I have been playing for a few weeks now, and for the most part, I like what I see. If I wasn't totally broke, I would probably subscribe. However, I have found a number of things I would like to see added or changed here. It doesn't seem like these things would be too hard to implement.
If anything I suggest here already exists, I guess I just haven't seen how to do it, and I would appreciate instructions on how to do it.
Here we go:
1. An option on the forums to view posts in the order they were posted, instead of reverse order. The setup here is unlike anything I have ever seen, and it's kind of hard to get used to.
2. Spread out the recipes for cutting gems. Instead of having 3 gems with a gemworking requirement of 1, how about one gem at 1, one at 50, 100, etc. I'm at Miner 17, and each gem refine gives 2 xp for 3 raw gems. I'm not 100% sure of the math here, but it works out to about 100k bulk worth of gems to level to 18. With the pawnbroker being so far away from any gem mine I have found (NT and Kion) I'm pretty much left with throwing the cut gems in the trash.
3. I would like to be able to map "Target nearest resource node" to a hotkey, like you can with "Target nearest enemy."
4. I would like an easier way of sorting the crafting list. For example, could we add another set of checkboxes for the material type (Metal, leather, wood, cloth, stone, etc.) so if you're looking for leather resources you just check those boxes and it hides everything else.
5. As a corollary to #4, I would appreciate an indicator on merchants that tells you if you already have a technique, spell, or formula. I've bought something I had already scribed a couple of times because the list is kind of cumbersome.
6. I would like the Ability list to show all of the abilities that you have unlocked, instead of just the ones you currently have access to through mastery. I'd also like something on the Spells menu that shows whether you can cast it with your current class and level. I know you can mouse over the spells, but having them grayed out would be nice.
There are a couple other things that I had thought of, but I can't remember them right now.
I don't mean for this to come across like I'm a jerk, I just think these are worthwhile improvements to the game.
What do you guys think?