Tonquin
of Lightning Hammer fame!
Hi all! I hope everyone's 2024 is treating them well!
For Update 66 we're embarking on a bit of a spring cleaning pass on how DDO generates tooltips. These changes should hopefully make looking at abilities a lot easier - less walls of text, more auto-generated info, all that good stuff. To that end, here's what's changing:
With all that being said, if you spot an ability (feat, spell, or anything in an enhancement tree) where any of the automatically generated stuff is wrong, let us know! Furthermore, if you spot any ability where there's lingering text in the block of hand-written info (the bottom-most portion) that duplicates any of the autogenerated info, let us know so we can remove that extra text!
Thank you!
For Update 66 we're embarking on a bit of a spring cleaning pass on how DDO generates tooltips. These changes should hopefully make looking at abilities a lot easier - less walls of text, more auto-generated info, all that good stuff. To that end, here's what's changing:
- All action lines other than description are now in a bulleted list
- There is now an empty space between the automatically generated stuff and the description
- Duplicate information (such as the duplicate cooldown line when hovering over a spellBOOK entry or Spell information in enhancement tree tooltips) has been removed
- Save information is now color coded (between fort, will, and reflex)
- Spell Resistance information is now color coded and presented only if the SR check is active (aka you will see Spell Resistance! only if the ability needs it, and not Spell Resistance NO on everything that doesn't)
- If you have material components eschewed via a character ability the spell now reports this on a per-slot-basis (because you can assign eschew on a per-slot basis) instead of just telling you that you don't have the materials
- We no longer display an SP cost of 0 on abilities with no SP costs
- HP costs of abilities are now reported in RED, and Ki costs are now reported in YELLOW
- Abilities that are self-targeted toggles now say "Toggle Ability" instead of just "Target: Self" which, while technically true, isn't the most helpful information
- Fixed bug where druid abilities reported wrong DCs
- Fixed bug where certain projectile spells had the wrong DCs
- Antirequisites now display in Enhancement Trees and Destiny Trees
With all that being said, if you spot an ability (feat, spell, or anything in an enhancement tree) where any of the automatically generated stuff is wrong, let us know! Furthermore, if you spot any ability where there's lingering text in the block of hand-written info (the bottom-most portion) that duplicates any of the autogenerated info, let us know so we can remove that extra text!
Thank you!
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