122548-ideas-to-improve-the-game-for-both-pve-pvp

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Greetings, i played tons of MMO in my life, and when i first saw this game in beta phase, i said to myself, oh look a new MMORPG that will make me forget about World of Warcraft & other games. But when i got ingame i was pretty lost. I kept asking myself, is this an TPS or just a regular MMORPG? So anyway i got this idea, which is:
 
-First: get rid off the mouse cursor in-game but instead to make the camera rotation linked to the mouse for example: i move the mouse to the left and the camera goes to the left and so on...
-Second: no more mouse targeting, instead LMB & RMB should be key binds for spells to make game-play quicker for a player who's not using a gaming mouse also to not make the mouse completely useless by removing the targeting of course.
-Third: the interface there are ALLOT of things going on that are completely messy, just make 5 interface buttons, 1 that has everything related to PVE, second  for a PVP, third for achievements, fourth for Spells & Paths, & last for Quest Logs.
-Fourth: Also related to interface, it's so big & not comfy, there are lots of things going on there that makes someone confused.
Just stick into 2 types of interface which can really fit this types of games:  2 gauges Health/Mana on top of the spell bar or 2 Bubbles on the sides of the spell bar, one the left has health & on the right the mana or energy ...
-Fifth: the Telegraph, it's a really awesome thing to do for skill shot based game. Well not too good if you make it in the way it is now.
For a pure PVP/PVE skill telegraph should be only seen by the caster, which mean i'am the only person who should see my telegraph upon casting a spell, so you will know a good PVP player when you see one, it's all about prediction & known the spell animation. This can also goes for PVE, you must look carefully for the boss animation to know what to dodge.
Screenshots for  more explanation:
- http://imgur.com/dH96fNo,KA6xC73,5364DmB#0
- http://imgur.com/dH96fNo,KA6xC73,5364DmB#1
- http://imgur.com/dH96fNo,KA6xC73,5364DmB#2
                                                                                    -Cordially Dorakos	
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For 1 and 2 you can get an addon to fix that. It should definitely be a built-in option, but Lockdown works really well.
http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/220693-lockdown	
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			3 and 4 can also be changed through add ons and 5 would be the exact opposite of what Carbine wants with the telegraph system.	
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There's a problem with Wildstar needing to be both familiar and flexible.  That's why the UI is what it is, so players have the most familiar UI, while addons can make it do other things.  Personally, I don't mind any of these being added as options, but the UI works for me as it is.  I don't actually usually target anything with my mouse unless I'm about to use a T ability, unless I'm on an Esper and that's sometimes important.  Even then, auto-select seems to work pretty well.
 
However, I would never bind my mouse keys that way because sometimes I NEED to be able to look in one direction while I run in another.  It's why I don't use a lockdown mod, I spend a lot of time looking to see where other players are, even if they're behind or beside me.  Your system would absolutely make that impossible, and that's a game-breaker for a party or raid leader who needs to, for example, see where the healer is when he's tanking during the ink phase of Bosun Octag.  That's second nature to me, and impossible if I'm running in the direction I'm pointing.
 
The UI is pretty clean for me.  I keep banners at the bottom, radar in the upper right (which I need in any kind of style I'm playing), party on the left.  I need to see the quest log to track mission objectives in instances, but if I ever don't need it, it's one click to minimize.  I'm not sure what needs to be taken off, but if you want an option to remove things, I suppose Carbine could code it.  However, it shouldn't be default like that.  I already manage a lot, I don't need to manage five UIs.
 
There are no mana bars.  Your most important information is like a car, right down at the bottom in big graphics so you can see, at a glance, how much overdrive, psy points, etc. you have.  I think this is working fine.  You can move the player and target frames if you want right now.  I keep them in their stock locations because they work well there.
 
