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Originally Posted by Daldaen
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Because classic UI impacted classic gameplay.
There are HUGE advantages to having updates UI features:
- Cycle Targets Hotkey - Trivializes CC and makes debuffing, healing and pulling easier
- Buff Durations - Know exact timer on buffs before they will end gives a large advantage to being more efficient and not running into a situation where say... You're about to start a quad kite and SoW drops before mobs are snared.
- Multi hotbars - Having just 10 hotkeys available at any given time limits Many classes effectiveness. You could swap pages but doing so opened up more opportunities to stumble and hit a wrong key.
- Multi Chatbars - Having a single chat box meant most people had to filter out a lot of text. Otherwise in the span of a raid or group you may have missed something like a caster mob casting gate or an aggro message of a mob through a wall, etc.
- Bags - People easily gear swap very quickly or swap clickies around. I believe you were limited to a single bag open for awhile and no UIs showed your inventory/equipment slots unless you made a Hotkey of them. So swapping instruments required you devote a few hotkeys to those slots limiting what you could have for your other few hotkeys.
- Book Meditate - Big sacrifice giving up your vision to increase mana regen until 35.
- Mana Value - Knowing your exact mana value rather than just the blue bar you could see allowed you to be more efficient with spell casts when low on mana and when judging if you just gate out from a tough fight etc.
- Pet Window - No pet window made it more challenging to control and keep track of your pet. You have to F1 x2 to target, had to devote Hotkey slots to pet commands (coupled with only a 10 slot hotbar it made Hotkey space very limited)
And many more. Remove all of these tonight and you will find way more people struggling to play their characters. Some may not even be able to enchanter or bard CC once cycle NPC is removed. |
the number of people who would want to go back to 100% classic the way eq was the day it launched is close to 0. Classic eq gameplay was shitty and theres a reason that stuff didnt last long. if you wanna be an oh so cool uber blah blah classic eq player make your own server where no one else will play because 100% classic was 100% garbage.