10-05-2005, 07:59 AM
Biggest fix I'd like to see? Fix the official warlock interface. Kthxbye 1000 mods & scripts needed to do BASIC functions without having to click 2000 times.
Want a healthstone? Do I really have to drag healthstone creation onto a hot bar, diddle daddle search my inventory bags for it, select target to trade with, drag item into trade window (or over intended target), and hit accept twice/three times?
Helloooo soulshard mods. One button, ONE smart button, does all that for me. Click on target, click on health stone button, and it either creates or opens tradewindow with healthstone for me. It'd be nice if it automatically attempted to create within the party member's inventory, or detect healthstones. No need to ask, just create. Healthstones are a conjured buff, useable at any time, and unique. Why can't I create them inside my party member's inventory directly?
Oh yeah. Sooooo useful. What a skill! What about soul link? I need an auto-cancel when pet health is below a %, preferably dynamically set %, but anywhere from 10-40% is reasonable (i.e. too wounded to soul link).
There are also many tooltips that need to be corrected, and completely marginal talents revamped or removed from the game. Improved Curse of Weakness, Agony and Soul Drain come to mind. If Improved soul drain increased # of soul shards drained, that could actually be interesting (50% & 100% chance of extra shard respectively). Pyroclasm (chance to stun) should be quoted as being 1% actual chance to stun.
Let's face it, one of the reasons warlocks are hard to play is the difficult / insanely unwieldy interface mechanics. In their current forms, does fear / life drain / nightfall really need to face current target? No. Good locks, with good connections and hotkeyed/scripted commands get around these limiations.
What about curse of tongues? Gosh, I'd sure like that to actually be useful again. . . like, slow down mage AE spam, or add a global cooldown delay after casting spells.
That would be nice. However what's currently fixable is the interface, and tooltips. Give warlocks a cleaner, fluid interface, and they'll be a lot less frustrated. Make their game mechanics function as advertised, warlocks will be content. Fix the rest, let us be able to escape/defend, we'll actually be happy.
Want a healthstone? Do I really have to drag healthstone creation onto a hot bar, diddle daddle search my inventory bags for it, select target to trade with, drag item into trade window (or over intended target), and hit accept twice/three times?
Helloooo soulshard mods. One button, ONE smart button, does all that for me. Click on target, click on health stone button, and it either creates or opens tradewindow with healthstone for me. It'd be nice if it automatically attempted to create within the party member's inventory, or detect healthstones. No need to ask, just create. Healthstones are a conjured buff, useable at any time, and unique. Why can't I create them inside my party member's inventory directly?
Oh yeah. Sooooo useful. What a skill! What about soul link? I need an auto-cancel when pet health is below a %, preferably dynamically set %, but anywhere from 10-40% is reasonable (i.e. too wounded to soul link).
There are also many tooltips that need to be corrected, and completely marginal talents revamped or removed from the game. Improved Curse of Weakness, Agony and Soul Drain come to mind. If Improved soul drain increased # of soul shards drained, that could actually be interesting (50% & 100% chance of extra shard respectively). Pyroclasm (chance to stun) should be quoted as being 1% actual chance to stun.
Let's face it, one of the reasons warlocks are hard to play is the difficult / insanely unwieldy interface mechanics. In their current forms, does fear / life drain / nightfall really need to face current target? No. Good locks, with good connections and hotkeyed/scripted commands get around these limiations.
What about curse of tongues? Gosh, I'd sure like that to actually be useful again. . . like, slow down mage AE spam, or add a global cooldown delay after casting spells.
That would be nice. However what's currently fixable is the interface, and tooltips. Give warlocks a cleaner, fluid interface, and they'll be a lot less frustrated. Make their game mechanics function as advertised, warlocks will be content. Fix the rest, let us be able to escape/defend, we'll actually be happy.