I could take or leave the new UI.

Just include an option to switch between old and new UI if possible.

This is windows 8 all over again.

I hate how there is, apparently, no way to check your party members' HP in your UI.
How am I gonna be the Medic of the team now if I can't tell right off the bat that someone's gravely injured or dead?

As for the picture, it's not that bad people. Sure, it could be slightly smaller, but it's not like "OMBG THIS PIC IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING AGHHHHHH!!!".

Aw man, dem health bars. Dem health bars. Now I can know when Vana's almost dead or not, so I can have no fear in wasting 10+ CE for a revival.

Enemy Radar! Yay, our Recons have done good work for once!

I agree with the HP bar being too far away from the knight. I do like the percent thing though. I've definitely had times where I have picked up hearts when I saw a full HP bar. I'm also in agreement with Jaguar about money and energy. It's just nice to be able to see that at all times.

@Brownie: Are you saying there's no party health bars at all? I only ran the new mission once, and solo, so I didn't get an idea of that yet. I agree with you that not being able to see party health is very bad if that is the case.

I am indifferent about the image of the player knight in the upper left. Shield bar is OK to have in my opinion, but I can see why people wouldn't like it.

Targeting is interesting. If you turn off AT, you can't see enemy names at all because you aren't marking targets. I do like that the target marker distinguishes mineral sizes, just so it's a little easier to notice the big ones.

Give us the possibilty to choice if we want to play with a giant switch icon in the view or not. In LD that's just impossible to play...

Wow, this is just terrible :(
Why does the change weapon icon have to block the entire portion of the screen to my character's right? I know which weapon I select and incase I would get confused I'd glance down to see my health and current weapon at the same time. This is very distracting. I don't see why companies continuously change things to make them "better" when they just alienate so many of their users.
Can't drop vitapods anymore??? I'll really miss that since dropping my vitapod for a teammate who has lower total health was certainly a pride :(

The vials look like something from a 2D sprite game and gaaah where is my ce and crowns I've been working for?
I basically have to keep pressing i to keep checking my ce and crowns.

The enemy health display is...interesting. At least it makes it especially easy to see how much more damage the DA does than the Sudaruska. Really makes the lack of balance between some of the weapons shine in the player's face. 3 hits to kill a cake with DA, 4 with Suda :/

The best UI change would have been to make the edges of the old one less pixelated and smoother. I don't need a huge image of my knight, I stare as his chibi butt all the time when venturing through the clockworks, and if I'm really feeling vain I can just open the character window.

The new UI is terribly laggy, which is saying something as my computer can run Vindictus on high-graphics without a problem, but I'm getting 1 second pauses for every attack I make now.

And the design is nowhere near the streamlined and modern look the designers probably envisioned. It looks like a prototype version of Windows Aero, and a sad one at that.

My reaction to seeing the new UI.

The old UI was very convenient, and graphically pleasing. Health at the bottom. Vials at the top. Simple as that.
The graphics for the Vials and Capsules were simple and good-looking, but now they look strange and like they were supposed to look realistic, which threw me for a loop when I first saw them.
The Shield Bar might be helpful, but I liked just looking down at the color of the bubble and deciding it from there. It was simple.
Nothing needs to be complicated or shiny or futuristic. As long as it works and makes me happy, I'm fine with it.

Thanks, actually. When that cat took a squat on my boots this morning I thought it was you laughing at me. Now I know what it really was, a warning.

I feel better now.

EDIT: Also I find party members' icons difficult to uh, differentiate. I feel pretty dumb squinting at half a face and body.
EDIT EDIT: Haven is pretty bland now with the white names and the dull mini map. And THANK YOU for the chat scroll bar! NNG

EDIT: I had some things wrong in my list, due to errors on my computers part, I guess. Also, after having done a Tier 3 run, I've just figured out that the game is not fun to play now, with this update. It's just... awful.

This has been said before, probably, but I really want to drive the point home to the developers here. This is all just about the new UI update.

Regarding the aesthetics of the new UI:

CONS:
The scheme of the new interface - It looks basic and unprofessional, like the works of a beginner flash game maker.

Pills and vials - An unnecessary "realism" approach. Is not aesthetically pleasing, smaller, thus harder to figure out what the vial's status is.

Character portrait - Again, unnecessary. You don't need a picture of the character you are playing, it just wastes space.

Shield bar - You gave us a way to view our shield health a long time ago, which is the shield circle. We don't need an extra bar sticking out.

Mini map - We know what direction we're moving, arrow not needed. What I do need is to see the color of my teammates, to tell them apart.

Character names - This is a COLORFUL game, don't make things white. I don't need to know the rank of people. I know who's in my guild, also.

Health/Vial position - Either give us the option to move them around or put them back where they were. The new layout blocks my view.

Unable to drop Vials - We should be able to help others and give them our vials, this game is about teamwork.

No crowns/energy on screen - This is my BIGGEST problem. We earned it, we should be able to see it without breaking game play.

Characters in your party - Health should be units, not a percent bar, for precision.

"Pick-Ups" Bar - We know we picked up a stature, no need to tell us. I also assume that the flaming pot I picked up is called "flaming pot".

Screen shakes when damaged - Does nothing but impair game play, there are already enough things that tell us we've been hit.

PROS:
Monster health bars - Will help dealing with monsters much better, but the bar has some clipping issues.

Weapon Switch - Helps with weapon switching, but it too needs less opacity, as to not impair vision.

And that's really the only good I can find out of this. I'm pleading with ya'll, developers, I've seen too many things ruined when they try and do these silly graphical overhauls. It takes AWAY from the game, instead of adding to it. I know I'm not the most convincing person, and I probably made numerous spelling and grammar mistakes, but I implore ya'll to fix this stuff. Or at least, like everyone else says, just give us the option to have the old UI. I just can't take this new one.