Guild Wars 2

I think we will all agree that the action bars are lacking in many areas.

For one they are not customizable so you can’t rearrange where your spells/skills are.

Second there just isn’t enough of them on there and the gameplay tends to get very repetitive and boring.

I would suggest having more spaces on the UI like in WOW for more skills/spells etc. This would increase the complexity of gameplay and make it more fun as you would have more that just a few to chose from.

Thoughts?

Yes to the customize where you place your skills.

No to more slots like WoW. In WoW, you can have every skill available to you. It needlessly increases complexity, while making everything easier since you got every skill available to you. It doesn’t force you to adapt or perfect your build.

Not only that, the aim for this game was to watch the combat, not the UI. Filling the screen with spells and needing to keep track of cooldows is kind of counter-productive of that.

Adding more skills to weapons and allowing us to choose which ones to use for the 1-5 buttons would go an enormously long way in making the combat more engaging… I’ve now tried every class, and every class gets the same problem – the combat gets very boring after a while because it’s so simplistic. It’s a tremendous shame too because so much thought went into most other areas of the game, but combat was really streamlined to it’s own detriment..

MistaMike.7356:

Adding more skills to weapons and allowing us to choose which ones to use for the 1-5 buttons would go an enormously long way in making the combat more engaging…

I agree with this. It makes the game more tactical if you have to choose between skills.

yeah i agree that it shouldnt be exactly like wow. but maybe a few more so that combat is a bit more engaging. too often im using 2-4 spells initially in combat then the rest is waiting for cooldowns. i think mikes idea is good. kinda combines the two together. all i would want is maybe 4 or 5 more slots on the combat bar. and the ability to move them round etc

Check out the link in my signature. I am currently working on a project for the very same mention.

I do like the smaller skill bar, as I am coming from Guild Wars 1… However, adding more skills, and a deeper level of bar customization… is must. Hench, my project. <3