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Suggestion - Spell Placement Profiles
bigredbrent
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Would easily switchable spell placement profiles be useful to you?
Suggestion - Spell Placement Profiles 73 votes
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There are many reasons why someone would need to switch out the spells often, and the only current way is to do it manually one by one, and is VERY cumbersome.
Please add easily switchable spell placement profiles. At least five or ten.
It could be as simple as adding up and down arrow buttons on top of each other with a number in the middle representing the currently picked spell placement profile. Perhaps even have it so that you can click on the number itself and a drop down menu would open up allowing you to directly select the desired profile from a list. Also add optional key bindings for these profiles. Maybe even add an option to attach a custom label to these profiles, to make selecting profiles easier with more descriptive names.
Spells that get replaced would go onto cooldown, just as they currently do when you manually swap them out.
Perhaps, place the default location for this interface directly to the left of the spell bar. There appears to be plenty of room for it in that location.
There are a lot of very simple ways that this could be implemented. But for the most part, this is a feature that should have been implemented yesterday.
I don't see a down side to this, and neither does pretty much every other MMO, because most of them already have this ability. I know from a coding point of view, this would be pretty simple to implement as well. There is really not much of an excuse why this would not be at the top of the list of things to implement in the very next patch...
This is one of those things that will need to be implemented until it finally is. Might as well implement it sooner rather than later.
To everyone reading this this. Please reply with a post explaining the different kinds of spell placement profiles you would love to use with this system. This kind of feedback may be useful to determine in what way this should be implemented.
and swap should be done whenever, but it should pop 2x cooldowns on every skill and cancel all effects (so smth like pala couldnt pop Enmity and then switch to dps rotation) but out of combat would be fine also
Might is not always right - the powerful sometimes forget that.
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You just drag what you want to the bar
Some of the icons are for things not in the game we would supposedly have to datamine to know about. Maybe if the devs didn't have them in there already like the forward thinkers they are.
I suppose the way it is now creates the need to pay attention more to what's coming up, especially in dungeons. I'd probably get very lazy if I didn't have to do it the current way.
Though a togleabble second lineup would be even better, that is a most useful tip.
I didn't even know we can display your power roster in the UI, can't find a corresponding setting in my options :^/
How the heck does one that switch that on?
but since im getting annoyed with less and less rewarding gameplay - here goes:
do
/bind F5 "GenAddWindow Hud_Traybox_Allpowers"
press F5 (u can substitute any other free key for F5)
open gamemenu via esc and hit the rearrange button
setup ur screen so u can see the whole bar
the bar contains everything that can be activated from inventory and then some more
the encounters/dailies/atwills reorder themselves during a respec
the left icons u cant rly do anything about orderwise - mount/praysymbol/etc
the right icons are all ur potions/altars/medkits - unslot em and put em in the bank then reslot if u want to reorder
all ur encounters etc should be in the middle of ur screen below the hp-bar
when done open inventory or any other window or toggle mousemode
u can now drag the powers to the bar with the "right mouse button"
like the normal way: powers an cooldown cant be changed instantly
and powers that have been changed go on cooldown
still faster than usual cause u dont have to scroll around the powerswindow
the bar vanishes after client-reboot (hence the /bind F5 ...)
or via
/GenremoveWindow Hud_Traybox_Allpowers
when everything is done and looking great do
/ui_save_file myui
switch to another char and do
/ui_load_file myui
then again do
/bind F5 "GenAddWindow Hud_Traybox_Allpowers"
and press F5
should now look/behave the same as ur first char
i hope this little infonugget eases the tension in-game a bit
enjoy
Super-massive-ultra thanks!
I sincerely do hope there won't be any untoward consequences. And yes, it really helps a lot - all that muddling from the Powers scree is unpleasantly error-prone...
With that being said though my only concern for making a profile would be encounter powers could constantly be getting switched out making pvp a nightmare especially versus a Trickster rogue who could change there encounters quickly while in stealth further more....what would happen to cooldowns...eeekk....seems like something a lil much to invest in at this point when there are other things more pertinent to be fixed.
If you make that meaningfully, you'd put up a similar control mechanism like you see now: No switch during cooldown, and after switch the newly assigned skill has to undergo its cooldown before being useable. So with profile swapping that would/should mean ALL skills have to be on the ready, and all would start with a full CD. The swapper would lose more than a full rotation for swapping...
That'd somewhat prevent the constant swapping, while on the other hand the skill composition would immediately be preserved, while individually conservable. It'd give the option to e.g. compose a "Squishy/Crunchy" setup set, or a "AoE/Single Target", or "PvP/PvE", etc., etc.
As long as that's available to all players I can see no harm in that. It'd be more a matter of convenience than an imbalancing advantage to the people using it.
And for those useing that spell bar and don't always want it up, you can use this command to make the F4 key close it:
no other way afaik cause this wasnt made to be used in the released game i guess
grabbing it with rightMB was unexpected yes - nearly dismissed the bar when i found the code for it 8p
copy a char to testserver and hit the free respec
whenever u put a powerpoint into a skill it moves around the bar
so i upgraded the singletarget spells first to 4pts and then the aoe ones after that - made them sort of grouped that way
like i said - not rly the QoL improvement ppl always wanted
but if done that way it beats having to scroll around in P window
maybe makes some ppls live easier nonetheless
Looks like you have to install a bot program to be able to get this functionality now.
Seriously Cryptic, add this feature yourself so that people do not have to resort to using a hack!
THIS >:)
As a protection paladin switching all skills/pet between pve and grind i can only join the request.
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