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Clean up the buffs bar.

Auroxis

By Auroxis,
Posted on: 2011-02-11 13:27 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

Posted

I like playing support characters, which means I have to keep an eye on the team's buffs bars in order to ensure everybody's getting my buffs. Please implement a way to see just the buffs that I casted rather than everything the players have. It clutters the buffs bar horribly.

As an example, this is what the buffs window on my current team looks like:



And here, I marked in red all the buffs icons that I don't care about:



I don't need to know who has Fly on. I don't care about the status of someone's Hasten. Knowing that someone has a bunch of Safeguard temp powers is irrelevant to me. I just want to know if they got my buffs.

Five icons, tops. Not 38.

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Posted

Why not turn off showing autopowers? That gets rid of at least the 4 Fitness powers right there.

 

Posted

I don't know how you can even stand having the team window near the middle, that makes the buff bars go straight down the center of the screen.

Issue 16 made me feel like this.
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Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm View Post
Why not turn off showing autopowers? That gets rid of at least the 4 Fitness powers right there.
Don't forget you can also hide toggle powers.

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add up all the options you want and use that with /optionset Buffsettings command.
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1 status window hide auto
2 status window hide toggles
4 status window no blinking
8 status window no stacking
16 status window numeric stacking
32 status hide buff numbers
64 status stop sending buffs
128 --
256 group window hide auto
512 group window hide toggles?
1024 group window no blinking
2048 group window no stacking
4096 group window numeric stacking
8192 group window hide buff numbers
16384 group window stop sending buffs
32768 --
65536 pet window hide auto
131072 pet window hide toggles?
262144 pet window no blink
524288 pet window no stacking
1048576 pet window numeric stacking
2097152 pet window hide buff numbers
4194304 pet window stop sending buffs

 

Posted

It is a good suggestion, though I would take it farther and come up with a system that would also show when it's time to refresh another player's ST buff. My Emp can perma-fort 5 or 6 teammates, but I limit it to 4 at most because I simply can't remember whose turn it is consistently.

Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.

 

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/signed

If it's already in-game, that means it's easier to make it happen.

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/Signed. Even with Autos toggled off I often run into 'Icon Creep' on my empath, which is a major pain.

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