Guild Wars 2

I couldn’t agree with this more. The UI is a total mess, works fine for some people but not others, works fine in some resolutions but not others, and trying to make it useable has been a impossible.

Using 1920×1200, I had to switch to windowed mode because one of the “features” of windows 7 crashes any game I try to play in true full screen. When switching from full screen to windowed the UI went from working fine to giveing me ridiculous restrictions on the width of the chat bar and minimap rendering them a massive pain to use with about 3 inches of empty screen between the minimap and the skill bar and 1 1/2 inches between my chat bar and the skill bar with a standard monitor size ( I dread what would happen if I tried to play it on my 55’ screen tv, which I resently started doing). When I change the UI size to large or larger, large gets me what I want except for moving the chat bar above the skill bar, albeit the correct side of the screen and correct size, and the only options are there or at the top of the screen which I don’t care for. All of those problems go away if I use true full screen instead of windowed full screen but then I have to deal with frequent crashes (although it is the most stable game I’ve played in true full screen).

The major point is this, why in the world are we not able to move and resize things as we see fit? It makes absolutely no sense to force a static setup with minor options. The simple truth is that the UI is not optimized for every resolution size and then there are the problems you will run into when people start hooking their pc’s and laptops up to their tv’s, the size of which will make text unreadable among other problems without some manual tweaking.

Again, the lack of true customization is nonsensical and counter intuitive.

Mordeth Kai.9460:

I couldn’t agree with this more. The UI is a total mess, works fine for some people but not others, works fine in some resolutions but not others, and trying to make it useable has been a impossible.

Using 1920×1200, I had to switch to windowed mode because one of the “features” of windows 7 crashes any game I try to play in true full screen. When switching from full screen to windowed the UI went from working fine to giveing me ridiculous restrictions on the width of the chat bar and minimap rendering them a massive pain to use with about 3 inches of empty screen between the minimap and the skill bar and 1 1/2 inches between my chat bar and the skill bar with a standard monitor size ( I dread what would happen if I tried to play it on my 55’ screen tv, which I resently started doing). When I change the UI size to large or larger, large gets me what I want except for moving the chat bar above the skill bar, albeit the correct side of the screen and correct size, and the only options are there or at the top of the screen which I don’t care for. All of those problems go away if I use true full screen instead of windowed full screen but then I have to deal with frequent crashes (although it is the most stable game I’ve played in true full screen).

The major point is this, why in the world are we not able to move and resize things as we see fit? It makes absolutely no sense to force a static setup with minor options. The simple truth is that the UI is not optimized for every resolution size and then there are the problems you will run into when people start hooking their pc’s and laptops up to their tv’s, the size of which will make text unreadable among other problems without some manual tweaking.

Again, the lack of true customization is nonsensical and counter intuitive.

This is very well put. Also warbannering this thread again. We still need to be able to move the ui around on our screens. Again, no custom ui loading! Just moving around and resizing and hiding or transparency the current windows we have now!

I would love to be able to adjust my UI more.

Glad this thread has been resurrected. Really desperate for some UI freedom

Naz.2607:

Glad this thread has been resurrected. Really desperate for some UI freedom

Agreed. I play on my laptop and on my desktop and it seems crazy that I use the same UI on such different screen sizes. I feel that my laptop screen is cluttered and squashed in (e.g. small mini-map and chat window) but on my desktop PC I have enough room to play around and increase some of the more useful things.

I was going to make a thread about this but decided to resurrect this one. I would like to enlarge (only) my skillbar so the skills are easy to click on. I understand and sometimes do use hotkeys to activate the skills but often I just want to click the skillbar. Why can’t we move and resize the UI like we could in Guild Wars 1?

Dean Calaway.9718:

Take the God kitten target info from the top of the screen!
Countless are the times I’m aiming an AoE, get too close up there and the thing just casts at my feet.

This so much! In a game where you are supposed to read the enemies movements looking for a tell, how dumb is it to have the target info actually blocking view of what the enemy is doing?