This is fantastic news. However please give us an option to not show the skill bars as shown in the preview. I know which skills I’ve memorized and would appreciate more real estate of the game when playing. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Players can now opt to use the Active Skill Bindings bar. - From the blog.
Furthermore, if the Quick Cast Skills option is active, pressing these buttons will instantly use the abilities rather than just re-map the right or left mouse buttons. - Another piece from the blog, meaning you have to opt into the change.
Ultimately, we leave these new feature customizations to the players’ preference. Players will be empowered to enable the “Quick Cast Skills” option to action bound skills to their current mouse’s location, as well as enable “Display Active Skill Bindings” to display the currently bound skills bar on their screen HUD. At the player’s discretion, now they can tailor their experience to the way they play.
Everything is optional. Hope that helps.
Yes an option to hide the skill bars will be great , I don’t want them getting in the way of loot .