Please give Buff indicator/timer for consoles

R7KT · June 2016

Zos pls, in the db update you gave us great stuff like health numbers for enemies and resource percentages, we need to be able to see when certain buffs are gonna run out, all the buffs currently only show on the character sheet, all you have to do is give us the option to put them in our UI. Please zos keep spoiling us.

Tekyn · June 2016

Yeah, this was one of the bad things about playing on console. I was happy with a lot of the changes that they did to the UI for consoles, but without mods there's no recourse when something vital like this isn't included. There are a lot of things that should really be in the game itself instead of as separate addons. Even if optional, things like this should be in the game.

When the game came out they said they kept the UI light for immersion. Now there are trials and everyone is animation glitching their characters to keep up... I think it's time to provide function where needed and let things be toggled off for immersion.

R7KT · June 2016

Tekyn wrote: »

Yeah, this was one of the bad things about playing on console. I was happy with a lot of the changes that they did to the UI for consoles, but without mods there's no recourse when something vital like this isn't included. There are a lot of things that should really be in the game itself instead of as separate addons. Even if optional, things like this should be in the game.

When the game came out they said they kept the UI light for immersion. Now there are trials and everyone is animation glitching their characters to keep up... I think it's time to provide function where needed and let things be toggled off for immersion.

I really hope that they consider giving us this option very soon.

RebornV3x · June 2016

yeah thats really the only thing missing at this point really like the ultimate counter thats nice

Jaronking · June 2016

Agreed I would love a buff tracker added.

Schemering · June 2016

i play on pc; i like the minimalistic ui but im VERY happy i can use addons to customise and i use ftc and srendarr on all my chars. I wish zos gives ingame possibilities of those addons for console players; it makes life so much easier. I wish i would have had those addons when starting with the game it would have made me understand the games mechanics much faster

R7KT · June 2016

Schemering wrote: »

i play on pc; i like the minimalistic ui but im VERY happy i can use addons to customise and i use ftc and srendarr on all my chars. I wish zos gives ingame possibilities of those addons for console players; it makes life so much easier. I wish i would have had those addons when starting with the game it would have made me understand the games mechanics much faster

Yes, I know it's won't probably happen but I really wish consoles get addons.

Jaronking · June 2016

What are other players thought on consoles getting buff trackers?

brandonv516 · June 2016

I think it could happen but the more we put on the screen the harder the xbox handles the game. Console text is coming and I feel there will be even more fps lag to contend with. I'd really like to hide grass before adding more to the screen.

Keep_Door · June 2016

Omg yes yes 1 million times yes

GrumpyDuckling · June 2016

Signed.

Also, it's REALLY annoying for Templars because Restoring and Radiant Aura don't even have visual indicators that appear on the player to let you know that the skill is even active.

R7KT · July 2016

Zos plz include this with the next patch

Strider_Roshin · July 2016

I hope they never do this. Right now you have to pay attention to your character in order to figure out wether or not your buffs are still active. If you have a buff indicator to tell you when to buff then that eliminates another skillful aspect of combat. Just learn to pay attention rather than asking ZOS to dumb down combat.

R7KT · July 2016

Strider_Roshin wrote: »

I hope they never do this. Right now you have to pay attention to your character in order to figure out wether or not your buffs are still active. If you have a buff indicator to tell you when to buff then that eliminates another skillful aspect of combat. Just learn to pay attention rather than asking ZOS to dumb down combat.

Thank you for your response but having a buff tracker is a core aspect of almost all MMOs, when they implement this option it's going to be optional so if you want to be skillful you can turn it off as you please.

THEDKEXPERIENCE · July 2016

The floaty damage numbers are fun in that I can tell my friends when I did a 40K damage tick to an NPC but not much more. What some of you call vital I call superfluous. None of these add ons are actually necessary.

danno8 · July 2016

What, you can't keep track of your buffs/debuffs through the visual cues?

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KingDuncanVII · July 2016

Console player here. Bring on the Buff Trackers, please!

