Im not suggesting we be able to see the henches skill-bars once we're inside an instance or a missions. Im not suggesting we be able to change or control hench skill-bars. Im suggesting we have a way to view their skill-bars before we make a choice to add them to our teams.
An example being...
You speak to a Hench while he/she is stood in their line. A button at the bottom of the dialogue box will say "View my skill-bar"!
Once you select this, it will expand to show that henches entire skill bar and skill-points allication. The only issue I see with this, is whether your doing HM or NM, and whether the programme can distinguise that and show you their NM or HM skill-bar.
Why...?
At the minute, most players have absolute no idea what build the henches use. Even if you've been playing for 18 months, like myself, its not something you generally pick up on or know indepth unless you take the time to learn.
Especially since we now have several dozen henches throughout the game, with both NM and HM versions.
Personally, I dont really have the time to carefully observe and analyse each and every hench throughout all 3 campaigns and learn what possible skills they have available to them.
The main problem is that you might invite a certain profession hench and have no idea what their going to do. For example the Necro henches can be either Blood, SS or MM. The warrior could be tank or damage. The monks could be heal or protections. You just have no way of telling, unless you take the time out to observe them.
And how many people put priority on sitting back and learning what build each hench is? I know im usually too busy fighting, and distracted to be able to sit back and watch what my henches are doing. It would take hours of gametime to learn that kind of thing.
Yes the information is probably there to find...
I realise websites like Guildwiki probably provide this information, but its something we need at hand. We shouldnt have to jump in and out the game to find it out.
I also realise that after you have played for a while, you are going to inherintly pick up small impressions of how certin hench play.
I also realise their names give away their builds a little bit. But I wouldnt say thats a huge aid in describing their builds. For instance whats the difference between a brawler and a Guardian warrior hench? those arent build names im familiar with. They mean nothing to be.
Maybe if I had ever playe a warrior it might, but I havent! I have no warrior experience.
But...
Having the informaton at hand would make the use of henches alot more effective, if we were able to atleast choose the correct ones for a certain area. Instead of basically hit and miss!
It would help educate newbie players too, if they knew to use certain builds instead of just picking henches at random. It would give them an idea of what effective and what isnt.
It would make it a far more intelligent game, then randomly picking any old hench.
It could result in cookie-cut builds if people copy the hench builds, but if your stupid enough to do that, then its your fault.
It wouldnt be a hard thing to do, as your just displaying information which already exists ingame. Maybe have 2 buttons which say "View my Normal mode skill bar" and "view my hard mode skill bar".
Vote this 5 stars if you like the idea!
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