How about you standardize tooltips first?

VixxVexx

It is very confusing for new players trying to make sense of what abilities actually do.
My gripe is mostly with these damage/heal over time effects they are trying to make more "accessible".

Some over-time-effects from abilities and sets have:

1. no radius/range indicator
2. no consistency, sometimes it is X over Y seconds, sometimes is X every Y second(s) over Z seconds, sometimes it is missing total duration.

And don't get me started on the wording consistency for simple things like traits, enchants and set bonuses.
Zenimax, if you want, I can give you a spreadsheet with all the offenders.

PS.: Buff magsorc

Lykeion

Agree. Also confusing for newcomers is the crit rate using different metrics. It uses number and percentage in the same time, although one of them is completely unneeded, as well as the armor.

Troodon80

VixxVexx wrote: »

1. no consistency, sometimes it is X over Y seconds, sometimes is X every Y second(s) over Z seconds, sometimes it is missing total duration.

A prime example of this is that, even in end game, people think that Echoing Vigor is less than its pre-morphed parent, just because the wording doesn't make sense. These numbers are not accurate to the screenshots because the numbers below are from a DD while the screenshots are from my tank, but:- e.g. 12,480 over 8 seconds vs. 12,480 over 10 seconds, there's no way anyone could confuse that, right?

12,480 / ((8 / 2) + 1) = 2,496 per tick vs. 12,480 / ((10 / 2) + 1) = 2,080 per tick, that makes sense right? It's the same amount over a longer duration, according to the tooltip? Which means the longer duration would do less? Nope, that's wrong. It just gives you one additional tick. You get six ticks instead of five, but the value of each tick stays the same. I've seen so many people even at the hardcore level make this incorrect assumption.

Mathematically, the outcome doesn't match the tooltip.