#QOL Thread

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snow otter
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Dump your QOL experiences or things you wish was better optimized that would contribute to your gameplay experience here!

Please note this is not primarily a suggestion thread, merely a place to discuss frustrating interactions that you've had in game ALTHOUGH you can definitely put input on how you think something could be changed to better your player experience.

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I'm unsure if icons will change in the future but a QOL change I hope will be out at some point are certain items no longer sharing the same icon. An example would be dandelions and poppy seeds or bluebells and wolfsbane. There may or may not have been a moment where I tried to sniff a wolfsbane instead of a bluebell since I happened to keep them in the same chest apparently.

gilded birch
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Numlock and Caps Lock are the two worst keys on the whole keyboard to have as default binds for anything.

snow otter
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The same could be said for angling, apparently you need to memorize the "patterns" each fish uses and I've tried but it's hard unless you write them down and even then I still get it wrong since I'm relying on my own "descriptor" for the visual cue that I'm seeing. Some fish recycle the same icon but have seemingly different actions to reel them in(at least what I think was happening). It was very confusing and made it hard for me to continue angling although I'm sure other players may still find joy in leveling angling.

gilded birch
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Unrelated to that: I remember one of the first things I did in this game was make a new chat tab that was basically "All, but no system messages or NPC chatter." Because I like seeing all the chat windows while also not having my chat flooded with non-player messages. Would highly recommend to anyone.

granite inlet
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Not being able to disable other people's floaty damage numbers is my biggest pet peeve currently.

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Its difficult to see if I'm actually doing any damage without it but when you're in a party it's just a mess of numbers

spark sorrel
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A toggle to hide non-grouped player models. Aion had this with the default of shift+f12, and it was great on older systems to eke out a bit more performance in crowded areas or even just to reduce visual clutter (I'm aware about /particlespam, which is great, this just takes it up a notch)

tawny wasp
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Bump "Favorite" recipes to first line, and "All" recipes next. This way, when you log in, you don't have to select favorites.
Every.
Single.
Time.

radiant loom
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Ooh, on that note - and something tells me this is on my end - I have to check "hide known" and "hide unusable" every time I log in. If they stayed checked it would be fantastic

echo zealot
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I would love to set recipe defaults or;
Have recipes with optional ingredients automatically populate said recipe with the most recent ingredients you used

I'm thinking about heart's home teleport as I type this, would be nice to not have to refill the blue gem ingredient slot each time I use it

echo zealot
sharp bay
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Would be cool if special abilities had sub skill tabs for all the types of stuff in there. Like a first aid tab for all the first aid special abilities etc. going through a huge list or typing what I need all the time kinda sucks.

spark sorrel
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Agreed, it's so unorganized and a pain to search through, especially with the skills from various gear pieces

snow otter
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Give Serbule market area lights so that it's not completely dark whenever it hits 11pm in game

snow nacelle
echo zealot
simple crypt
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The left hand side of the Recipes window is too narrow for the verbosity of each recipe name.
eg I see “Ice Magic Research Level…”
resulting in my having to click through to find the one I want.
It’s bad for many others:
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all of Fire Magic & Weather Witching is truncated.
I have 2 “Potent Acidic Cleanser (…“ items,
2 “Shoddy Leather Leggings…”

Please remove the width restriction on the left column - can shrink it, but not expand beyond a certain point, regardless of how wide the entire window is.

tired hawk
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Crafting UI:
1: Checkbox for 'favorites on top' so you don't have to scroll down to find your starred recipes while keeping the normal sorting options available.

2: Allow for typing the name of a crafting skill in the dropdown box to avoid scrolling down to find what you need to get to.

tired hawk
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Enemy nameplates:
Add customize option for a targeted enemy name/nameplate. I'm struggling to visually identify what enemy I have targeted when there are many. Mouse-over enemy shows arrows on both ends of their name (maybe that is a mouse-over cast feature), I would like something like this for targeted.

Customised name/nameplate options for if an enemy has me targeted (maybe anatomy requirement applies) to be able to better distinguish what enemy I need to taunt more or less.

