Powerset Snapshots Prior to Respec'ing
By
Atilla_The_Pun,
Posted on: 2010-12-17 13:04 in Suggestions and Ideas
Heh. I just copy it down in a text document or take a screenshot and paste it into Paint. Using your iPhone is a great idea, it keeps it right there. 
Anyway, along with being able to restore your Powers to the same tray locations (assuming you kept that respective power, new powers would have to be added according to the current strategy) and not totally rearranging your macros, yeah, this sounds like a good suggestion.
Titan Sentinel (it isn't working for me, currently, but that may just be me) or if you have a Mids build also works. Or if you have xfire, you can take screenshots of your enhancement screen.
The problem with just taking a screenshot/picture, though, is if you have multiple IOs (that aren't full sets) on multiple powers, you may or may not remember whether that end/recharge went in that power or *that* power.
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True. Tonight I was perusing through my toons at the market and ended up buying a Aegis Psionic/Status Resistance Enhancement that was Unique (1 per toon) and since I already had it slotted in another powerset, I had to "resell" it at the market. So, not being able to know what that exact IO is something I haven't figured into the iPhone dealio yet. Maybe if I clicked on each IO and got the pop-up box that would tell me what the exact origin is for the power, then I would take a iPhone snap shot of it...heh...heh. |
Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
The problem with just taking a screenshot/picture, though, is if you have multiple IOs (that aren't full sets) on multiple powers, you may or may not remember whether that end/recharge went in that power or *that* power.
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Why not just use mids? It is much easier.
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This is really the ultimate solution. I currently have 2 Mids builds for every character, a Live one captured through the Titan Sentinel, and the build I'm working towards.
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Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
Titan Sentinel (it isn't working for me, currently, but that may just be me) or if you have a Mids build also works. Or if you have xfire, you can take screenshots of your enhancement screen.
The problem with just taking a screenshot/picture, though, is if you have multiple IOs (that aren't full sets) on multiple powers, you may or may not remember whether that end/recharge went in that power or *that* power. |
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I have just been taking a screen shot and printing it
I brought this Suggestion and Idea up awhile ago and only got one /signed response. During this season of respecmania, I would have thought that more and more people would have wanted something that would take a "before" snapshot of their screen so they would know what thay had prior to doing a respec. In the past, I would normally take 3 or 4 shots of my powersets. The first one being the power trays telling me how I had my powers positioned. The others would be all my powersets and how they were slotted. I would then open up photoshop, crop them and them save as them a .JPG file and then open them up in preview mode. The reason as it seems that your normal "print screen" function on a PC doesn't like to take images and save those to the screenshot folder for CoH for the powerset screen. If there was a way, I haven't figured it out.
Anyways, after about my 10th respec doing this the past couple of weeks after i19, I thought to myself, there has got to be an easier way to do this. Well, I neglected to realize that I had a very powerful piece of equipment in my pocket called an iPhone that could take pictures. So, I said, why don't I just take a snapshot of my screen with my iPhone? Well my friends, it worked better and much much quicker than I thought. I could easily scroll through my pics and see what powers I had, and then delete the pics once I was done. I can't believe I didn't think of that before I went through the whole Photoshop ordeal.
This comes back to my original suggestion, why don't we have something in game that will display what our previous powersets where while we are doing a respec? I mean I really don't have an issue taking pictures now with my iPhone to see what I had but an in game feature that could do this would be awesome, don't you guys think? Now, if I only get one response like I did to my last post on this subject, I guess this is probably really not that of an important issue to some people. Maybe some people like to "guess" what they had before they respec again...heh,..heh.,, who knows?