The world is so beautiful, but it is even more beautiful with the UI hidden. Similarly, as great as battle is, it is a lot more immersive without the UI. I’m willing to forego seeing my cooldowns for the better view at times, but it is way too easy to die when you can’t tell how much damage you are taking. Having an option to show the screen-edge flash when the UI is hidden would be very nice. The screen-edge flash when we take damage doesn’t exactly tell you what your HP is, but it is close enough to at least let one know that it is time to re-enable the detailed UI.
Having an alternative to the main UI that is very minimal with the health bar, F1,F2,F3,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9&0 abilities, and our various buffs reduced to a single line across the bottom of the screen that is as narrow as the currnet buff icons with simple cooldown indicators for each would be very nice as well. Aside from the buffs & debuffs there wouldn’t really be a need for graphics on these. We should know before very long what our keys do. Though the most recognizable part of the full-size icon of each utility and signet could be cut out of the original graphic or it could be reduced to the size of the buff and debuff icons.
I made a quick mockup of what it might look like.