Increase camera zoom speed -
Overall, when tanking, I find enemies to be slow to respond to my movement and I find myself in less than ideal positions to LOS enemies to group them up - backed into a wall or corner and cannot see beyond the enemy directly in front of me. I can't see when new patrol or alerted enemies arrive, or see who the enemy has targeted without constantly tabbing through them. Turning the camera around to face my front is the only way to see what's going on, but in the moment it is quite slow.

visual forge
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Great feedback and suggestions i have been thinking of a few things i'll post here too very niceee

crude veldt
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I'd like an option to make special targets (i forget what it's called in other games) that as a healer I can have their health bar off to the side if they're not in my party. With the rise of pet tanks and zergs, it's quite frustrating trying to target people that are getting hit that aren't in my party and having the special target hitbar would help.

tired hawk
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Focus Target

steady apex
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I wish there was "return to previous page" button in recipe book - it would be useful being able to come back after "jumping to recipe".

gilded birch
steady apex
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Really? Wow, I missed that. Thank you ❤️

simple crypt
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Would be really nice to filter the Skills & Abilities (left-side) list to just Combat Skills.

Sort by level would be an acceptable alternative, if easier, but much prefer the filter.

visual forge
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Im going to suggest a few things in particular that i think need to be looked at

  1. Mount a horse default command is alt + num lock(?)

Make it something more accessible, right now im using (shift + W) - And even tho that shortcut can be changed to whatever i think it should be in a more accessible command from default game installation.

  1. Target next non combatant + use keys need to be in accessible keys from default installation. Even tho you can change the keys to whatever you like i have found players that for the majority of their gameplay did not know they could do this and improve the quality of gameplay by targeting/interacting everything with a reduced effort.

My current command keys are "E" for use and "Q" for target next non-combatant and removed the keys for turning from Q and E, having to click to interact can be really tedious.

  1. Organize UI in a more pleasing and intuitive way as default configuration. Despite the fact players can configure the UI however they see fit i consider its important to have a nicer UI configuration specially for the new players experiencing the game.

(ill try to attach both UI pre-player setup and post-player setup to see the differences)

  1. Add shortcut keys for commanding pets Having to click on pet interface to tell pets how to behave is really tedious, you can get used to mouse clicking but it adds a layer of unnecessary annoyance.

These can be problematics that mostly affect new players and solo/casual players that don't have the guidance from experienced players

visual forge
# snow nacelle u can with this

this is very nice, i have been trying to find if theres a guide or perhaps a wiki page for all those ingame setting commands but i haven't found any, do you know if theres any?

sharp bay
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its a huge difference in QoL

snow nacelle
shrewd patrol
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with me i would like to see numbers on the oxygen meter to help determine time left before you start taking drowning damage.

grave spire
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when the blue is gone and your toon starts tweaking

shrewd patrol
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i still want to know the duration because endurance adds to it

unborn flax
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When you get a new quest i wish there was a "track" button. It's easy to untrack quests by right clicking. To track you either have to have a setting checked to auto track new quests and then manually untrack the ones you don't want or open up the quests window, scroll to the one you want, and manually track it

simple crypt
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Have the update notification (eg quest 3/10) be clickable would be really nice - eg take you to the quest.

tight ferry
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horse tack should not be included in loadouts, or should be a separate menu somehow

gaunt vault
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why?

verbal tendon
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There's basically no reason to have different tack on different loadouts, and it's annoying having to re-equip it when you switch up your loadouts. Agree

gaunt vault
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oh. my horse is just always there so he and his gear are just ON all my loadouts

verbal tendon
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When you upgrade a piece of tack you have to go through and re-equip it in each of your loadouts, sometimes when you make a fully new loadout they get lost, etc. Just a bunch of mild annoyances for no benefit

terse cargo
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I have a big one.

Kur Mountains / Gazluck

White Snow, White Mouse Cursor.

I can't even begin to describe the number of times I lose my cursor on the screen.

crystal orchid
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I guess would be a good accessibility buff too, to be able tilt and turn the camera with the keyboard. Right now you can left click and move the camera around your toon, but there are no keyboard binds for this.

