Item description popup when crafting far too large

Even when salvaging, I pick and choose what I want to salvage.
Except I cannot see the list.
example: Let us say I have my mage build with two wands.
And I have several wands in my inventory as well, some of which I am going to salvage.
Boom - the screen is now filled with a pop-description of the item, the ones I am equipped with, and I can not longer see the craft window.

Same issue with moving items, trying to post items to a vendor, or even selling to a NPC merchant.

Maybe if the pop-up used a smaller type face? Or gives us the option of using the CTRL key to examine the item?

 

You will not be saying this when you get old....

 

I will be 65 next month.
Glasses for over 50 years.
Cataract surgery helped some, but I am now essentially blind in one eye, and can only see shapes.
Disabled veteran, medically retired.

 

I must agree the compare should happen when we hold the control key already used to expand to show the components. The size is fine, but comparing my gear to every junk item that I want to sort through to decide what to salvage and what loot to sell does get in my way every time.

 

+1
We need this, it is extremely frustrating the way it is now.

 

i think all the tool tips are too large in inventory and they obscure the other items in the inventory the user is trying to see. i really wish the UI had a more sliders for scaling the size of elements like tooltips. there needs to be more UI options in general, please, and it's surprising there isn't mods for this by now.

 

+1 for CTRL-Key or something similar.
Currently the CTRL-Key expand the tooltip further, so another key would be adviceable. ALT?
Or a setting that toggles "Autocompare Items" bindable on a key.

 

I agree and also for those of us over 65 it's still to hard to read the recipe book.......give us some options!!!

 

I'm not quite that old yet, but the recipe book used to be much worse in the past.

 

I would think using the existing CTRL that expands would not require a whole lot of programming changes to turn off the autocompare unless we hold the CTRL key then it both compares and expands. Trying to come up with low hanging fruit for the DEVs and also easy for the players.

 

I'm surprised no one mensions the faded out / transparent crafting window in this thread. Makes me wonder if it's opacity is adjustable in options, though I've tried often to find a way to make the crafting window, and it's included tables, more visible and solid.

I appreciate the transparency makes the crafting animation of your avatar pretty flashy, but I'm not all that bothered about this personally and would much rather have a rich and detailed set of crafting tables and data to see without eye strain.

 

+1 this drives me absolutely insane whrn looting. When dual wielding the popup takes up about 80%+ of my screen. Its truly ridiculous that there is no option to toggle the comparison of equipped items off.