Guild Wars Beta Impressions

I loved the WBE but I would like to see more customizing in the character creation portion. Not every Warrior needs to look like He-Man, and not every Necro needs to look like the creepy kid you knew in school.

Just my thoughts.

It took a day to get used to the new inventory system, but in the end I was loving it like a dumb dog humping your leg.

F5, F6, F7 and F8 to open the four windows, press the buttons again to close them. I store picked up items (or overflowing items) in F5 (backpack), store quest items and salvaging tools in F6 (beltpouches), crafting material in F6 (bag), runes and weapon-parts in the second bag of F7.

What I want to see is make it where I can set the Esc key to chaneg the hud to a place I define (like close all the inventory and open the little map [with p]) or something like that.

it sucks when you are looking through stuff and then get attacked, but you do not notice because of the boxes over your health and all.

I have a Best Buy Pre-Order - I doubt I'll be getting the game. Just not my thing. Absolutely gorgeous. CoH is still tops for me Neverwinter Nights for Fantasy RPG afterwards. :) Persistent Online World news for NWN, btw : http://nwn.bioware.com/builders/builder_profile_nwn_extender_v2.html

Me too. I liked the new look of the GUI right away but wasnt sure about inventory. I do like the new inventory now but think it needs some work.

I was thinking maybe make it just one inventory again but just have dividers in it. I found it quite a pain having to go through them all to find something I just picked up.

Or maybe still have them seperate (I think they're making it so you can get new backpacks and stuff) but have it so you can load them all up with one button. Also have them closer to each other so that they look like one window when they're all up.

I didnt like the little menu to bring up all the skills and stuff. Took too long to click through.
I was thinking they could have something like in AO, where you can have a bunch of little buttons lined up horizontally in the top right corner.
Note, most buttons and stuff should be at the top and to the right.
The top because moving the mouse to the bottom strains the wrist more. To the right because your eye tends to focus on the left more and so anything to the right will be less distracting.

What they really need to do is allow the user to move everything about.
I think I'd personally have the skills bar at the top, the chat box right at the bottom, those buttons I was talking about in top right and then all the windows to the left because my cursor tends to sit to the right more often and I find I keep accidently clicking the windows when I'm trying to rotate the camera instead.

Ok thats the end of my too fiddy