Add Debuffs to New Row on Buff Bar

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okay wtf is dis shit
how i see whether my char is darkness'd or not
prob how nightz has whited warriors here before tbh, they just missin half the time

Even supposing I had a clearer line of sight on my char, it can still at times be difficult or impossible to tell if the skull of darkness above my head belongs to me or the player(s) behind me.

okay but gurk u noob, have u heard of dis thing called the chat box? dont u know u can see if u get debuffed there?

This is true but when you get debuffed with very high frequency because you play a dumb warrior with zero avoid and your chat box just gets spammed with the same debuff message over and over, it can be impossible to tell whether the debuff message you're looking at is a new one or an old one. As a workaround, you could do something like this where you type filler messages to create a better reference point so you can better differentiate between old and new messages by monitoring the position of the filler message:



but having to do dis mid combat is pretty jank yo and sometimes players look at u lyk wtf r u doin m8


And so that brings me to my suggestion. I would like to propose that custom debuff icons be created for each existing debuff and have them show up on a separate row on the buff bar whenever a player is inflicted with one. This would allow players to tell at ease whether they are debuffed or not (and by what exactly) and let them better focus on the fight itself.



Given that changes have already been made in the past to other buff icons to relocate them to a separate row (e.g. mount, battleship, assassinate), I don't think it would be too radical of a move to do something similar here with debuffs.

ok ty 4 reading

 

tfw you have cooldown notices disabled so chat isn't spammed when playing mm or bucc. also my enrage key is not very accessible anyways

You bring up a good point though about being able to tell when control reverse will end and in that regard I think seduce getting that same treatment could also prove useful, e.g. deciding whether or not to fire off your will. On the flipside, one could also argue that it's a bit unnecessarily hand-holdy, for better or worse.

 

Burgunt.

Something akin to -ovv's meme solution above implemented as an opt-in unironically works too for a simpler implementation if debuff icons is too much work, though it would lose the potential upside of knowing when debuffs like confusion and sed would expire, for what it's worth.

I'll take anything that will free me from having to constantly enter filler messages into chat!

 

burgunte