It seems to be the norm now where people have multiple characters, either having one of each profession or just having multiples of each class, or a specific class. From what I’ve seen, more and more people are having more than 10 characters, and for those of us that do, you know how annoying it is to have to switch between every toon. This is just an idea I’ve had going on, but I would love for people to put down their own ideas as well to revamp the character select screen. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far (see photo below)
- Character select screen will be on the left side, with rows and columns. I forgot to add an arrow that indicates to go down and show you the next row and columns, for those who have more toons and an arrow to go back up
- Character info will stay in the same spot as it is right now
- With character select to the side, your toon now has more space to actually show you the model. For those of us who have charrs and made them the biggest they can go, you’ll realize your charr is cut off because it doesn’t fit on the screen
- Account info panel will be a pop-in, pop-out menu. You can click to hide it, or click to show it. It would still contain your dailes, monthlies, and achievements points, as well as your account badges
- Additionally to your achievements and badges, it would also show you your character’s gear and crafting profession(s). This would save people A LOT of time by not having to log in to each and every character to figure out who has what crafting profession(s), plus it will show you what level your character’s crafting profession is at. On top of cutting down on the time it takes to figure out who has what crafting profession, there are a few of us who cannot afford multiple ascended gear or legendaries, so we tend to swap gear from one toon to another. It is annoying having to figure out who you last gave all of your ascended trinkets to in order to have done, say, Fractals.
I don’t think I have to explain that last bullet point but, I’ll give an example anyway: Say you want to do a level 20 fractal on your engineer. Your engi only has ascended rings and the rest of your engi’s trinkets are exotic. Your elementalist just happens to be sharing the same stats as your engi, plus your ele has all ascended trinkets. So, you grab your eles ascended trinkets, put it in the bank, swap to your engi and give it to your engi just to run fractals. You run fractals, you’re done, but you forget to switch the gear back to your ele. The next day you log in to your ele, and you notice all your ascended trinkets are gone. You forgot who you lent it to, so now you have to go toon by toon checking to see who has it. With the account info panel showing your character’s gear, you can see who has what by cutting down the time it takes to log in to each toon, loading the screen, and checking their gear.
Again this is just an idea I’m throwing out there, and I would love to know how you guys think the character select screen should be revamped! (Bonus points for actually making a visual representation)
