More Examples Why The UI Sucks

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If the UI is so great and customizable, then why can’t it be customized back to the old way? The answer is because it’s neither great nor truly customizable. It’s limiting. Almost as if to troll the gamer, frames and items are locked form being modifiable while at the same time their own design changed to be invasive for the player, by default. There is no way to edit things back unless you want to shrink it down to laughable sizes. Ironically, the pre-patch introduces things to help those with Accessibility issues while at the same time insulting us with inane UI decisions, like having to lower the UI to below 100% just to get everything to remotely “fit” but be too small to read or make out. Naturally, increasing to above 100% doesn’t work well with the new UI.

Therefore, the new UI sucks. That’s it.
The next step is for Blizzard to finish making the UI fully customizable so it can re-achieve the look of the UI or create an option to toggle back the old UI.

In the meantime, examples:
`https://imgur.com/a/hRePXdG

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The new UI allows most things to be repositioned to the same positions they were in with the old UI.

I did that with my setup and am quite happy with it. While not perfect, I do find the new UI to be quite superior the old UI.

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The only problem I’ve seen so far is just having to make it smaller because the gryphons cover part of the chat.

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You can hide them. In edit mode, select Action Bar 1 and check “Hide Bar Art”.

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:scream:

[Insert happy bearhug gif here]

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Another irritant: there’s no way to stop tracking stable masters, even if you have absolutely no use for them.

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I’m thoroughly embarrassed that my generation has turned into boomers with how much they complain about change now. The new UI is great. Get a grip.

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More Examples Why I Need To Stop Reading This Forum.

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More example of people complaining over nothing.

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You can set it to the classic preset which does the same thing, the main difference being that the old one isn’t customizable while the new one is.

It’s not blizzard’s fault you dragged and dropped the hud elements to overlap each other. Just move them.

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It literally can be.

Two of the default profiles for the new UI are ‘modern’ and ‘classic’ and the classic profile is 99% identical to how the default UI looked pre-10.0. The only thing you have to change is one action bar by making it two rows of 6 rather than one row of 12.

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Looks like user error to me

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Oh my.

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Give them a chance to improve on it. I have a big feeling a lot of Dragonflight is being rushed by corpo and the Devs probably have the same wishes you do OP.

A little patience and time, and see if they continue to work on it. If not then I agree that the UI was poorly…hmm No, more like half done.

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To be fair, there really should be a checkbox that locks the UI from overlapping with other HUD elements with improved magnetic snapping.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

At this point people asking for old UI to be a toggle are basically asking for the ability to customize the UI to be a toggle. It’s a futile request

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Honestly, I’d give players the option of classic default or new.

I’m okay with the changes. Especially the new compass. However…yet again, it feels as though this UI is a wide screen optimal advancement.

It looks busy on my tiny laptop

:dragon: :dracthyr_comfy_blue::dragon: :dracthyr_comfy_blue:

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A fair point or the OP could use the grid system either way it feelsike the swtor ui so pretty user friendly

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What are you talking about I was able to get mine back 100%?

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I like the new UI a lot though. Only thing I can think needs added is separate raid frames based on the size of the group

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My complaint is blizzard put this ui out but no explanation how it work and leave it to other to explain how to use it to me that’s lazy .

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