It’d be nice to have some sort of setting that defaults showing the full skill descriptions without the need to constantly keep the alt key being pressed.
Also make “more information” be consistent all across the board. Some items don’t show their sub skills when you press “Alt” like Fragment of the Enigma. Some skills have this issue too.
This item shows Meteor:
This item does not. And I have no idea what’s my Spark Charge DPS is from the tooltip just to have an idea:
That would be because Meteor is a skill, and thus has a tooltip already which shows when you put it in the skill bar, and has a unique icon for it, whereas spark charge isn’t a skill but a subskill and doesn’t have either.
As far as I’m aware, no subskill has a DPS tooltip. At most they have what you have in the 2nd example which is a text describing what it does.
Yes but it still would be nice for the “more info” to show the sub skills too when pressing “Alt” for all items in the game with this kind of unique stat, so it’s not just a guessing game on which other “tags” these skills scales off to or what its current DPS estimate. Of course, could just check external sites but I’m talking about information-availability ingame. Hence I added it as a suggestion. I also like the OP’s idea, so I won’t have to keep pressing “Alt” frequently.
If you meant from equipment when pressing “Alt” like the Fragment of Enigma, maybe. But for skills, there’s actually a lot.
Blizzard, from Storm Totem:
Tsunami, from Maelstorm:
Coldstone Elemental, from Avalanche:
Just to name a few. Unless our definition of “sub skills” are different. lol
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I agree. I was just pointing out that this behaviour was likely caused because one is a skill and the other a subskill.
I wasn’t actually aware of that, since I barely pay attention to it. Tooltip DPS is very unreliable, so I never bother with it and I didn’t realize subskills also had a tooltip.
In that case, maybe it’s because some of them have it and some don’t? And spark charges is one of the subskills that don’t have a tooltip yet?
I’m guessing the unique extended description simply pulls from the available tooltips, so if there isn’t one, they would need to create it.
I think @user38 expressed themselves badly, because they don’t want the actual “dps”, but just a more detailed tooltip.
Subskills do have dps too though, but esepcailly for triggered skills the dps is the least important stat to look at in the tooltip.
All subskills do have a detailed tooltip though, most notably showing all the tags, which is super important to know with what attributes it scales by default and what other keywords the skill has to scale it.
Spark Charges already have this as well, so it makes total sense to show that tooltip when doing advanced tooltip on that particular unique:
Here are some other exampels of random subskills examaples:
Other Items that have subskills, like Spark Charges do also show the detailed tooltip of that subskill when doing the advanced tooltip.
So it is an oversight for this particular subskill.
I checked the other unique that has a spark charge affix (Liath’s Machinations) and idols that have spark charge related affixes and those ones also do not have a advanced tooltip for Spark Charges, so I think EHG just overlooked this or there is some behind the scene reason why it is not popping up.
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Doesn’t Fissure have a tooltip? Or the void beams (Shield Rush) & void rifts & Shadow Daggers definitely has a tooltip. I thought most subskills had tooltips but I’d have to check when I get home.
That was already pointed out and I already conceded that I simply wasn’t paying attention to it and wasn’t aware of them.
Yes, but those posts happened after I started mine but before I finished & reiterating what’s already been said is apparently a totally reasonable thing given it happens so frequently.
Plus nobody mentioned Shadow Daggers so that’s totally reasonable.
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