Time for a better way to manage powers, perhaps?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-11-01 24:46 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Yes x 1000.
I don't even have half that number of things in my powers list and it's a mess to find anything.
Yes, please.
God bless /cleartray after a respec.
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OMG! Does that do what I hope it does?
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Originally Posted by Silas
Yes, please.
God bless /cleartray after a respec. |
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And Gods bless you for letting me know this exists after all these years...
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Originally Posted by Silas
Yes, please.
God bless /cleartray after a respec. |
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Originally Posted by Silas
Yes, please.
God bless /cleartray after a respec. |
I can't believe I've never heard of this command....
love the /cleartray...
I wish they would redo the respec interface.. its such a chore..
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Two questions:
1. How did you get both versions of the accolade powers?
2. Why not take Power Burst?
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One way to manage those powers would be to toss a few of those rocks. Surely 1 is enough to properly represent your solidarity with your earthen friends.
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Agreed 100%.
So very yes.
I collect accolade and day job powers. >_>;
This is familiar to me.
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That happens when you side switch: one set is greyed out when you are on the other side. It can confuse players sometimes, though, because they still see the power in a power tray and they wonder why they can't use it, because there's another version of the same power in their power lists. And really strangely, I don't think that happens for all the accolades.|
Originally Posted by RosaQuartz
Two questions:
1. How did you get both versions of the accolade powers? |
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| 2. Why not take Power Burst? |
2. Regardless, having only bolt, blast, and explosive blast isn't viable as an attack chain unless you have a whole lot of recharge. Which I do. Ultrahigh recharge opens the door to dropping burst. Burst does have the superior DPA, but only by the tiniest of margins. Its one of the long-time flaws of energy blast: it doesn't have that one really high DPA attack. If we were talking about Blaze, then short range or not I would take it.
3. What possessed me to try to make a build that can have a complete or nearly complete attack chain with just bolt and blast? The Infinite Freem mission from Ramiel, actually. I wanted to duplicate to the best extent possible that experience of just letting fly with my long-ranged attacks, which I thought was all sorts of fun.
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But ... but ... but what if one day I am in dire need of some rocks? Or a shotgun, or a divining rod, or a rock, or a baseball bat, or some tear gas, or a rock, or a stun grenade, or a jetpack, or a rock?|
Originally Posted by Matuse
One way to manage those powers would be to toss a few of those rocks. Surely 1 is enough to properly represent your solidarity with your earthen friends.
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Oh darn, I think I forgot to replace a nuke. See, this is what happens when you have to shove all this stuff into your pockets: its easy to misplace a suborbital warhead.
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I thought you did have all three nukes, but closer inspection reveals one of the supposed Nukes to the the Enchantment of Seraphina.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Oh darn, I think I forgot to replace a nuke. See, this is what happens when you have to shove all this stuff into your pockets: its easy to misplace a suborbital warhead.
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The costume powers at least will be disappearing tomorrow, but yeah, the temp powers and some of the others it's a bit ridiculous, especially with things like the 'Prestige' sprints, that I now have to take on every character since I hit the appropriate tier and there's no way to delete or otherwise remove the powers from your list without just leaving them in the mail unclaimed, which just blinks at you repeatedly until you do.
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I did. I found out the hard way in the middle of a mob that said command does not fire off all your powers at once.|
Originally Posted by Gospel_NA
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I can't believe I've never heard of this command.... |
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While you're revamping the power tray, you might want to also revamp the enhancement screen and respec screens.
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You should have done a Lambda first, then took that peekchur. :P
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To be honest, I'm not so interested in the changing of how you deal with powers... although, I imagine a sub 'folder' of powers could be made to work... maybe...
I'm more interested in the width of Arcana's screen, because, man that's gotta be something like Frank's 2000 Inch TV:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBF5bewa0ts
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Originally Posted by Silas
Yes, please.
God bless /cleartray after a respec. |
now i dont hate respecs anymore :P
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
See, this is what happens when you have to shove all this stuff into your pockets: its easy to misplace a suborbital warhead
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This thread was worth reading anyway, but even if everything else was removed, the above line is worth it all on its own.
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It's long overdue. It's been my number 1 complaint for many years now, even before I cared about balance I hated the power management screen.
Obligatory repetition of a recommendation:
Whatever new interface you make, Devs, remove the Primary/Secondary barriers. Group powers by type instead of source (attacks/survival/support/debuff/control).
For instance, if a fire/super strength tanker goes to his "Attack pool", he will see both, Burn and Jab in the same "pool".
It would add no extra build options but it would add a perception of free-form building, and remove (at least for new players) the misconception that primary always being better than secondary.
OH, and make it searchable.
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The only problem here is when 1 power fits in 2 groups. Would a controller's hot feet be in control or damage? Would short circuit be in debuff, control, or damage? When you look at all the powers that can fit into several groups, you just get a bunch of slightly less scattered groups instead of the one we have now. I say make groups, but not by power function. Make it pri/sec like it is now, but put all pools/APP/PPP in one group, accolades in one, temps in one, and inherent in one. Make them all a clickable window like salvage currently is, but with the scroll lists. OR, make them dropdown lists.
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Originally Posted by Starsman
It's long overdue. It's been my number 1 complaint for many years now, even before I cared about balance I hated the power management screen.
Obligatory repetition of a recommendation: Whatever new interface you make, Devs, remove the Primary/Secondary barriers. Group powers by type instead of source (attacks/survival/support/debuff/control). For instance, if a fire/super strength tanker goes to his "Attack pool", he will see both, Burn and Jab in the same "pool". . |
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Follow the Amazon category rule: place it in both categories.
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Master_NA
The only problem here is when 1 power fits in 2 groups. Would a controller's hot feet be in control or damage? Would short circuit be in debuff, control, or damage?
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Just saying, is all.
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