jerrycarlson
commented
10 months ago A thought for UX implementation, for setting the max value anyway: let the user double-click the stat tier value to toggle the cap on and off. For example, double-clicking "5" in the Intellect stat tier bar would toggle on 5 as the maximum intellect allowed for loadouts to show up in the LO output matrix. Then, double-clicking the 5 again would remove it as a cap. Maybe even change the double-clicked value's box from orange to red or yellow to indicate that it's been set as a cap for that stat.
This way, no additional screen real estate is needed for the min/max setting. Just a thought!
bhollis
Proposed change
The LO interface prior to the recent revision (which is awesome, by the way) allowed the user the option to specify a floor and a ceiling to each stat, eg., minimum of 3 resilience and maximum of 7 resilience. The recent revision removed these endpoint settings.
Although it would be great to have both endpoint settings back, if I had to choose only one I would request that the team re-implement a way to specify a maximum value for each stat.
Sadly, I'm no UX guru and so do not have any ready recommendation for how this might look/work in light of the recent revision.
How does this fit into your workflow?
Stats that are above what the user considers an acceptable ceiling end up polluting the LO output and increase the amount of work and eye strain necessary to identify an appropriate loadout stat distribution in the LO output (I regularly spend multiple consecutive hours staring at LO outputs when processing new batches of armor and so am rather sensitive to how fatiguing the display can be). Being able to filter out stat extremes makes the analysis much easier and more efficient.
For example, if I would never consider a warlock loadout with resilience > 4, being able to filter that out ahead of time makes the analysis so much easier than having to visually track which stat distributions are out of bounds for my purposes. The stat numbers/symbols in the LO output simply aren't visually distinct enough to make for relatively painless eyeballing.