by Brohg » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:31 pm
I concur on the complexity issue. I have four hotbars, two of which get keyboard shortcuts, plus multiple shortcut pages full on the first hotbar, the spellbar which I alt+# cast from, plus spellsets, bandolier, potion windows, F-keys for targeting, a whole sack full of functional clickies (not just buffs, functional items). ...and I still have abilities/options that aren't covered by all that. Any new ability has to basically be laser eye beams in order to make the cut. Nothing that's marginal or even "nice" really enhances my play, because the shaman class is already replete with options and mostly just starved for time to use them. That time crunch is made worse by the "utility" of spell canni, since it taxes all our casting by like 15%. In the last ... decade(?), I've added only a couple new AA to my actual play (Cannibalize, Virulent Paralysis, Inconspicuous Totem). Substitution-upgrades work fine, like Turgs AA or Malosinete, since they're replacing existing options and not adding new ones. "Disc" type abilities, though? They're basically buried without keyboard shortcuts. Have to mouse-click em, or page down in the hotbars, or whatever. Even on-paper SUPER abilities, like Spiritual Channeling, don't get used because it'd just be one more thing to keep track of.
Things I do want?
Quick DoT AA like Quick Buff AA.
Group Spirit Walk.
more ranks of Fortified Intervention
I'd like AA canni to share timer with spell canni, and just be ENORMOUS to compensate, or have ranks of Hasten? I want to go down to one canni button instead of spell + AA.
Definitely more ranks of various other things.