Guild Wars 2

My eyes have a conflict of interest. On one hand, I want to focus solely on the center of the screen for all the action and beauty. On the other hand, I feel compelled to maximize usage of the combat UI (primarily skill buttons), and ultimately watch the UI more often than the screen. I don’t need to watch the skills. After more than sixty levels I know them like I know my own beard. So as often as possible I turn off the UI altogether. It’s a wonderful and uncluttered experience, and I love when I can get away with it. But I can’t often get away with it, because I lack some critical information. Namely: Health bars, and their associated info.

A minimalist setting for the UI would look wonderful. Display only the Target’s bar; the party health and status effects; and my personal health, endurance, and status effects. As for the rest (skills, chat, heart/event progress, minimap, etc), only have them pop up if I position the mouse in their respective corner of the screen so that I can see them when necessary.

Will be great if we can choose another smallest ui option.

Correct me if I’ve misinterpreted you, but I’ve found that smaller UI’s rarely help. If nothing else, they only result in more squinting.

My only dislikes about the UI so far are the target frame being in the middle of the screen blocking my view, and the ridiculous “condition hearts”: they are so big and don’t look good, like they don’t belong in the game. I honestly thought the hearts were just place holders when I saw them in beta and didn’t think they would manke it into the actual release…if they want us to look at the screen and not the UI, then stop blocking it! It’s hard enough to target things in this game as it is.

I’m surprised that the hearts have not distracted me more, since I can barely stand things like nameplates. But, like the rest of the UI, I’d probably be happy to see them disappear. Or get shoved onto the wayside or into an innocuous corner.