Improvements to Luna and UI in general.

[Pillagius]

Firstly it's not a demand meant to be delivered upon yesterday - it's a suggestion born from invonvinience and frustration that may or may not help improve things in the future.

Starting with Luna-specific: make her immune to damage during skill activation dance when at maximum inspiration or at least us able to skip it. It is not fun getting downed, because you are forcefully locked in place.

Team icons and indicators.
As a support character (that for some stupid reason has skills with limited effect range and not just "works on your team") - you and teammates would benefit greatly if you can tell when buff reached teammate or not, as well as seeing teammates skill cooldowns and how much MP they have.
Specifically, adding:
- MP bar for teammates under Shield and HP bar,
- Indication on teammate icon that you're giving a buff to them
- 4 squares or other shapes for skills (partially greyed/blacked out if there's a cooldown, maybe green/other color for "currently active" skills)
To teammate icons/bars would be nice.
It's should not just help Luna but make it easier for everyone coordinate their actions just by looking at the UI, for example: healer out of MP - be more careful, X character damage ability about to come off cooldown - prepare to burst the boss, etc.


Done with teammates, onwards to skills/buffs.
Why not use the contour of skill icons, like with Valby's Cleanup, Freyna's Venom Baptism, etc. for all skills? You glance at the skill bar all the time to see skill cooldowns, resources, etc.
Please make it so all self-buffs and timed effect skills timers are done the same way - with a line running around border of the skill. Maybe add a glow and different color depending on character or skill type to further enhance ease of understanding and visibility.

Debuffs, and buffs given by other characters can just stay where they are, but change the timer indication a little - green icon getting grayed is not that well visible, especially if you have several of them.


That's what managed to come up with for now. Maybe more suggestions?

[MedicinalPsycho]

+1 as a Yujin main i would love it if buff applications was more visable
make a teammates icon blue if theyre within range of a positive effect AOE
also it would be great if Downed ally icons wouldnt disapear when i look at it, ive lost afew revives because i couldnt find them fast enough,

and does anyone know why Yujin has 2 seperate versions of ability activation
ability 1: activate ability press mouse 1 to apply ability
ability 2: instantly launch projectile
ability 3: instantly activate Buff AOE
ability 4: activate ability, press mouse 1 to apply ability

my main issue is that ability 3 and 4 have different activations even though the ability's themselves are mostly the same
i like being able to take a quick look around who fits in the AOE with the 4th ability, but the 3rd ability activates instantly without letting me check if anyone is in the AOE

[ceil]

Oh hey, suggestions for Luna that I don't mind! Title had me worried, she catches a lot of flak, and I occasionally worry that the devs may cramp her style...

Turns out, suggestion is legit, and I support it 100%. I haven't played many MMOs, but when I did, I often healed, and agree that having more information on the squad's status would be nice. I've remarked before that it's technically feasible to do basic healing in a squad right now just using the party avatars in the upper right, but that's definitely pretty far from ideal.

Related, I wish the icons on our own Descendants had more visibility, too. I typically play Luna AoE DPS style (because I haven't found much need for support, but I would like to); in that mode, she puts time-sensitive stacks on herself that's pretty hard to keep up with using the miniscule icons currently provided.

Psycho above remarked on the 'Downed' icon - I actually have a similar complaint for the simple blue dot for team members. I often see it on the side of my screen when they're off it, but when I turn that way, I can't find the dot again - it's much harder to spot actually looking in their direction, which seems weird. +1 for making teammates easier to find, downed or otherwise.