I think there are 2 areas where players will exploit the ability to swap their skills at any time:
- Instant-cast spells where the player wants access to more than their allotted 6 spells
- Long-cooldown spells which are powerful, but spend a large amount of time on cooldown.
The second problem (long-cooldown spells) is really the biggest problem in my opinion. You could swap in a spell like "Call of the Ancients" which is active for 15 seconds (default), but then its on cooldown for 105 seconds (default). There is a real benefit in swapping that skill out once it goes on cooldown so you can use another active skill for that 105 seconds, then swap it back in again.
I think it would be enough to allow spells to be swapped in combat, but trigger the cooldown on that spell immediately so it can't be used until the cooldown finishes. For example, if you swapped your spells to include "Call of the Ancients", you would have to wait 120 seconds until that spell could be used. This would prevent rapid swapping of long-cooldown spells.
This solution doesn't really help for spells with no cooldown, so a minimum could be set (something between 10 and 30 seconds) before a newly swapped in spell can be used. So if the spell has no cooldown or a cooldown shorter than 10 seconds, the player must wait 10 seconds before using the spell expires before it can be used. If the cooldown of the spell is longer than 10 seconds, they must wait the cooldown of the spell.
Any of this make sense?
Indeed, they need to find a way so long cooldown spells don't get exploited. Also some kind of restriction is needed for swaping skills. If people make macro's for skill swaping (and they will) nobody needs stuff like mobility/heal spells on their bar cause they can just press a button to swap to them whenever needed. The rest of the time they just go with full damage abilities. I would say having to go to town and pay an amount of money to change out skills will do.
Well we wont see this in D3 with only 4 player servers and the focus on coop. All we can hope for is that the arena will be good and maybe other types of instanced PvP in the future.
Most games go through constant changes as new patches/expansions are released. Diablo 3 wont be any different.
And thats a good things since you wont grow tired of the game as fast.
I am pulling for weapon switch to make it into the D3 release. I like the option to switch between 2h and 1h + shield quickly. Along with some other options that might be available such as the Demon Hunter dual wielding weaker xbows or 2handing a powerful ballista.
Exactly, swaping between 2h and 1h+shield could be key to surviving some situations. Hopefully they will atleast let us make macro for it
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Indeed, they need to find a way so long cooldown spells don't get exploited. Also some kind of restriction is needed for swaping skills. If people make macro's for skill swaping (and they will) nobody needs stuff like mobility/heal spells on their bar cause they can just press a button to swap to them whenever needed. The rest of the time they just go with full damage abilities. I would say having to go to town and pay an amount of money to change out skills will do.
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I don't see how testing 1/3 of act 1 for this long will help anything really. SC2 was tested for competative PVP, thats a much longer progress.
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And thats a good things since you wont grow tired of the game as fast.
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People mass spaming F5 and hoping for beta.
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Exactly, swaping between 2h and 1h+shield could be key to surviving some situations. Hopefully they will atleast let us make macro for it