Ellestar
12-17-2004, 05:32 AM
Sorry for my horrible perfomance in a Temple of Atal'Hakkar recently :o Well, not so horrible (aside from when you decided to rush to an instance past all monsters without saying to me what you'll do, if i remember correctly only i died once when fade didn't helped and i discovered that shield is binded on "A" key, but Shield on self isn't binded on "Alt-A"). IMHO it was a bad work from my side, without your Shamans that healed alot (unlike other shamans), we didn't have had passed through this instance.
I finally changed all keybindings to a Quake-like setup from a WoW default one (i don't like WoW with skills on 1-0 and party members on F1-F5, and i prefer ESDF or RDFG movement instead of WASD one - then there are 1 or 2 additional rows of keys to the left for skills etc.). But probably i should have done with all major experiments before a high-lvl instances, it adds a lot of confusion.
Thanks that you didn't kicked a poor newbie from a group and your clan of Rockfellers tried to give me all blue items that dropped from bosses :)
Besides, i found that i'm not happy with a WoW interface (i'm using CosmosUI). One of the CosmosUI components shows a row of %health of party members, but it's impossible to click there (i prefer selecting players by clicking on an icons, it's useful in other games with a better party health bars). Also, there are no debuff icons.
Party members health bars are small, dull, spread on 1/3 of the vertical size of the screen, personal health bar is placed with a different horisontal offset, exact HP numbers on a health bar are useful, but they make it even harder to see a health bar itself under numbers. Same with Buff/debuff icons, they're small, far away, non-contrast etc. So, overall it's impossible to see a party status at a glance. Compare it to a Guild Wars one http://www.houseoferrants.com/gw_tmp/gw018.jpg. Health bar of each member is bigger in both dimensions, brighter, contrast (red on almost black) and health bars are near each other. In a new version, they show a debuff icons if there are any on a party members.
Maybe someone knows a good UI mod with something like a Guild Wars party health bar with debuff icons to the right and buff icons to the left of health bars?
P.S. I thought, why your clan name sounds familiar? Of course, Shadowbane maps!
I finally changed all keybindings to a Quake-like setup from a WoW default one (i don't like WoW with skills on 1-0 and party members on F1-F5, and i prefer ESDF or RDFG movement instead of WASD one - then there are 1 or 2 additional rows of keys to the left for skills etc.). But probably i should have done with all major experiments before a high-lvl instances, it adds a lot of confusion.
Thanks that you didn't kicked a poor newbie from a group and your clan of Rockfellers tried to give me all blue items that dropped from bosses :)
Besides, i found that i'm not happy with a WoW interface (i'm using CosmosUI). One of the CosmosUI components shows a row of %health of party members, but it's impossible to click there (i prefer selecting players by clicking on an icons, it's useful in other games with a better party health bars). Also, there are no debuff icons.
Party members health bars are small, dull, spread on 1/3 of the vertical size of the screen, personal health bar is placed with a different horisontal offset, exact HP numbers on a health bar are useful, but they make it even harder to see a health bar itself under numbers. Same with Buff/debuff icons, they're small, far away, non-contrast etc. So, overall it's impossible to see a party status at a glance. Compare it to a Guild Wars one http://www.houseoferrants.com/gw_tmp/gw018.jpg. Health bar of each member is bigger in both dimensions, brighter, contrast (red on almost black) and health bars are near each other. In a new version, they show a debuff icons if there are any on a party members.
Maybe someone knows a good UI mod with something like a Guild Wars party health bar with debuff icons to the right and buff icons to the left of health bars?
P.S. I thought, why your clan name sounds familiar? Of course, Shadowbane maps!