Quote Originally Posted by Rehayem View Post
You'd be surprised how many don't read their tooltips. Ever found an ice mage? That's a classic example.
Ice Mage is a bad example. The tooltips dont explain the umbral or astral stances at all - not on the spells and not on the traits. If you want to see what they do in game then you need to: get into a fight, cast an ice spell, not die, read the BUFF description during the 15 seconds the buff lasts, then either repeat everything for fire or transpose and read the fire buff description in your 15 seconds. And even then, astral fire doesnt tell you HOW MUCH it buffs damage - just that it increases damage and mana cost. Running out of mana in ~6 spells can feel bad for a newer player, so seeing that spamming ice means you never need to stop casting might feel like a logical conclusion. There is a brief tutorial pop up window that explains stance changing when you get transpose, but it doesnt explain the benefits. So the entirety of the game trying to help new THMs is a single tutorial/help screen popup that you get like 5 mins after you start leveling the class in the middle of dozens of other popups that many new players dont read because they are in the process of being overwhelmed with info. And again, all it explains is HOW to stance dance - not why you want to.