It would be great to be able to bind the arrow keys to tilt camera up/down, rotate camera left/right (without moving the toon, WASD to move so two hands are on the keyboard)

Currently navigating the map without the mouse causes really bad camera angles and even clipping the terrain when going up hills, also you can't look to the side or behind you without changing direction like those using the mouse while navigating can do.

My setup is "as much keyboard as possible" as having my hand on the mouse a lot causes shoulder pain.

verbal tendon
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Sometimes looted augments have names like "Augment of Swordsmanship" and sometimes they just show up as "Glove Augment". I assume there's some technical reason but it would be nice if it was always the former so we didn't have to stop and mouse over to check what it actually is when looting

spark sorrel
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A more standardized naming [slot] augment of [skill/whatever] would be nice. It's impossible to really search for them.

blazing sinew
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Being able to custom name my own gear (both for meme and for being able to organize sets and keep them straight in storage)

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Also having my minimap remember the zoom settings from the last time I was in the area

visual forge
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improved storaging-labeling for sets in banks. Pressing auto-sort command can ruin how you organize your sets, its very annoying to look piece by piece to try and stablish the order in which items are saved, one time is fine, twice is ok. Doing it consistently over time with different sets for trying-leveling-using different builds can be very tedious storage micro-management.

desert tusk
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Lighting improvements, generally. And an option to disable the lightning flashes, so my partner isn't too afraid to play the game anymore (epileptic).
Would also be nice if the cursor icons scaled up without going fuzzy!

dapper ermine
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Probably been said before, but being able to customize our mouse cursor (even if it's only its color). I've seen many people ask for it and I agree with them, it gets difficult to find it sometimes, I can only imagine how it's like for those with sight issues

simple crypt
spark sorrel
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Custom windows cursor only shows for certain things, I've noticed. (I'm using a flipped version of the old aero cursors, I'd love to have lefty ones in game lol)

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The game has it's own for mousing over enemies or interactables.

It does respect my larger cursor size though, I hardly notice the blur.

dapper ermine
visual forge
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rename all augments to the skill/effect related, right now its impossible to look for them using json exported files and manually looking for specific augments implies hovering the mouse on each of the augment to see what it does. Also i know its intended for saving augments to be annoying, so it encourages the exploration of the world/items consumption.

But it would be really nice if there was a middle ground, add a "way" to store a full set of augments (for a full set of equipemnt) or something similar, so insead of each augment taking 1 slot, let other classes idk carpentry or engineering to be able to craft an item to store them more efficiently. It would help with the already time consuming exercise for the planning and making of builds

simple crypt
blazing sinew
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what I wouldnt give to be able to mute specific sounds in the game, and thus never ever EVER hear another wolf howl

snow nacelle
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and the nighttime chirping

spark sorrel
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Psychology

blazing sinew
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yeah there's a lot of really amazing sound design in this game (WW Tsunami is soooo satisfying) and then there's just a bunch of specific sounds that are very much not

simple crypt
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chewing 😖

polar lantern
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all snails and slugs should make the chewing sound constantly

grave spire
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acid spider should be nuked

amber meteor
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we need a mushroom circle in Statehelm, i dont think i can make this work without one

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like straight up it fucks me so hard

simple crypt
amber merlin
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Something I immediately thought when using storage. Right now we can search and see which storage any item is in. I think it would be a really nice QoL if we could view it directly on the tooltip of the item in game. Tell us which storage and how many, etc

tight ferry
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an item i've been less organized with

image.png
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same menu shows up if someone links in chat

amber merlin
untold hamlet
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I want to disable grass fully. I hate 2 options being seing only nearby grass and it popping up into existence at super speed while im riding my horse, or having all grass visible and my fps being 20
either that or rework the grasses in this game so its 1 big shrub every few meters instead of 1000 tiny grasses everywhere

full summit
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For faster "looting" corpses, you can bind Autopsy, Skining and even take all loot to the same key like "2" and bury to "3", you open corpses click 2 then 3 and done

mint violet
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As a pet player, not having keybinds to control pet behaviour like assist/follow is frustrating. Additionally pets not teleporting to you when you drop down certain holes/terrain can be crippling.

