Curse

Peewee · Apr 22, 2006, 02:39 PM // 14:39

I have rearranged ny interface such that upkeep, hexes and conditions are in the same place as my skills and health/hp bar. When monking in competitive 8v8 i find that having all this information in the same place can really help. What does not help is when i put my mouse over a skill the desciption pops-up and completely obscures my upkeep, hex and condition bar, health and even energy bar. Whats worse is that for me at least these skill descriptions are completely useless. I know what my skills do, i even know what hexes that are put on me do, there is no need for these skill descriptions.

Is it much to ask for the ability to be able to switch them off. I am not saying abolish them completely, they do come in useful occasionally, but in the heat of battle it is hindering my performance.

It could be argued that i should just use numbers for skills, but i find that i am faster using a mouse to target skills, and use the Numpad to select party members. If my hands are on skill numbers rather than on the WASD keys i can no longer kite effectively.

Basically /signed if you think you should be able to toggle these skill descriptions
/not signed if you disagree for whatever reason

mariano · Apr 22, 2006, 03:15 PM // 15:15

/signed.

yes

This is not the first time this has been pointed out, but I understand that the search engine is not really usefull to look for threads on this "subject", because, how to call those things?

Here is at least one previous thread:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3011915

I wrote there that:

I have though the same many times. And I am still expecting that in "the next update" this may be fixed.

I have moved the Skills bar up to put the Health bar and the Energy bar below the Skills bar, and I have moved Effects Monitor and the Upkeep Monitor to the right side of the Skills bar. It is not that I like having things this way, it is that the default positions annoy me because the skills' help pop-ups!

Angel Develin · Apr 22, 2006, 03:19 PM // 15:19

/signed

Trylo · Apr 22, 2006, 04:18 PM // 16:18

/signed

Ive been thinking of posting a topic like this cuz i hate it too, i know all the skills and hexes.

Only problem: If a foe uses a skills... lets use backfire, i do not know what level it is at, so i could be not using my flare or orison because of... 20 damage when i think its 135 or so. only con to it...

Sientir · Apr 22, 2006, 04:33 PM // 16:33

/signed

What would be good would be some sort of hotkey combo to be able to more easily toggle them on or off, or to have some sort of hotkey that you can hold to make descriptions work normally if you have them off.

Peewee · Apr 22, 2006, 04:33 PM // 16:33

I did search for any similar topics, but Skill Description Pop-ups was the best search i could think of, and i didnt find any posts related to it.

Yeah, checking the dmg of things like backfire can be useful, its one of the better reasons to keep it on, but tbh, backfire gets contemplationed away fast (or u just cast thro with prot spirit on) and the real killer hexes (diversion) last 6 secs no matter what their rank, and imo are equally devastating at almost any level.

I hope this annoyance is brought to the attention of the developers. They seemed to spend a lot of time over the aethstetics of the game (the shape of the skill charge bar for instance) or implementing changes which arnt really needed (changing the sound messed up a lot of ppls game for a bit). This is really a very small change which would improve the game far more than enything else i can think of.

spottydog · Apr 29, 2006, 05:44 PM // 17:44

/signed (a thousand times over)
I asked for this in the official suggestions thread in March.
I DETEST this feature.
Toggle on\off......... how hard can it be?

C R A F T · Apr 29, 2006, 05:50 PM // 17:50

/signed

What if you would have to left-click on the icon to have it display the description?

Otherwise it won't display at all.

AlyssaMarcia · Jun 03, 2006, 01:36 AM // 01:36

/googel signed (the real googel with 100 zero's after it)
I positively agree with this I want to put other interface items above my skill bar but have to put them under because it is always blocking them with that stupid text. I can't stand it. Example...

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/a...d=11492993 79

I want to put my "effects monitor, health, eng, exp, and weapon bar above my skill bar but they would all be blocked, in order to have them all in the same area of the screen this is the best I could come up with. Totally bogus A-net!! let me turn this annoying junk off.

Azriel · Sep 19, 2006, 07:03 AM // 07:03

/signed

arcanemacabre · Sep 19, 2006, 07:10 AM // 07:10

Arrrgh! I'm pretty sure I /signed for this before, in another thread... but yeah, /signed!!!

Stupid pop-ups. If you have to sit there and read what you skill does in the heat of battle, you need to be playing a slower, turn-based game. Something like chess. This is not chess.

bigwig · Sep 19, 2006, 08:47 AM // 08:47

how many threads you gonna revive today azriel?

monkey grip · Sep 19, 2006, 03:58 PM // 15:58

yeah, i started a thread on this a few times before, during an ingame chat that someone had posted with Gaile, she actually mentioned this issue.

I too am awaiting every update to have it.

/signed