Guild Wars 2

Since the wardrobe/dyes menus were put together with the equipment window it has constantly gotten in my way and disrupted gameplay. I used to be able to hit H and immediately look at my stats or swap gear (sometimes under pressure and in limited time, such as between fights). Now I hit H and sometimes i’m in dye menu still or wardrobe (which is worse because for a moment I THINK i’m in equipment and get confused) so I have to navigate over, eating up seconds and generally being inconvenient.

With the introduction of the new list of menus to navigate to I really wish Equipment would still be the default, or some separate thing. Wardrobe, dyes, finishers, miniatures… these are all menus to be browsed at leisure. Equipment is something I need on hand fast and reliably, same with being able to check and compare my stats on the fly.

What I think is weird is that you have to actively leave a category before you can select another one. None of the other subtabs of the ‘Hero’ window makes you do that.

The ‘Hero’ window design is extremely inconsistent, every subtab has different navigational elements: treeviews, easily selectable subtabs, drop down menus.

I agree.

I suspect most people use the equipment tab more often than the others, and are certainly more likely to want to see it quickly (checking your stats during a fight for example).

I’d really like to see it made the default.

Manasa Devi.7958:

What I think is weird is that you have to actively leave a category before you can select another one.

Yeah .. all we need are just some buttons instead where we can directly select each category.

I’ve felt like the new menu system was awkward to look at let alone use but couldn’t put my finger on why. You’ve said it well Devi.
It’s starting to resemble a website navigation menu, which is fine for idle/relaxed play but is detrimental to active play and combat.

It needs a bit of polish. I prefer to just equip from the inventory now rather then try and use the hero menu.

Yah, they could definitely stand to improve the hero menu UI a bit, especially now that they’re adding more categories to it.

Either allow the player to set a default window, or just set it to Equipment by default (as I imagine that’s what 90% of the playerbase would choose anyway, as its by far the menu you’ll be using most often).

And definitely remove the annoyance of needing to close down a tab before you open a new one. It should take me one click to move from Wardrobe to Equipment or Collection to Dyes, not two. There’s just no reason to require you to minimize one window to get to another.