vestal axle
full summit
sage hull
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The loot system should not be restricted to whoever aggros the enemy first. Its silly that an MMO would work this way and defeats really any purpose to group play with randoms. It should be individual loot for all who attacked the enemy and reserve the right of skinning, butchering, etc to whoever aggroed first

amber merlin
snow otter
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i feel like someoens brought this up before but i would really love it if favorite recipes were either color coded or moved a recipe to the top of a list when you looked at your available recipes

always have to scroll up when tping because i use hearth's home and recall circle and also have a bunch of mushroom recipes unlocked

also have to scroll all the way down to look for my favorite recipes when im cooking .. and sometimes i cant find it because my favorite recipes are the same color as all other recipes ... BeeeSad

queen otter
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this isnt the game to be asking for QOL tbh since its meant to be hardcore, but can i see what items i have equiped in my inventory without needing to get a magnifying glass, also the folders thing is kind of silly and id rather just have a regular right click lock command

desert tusk
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The game isn't 'hardcore', it's old school. Quality of Life improvements are typically tweaks to make the useability of the game better, not alter the gameplay itself. Asking for QoL isn't asking for the game to be made 'less harderer plis'. :)

amber merlin
snow otter
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have the "Find Items" tab also show where the item drops from if it's a monster drop as well

Have it only update when you loot a specific item for the first time from that monster though

verbal tendon
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The "split stack by amount" window can't be closed by pressing esc like every other window can

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This annoys the catdog

shut hawk
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Would love to be able to set keybinds to any combination of 2 (or more) keys, not just using Shift/Ctrl/Alt that are the current fixed modifier options. Keybind combination set and shown on key release instead of key press

Really helps accessibility

granite inlet
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There need to be an option to make the combat numbers setting only show the damage YOU deal to enemies. It's current iteration where it shows the damage dealt by EVERY player basically makes the feature useless if more than 1 player is fighting the same mob as you, as well as spamming your screen with numbers whenever someone is fighting stuf within your view.

white sentinel
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The ability to toggle 'double click to use' from the settings gear on the inventory window.

Hiding the portrait circle next to the health bar when you disable portraits in settings

A warp button for summons to deal with their horrible allergy to the Z-axis (ex Ice Cave drop downs).

Stop desummoning pets when you get on your horse.

Some immobile pets should be immune to knock back (ex: health sanctuary and firewall)

A way to hide cosmetic pets so you don't have to see/hear them.

A way to mute howling from the spit drinkers

Normalize the size of AH pets so you don't have giant green bear ass blocking the screen. (Could be a client option so AH users don't have to fiddle with their pet sizes)

faint sedge
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Selecting what quests you want visible on the side bar

amber merlin
agile wolf
pastel flower
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Cursor color or make bold

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Resizable

glass jay
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I would like that in the description of skill Attacks it states for which skill they are. I find it annoying when NPC's sell new Skill Attacks and I don’t know for which skill they are. And I don’t want to open the wiki every time. I think this should be in the in-game description. (I'm new, so apologies if that’s already a think and I'm just blind)

amber bobcat
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the vendor gold cap SUCKS I just want to farm mobs and level up my combat skills, sell, and repeat

tulip lion
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I would love to see more detailed Sound settings. I want to be able to turn off wolf howls without having to turn off all sound effects.

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Also, dungeons are ridiculously overcrowded now. It's like a conveyor belt between the bosses with a wait at each. I know Citan doesn't want to instance dungeons (how I wish he would) but could we get much faster boss spawn rates at least?

brittle bolt
polar lantern
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the abilities are grouped by skill, but yeah it would be nice if it told you on mouseover or something

spiral sleet
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Ability to disable error noise for spells/abilities. It sounds awful. It sounds like my speakers are breaking.

agile wolf
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On the Social tab: space to add a note / label for Friends you have added!

(Originally thought that was the intended use for the note space that is currently there)

spark sorrel
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Cycling the group member keybind to select their pets specifically (as in tapping group member 3's keybind would cycle between them and only their pets) - it's different enough from the next/previous [target] commands.

