Suggestion: Summon/Merc Commands Placement

[GunZ-]

Since there is a 9 spell limit, and the Heroes spellbooks have 11 Free slots (considering 1 slot is always for the close button), there is always 2 Free slots which are used for Mercenary/Summon commands "Attack" and "Retreat".

http://i.imgur.com/DPyUSzdh.jpg

Problem is, Whenever you cast Summon/Hire mercenary, those commands are put within the middle of your Hero skills, changing the places of your current skills and making it harder to see your cooldowns and such, If you are not used to using a Mercenary, for example.

http://i.imgur.com/rKJjcNIh.jpg

I suggest to place the Summon commands to always be the 2 Last slots on your spellbook, so your normal skills wouldn't change place whenever you summon a Pet and making it cleaner to see your spellbook.

http://i.imgur.com/344oUzeh.jpg

PS: L33t Paint Sk1llz

 

[S0ulseeker]

I use hotkeys so that doesnt really matter to me I don't even look at the spell book, but I'll give you a +1 on my vote for the fancy paint job

 

[GunZ-]

It's not about using hotkeys, It's about managing cooldowns.

It's harder for you to keep track of the skills you need to use on cooldown, or for an emergency situation, when they change places in your spellbook, since your eyes get used to where they should be after a time.

But thanks anyway

 

[Vestra]

Gunz has a fair point. Reliability in skill locations is important when quickly cross referencing with your current situation. I use my hotkeys too s0ul, but I'm always popping back to see my skills and when they're next available.

Having both a number on the skill info, an actual counter on the skill AND reliable positions that don't change whenever a Mercenary is added to the heroes skill pool are all great benefits in combat,

Another good suggestion Gunz, keep up the good work and I might just let you rub my back.

 

[Vestra]

Also what kind of shithouse hunter still has barbed arrow?

Edit: Ah, the kind of shithouse hunter that still doesn't have magic arrow.

 

[muzzel]

The spells are in a Spellbook, not the normal Hero UI Card. While you can just set the icons coordinates for the latter one afaik it doesnt work that way with spellbooks.

 

[GunZ-]

However, you can set the "Attack" and "Retreat" spell IDs to be higher than the newer spells, so, at least, those commands will be the placed AFTER your abilities and not in-between them, so when you have 9 spells they will occupy the last 2 slots.

EDIT¹: This: http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=81089
EDIT²: Also, This: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/579810-post2.html

 

[Zwiebelchen]

The order of the spells doesn't depend on the spell ID nor when they got added to the spellbook.
What determines their order is the order in which they got preloaded into the map.

I can probably do something about it. But don't expect too much.