Lastly, I'm pretty sure the point of a telegraph IS to let people know what they're about to be hit by.  The PVP is geared around that, not having Spellslingers have the massive tactical advantage that no one can tell where the fire is coming from or dodge their attacks.  You have to learn to duck and roll, and how to best operate your telegraphs simply because people DO know what they'll be hit by.	
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I also often hold the mouse button to look around while I'm running. A camera lock to my mouse would be miserable for me.
 
There are lots of UI mods if you feel you don't like the UI. Kurona frames, ForgeUI and potato UI are probably the 3 most common ones folks use. Moveable frames lets you move things around. So yea, lots of UI options through addons :) Curse client is your friend! Look stuff up :)
 
As for the telegraphs - I'm guessing you haven't gotten to some of the crazy telegraphs yet? There are many, particularly in group content, that you simply could not avoid with telegraphs. It's part of what I love about the combat. ZOMG! get to the TINY not red area now! NOW NOW NOW! rofl	
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			I was going to say you can do almost all of this yourself in the options. 	
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1 and 2 would really mess up how I like to control my character and camera when playing, so I wouldn't want anything like that to be compulsory. But if it can be added as an optional system then fine.
 
3 and 4 - I tend to agree that the UI could use some serious work. For me it has always been too cluttered and somewhat scatterbrained. They also keep fiddling with it and breaking things that worked well and changing things that didn't need changing. Yes I know a lot of this can be solved with addons, but I don't like to install too many addons because of potential performance issues, so I'd prefer if they polished the default UI better.
 
5 - The telegraph is a core part of the game design. It could certainly use some tweaking but it is what it is. Remove it and you've turned WS into any other generic MMO.	
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-First: get rid off the mouse cursor in-game but instead to make the camera rotation linked to the mouse for example: i move the mouse to the left and the camera goes to the left and so on...
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I'll just comment on your first two points, locked camera and LMB and RMB used as ability buttons.
 
I have an addon called combat mode, that in my opinion works way better than the alternative and apparantly further developed Lockdown, which does exactly what you are asking for and makes the game much more entertaining and less straining for me. I have a razer naga but have weak thumb links so unfortunatly I can't use the side buttons effectively over a longe period of time and having to press every ability and move with my left hand is tiring in the long run, so being able to execute my most used abilities with my index(I mean the one you point with, but I always forget if this is the right name? :p) and middle finger has been absolutely key for me.
 
Here's a video illustrating how it looks in-game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVsHPaoc-8
 
For the people that want to be able to look around while they run in one direction there's an option to hold down a button, which lets you turn the camera without turning you but retains the lock.
 
I can see how this might not work for classes that have to manually target someone, but I as a stalker have never had any issues at all.	
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I'll just comment on your first two points, locked camera and LMB and RMB used as ability buttons.
 
I have an addon called combat mode, that in my opinion works way better than the alternative and apparantly further developed Lockdown, which does exactly what you are asking for and makes the game much more entertaining and less straining for me. I have a razer naga but have weak thumb links so unfortunatly I can't use the side buttons effectively over a longe period of time and having to press every ability and move with my left hand is tiring in the long run, so being able to execute my most used abilities with my index(I mean the one you point with, but I always forget if this is the right name? :P) and middle finger has been absolutely key for me.
 
Here's a video illustrating how it looks in-game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVsHPaoc-8
 
For the people that want to be able to look around while they run in one direction there's an option to hold down a button, which lets you turn the camera without turning you but retains the lock.
 
I can see how this might not work for classes that have to manually target someone, but I as a stalker have never had any issues at all.
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Don't get me wrong Vic, I am by no means advocating this should be the default setting of the game :P
 
On the subject of having to look around for adds, healer, other players etc. I have been a raid leader early on in this game, as a DPS though, and in other mmos as well, and I, to be honest, never really ran into times where I had to look around to know where people were, I generally just knew where they would be based on where it would be safest for them to be, if they were not there, odds are that they would die very soon if they weren't already dead (does this sentence make sense?). 
 
Whether you have to hold down righ click or, let's say, the alt key is really no different to me :)
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