A tiny, simple RDM Request

[Maeka]

Could we please get some sort of Dualcast indicator near our White/Black mana indicator? Maybe the crystal at the top could pulse or maybe there's a glow in-between the two mana meters or something when Dualcast is up? Or maybe those "blades" on the edge of the meter light up or something? I hate having to look up at my stats or over at the party list when I need to know if I have dualcast.

Sometimes I cast one spell, get Dualcast, and have to move because of an AoE or maybe I have enough mana to do some melee attacks or something, and I end up forgetting that I have Dualcast in the heat of the battle and end up wasting it on something stupid like Jolt.

Rather than forcing me to look up at the party list or the buff lists, it'd be nice if the Job Gauge would display the presence (or absence) of Dualcast.

[KDSilver]

Enlarge your buff list and place it somewhere in your HUD where your sight mostly is on your screen.

[Rongway]

As Dualcast is the key mechanic of the job, an indicator on the job gauge would not be out of place.

Sometimes I cast one spell, get Dualcast, and have to move because of an AoE or maybe I have enough mana to do some melee attacks or something, and I end up forgetting that I have Dualcast in the heat of the battle and end up wasting it on something stupid like Jolt.

But why haven't you already pressed the button for the second spell before the first even finished casting, so that it cast immediately?
Movement doesn't affect Dualcast, and weaponskills cancel Dualcast, so in either case you shouldn't have a residual Dualcast lying around.

[HyoMinPark]

If your eyes are moving about the screen too much, I would recommend reorganizing your HUD so that everything important is all in one central location. That should solve that issue. For example, everything on my screen is centered around my hotbar—

My cross-hotbar is at the bottom of my screen directly centered (I play on controller because it’s what I’m used to, and I don’t like keyboard/mouse). Under that are my HP/MP/TP bars, and above my crossbar are (in order going up): Hotbar displaying important cooldowns so I know when important things are up (like buffs/cooldowns), Enhancements bar (blown up at 110% so I can see it and the timers better), and then the Target bar. That way I can see my DoTs on the boss, their HP bar, and my own Enhancements—Dualcast will show up there.

[Maeka]

As Dualcast is the key mechanic of the job, an indicator on the job gauge would not be out of place.


But why haven't you already pressed the button for the second spell before the first even finished casting, so that it cast immediately?
Movement doesn't affect Dualcast, and weaponskills cancel Dualcast, so in either case you shouldn't have a residual Dualcast lying around.

I find that even instant-use abilities will interrupt movement sometimes so I don't like using anything when trying to move out of AoEs. And yeah, weaponskills cancel Dualcast, but Fleche and Contre Sixte (which is what I will usually use right after moving if they are up) won't and a lot of times it goes like this:

1). Hard-Cast a spell.
2). Oh No! AoE! Move!
3). Move.
4). Contre Sixte/Fleche
5). .....do I have Dualcast?

I've been training myself to assume I have Dualcast and if I see a cast meter come up, to take a step to stop the cast and cast Jolt/Stone/Fire instead, but sometimes I just plain forget.

@HyoMinPark:

I have my UI mostly set up good, it's just that normally I don't need to see my buffs. Dualcast is the first thing I've run into that doesn't display itself either on the job gauge, nor your hotbars that I routinely ever need to keep track of.

And as someone mentioned above, since Dualcast is so bloody important to the job, you'd think that the job gauge should display it somehow. Hence, why I made this suggestion thread. It's a core mechanic to the job, therefore it belongs on the job meter.

That, and I run 1360x768. I don't have a lot of real estate to be putting buff bars, etc in the middle of the screen. If I do that, then I can't see what's going on. As it is, I had to shrink the hotbars down to the next-to-smallest setting and move them off to the side so I can see where my character is and such.

EDIT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.n...F83C3145008A4/

You can see I'm pretty booked on screen space already. I don't really have much extra room to work with. The only thing I can think of, is trying to tuck the buff bar down between the hotbar and chat, don't know how that would work. Could try it tho.

[Remyogic]

There's no reason not to use your dualcast while moving. On both Bard and RDM, I've never experienced using an instant causing me to not be able to continue moving. If anything, Contre and Fleche would interrupt your movement for animations, but they don't.

You shouldn't be going in to melee combo without burning your dualcast first.

Maybe it's because I started on Bard and was used to monitoring DoT's, but I have my indicators enlarged and right under my character and I have no issues monitoring DualCast.

I can see how adding it to the Job Gauge will be useful though.

[Kurando]

RDM has so many processes that would Dualcast be the best option to add to the job gauge? Ok yes it becomes available from an early level (compared to things like Verfire Ready and Enhanced Scatter etc) but it's not like Dualcast is actually active for very long anyway when you compare that to Hotshot and Straight Shot which really did benefit being added to their job gauges.

I do find the RDM gauge a little basic though and wouldn't mind something more appealing so any addition could give it some life.

[Jonnycbad]

They can keep the two gauges but make the box more into a sword shape. The pommel at the bottom can be an empty () but when you have dual cast it has dualcast icon inside (#). They can keep the gem at the top to be an indicator of balance, and accentuate the red glow around the sword when you may use Enhanced spellblade attacks when >30/30 mana.


Something like this:

[HyoMinPark]

@HyoMinPark:

I have my UI mostly set up good, it's just that normally I don't need to see my buffs. Dualcast is the first thing I've run into that doesn't display itself either on the job gauge, nor your hotbars that I routinely ever need to keep track of.

And as someone mentioned above, since Dualcast is so bloody important to the job, you'd think that the job gauge should display it somehow. Hence, why I made this suggestion thread. It's a core mechanic to the job, therefore it belongs on the job meter.

That, and I run 1360x768. I don't have a lot of real estate to be putting buff bars, etc in the middle of the screen. If I do that, then I can't see what's going on. As it is, I had to shrink the hotbars down to the next-to-smallest setting and move them off to the side so I can see where my character is and such.

EDIT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.n...F83C3145008A4/

You can see I'm pretty booked on screen space already. I don't really have much extra room to work with. The only thing I can think of, is trying to tuck the buff bar down between the hotbar and chat, don't know how that would work. Could try it tho.

I still stand by my suggestion of moving things down to where they are all in one area. RDM is a job that requires you to look at your hotbars/enhancements, as you do need to keep an eye on your Verfire/Verstone procs, as well as Impact procs, and when you have Verholy/Verflare. Verholy/Verflare do not show up on your enhancements bar, but the rest do, and all light up on your hotbar.

One thing I could also suggest, if you don’t need everything to be so large due to poor vision (I have to have some things large because I cannot see well), you can also try scaling some items down to give yourself a bit more room—unless that is 80% at your resolution. Can’t say I know because I play at 1920x1080. If I can, and if you would like, I will send a link to what my HUD set up looks like when I get a chance to give you an idea of what I meant.

[Maeka]

I have the hotbar buttons one-size up from the lowest because it was just too much to squint at, they were blurring together. I run a 27'' TV as a monitor and it's capped at 720p (I hope to get a better one soon).

I have no trouble with Verstone/Verfire, as you say they light up on the hotbar, and the moving outline (the same as combos) are easy to spot and catch your eyes quickly, that and I have those just to the right of my character.

It's just that Dualcast doesn't give any kind of indication on the hotbar at all and that's why I'm having trouble with it. But again, next time I play hopefully I will remember to try to move the buff/debuff area down to that space I mentioned.

You can post a screenshot if you like, though I've seen some peoples' UIs and they just look confusing to me lol. But who knows maybe I might see an idea or something.

But at least it ain't like the crazy junk you see on WoW lol.