macro icon system of 2.2

[Xairuz]

I hope this is a bug. It states in the patch notes that we could use the emote icons, but for some reason I'm unable to. I use /macroicon "Change Pose", and it will not show the change pose icon. Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: I guess I have to use /macroicon "Change Pose" emote. I guess I have to use /? more often.

[ChestyBear]

I think I understand the reason for the change; In the long run, the number of icon pages will exceed the window

1)I don't think that's a very good reason to remove a feature. MMO is supposed to expand over time and removing things to make room for new ones is not expanding.

2) We can have more than 10 tabs. This shouldn't be an issue. I know for sure that computers can store numbers bigger than 10, and maybe, to not exceed the screen space, we can use scroll bar (or left/right arrows) for the tabs if we don't want to display all 11 of em at once (you know the technique used since MS DOS).

3) Assuming we can never have more than 10 tabs for whatever reason (Maybe some dev at SE believes that if you have more than 10 tabs, Ramuh would smite the em) they can split it into 2 or 3 lists. Say when you click on the "Edit Icon" button for a macro, it first shows you pop up menu with 3 options like "Ability Icons" - "Emote Icons" - "Other Icons". And each of those options can give you 10 tabs of icons. Problem solved.

4) It was fine the way it was before. If its not broken, why mess with it? What problem the old macro icons list had that the new one solved?

In the end, I truly believe there is no technical difficulty in letting players choose from more than 250 icons (10x25). They can always expand the list one way or another.

As a recap, to add 100 useless generic icons, SE decided to remove 250 skill-specific icons to make some room. There is also a known side effect described by the OP, /macroicon can no longer display icons of skills your class can't use on the hotbar.


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