Blast On/Blast Off

[MarkusWolfe]

Ah, Elemental Blasts. What is more satisfying than soaking your enemy with acid, setting them ablaze, freezing them solid, or electrocuting them? Not much. However, some creatures are healed by elemental damage, and your burst weapon becomes less useful, if not useless or even harmful to yourself. And not everyone can carry around half a dozen good weapons. Solution?

In pen and paper, the text for elemental blast weapons describe their effects becoming active when a command word is spoken. So, I propose that we go back to pen and paper and give the Elemental Blast features on/off switches. This could be assigned to the hotkey bar, and would take less time than equipping another weapon.

Does anyone have any disagreements, supportive arguments or neutral comments?

[Visty]

or you save the devteam a ****load of coding time and just use another weapon

[Rubiconn]

Weapon change is just a click away, setup some hotkeys for your toolbar.

[KillEveryone]

How much junk are you carrying that you can't carry a couple different weapon sets.

My TWF fighter still has 2 pages for loot even with a page of weapons, a page of pots, and a page of other gear.

I personally don't want to have to activate my weapon. I'm happier with just a quick swap to the correct weapon set.

You will still benefit from carrying an icy weapon for those fire critters and a fire weapon for those icy critters.

/not signed

[Goldeneye]

Yes. would be very cool.
Though seems like a lot of effort to implement.
Plus, some noob's gonna forget to turn his blast back on and wonder why his GS is broken.

[MarkusWolfe]

Alright, clearly not liked. Should only be implemented if the devs satisfy our other demands and have way too much time on their hands.

Now excuse me while I try to take this down.

[Goldeneye]

now... if a weapon such as Greensteel: Elemental Mastery, allowed you to toggle between types of elemental blasts... then it would be awesome!

[JustWinBaby]

Now excuse me while I try to take this down.

Good luck.

[MarkusWolfe]

now... if a weapon such as Greensteel: Elemental Mastery, allowed you to toggle between types of elemental blasts... then it would be awesome!

Now that alone would be justify the price of VoT.