Item buff bar

[dejafu]

With the advent of artificers, item buffs have gone from being relatively unique (Mabar light potions, Devil Assault augment crystals, and guild augment slots) to pretty much a given in many group now.

I enjoy this dimension of the game, but it's creating a new problem - keeping track of your item buffs. Mousing over the item on your hotbars was enough back when you only had one or two items to keep track of (and usually with pretty long durations), but now that we potentially have multiple items to keep track of, many with short durations, we need a better option. That being said, the regular buff bar has already gotten way too full as it is, so my preference would be NOT to add them to that bar.

What I'd like to see is a second buff bar added that is dedicated specifically to item buffs. Put it between the buff and debuff bars, and have it display timers for any item that you currently have equipped that has limited duration effects - artificer buffs, temp augment slots, what have you.

One addendum, though: given how controversial UI changes tend to be, as well as understandable concerns about screen clutter, it would be best to include an option in the UI menu to turn off this extra feature. But I know I'd use it!

[dkyle]

I think they should just be integrated into the normal buff bar, since there's really very little difference between a buff on you, and a buff on your gear, but it's way past time for the normal buff bar to be fixed so it overflows to the next row.

[djsonar919]

I am hoping they begin showing the buffs, regardless of the bar they place them on. It gets annoying having to pull up your item to see if the buff is still on it.

[Cauthey]

/signed. I've been wanting this since the advent of Artificers.

[Memnir]

Put em on the main buff bar - put em on a separate Item bar... whatever.

Just put em on a bar!



please.

[Bodic]

As long as I can tag myself and inspect seeign all of my buffs I would be happy. That over extended thing on the top of the page is bad enough when some albeit nice buffers go nutz for pt1 of shroud and such.

used to get upset that I could not see my short term buffs now its no big thing those are the ones I care abotu most anyway.