Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
Disabling Ability Bar Swapping When No Backbar weapon equipped
Romilly
✭✭✭
Hi,
I'm pretty sure until recently (last few months?) that if you had a one-bar build (for example, the excellent vMA Zoo Sorc by Mistress of Apocrypha), the toggle ability bar / aka weapon swap, was disabled. Now, I can understand why someone might want a second bar ability with out weapons on them, but can we have this as a toggle? Can anyone even confirm my memory as to the prior behaviour? I swear I would never have finished vMA if an accidental click would have swapped my bar to empty.
Cheers,
Rom.
I'm pretty sure until recently (last few months?) that if you had a one-bar build (for example, the excellent vMA Zoo Sorc by Mistress of Apocrypha), the toggle ability bar / aka weapon swap, was disabled. Now, I can understand why someone might want a second bar ability with out weapons on them, but can we have this as a toggle? Can anyone even confirm my memory as to the prior behaviour? I swear I would never have finished vMA if an accidental click would have swapped my bar to empty.
Cheers,
Rom.
1
-
Girl_Number8✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Add the same exact skills and weapon if it is that important to you ig.
Though I don't understand why you wouldn't want to use two bars on vMA. By doing so, you're losing a lot of buffs and skills making it more of a task then it should be. I would go with a stam sorcy but whatever makes you happy.0 -
Romilly✭✭✭Sort of -- but I just want it to detect when I'm on a one-bar or not. The per-character settings of controls is pretty flaky to put it mildly (which is the other reason I don't disable it for this toon) asI have other toons who need it (and I have a 2 bar build I use with Dressing Room too, which doesnt let you control settings as part of that).
Why do I want this? Well, there's plenty of testimony on these forums and elsewhere about how glitchy bar-swap can be, especially on the Mac. In vMA, for the dexterity challenged, like myself, having just one bar to deal with is incredibly simplifying. This one bar build made it possible for me to finish vMA after a year of trying. Not tripping over ones own finger, getting out of sync etc, is a huge part of it.
While I appreciate your attempts to explain to me how I should play, I just want to know (a) if I'm misremembering the behavior of the bar (on the Mac, esp) and (b) if there's an addon that can do this automatically if the weapon slot is empty.
Also, if you think that build is amateur hour, it does a remarkable job of soloing every non-DLC dungeon with ease, which is probably why it does so well at vMA which is much harder. It's certainly not capable of more than about 18-20k dps sustained, but it can do that as a self-healing tank WHILE dealing and learning vMA mechanics. But it's not my build, I don't have a vested interest in, other than the fact it let me earn a Maelstrom Bow for my squishy but lovable NB main despite my various game playing handicaps, like playing on a 4 year old mac laptop, aged sight, and never great reflexes or mouse/kb skills.
Edited by Romilly on May 8, 2019 7:15PM0 -
Romilly✭✭✭In answer to one of the posters, a ~100K gold staff is a little expensive, but yes, I've done that lately on other toons, with cheaper gear, when I don't want to worry about it.0
-
CleymenZero✭✭✭✭✭
✭I'm not in favor of that. I find it annoying that it won't easily barswap when nothing is equiped on a toon.
I don't always need equipment on em if gor say you're going to craft only but having boundless storm and streak is useful and doesn't require weapons.0 -
Romilly✭✭✭@CleymenZero -- I agree 100%, I'm not asking for it to work like that for everyone. I'm asking (a) did it work like that in the past (or am I misremembering), (b) is there an addon or a Settings that controls that behaviour.0
-
CleymenZero✭✭✭✭✭
✭I wouldn't know about an add-on but I know that's it's garder to barswap when weapons are not equipped.0
