’ll play the game for sure once its released, its just a few headscratchers i’ve run into.
Now, i play with a xbox 360 controller, so keep in mind that not all of this is relative to those who play with a Keyboard.
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Mounts, now this is a pretty recent one for me, as i only made this current character about 3 days ago, currently level 180 or so pelt-hoplite c2-cata-doppel, at first i would just press B on the Pet to open the options to mount, pet and so on, then learned that hey alt+up arrow works too…but this really sucks when using a controller, now i dont know if theres some trigger combination or something that allows you to quickly mount/unmount your pet, atleast i havent found it, and it just bugs me aloooooot, as someone who would like to quickly transfer from mounted to unmounted combat.
Now to fix this, why not use the D-Pad? Does anyone acctually prefer it over the stick to move around?
why not put the Alt+Arrowkey combinations on the D-Pad, with or without + Triggers. -
This is another Mount one, but much simpler.
when moving from one map to another you get off your mount, its kinda annoying having to get back on anytime you switch map.
Solution…well you get the point. -
The Chat…oh dear lord the chat.
Im someone who tabs ALOT, wether its to Shift+Tab for the Steam overlay chatting with friends, or go on the Internet to find a video, use forum, view cute cats pictures, whatever it may be, i tab aloooooot.
Im also one who like to customize the chat to my preferences but we’ll get to that later.
Having to remember to get back on the Chat Tab you want to use got annoying really quickly, i’ve used the Shout or Normal chat so much when i wanted to use Party chat, having to type messages twice gets old very quickly.
I’d suggest removing the ability to tab between chats completly, but then again perhaps some people like it, atleast give us the option to Lock the chat or select the hotkey for it, or atleast the option to turn Tabbing off. -
Chat #2 / Window Customization
The chat is a mess in General, its one of the least user friendly chat window i’ve ever dealt with in a MMORPG and it gives us no options to customize it how we want.
Usually, when the option is given to me, i use 2 or 3 chat windows, 1 small one for system messages like exp or loot information, such things, 1 only showing Guild chat, and 1 for Normal, Party and Private chat.
So with the chat in its current state i feel really restricted compared to what im used to.
What i’d like to see as soon as possible is a few things:
1: The ability to move chat windows and separable chat tabs/windows
2: Freely able to customize what each tab/window displays
3: No hotkeys, or customizable hotkeys for chats, or just remove Tabbing between chats completly
4: Show Private messages in All/Normal Chat in a recognizable color, its so easy to miss PMs imo. -
Getting stuck on flat ground.
Now this one might actually fall under bug reports, i might have to make a compiled list of places where this happens.
Anyways, it happens quite often that you get stuck while just running along, on seemingly flat ground, its like getting stuck on a curb, its just silly and gets really obnoxious in some places, its like i wouldnt be unable to get through my front door without jumping over the doorsill.
Its abit hard to give a solution for this unless i had a list of all the places this happens. -
Awakening.
Now i love the idea of awakening, further improving your hard earned items, the things is…its not the “hard earned” items that benefit from awakening in most cases, its usually the least rare ones, which really doesnt make sense to me.
This has been brought up by other people aswell so i wont go on about it too much, i’ll just give my suggestion to how i think it should work.
I think the bonuses should be somewhat random, so theres a risk to awakening aswell, so you either get something really good, or it might be no good at all.
For example, it could be +atk, scaling with item level, lv 1 items would have a chance of +1 - 10 atk, lv 15 items + 5 - 20 atk, lv 40 items + 15 - 40 atk and so on.
But the awakening would be random between a few possible options (for weapons/offhand):
Patk, Matk, Crit Rate, Crit Atk, Fire/Ice/Earth/Dark/Holy Elemental dmg,
And Armors and Accessories can get:
Str, Int, Con, Spr, Dex, Resistances, Def, MDef.
Now, with the risk that comes with this id also like to see a feature to reset Awakening, if thats a skill or a cash shop item is up to you, im fine with either. -
Awakening #2
I think i speak for most people when i say, having to trade your item to the Alchemist in order to get it awakened, is madness and its just setting up for trouble.
Theres been some suggestions on how a “Shop” should be set up for Awakening, id advise you take them into consideration. -
Town overflooded with player shops.
On top of this most of the time when i go back to town, it put me on Ch1, not always, but most of the time, it got better since last patch, anyways, player shops is a really old system and thats fine, we got the market too, but what i find odd is that theres no sort of order to it, no specific location thats NOT in the center of the main town.
Why not have a specific map / instance you can enter from town to go into a player market area and get all the overflowing shops away from the town itself? Whats worse is that some people practically covers up NPCs. -
Groupfinder / Matchmaking.
Looking for a group for dungeons or grinding is still pretty easy, but it could still be easier or atleast more user friendly.
Imagine when we dont have free access to Shout? (i asume thats gonna be a thing)
Looking for a party for dungeons can sometimes be a real chore, even more so if you dont have the patience to sit around outside the dungeon for god knows how long.
I really hope there will be some sort of feature to set up a party for specific dungeons and a way to easily browse said list.
For example, you open an interface, click create party, you select what you gonna run, what level range you’re looking for, what roles you’re looking for (DPS, Heal, Tank, Crowdcontrol, Buff, its hard to give what categoriy options should be available with how much class diversity ToS has), after you created the party it will appear on a list that people can easily browse to find what they want, without having to take time from other activities to just sit around waiting for a party opportunity that may or may not even come.
This is all i have as of right now, but i’ll be sure to post more as i remember them, or run into them.
Thank you for your time.