Warbands limit your character selection

[Fistfighter]

Went from 11 per realm to a mere 5 (and you can't change realms).

Cool I guess, makes selecting chars a lot less comfortable.

EDIT: After THREE months, they finally implemented the ability to filter by realms (a removed feature)

The reason why I made this thread:

To showcase how ridiculously large the character select overlay screen is, and for no reason, as it doesn't add anything new that the older character screen didn't have.

It only clutters the screen and makes selecting characters less convenient and less intuitive (scrolling and clicking will always be less convenient than just simply clicking, by default).

What I want is a way to scale down the needlessly large UI, there is no reason for the character names to take up twice the space than they did before.

Yes, you can edit the scale of your UI in game, which does (slightly) reduce even the logging screen UI, but that's global, and it affects ingame UI aswell.

And to anyone thinking this thread is frivolous - this is a forum to talk about a videogame, I am sharing my opinion about the game's design choice, which is something everyone here does.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I can't imagine regularly using more than one or two characters at a time, let alone a dozen+ to the point that scrolling the list is a real impediment.

[BB8]

Went from 11 per realm to a mere 5 (and you can't change realms).
Cool I guess, makes selecting chars a lot less comfortable.

Yeah, its not really a better overview.
Neither a filter option for realms or faction

[Jester Joe]

I mean, it could use more ways to sort sure, but you have no reason to change server, all your characters from every server are included in this list.

[Amerissis]

Yup, annoys me greatly, all that useless empty space. I prefer seeing more chars, not less. Would an addon be able to fix that?

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all your characters from every server are included in this list.

Yes, annoying too! I had a horde and an alliance server, and a hunter only server. All neatly separated and ordered. Now it’s one big messy list that I can’t sort and need to scroll endlessly to find the char I want.

[Relapses]

I can see Blizzard introducing a "Classic" character select option at some point during the World Soul Saga. They probably didn't have the dev time to get it out with the prepatch as this is a pretty low level priority request.

[Fistfighter]

I mean, it could use more ways to sort sure, but you have no reason to change server, all your characters from every server are included in this list.

Unfortunately

Now instead of my 11 main characters on my prefered realm, the list is clogged by all the other characters on other realms I don't play that often

[Kathranis]

They definitely need to make the character name buttons a bit smaller so you can see more at once, and add some clickable sorting options.

Yes, annoying too! I had a horde and an alliance server, and a hunter only server. All neatly separated and ordered. Now it’s one big messy list that I can’t sort and need to scroll endlessly to find the char I want.

You can type Alliance or Horde into the search box.

[Katchii]

Are the people complaining allergic to the scroll bar or something? Because all the characters you had on the same realm are still there, in the same list, in addition to every character on every other realm. All you have to do is scroll down the list.

Granted, it's not well organized IMO, but it doesn't limit anything, it just doesn't display it well.

[Smeeh]

Unfortunately

Now instead of my 11 main characters on my prefered realm, the list is clogged by all the other characters on other realms I don't play that often

So drag your main 11 to the top and ignore the rest. The top 4 warband chars take up a bit too much space on the list since you can also select them on the fancy screen but its really not that big a deal to scroll down.

[Ghostile]

Yes, annoying too! I had a horde and an alliance server, and a hunter only server. All neatly separated and ordered. Now it’s one big messy list that I can’t sort and need to scroll endlessly to find the char I want.

you can sort it manually

[Fistfighter]

Are the people complaining allergic to the scroll bar or something? Because all the characters you had on the same realm are still there, in the same list, in addition to every character on every other realm. All you have to do is scroll down the list.

Granted, it's not well organized IMO, but it doesn't limit anything, it just doesn't display it well.

NOT the same list. I had two lists of 11 characters. Now it's one list of 40 characters.
So, NOT the same list.

And I am not allergic to scrolling. But having to scroll even one milimeter is infinitely more effort than not having to scroll at all.
And scrolling will never be as comprehensive as just seeing the whole list at once.

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The top 4 warband chars take up a bit too much space on the list since you can also select them on the fancy screen but its really not that big a deal to scroll down.

They don't actually take that much space. If you collapse the Warband menu down, it still fits only 5 characters on the screen (larger screens might fit more, but the biggest list screenshot I have seen still only had 8 chars on the screen at a time)

[Dristereau]

I'm not going to lie having multiple characters with the same name across servers is annoying, I can't tell which is which easily without mousing over and having around 60 alts now means that list is nightmarish. Also I can't change addons on the select screen for the bottom ones now as the list is too long and goes off screen.

I liked having my Characters sorted by realm and it's probably one of my least favourite things they've done as it looks a complete cluster****. Would really love the option to split them by Realms again as it was much easier to find a character than scrolling through them, or have optional groups. The favourites list is a bit pointless when I log into over 20+ usually daily. I've put them back in Realm Order and by Realm because having the same names accross Servers for the same Class is not ideal.

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[Fistfighter]

you can sort it manually

That's a step back from having it sorted for me by realm selection

[Amerissis]

you can sort it manually

Yes, I love trying to sort 50 characters in a list where I can see 5 at a time and the dragging often drops halfway the scroll, so the char ends up wherever. It’s not the end of the world, but it is very annoying.

[Fistfighter]

I'm not going to lie having multiple characters with the same name across servers is annoying

This didn't even occur to me, but that's also a pretty big issue that I imagine a lot of people are having (I deleted my 2 duped named chars recently)


There's also a tab titled "Realms" at the top of the screen that does absolutely nothing by the way. It opens the same Realm Selection window from before, but selecting a realm is useless now, why even add it?

[FelPlague]

Yeah, its not really a better overview.
Neither a filter option for realms or faction

You can filter by realm or faction, literally just type that in the searchbar in the top right...

[Ghostile]

That's a step back from having it sorted for me by realm selection

Yeah, you can now do any type of sorting without the need of going through realm selection, fucking horrible!

[FelPlague]

This didn't even occur to me, but that's also a pretty big issue that I imagine a lot of people are having (I deleted my 2 duped named chars recently)


There's also a tab titled "Realms" at the top of the screen that does absolutely nothing by the way. It opens the same Realm Selection window from before, but selecting a realm is useless now, why even add it?

Because when you go to create a charecter you have to be on a realm to build it?
bro it does not do nothing, it decides what realm you are on, which matters when you create a new charecter.
lolol, if you gunna cry about "does nothing" use that brain.

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That's a step back from having it sorted for me by realm selection

And a step forward from having to change realm CONSTANTLY between veiwing your charecters, back when if you had a charecter on every real mit fucking took forever.

[Thirtyrock]

Yup, annoys me greatly, all that useless empty space. I prefer seeing more chars, not less. Would an addon be able to fix that?

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Yes, annoying too! I had a horde and an alliance server, and a hunter only server. All neatly separated and ordered. Now it’s one big messy list that I can’t sort and need to scroll endlessly to find the char I want.

I came into this thread pretty skeptical that I'd agree with this being a problem. I didn't realize they merged all our server characters into one group. I have characters on different servers with the same names and, while it's super obvious to me which ones I've played recently, given that only the ones on my active server are max level, that isn't a confusion I want.