New CP Should Have a Bar Swap Mechanic

merpins

The current new CP system doesn't really give you much choice. This is partly due to lack of options, partly because all the useful skills are slottable, and partly because there are just good and bad options to choose depending on whether you are magicka or stamina based. You don't get much out of the system now after a certain point.

Even if they added new, interesting options for slottable skills, they might get overshadowed by other skills that are already there, or some might get power-creeped (looking at you, Wrathful Strikes and Untamed aggression which both ALREADY got power-creeped). There needs to be more options for this suggestion to work, but if there were a bunch of new and interesting options, then...

Adding a Bar Swap Mechanic to the CP system would be the right call. Like, this game's unique gimmick is the bar swap mechanic. In this case, I would suggest increasing the amount of slottables per color to 5 to reflect your slottable skill bar, but this might not be particularly necessary. If there are more, interesting options (like some that work based on your weapon or based on your higher stats, hell, they could make some similar to armor skills), and your bar swaps with your weapon bar swap, I could see there being actual builds to be had, rather than what we have now which is just slot the good skill, ignore the rest.

Marcus_Aurelius

They have put a 30secs cooldown on slots change because server are already overloaded.
So would we be able to bar swap only every 30secs ?

Huyen

MovesLikeJaguar wrote: »

The current new CP system doesn't really give you much choice. This is partly due to lack of options, partly because all the useful skills are slottable, and partly because there are just good and bad options to choose depending on whether you are magicka or stamina based. You don't get much out of the system now after a certain point.

Even if they added new, interesting options for slottable skills, they might get overshadowed by other skills that are already there, or some might get power-creeped (looking at you, Wrathful Strikes and Untamed aggression which both ALREADY got power-creeped). There needs to be more options for this suggestion to work, but if there were a bunch of new and interesting options, then...

Adding a Bar Swap Mechanic to the CP system would be the right call. Like, this game's unique gimmick is the bar swap mechanic. In this case, I would suggest increasing the amount of slottables per color to 5 to reflect your slottable skill bar, but this might not be particularly necessary. If there are more, interesting options (like some that work based on your weapon or based on your higher stats, hell, they could make some similar to armor skills), and your bar swaps with your weapon bar swap, I could see there being actual builds to be had, rather than what we have now which is just slot the good skill, ignore the rest.

The idea is good, but I would prefer a swap between builds instead of bars. Like Magicka dps and healer can be done with the skillpoints, but redoing my cp everytime I want to heal is annoying. So if we could set that up once, and then switch before entering a vet dungeon or trial it would be great.

ajkb78

There isn't much need to swap mid fight, you just pick the best CP for the fight. Being able to swap between trash and bosses is nice, you can of course already do this if you have the CP to spec more than 4 slottables and I guess PC players can do so more or less instantly with an add-on. It would be nice if console got more addon-like improvements to follow on from the skill timer: a dressing-room like addon would be top of my list, even if it only allowed for swapping between 2 gear / skill / CP setups for trash / bosses it would be light years ahead of what we have to do now.

Gythral

Best solutions is remove the need to 'actively' slot everything...

Stevie6

Might want to also add auto light attack in the cp trees...might help raise the floor...just a thought.