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Lack of hotkey slots gives game a cheap feel.
selminus
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I enjoy NW but I think that the lack of basic hotkey slots makes the game feel a little cheap and 2 dimensional. I understand trying to promote diversity but between the 3 basic slots and strange skill tree layout it just doesn't feel right. Reminds me of Diablo 3 a little, not a good feeling.
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That's what I *thought* until I realized that having a bazillion skills on a skillbar just like WoW did it was not the way to go. Nor, really, in hindsight, should games have ever gone there.
In The Old Republic, my character has about six different skills to "twist" in any given fight, and about a dozen more that I must be ready to deploy at a moment's notice given the situation. This creates a circumstance in which I'm constantly looking at the *buttons* to see which cooldown is ending next, and not looking at the center of the screen, which is where the exciting, fun stuff is happening. You know, the stuff I came to see.
Add to that the fact that "push-button" type combat just doesn't feel very visceral and engaging and you start to quickly see how Neverwinter landed this one right on the green with their design. I personally couldn't be happier.
I also like having to choose my combat skill wisely.
You get two at will powers, 3 encounter powers, and a daily power.
It promotes you to actually think and plan for the encounter. *gasp* what an idea!
You are meant to not suck and die while staying mobile to always gain position rather than hit the right cooldown at the right time.
Limiting the number of spells/attacks a player can use is a way of keeping the game closer to DnD.
In pen and paper DnD, mages can only cast spells so many times before having to rest to regain mana. Atleast your not having to run back to the camp fire every 5 minutes to reset your spells.
Yep, I was on that same hype train. Man I was so excited. I thought it would be the greatest thing since SWG Pre-CU. My wife got me the CE for Christmas but I had to wait till I got back from AFG to play. By the time I got home in March the game was already on the path to doom. It is unfortunate that they missed the mark with such a huge player base ready eagerly awaiting a Star Wars MMO.
Well, they should atleast have a hotkey or keybind that can swap between the Hotbar skills then. Can do it only outside of battle to prevent abused. But having to manually swap the skill around every boss fight is horrible, no one will wait for you and it is so time consuming to do. What is the point of leveling up all this skills when you don't use 80% of it?
This is definitely a quality of life feature I can get behind. Give us 2 or 3 pre-loaded hotbar setups and add a UI element that lets you swap between them when out of combat.
Yes, that would be great. Most players will want at least 3 configurations: regular PvE, PvE boss fights and PvP. Probably more once raids and larger-scale Gauntlgrym PvP are out.
This falls short because you still have to respec feats sometimes.
That said, a hotbar swap would be nice and is a pretty standard feature.
Well? They went with last generation. What did anyone expect?
It's like they were over there and said, "Okay! We've got Bioware style storytelling, what else do we want to do that's different from the other guys?"
And then the purseholders at EA said, "Nothing. You will do nothing else different. You will identify the most successful game in the market and copy them exactly."
And down it went. Because that don't work.
All of these WoW clones generally have the same problem: They're trying to be better than Blizzard at their own game. Let's face it. Nobody is better than Blizzard when it comes to the kinds of games they make. The only way you win is to do something *else*, something that competes in the same market but is different and, hopefully, better than the Blizzard way.
I'd have cried if Neverwinter had launched and people had called it a WoW clone. People have said many things about it, but that's the one thing I haven't heard, and I couldn't be happier. I know I just said that. It bears repeating.
Dingdingdingdingding!
Give this man a cigar and a blowtorch to light it with!
Cryptic, formal request initiated: Let us have hotkeys that let us switch between different configurations of our skills! That's a great idea.
Meh WoW kept me entertained from release until Cata launched. Already bored of this game and dread logging in.
What they are balancing CW's?
Being able to switch between pre-loaded skill bars would be a great quality of life addition.
hehe Staying mobile while every melee mob stays with you everywhere you go?