Aion had this and it was one of my favorite little qol things which made buffing/healing so much nicer.

eager spade
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Let me filter buffs/debuffs, also can buffs and debuffs be separate panels

shrewd patrol
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the only QoL i can think of is larger stack sizes, one would be to make it so bottles regardless if empty or has something in it to all cap at 10

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so water and fertilizer at 10 cap

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would keep your inventory a bit tidy when doing gardening

brittle bolt
blazing sinew
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would even be nice to be able to pin buffs to specific locations, and then just have them greyed out when inactive

agile wolf
dapper ermine
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"1st world problem" suggestion but :
Have duplicate of items already present in the saddle bag, directly get sent to the saddle bag. I know they already blink when they are in your inventory, but that'd be less clicks for us mere peasants (if that's a possibility). For instance I store all my mushrooms in there for less inventory clutter

blazing sinew
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would be really annoying to have that happen automatically

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would be great as a setting though

wheat pier
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Have full ability to remove/customize damage numbers from players and yourself. (colors, which parts to show vs not)

white sentinel
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Let me lock the breathing/anxiety/casting bar like I can with other frames (like the player frame) so I don't have to use the lock the entire UI button. I like having my inventory and map moveable

silver timber
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When in a party, have the party bar include my health info too, not everyone BUT me. I have my personal info frame in a different location when soloing.

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Make the big "you died" window able to pop up in a different, designated location - not only in the center of the screen.

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When I zone, retain how much I've zoned in or out on the mini & square map.

gusty oar
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I'd love a way to mark targets when in a party

silver timber
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When in a party, have a loot setting of a designated looter, but the game manages giving everyone their cut of the money, and non money loot will be rotated through the party. As is, there are groups where I swear some ppl are spamming to loot & no one else who is actively helping to kill the mob, has a chance of drops, except on bosses.

high ferry
# gusty oar I'd love a way to mark targets when in a party

it could be a sidebar skill called "telling people what to do." starts with "kill this guy first" and it puts a skull icon above them. level up to get "follow this guy" to mark the leader of the group so people actually follow them, next is "leave this one alone" for crowd control, etc. at high levels in the skill, your kill target takes more damage and such so that it is actually used and provides good utility

frozen drift
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LET ME USE A SAW AS A SPIDER why can I mine but not cut trees>:(

blazing sinew
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dont talk too loud, or they'll take away the mining cause it doesnt make sense

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./s

covert sequoia
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I find it odd to see a dozen or so floating numbers over player heads when I turn around and they come into view. An option to reduce the buffered floating numbers might fix that, if we can't turn off floating numbers entirely.

primal moat
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qol suggestion: make the shop tracking golem return shops in alphanumeric order so I can plan my shopping runs a slightly easier

untold hamlet
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i want to be able to save my equipment search settings at shop golems.. spending 1 minute arranging the filters every time is no fun

white sentinel
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Have a working option to only show your/your groups damage numbers

blazing sinew
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that is an option, its just broken atm lol

white sentinel
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Edited for accuracy

blazing sinew
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lol

torpid portal
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A quality of life for me would be a better filter that would allow me to sort through all the crafting recipes. Like crafted gear by level, armor slot, and making it remember those selections when I switch menus.

A stacking menu where if I click on a component in a recipe, I can go to that recipe then return to the previous one with all the modal options remembered like gems would be awesome.

I think that the preview for gear being worn should be visible before you actually own the piece!

swift moon
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To expand on above crafting filter - a toggle to show only recipes with first craft bonus available would be nice

untold hamlet
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filters for: show only npcs i'm not soulsmates with, dont show npcs that are animals and i cant talk to as a human

fluid tinsel
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It would be nice if when you did /wiki and linked an item to chat it would go to the wiki page of that item

blazing sinew
nimble sky
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Would be nice to not get booted from a party when you get disconnected from the game. Has happened a couple times and it’s a hassle to get reinvited into the group, especially during a boss kill

white sentinel
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Give me a hotkey that lets me terminate all temporary pets. To help prevent things like tornados or magmasphere from running off and pulling extra stuff. (alternatively reduce the aggro range)

last hemlock
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Necromancy needs a button to tell your pets to attack a target