[quote=Mara Kell]Regarding being able to reason or recognize an icon from the beginning. Our primary goal was to make the icons recognizable once you had learned what they represent, it is an impossible task to make abstract icons unique from each other but still perfectly represent what they stand for when you see them for the first time. The most important thing is that it will become easy to memorize after a certain time, but we know it takes time and we understand the frustration of having to do that after having had them unchanged for so long. Our studies show however that those who are coming in as new players are remembering these icons much quicker than before and one of the core reasons for it is because the icons don't use specific colors. Then we don't store information about colors to remember icons but rather focus on their shapes.

We are of course always willing to discuss good arguments for how features and actions can be better represented with abstract icons, but for changes like these it is necessary to collect metrics and data for some time before doing drastic changes.