So basically, by playing with my DH and trying to coordinate my resource to the 4 seconds that my CoE is on fire element so I can nuke everything in sight, I realized how annoying it is when I'm playing with party and i'm buffed like hell that some of the icons of the buff disappear.
I want (and think it's very logical) to send Blizzard suggestion that the buffs like F+R, CoE, Wraps of Clarity that needs to be maintained every few seconds should appear on the buff line as to the left as possible that it would always be presentable.
So, where can I send them my suggestion? if I can send it all...
thanks
Generally, you'll want to post to the official forums if you want Blizzard to see it.
However, you're far from the first to suggest changes to the buff bar, so Blizzard knows. In fact, Wyatt Cheng (Sr. Tech. Game Designer) has recently said the following on the matter:
The inability to see important buffs that affect your moment-to-moment gameplay is something we want to address.
We have been avoiding simply adding more buffs because having a large number of buffs on the screen is not only visually unappealing, but it can be just as frustrating to locate the buff that you care about in a sea of buffs.
I view buffs broadly in 3 categories:
Category 1: "Always On" buffs. Really obvious ones are the Multiplayer buff, or when there is a Community event in place. These buffs are great to know, but they take up one of your precious buff slots. Monk Mantras are a slightly less "always" version of this. If I'm in a party with a monk wearing Inna's, suddenly all players in the party have half of their buff slots tied up.
Category 2: "Reassuring buffs". These are buffs that you want to know they are on you, but they don't affect your moment to moment gameplay. A good example of this would be Storm armor on the Wizard, or Frenzy stacks on a Barbarian. Many times you want to know the skill is working correctly, but you aren't checking on the buff in the heat of combat
Category 3: "Moment-to-moment buffs". These are the buffs that actually affect you moment-to-moment and are usually the source of complaints. Focus and Restraint are a great example here.
Overall our goal is to find alternate ways to communicate Category 1 and Category 2 buffs so that Category 3 buffs can take center stage on the buff bar.
We don't have anything to share at this time, but I assure you that with the introduction of all the extra powers players have from Kanai's Cube, combined with new legendary items that make you powerful but require some degree of buff tracking (vyr's / chantodo's comes to mind) the desire to address this is greater than ever.
Thank you so much for this update. I was wondring if they were aware of the problem
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So basically, by playing with my DH and trying to coordinate my resource to the 4 seconds that my CoE is on fire element so I can nuke everything in sight, I realized how annoying it is when I'm playing with party and i'm buffed like hell that some of the icons of the buff disappear.
I want (and think it's very logical) to send Blizzard suggestion that the buffs like F+R, CoE, Wraps of Clarity that needs to be maintained every few seconds should appear on the buff line as to the left as possible that it would always be presentable.
So, where can I send them my suggestion? if I can send it all...
thanks
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
Well... if so ;] Blizzard kicks ass, thanks.
It's far easier checking it thourgh buff line along with other buffs such as Wraps of Clarity, F+R