Rohamad_Ali · July 2016

ZOS really should just make a similar toggle UI like the addon for combat . It would be so much nicer .

danno8 · July 2016

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

The floaty damage numbers are fun in that I can tell my friends when I did a 40K damage tick to an NPC but not much more. What some of you call vital I call superfluous. None of these add ons are actually necessary.

Without players having access to floaty numbers (or logs) I'd say around 50% of your skills, passives and items would be broken and not working properly.

The players are the ones that catch these things and report them. And they are numerous.

Greiver · July 2016

Should have been in the game the day it launched. Along with text chat, damage/healing numbers....

Zos was lazy.... that's all there is to it.

SublimeSparo · July 2016

Yea definitely need buff/dot trackers, as for people saying use the visual clues:
a) they are not always visible lol
b) when stacked in trial situations you cannot even see your character sometimes
c) some buffs have extremely similar visible clues, ie minor force, spc, scathing mage and kena proc all look pretty similar
d) for dots if multiple of the same characters put the same dots on the same add/boss it's impossible use the visible clues

THEDKEXPERIENCE · July 2016

SublimeSparo wrote: »

Yea definitely need buff/dot trackers, as for people saying use the visual clues:
a) they are not always visible lol
b) when stacked in trial situations you cannot even see your character sometimes
c) some buffs have extremely similar visible clues, ie minor force, spc, scathing mage and kena proc all look pretty similar
d) for dots if multiple of the same characters put the same dots on the same add/boss it's impossible use the visible clues

Console has been out for 13 months. People have completed all of the content without them. Therefore they are not needed.

danno8 · July 2016

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

SublimeSparo wrote: »

Yea definitely need buff/dot trackers, as for people saying use the visual clues:
a) they are not always visible lol
b) when stacked in trial situations you cannot even see your character sometimes
c) some buffs have extremely similar visible clues, ie minor force, spc, scathing mage and kena proc all look pretty similar
d) for dots if multiple of the same characters put the same dots on the same add/boss it's impossible use the visible clues

Console has been out for 13 months. People have completed all of the content without them. Therefore they are not needed.

You are using the wrong measuring stick. Completing all the content is not the ultimate test of whether a feature should be implemented or not.

The correct measuring stick is whether it improves the experience or not.

film · July 2016

Buff/Debuff timers/indicators would improve my experience playing this game. I would love timers since we already have them on the character sheet for buffs/debuffs (why they put them there and not the ability to have them anywhere else is crazy).

THEDKEXPERIENCE · July 2016

danno8 wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

SublimeSparo wrote: »

Yea definitely need buff/dot trackers, as for people saying use the visual clues:
a) they are not always visible lol
b) when stacked in trial situations you cannot even see your character sometimes
c) some buffs have extremely similar visible clues, ie minor force, spc, scathing mage and kena proc all look pretty similar
d) for dots if multiple of the same characters put the same dots on the same add/boss it's impossible use the visible clues

Console has been out for 13 months. People have completed all of the content without them. Therefore they are not needed.

You are using the wrong measuring stick. Completing all the content is not the ultimate test of whether a feature should be implemented or not.

The correct measuring stick is whether it improves the experience or not.

You misunderstand me. I was just saying they aren't NEEDED. Yes they would help. That's all. There are thousands of players who do not NEED them to play even if plenty WANT them.

SublimeSparo · July 2016

Yay pointless semantics argument.

BruhItsOver9000 · July 2016

Someone please tag zos.Don't know how to do it.

Jaronking · July 2016

@Wrobel @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_JesusV @ZOS_BrianWheeler any chance of you guys adding this for us?

TrueGreenSmoker · July 2016

First text chat maybe the patch after that no ETA... lol

TrueGreenSmoker · July 2016

BruhItsOver9000 wrote: »

Someone please tag zos.Don't know how to do it.

Put @ and then ZOS_

R7KT · July 2016

This future is already built into the base game, all the buffs show up in the character sheet, all zos have to do is copy and paste them into our UI.