Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta UX feedback from creating my first character

First I'd like to say the starting class selection seems well rounded and reasonable.

However there are some very nonobvious actions.

Create your own everything. There should be a very definitive "build your own class" instead of having to "edit" an existing class. [If this already exits, i sure couldn't find it!]

Next "edit" itself. There is no reason you should use the word here. Why is a user "editing"? There is no justification. A user doesn't want to edit. I would strongly recommend renaming the button to be "Customize class" and make the button like 3-4x bigger.

Now when you're inside of the customization, I see there seems to be like 2 layers of editing. I don't think you should nest the choices that far down. Also once you get to the deepest layer that you can actually modify attribute points you now even need to expand a whole bunch of accordions to manipulate this. Please get rid of these accordions, or atleast expand all by default. Or expand all that have a single point used by default.


Finally completion of customizing your character. Why would i want to go back? "Back" implies I'm going to lose my changes. You need a positive confirmation button that's giant. A giant call to action "OK" "DONE". It would also likely make sense to add a reset button, makes even more sense to embed reset buttons to relevant areas. Such as attributes has a reset button and skills has a reset button. These should be small buttons.

I have an issue with the new character creation. I created a mage and 'edited' the character to swap earth for water. There was no warning that doing this would affect the preset spells which I couldn't change. Once I was in game I discovered that I had completely lost those earth spells and would have to re-purchase them later when I took earth magic as a skill. That is annoying and unfair. If you are going to do that then there needs to be a warning at creation when editing a character. In previous builds those spells were simply not available until you took the requisite skill. That seems a much better idea unless you also allow me to change the starting spells during creation.

The blank character, the choice of which spells and skills you have at the very start, probably also what weapons you start with - is all under development.

The devs know about these issues and are working on it.