Take damage even if you run out of a circle (not the dodge) sometimes take damage when you use the dodge though. (probably lag)
It's incredibly annoying how fast mobs move compared to you, that normally after I teleport and pan around the melee mobs are already there hitting me >>
I will add, at least the big hitters and bosses behave like gentlemen, showing you what they are about to do and you can actually dodge them proper.
I do however feel that the present menu of skills available are too polarized in that some are staples and some are a waste of feat points. The amount of variety present in builds is nigh nonexistent... at least earlier on the definitive choice of skills from class-to-class is a little hard to tell, so you're likely to experiment and try out the sully-ones of the catalog.
OnTopic: I think both sides are right. The times of classic-mmos with 30+ keys are over. But Neverwinter definitely has not enough buttons to press. ActionRPGs are supposed to be easy, I get that, but every brain should manage to press 12 buttons. In my opinion thats the absolute minimum for every kind of RPG.
Like Sacred 2 on the Ps3, holding L1 or R1 would change the skills mapped to the face buttons.
Having to choose your powers for each encounter is good in theory, but when the choice is VERY easy to the point that the majority of people keep the same powers loaded all the time because they are CLEARLY better for more encounters or EVERY encounter then its not really a choice anymore.
Its you knowing your class, or you being an idiot. There should be VERY different types of encounters to necessitate the use of different powers. The powers themselves should offer intriguing new ways to play, if you are expected only have a very limited selection of them handy.
Pretend this is Mega Man 2, and you can only use 2 weapons. You'd be an idiot not to pick the Metal Blade obviously, and the default Mega Buster is too useful since it has range, speed, and infinite ammo.
Sure you could choose to have the Leaf Shield or Flash Stopper for the novelty but you'd be kicked from the metaphorical party once you displayed your lack of seriousness at the task at hand.
I mostly play PWI, where I've mained a Psychic and a Mystic. I have access to multiple skill/item/extra bars that I can map ALL my skills to, my potions, my mount, emotes, etc. and still have an extra 2 unused bars to work with.
It might not have quite as intense an emphasis on dodging, because most mobs/bosses have ranged attacks, but its still fun and challenging. I don't just dodge around spamming 2 or 3 skills hour after hour through tiny linear areas filled with clusters of 4 or 5 mobs, that I engage in the same way at lvl55 as I did at lvl5 like Neverwinter. I also can't just log in for 3 seconds to pray a few times a day and reach cap in a week.
Its also a game where clerics don't expect you to NOT need any healing, and you CAN do just fine without one.
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Every time someone mentions SWG, I get crazy. I loved that game, before CU. If only they would have upgraded graphics, added instances, and a few other things...
SWTOR was a let down for me. The only thing that gave me that Star Wars feeling was the sounds and music.
Tera is an action MMORPG. The combat in that game is amazing. It takes orders of magnitude more skill than this game does. More skills available means you need to know which skills work in which situations, with situations changing minute by minute, second by second. That requires skill, practice, and strategy, and it makes combat a million times more rewarding than Neverwinter.
That said, it would be great to have the ability to hotkey more potions and the other companions at least. I like having to choose abilities.
There we go! Now we're talkin'. 2 or 3 pre-sets that all we need to do is hit a number key.... out of combat.
I do miss my activated items though (Wands, Rods, Items of Power) not to mention activated racial powers (Darkness Please!)
However 3 additional slots specifically for those would be the extend of what I would really like implemented.
I like having to chose my skills for each situation and once class balance actually happens and all the skills are brought into line we will see less of the cookie cutter style and more variation. Right now with half the skills and feats not working you're only hurting yourself by experimenting.
And just so people know WOW, EQ, AO all went with the 30+ buttons on screen and all started out with cookie cutter builds until the class balance was properly implemented. Hell even now after about 45 a Warrior in WOW still just uses the same 3 buttons over and over while leveling and in most dungeons so in reality you have a few corner case buttons you might sometimes push for variation.