Interface

Main Interface

 * 1) Health and Mana Bars, Buff/Debuff Indicators, Build Icons, Level, Player Name.
 * 2) Chat box.
 * 3) Your character while playing in third-person.
 * 4) Quest arrows.
 * 5) Quest tracker.
 * 6) Mini-map.
 * 7) Day/Night Indicator and zone name.
 * 8) Experience bar and Labor bar.
 * 9) Skill bar.
 * 10) Menu bar.

Day/Night Indicator
Mouse over to get the in game time. This can be significant as there are some quests that are only achievable at certain times of the day.

Experience bar
If it shows a darker tail it means you've lost some experience because you died and that you are able to get it back by praying to a Priestess of Nui (there are shrines all over). Praying costs labor, but restores experience.

Labor bar
This bar is right above the Experience Bar. It will be the thinner yellow bar. It tells exactly how much labor a player has left. The maximum amount of labor allotted for Free-to-Play accounts is 2000, and regenerates 5 Labor every 5 minutes of being online. They gain no Labor offline. Patrons may have a maximum of 5000 Labor at one time and regenerate 10 Labor every 5 minutes AND are granted 10 Labor for every 5 minutes of being offline.

Menu bar
Each icon will bring up a window or a small menu that will offer you multiple windows.

The final icon brings up a menu where you can


 * Access the in-game Wiki (but it's not very good and won't let anyone edit it)
 * Exit the game (normally a 10 second wait, but if you have an active summons - horse, pet or boat - it's a 10 minute wait)
 * Bring up the options panel.

You really want to have a look at the options panel.


 * Auto target skills it worth setting, as it makes it a lot easier to defend yourself if you are jumped.
 * Double jump to launch glider is worth setting. Makes for some interesting jumping/climbing/flying movement modes.

Mini-map
You can change the size of the Mini-map using the button directly above it. By default it is set to 'L' (Large).

Quest arrows
Ctrl + Q to toggle quest arrows.

Quest tracker
Hold Shift + Click And Drag to move the quest tracker

Skill bars
You can have up to 4 skill bars - use the options menu to add and remove them from the display.

To the right of the skill bars is a little padlock icon - click to change from locked to unlocked. Unlocked it lets you drag icons around the skill bars, locked you can't move them. If you find you're picking icons up and reshuffling them in the middle of combat, click on the little padlock to lock the skill bars. Makes it so much more playable with a mouse (and, yes, the default is unlocked).