Give me a bigger skill bar please !! PLEASE

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Ocylix wrote:

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Inexium wrote:

Do you want me to do the following ?

1. run swap curse skill slot for : Flammabilty.
2. run swap curse : ele weakness/
3. run swap curse : conductivity ( to shock with my shock nova that i don't have )
4. run swap Shock nova.
5. run swap curse : Crit weakness/
6. run swap Lightning warp.
Oh wait the monsyters are no longer cursed.
7. cast Enduring cry
8. run swap for a second one.
9. a third.
10. run swap decoy totem.
11. run swap detonate dead.
12. run swap raise a specter. ( ok this one should never be used only by summoners :/ )
13. Run swap Immortal call.
14. run swap Molten shell.
15. run swap a different elemental spell than your main spell ( because of ele equilibrium)
?

This not a question of "running it all", I think this is now a question of strategy.

If a build needs this much "swapping" to work, maybe it needs some tweaking.

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CliveHowlitzer wrote:

The artificial skill cap limit because of the hotbar is something I have felt was silly from day 1. I am surprised it hasn't been expanded.

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Ocylix wrote:

Maybe we should discuss the build instead? (make one, I will jump in)

Then, we could argue about its possibilities/impossibilities :)

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LostForm wrote:

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Ocylix wrote:

Maybe we should discuss the build instead? (make one, I will jump in)

Then, we could argue about its possibilities/impossibilities :)

I would tend to agree it limits diversity, in that it limits you to a few heavily supported skills rather than many lightly supported skills.

Trade offs are already in place due to socket limitations. You can have a maximum of 24 sockets, how you use those sockets should be up to the player. Perhaps a few more with pseudo sockets from uniques but thopse pseudo sockets are usually pretty well balanced already with their own tradeoffs.


If you want to discuss whether more skill slots puts a higher importance on pseudo socket items, I think that would be a pretty valid concern. I think it is pretty clear that there is a bias in place towards a few heavily supported skills with the current UI. And the bias does effectively limit viable strategies above and beyond the limitations of available sockets.

And also the bias is almost completely ignored if you use third party tools such as scripted mouse macros to quickly change active skills, which are not supported for the majority of players.

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Boem wrote:

imagine cold snap.
Basicly it has a 25% to freeze targets, and if u stack multiple gems of this, they all have a seperate cooldown (it also consumes a power charge for another cast without cooldown)

Imagine having 10 skill slots, u just put 10 of these in, prolifirate all, and game over.

Other skills are also effected by slotting multiple of them, how about 30 fire traps?

Just basic examples, but the game isent ment for that kind of change imo.

However the curses i think could be fair with an ingame macro, everybody could use it, and its what people already do.

Edit : post above hinted me the name of the skill i forgot :)