Why the mystery?

Rugby_hook

Almost every day I have a question about something in the game, and most of the time these questions are not addressed in game nor on the official website. So that leads me to Google, which often brings me to the forum which leads to speculation from many people which then leads to confusion. There should be an easy to use glossary and FAQ as well as updated tool tips to answer these questions. An example, I don't know what half of the enemy debuff icons mean, yet there is no real way (to my knowledge) to find this info out. If it is on you, you can always go to your character description (a bit risky in battle, but at least you can), but this does not exist for an enemy.

Why is this practical/necessary? Sometimes it's important to track debuffs. In the last month I have had to explain to numerous tanks what the symbol is for an enemy being taunted by you is. This is very important information for a tank and for new DDs who may inadvertently be pulling aggro (happens less after ice staff changes, but still happens in pugs all the time). Another example, I created a support frost warden with the intent of having brittle up as much as possible, but I don't 100% know what that icon looks like to track it.

Tl/Dr: is there a comprehensive glossary that exists that explains all the info in game that is never explained in the game?

Vevvev

There is the F1 menu that explains a lot of things. Like what each status effect does, what the synergies do, what the different colored health bars mean, etc.

Would help if a lot of the information wasn't hidden from the player by default though. First thing I do when teaching a player to be better is to enable the vanilla UI's ult number, resources numbers, buffs and debuffs, and debuffs applied to a target. Can even set that stuff to only show in combat so it doesn't mess up their casual questing experience and the difference is night and day when it comes to their performance afterwards.

_Zathras_

This site is pretty good for a lot of info.

I do agree that in-game, and Official site-wise, there is very little explanation on the nitty gritty of the game.

LashanW

Rugby_hook wrote: »

Tl/Dr: is there a comprehensive glossary that exists that explains all the info in game that is never explained in the game?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Buffs
It lists a lot, unfortunately not all.

Goregrinder

I mean to be fair, ESO does explain a lot more than MMORPG's from the previous generation. I mean when I first started playing SWG, you'd be lucky if a mission told you where you were supposed to go other than "find the bandit encampment..." Or "find the squill cave", and you'd have to wander around tatooine hoping you'd run into it, or run into another player who happen to have the waypoint to the cave entrance.