I’ve been meaning to make my own thread about these issues but may as well post them here since it’s relevant to what i have to say.
There are lot of annoying UI elements added with NPE but especially with HoT. What i hate is that often, i can’t find my mouse pointer and i sometimes click on the exp bar by accident. Before HoT, it wouldn’t have mattered, it didn’t do anything except perhaps shown u the amount of exp to the next lvl etc. But now, if u touch that bar anywhere with ur mouse, it suddenly pops up this huge mastery window in my face that covers most of my screen. This usually tends to happen while in combat so i then have to frantically fumble with it to close it. The mastery window is way too big and the exp bar should be locked as it always was. Perhaps instead of the exp bar triggering the mastery window to open, you could instead create a little icon in the upper left screen like the traits icon to open it? Frankly i’m surprised this wasn’t implemented this way in the first place, sine we already have the traits icon residing there.
I don’t so much mind the dangly chest we get as rewards, but the sheer number of them and the non-stop jingle they make until u accept them is terribly irritating. Oftentimes when they pop up, we are fighting and don’t have time to accept them right away, but they keep annoying u with that jingle, taking ur attention away from combat. Perhaps if they jingled only every few minutes it would be more acceptable?
In HoT, they’ve gone to another lvl with head-shaking stuff. You get the dangly chests with all of the idiosyncrasies as above, but when u try to accept a chest in HoT, this new mini window that tracks meta event progress pops up, blocking u from accepting it. This window literally overlaps those chests almost entirely and it keeps opening each time u attempt to accept a chest. So unless u click precisely the outer right edge of a chest, this window will not let u accept it. This pop up window is way too big and needs to be reduced so it doesn’t encroach on the chests at all.
Also, if u try to place or hover ur mouse close to the upper edge of the mini map to say read/id, or link something, this meta tracking window pops up again instead, preventing you from doing so, or at least, making it very difficult to do so. So it’s not only too big, but it’s too attached to the mini map and there needs to be a separation. Maybe a little interactive icon similar to those in the upper left corner of the screen that u can click and check on meta progress would be less obtrusive and interfering with other UI elements as it currently does.
A note on NPE. One thing i have really disliked they added in the NPE was the dings for the heart quests. There are lot of hearts that overlap and if u make one step to the right, u get a ding for one heart, step to the left and u get a 2nd ding and if u stand in between those two points the dings go spastic. All these system are well intended i think, but poorly implemented. We’re not children. It’s good enough to get one ding to id the heart, no need to keep ringing a bell in our ears. I think it would be more helpful and more in line with other activities in gw2 such as events, to create a heart-shaped parameter of some distinct colour that identifies the heart quest limits, rather than these dings going off making u feel more annoyed than informed.
I could go on, such as the ridiculous number of variety of these pop up chest that u constantly have to accept. Just in HoT, there must be a dozen or more different chests that keep popping up. Why? I keep asking myself. It really is all pointless in the end. TBH i’ve never been so nonchalant to receive loot in any other game as i am in gw2. if getting these chest stirred any emotion in me, it would be annoyance, rather than anything else. Frankly, i would rather get fraction of these chests but when i do get one it actually holds something worthwhile, like 10 linen scraps or w/ever instead of 10 porous bones and rest ruining my hands salvaging.
