Elemental Converter Duration Icon

[sheam]

Could it be at all possible to consider some type of way to track the full duration of endow properties provided by Elemental Converters.

Currently, there are few alternatives to those seeking an endow, and converters offer a solution by farming materials and creating a Sage. To go into further detail, some people may not wish to rely upon the schedule, attitude, etc of another player when utilizing this, and want to be self-reliant while still adhering to the server policy of one client per player.

While it may take 10 Scrolls to one Level 5 Endow, it must be cast repeatedly as it lasts for Three Minutes per application.

This could be seen as superficial and a "small price" to pay for self-reliance. Though, I personally (I do not speak for others) find it a nuisance to lose damage count while using wing/skill to power down mobs I'm farming that have strict input actions to do efficiently. It can cause a delay in kill shot and hurt/increase usage of other hp/sp/wing items.

It could be argued that you could simply time each application (with say an app on your phone), but uniquely to our situation here, the game's design and meta were to allow multi client use, often having most players create an endow sage much like they would a merchant.. This is something we do not wish to have here, therefore because of general availability of solo-provided endow in the meta, this may be the reason why a buff timer does not currently exist for converters as their design intention was not to replace endow. (I'll admit, however, that this may be a presumptuous point.)

So to reiterate, this request is a quality-of-life change. It will not edit the game files in a way that would cause an immense impact on the way players interact with the game other than helping with items' efficiency by knowing when to properly reapply their scroll.

Thank you for your consideration.

[GM-Garr]

Hmm. That can be possible, but I'd need to check on how exactly converters work (as I don't remember by heart) and see if it can be altered in this way.

[GM-Garr]

Yay for double post!

So, my findings so far: it's possible to make an icon appear when you buff yourself with converter, *BUT* (there's always one of these things) the way it's built now it's practically impossible to distinguish which exactly converter was used from the icon standpoint, so we have 2 options:
1) fast: one icon to rule them all! It'll be just an icon to show you that you used converter, without element.
2) long: several different icons depending on element endowed.

Any preferences?

Sneak peek on first way:

[sheam]

Honestly just having a timer at-all achieves the purpose. Its fairly inefficient to overlap other converters, and users will want to be checking their skill bar, item info, and even color coding when using a converter -- not so much applying it and seeing which one it was from icon.

Still, option two looks better cosmetically. But that's about the only difference from my point of view.

I'm a bit excited, this looks to be working well. I tip my hat to you. =)
I also want to hug whoever removed gutterlines. ur>>my<<heRO

Edit: Ohh and if I wasn't clear, thaaaaankkk youu !



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[Summerstream]

Well Garr is our residential code monkey. If he sees something that's quick and possible, he'll try to do it fast ^_^

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He's a good code monkey.

[Seraphin]

While we're on the topic of buff icons, ive noticed the lord knight does not get a buff icon for aura blade. Just a minor annoyance not knowing when i need to refresh the buff prior to it running out.

[GM-Garr]

Hmm. So far, I've got requests for these icons: Converters, Pet effects, HW Amplify and Aura Blade. Any more request while we're indeed at it? :3

[Summerstream]

...Gospel buffs other than the armors, weapon bless/agi and heal (Stats, HP/SP), Devotion, links, traps and spiderwebs, speed potions.

Least, that's what coming to mind.

[Aaronock]

Strange, I recall Speed Potion use to have an icon while it was in duration.
Spiderweb + traps I am unsure how you would make able to show duration along considering they are debuffs to an enemy and not a buff/debuff for yourself.

[Summerstream]

Well, it'd be showing it as a debuff on your screen technically.