I would like to see a Diablo II style character select screen. Customizable. You can pick a background area and what characters you want to be shown and they'll sit/stand around there together. Something like that. Would be cool for screenshots aswell.Edit: I meant the Diablo II character creation screen actually, where they stand around a campfire. Hm.
finally, i can't tell if my toon is Alliance or Horde after 15 years.
IMO, obviously this seems like more of an technical fix to a gameplay issue, mainly PVP. If factions are to be dissolved (seems most likely right now), then it will most likely done so lorewise, and for PVE and world content. But for PVP, incl. world PVP, there will most likely be still 2 factions. Lorewise it will probably be something like "friendly team vs. team combat exercises". Also for to avoid teams with perfect mix of racials :|So the faction icons is there probably just to help you to remember which faction that character "belongs to". Imagine to find yourself for example playing a gnome, just finished a raid with players from both sides, and are now cooling off in Orgrimmar. Sitting there as a gnome on the Warchief's throne in Grommash Hold, and after some /say bantering with some friendly trolls and taurens, you might just forget which "side" you are on if you have been playing with people from the other side for a long time.
What a groundbreaking addition to the UI.
1 thing I'd like to see added is an ability to "hide" characters from the list that you no longer actively play (without having to delete them).
I wish we could have few background picture to choose related not only for race, but also can be changed for class background as it's in WoW armory.
I wish to play Human on Horde side. This is a shame that I cannot choose faction with whatever race I want to.Blizz, don't be racist and let every single race decide which faction to join.Also u will eliminate the never-ending complainers like "horde this alliance that".
Can we have each race/class combo be presented at the same size? It is jarring for Demon Hunters to be one size and others to be another size.
I don't get it.Were some people that confused what faction their own toons were?The gigantic visual of an Orc or Human wasn't enough?
Isnt that what those icons are on the side? Race/faction change? Thanks for shoving it in our faces bliz, I'm surprised you couldn't fit some store mounts in there somewhere
I wish they would revamp the whole character selection - it seems old and outdated :(
+1 to those wishing for character organization. I've been wishing for something like folders so I can bring a few to the forefront at a time. Simply hiding characters was also mentioned, and I think that's a great concept. It's true that we can choose to simply not log in to specific characters, but depending on your mindset it can get a little jarring to look at the long list. If we had something like nameable folders, we could sort by, say, primary role (DPS, healer, etc.) or perhaps whether a character is used for PVE or PVP, farming, still being leveled up, etc.The fact that they're acknowledging the login UI at all seems promising. Hopefully this will open up further options here or elsewhere down the road.
This feels heavily like a preparation for unlocking the race requirement for factions. Think about it :Firstly, this update dosen't include "race" under the character, which would be as usefull as a little "logo" on the side.Secondly, this symbol of faction is only usefull for people who play a lot of character ( I'm at 17 lv 110+, and it's still easy saying which is which, faction-wise, from head ), OR people who play a Pandaren; and only those.And now, wee reached a point where almost all high tier raiding guild are Horde; because of racials. The more and more time passes, and the more and more people are joining Horde because of it, creating a severe imbalance in the game. How to fix it ? Let people play races with the racial they want to play, in the faction they want to play in. Liberated from the gameplay obligations, how many will go back to Alliance ? While it won't be 50/50 ( let's not dream about it ), it will surely be more even as it is now.And what's better to remember which of your character, with this unlocking in place, is of this or that faction ? A symbol, in the character list.I may be overeaching, and even if I'm right; it could only be partially ( Like "only this and that race are free to move into the other faction !", like "no human in horde ! But gnomes are ok" for exemple... ), but it seriously feel like it recently...Edit : And, about the people who think "factions matters !", and will dislike that ? What about opening a legacy server with faction relevence ? *Cough* Classic *Cough*What better timing !
could the dev's poss add an item level aspect to seletion screen making it easier for quick choice of chars
Hopefully we'll get the ability to filter the selection screen by which faction the character belongs to. When you have 20+ characters on a server, it can be a pain selecting them.