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UI: Display of Proficiency Rank Information on Items
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When looking at the details of an item in order to determine its "quality" and usefulness in a loadout, the main things of interest are the attributes and talent (if any), followed by buffs from the brand if you don't already remember them. Division 2 has never been good at getting these on the screen in the initial display; Gear Sets normally make you scroll to see the attributes (and then you have to scroll back again when you arrow over to a different, non-Gear Set item).
The Proficiency Rank display has now made this worse; it's now separating the core attribute from the other attributes, as if one might be somehow considering the core attribute separately from the others in most situations, or core and Proficiency Rank together more often than core and other attributes together.
I understand that Proficiency Rank might be considered important enough that it's one of the first things you want to see about an item (though I'm not sure I agree with that, especially after you've ranked up a lot of items to 10), but can it be moved somewhere where it's not splitting up the attributes that determine the quality of that individual item?
For me, ideally, you'd always be able to see the brand name, the values of the core and other attributes and the talent name without having to scroll so you could rapidly evaluate an item you're about to pick up. (This is how I decide if an item gets picked up, picked up as junk, deconstructed right there, or just left on the ground, and this is probably my most frequent operation on items in the game.) From this point of view it might make the most sense to move proficiency rank to the bottom, along with any long Gear Set explanations (leaving just a short Gear Set summary near the top, about the size of the regular brand summary).
I'm open to other ideas and other opinions, of course. Or even just an explanation of what's prioritised over the evaluation one wants to make on an item when picking it up.
(I tried to include a picture of the problem here, but according to Askimet.com that makes this post spam. Have a look at Door-Kicker's Knock and you'll notice that in the current production system you can see all three attributes; in the PTS the third attribute is now hidden until you scroll to see it.)
EDIT: You can see the image here: https://imgur.com/a/hRac0IM -
I've added another image to https://imgur.com/a/hRac0IM. It turns out that at the Recalibration Station the display puts the Proficiency rank above the brand set information, rather than below the core attribute, which (though not fully what I'd prefer) is much better. If the display when examining gear to pick up and in the inventory could do the same, that would be a big improvement.
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