Hello,
I’d love to recommend some improvements to heads up display (HUD). I feel like HUD in the game is decent, but not good enough for lager scale fights and for (upcoming) raids. So this will be more focused on active combat. This is more about my preferences, but also logical and quality of life improvements that are necessary.
I have used my very limited skills with photoshop to give ideas how I mean specific things should look like, so let’s begin.
- Threat on nameplates
I think nameplates in New World are good enough, sadly there are still things that need to be improved. Like threat. There is no indicator if you’re losing threat or gaining to much threat, which may end up in catastrofic scenario where you lose aggro on the boss right before he do some tank/frontal ability and kills your whole raid. So simple color indicator that you’re holding or losing(gaining) threat will be very good quality of life for everybody. This will make tanks way more lucrative role, because right now people may be scared of losing threat and getting flamed by others for not tanking properly.
Use of colors should be vice-versa - depending on if you are playing tank or DPS/heal. My example on the image above is for tank role. And maybe even adding little text how much threat you have? Turnable in options menu? Why not!
- Having option to move and center everything you want
On the screenshot bellow I want to show you where I’m coming from. As you can see I try to centralize everything to the middle of my screen. This is my old UI, that I changed a lot to get even better results (especially that offset weakaura is pain to look at lmao). I’m playing on 1440p 27-inch display, which isn’t too big, but it’s already big enough that I don’t want to check my bottom right corner to see cooldowns or potions.
So, my idea is something like this:
Even this default HUD from Elder Scrolls Online is good and trying to centralize everything.
- Party frames are really bad
For every PVPer or PVEer these party frames are bad, and I’m scared how raid frames will look like. Just try to google for example World of Warcraft unit raidframes, and you’ll see how good frames looks like (actually they’re really old but still works very well even today, and even in 5man group instead of raid). New World’s party frames showing… nothing. They’re just there and there needs to be more work done, for sure.
Or… just add heavy customizable options for all HUD things, that’s probably best way to fix this. Let’s say that you’ll add addon support, and I’m 100% sure a week after release there will be great HUD changes from the community members. You should do something with it, because more option is always better.
Thank you for making a good game, I’m sure next year will be huge, and hopefully with better HUD. 