[Patch 10 info] Oh @#$%!...Nephalem Altars removed. Swap skill fest is BACK

[Jaime]

"Nephalem Altars have been removed and players can now swap unlocked skills at any point during gameplay via the Skills list. This will impose a 30-second cooldown on the newly-activated skill, during which time the skill cannot be exchanged for another."


''Please note that the skills system is still considered a work-in-progress and will be undergoing additional changes in future patches. This iteration of the system is not final."



Blizzard is backpedaling or is just me having this impression?

"We don't want you guys out of the fray, so caudron + cube."

Then, removed, cause going to town was nice.

"We don't want skill swap to become meta-game."


Now this joke is back...what is happenig?

[Bowzer]

"Nephalem Altars have been removed and players can now swap unlocked skills at any point during gameplay via the Skills list. This will impose a 30-second cooldown on the newly-activated skill, during which time the skill cannot be exchanged for another."
Now this joke is back...what is happenig?

They want to slow down inflation by limiting the resources you can farm before going to town, but they don't want you to have to slow down your progress by switching skills in town.

Seems pretty clear to me.

[Azzure]

You sure did interpret that change in a very strange way. They have changed it so you can't abuse it, which was the only issue people really had with the first iteration of it.

[Jaime]

I know..reading with a more cool head, i understand that it prevents abuse (dont know if we could or could not change skills in cooldow).


It's just that im a little frustrated with Blizzard latelly.

[Chaboi]

Faith restored. The people at blizzard can see obvious and easy solutions to problems.

[WDC]

I am very much for this change. The Nephalem alter was kind of an unnecessary annoyance.

[Scorch Hellfire]

I like that skills are swappable anywhere again, but I wish they would make the cooldown longer. I think people will try to abuse the free swapping in the field even with having to wait for 30 seconds to swap them again. It should be more like 5 minutes (the exception being when you first put a skill into a newly unlocked slot)...

[Azzure]

I like that skills are swappable anywhere again, but I wish they would make the cooldown longer. I think people will try to abuse the free swapping in the field even with having to wait for 30 seconds to swap them again. It should be more like 5 minutes (the exception being when you first put a skill into a newly unlocked slot)...

I've tested this in-game and it works differently to how we all thought - the cooldown doesn't prevent you from CHANGING the skill. It prevents you from USING the skill when you first get it for 30 seconds. For example, you change from Bola Shot to Entangling Shot. You cannot use entangling shot OR bola shot for 30 seconds. It simple auto-attacks if you try. After 30 seconds your entangling shot becomes active and you can use it.

[Scorch Hellfire]

I've tested this in-game and it works differently to how we all thought - the cooldown doesn't prevent you from CHANGING the skill. It prevents you from USING the skill when you first get it for 30 seconds. For example, you change from Bola Shot to Entangling Shot. You cannot use entangling shot OR bola shot for 30 seconds. It simple auto-attacks if you try. After 30 seconds your entangling shot becomes active and you can use it.

Hm... So they just punish you for switching out a skill by essentially taking away one of your skills for 30 seconds? So you can switch over and over again but can't use that skill immediately? But they said in the patch notes that the cooldown prevents it from being swapped... Either they lied about the implementation or it's bugged...

[ael]

Because **** you blizzard, thats why.