new patch

[-=NeonovaS=-]

played to get to mess around with runes and wow...i fucking hate how skills are now. the ui is terrible having to go through mutiple windows just to pick a damn skill

[Stylin1]

Elective mode allows you to make everything just as it was before. Any skill into any spot.

[-=NeonovaS=-]

Elective mode allows you to make everything just as it was before. Any skill into any spot.

yeah i found that out (i also found i could permanently disable the retarded "simple" tooltips!), but the UI is still terrible. If i want to change "1" it auto-selects the "defensive skills" so then i have to cycle through each type until i get to the skill i want. If i want to switch positions i have now to go through that as well. Even when you go to change the skill it automatically takes you to that cookie-cutter pick, IE: I went to add a rune to Arcane Orb which i had switched to left click and it takes me to the "primary" skills of magic missile, etc making me click over to the skill I already had in there to pick a rune. It's a lot of pointless clicking to do anything not to mention you can't see all your skills at once.
I liked it last time a lot more where you could see all your skills at once and you could swap hotkeys by holding down/swapping.

[Rheem Octuris]

I'm going to have to disagree with you, I found it intuitive and the changes make the game flow better.
On top of that, there is now an actual reason to go back to old spells. Arcane Orb or whatever plus the first rune is AWESOME.
And I don't see the point of the stupid simple tooltips. I want to know what does more damage.

Also, they rebalanced the mobs, champions and uniques are now much harder to kill, I actually died vs skeleton king (Though I was running no crafted armor at the time, makes the game much funner.)

[-=NeonovaS=-]

I was not talking about runes only the UI changes. The old UI had a space for runes just no one could access them because of level restrictions. It was rather counter-intuitive for me, first I was pissed at being locked into a cookie cutter build and i had to close the game to figure out what they had changed and find the fix. Then every time I want to change a skill it throws me into the pre-set cookie cutter picks by default rather than the "slide" which had the skill currently on there, even on elective mode. Even after i figured out how it worked it was annoying only getting to see 4 skills at a time and having to cycle through windows to pick what i want. Instead of open skill window, click skill slot to replace, pick skill its now open skill window, click skill slot to replace, (cycle through 1-5 windows to view&pick all your skills), pick the skill. I can see why some people would like it or that it would be helpful for new people but the old one is far superior to me and i had hoped when i changed it to elective mode it would be more like it.
TLDR: Give me all my damn skills in 1 window.

I used arcane orb over most of the wizard skills even without runes last time so there was always an "actual reason" to go back to old skills, you pick which ones you want. I also noticed they made it so it "tracked" your target instead of exploding where clicked, I liked it the old way better =(. I did notice that it took longer to kill some mobs but it was hard to tell if that was just shitty gear compared to last time or mob changes.