Dynamic Actions

[JeanFrancois-1217]

You teleport immediately just as you do now. The runes are subsequent actions. Since you’re making a reference to teleport let’s bring up what I had before as an example.

@JeanFrancois-1217

Let’s look at a single example. Teleport, classic skill, had five runes in D3. In D4 there is somewhat of a similar customization represented by a choice between two twigs at the very edge of the skill tree - damage reduction or crackling energy hitting two additional enemies. Let’s go beyond these passive modifiers (I realize some items and aspects apply changes too), keeping in mind this is a lightning specialized skill. So you press the teleport button and teleport to a location, then four of your normal buttons are mapped onto the following runes:

• Crackling Overload - Expend up to 6 crackling energy charges dealing their total damage in a sizable radius.
• Wormhole - After casting Teleport you have 3 seconds to teleport one additional time.
• Fracture - Summon 3 moving decoys with taunt in a wide area for 5 seconds.

The fourth button is reserved to return to your normal abilities with the runes still being accessible through the teleport button. Runewords are combinations of runes. In this implementation they would be formed by a second layer of runes. So depending on which rune you have used after teleport you get another set of three options.

For Crackling Overload… come to think of it as these are runes I don’t know why the hell I’m naming them, so I’ll just describe them:

• Stun enemies in area for 3 seconds.
• Make enemies in area vulnerable for 5 seconds.
• Apply chain lightnings or charged bolts depending on which you have equipped.

For Wormhole:

• Gain 40% movement speed for 5 seconds.
• Double crackling energy damage for 5 seconds.
• Gain 40% crowd control reduction for 5 seconds.

For Fracture (all three options are available for 5 seconds):

• Teleport to first decoy, consuming it.
• Teleport to second decoy, consuming it.
• Teleport to third decoy, consuming it.

@Urza-1177

Well take the new meteor build as an example. With ice blades reducing cooldowns your system would kill this build. You would never catch up. Would require too many APMs.

Yes, with aspects or whatever else that makes cooldown abilities spammable there’s a conflict. Not sure what to do about that at the moment. I think that’s their attempt to maximize the excitement within these games’ constraints, which is neither here not there. Sure, it’s nice spamming abilities, but it also doesn’t make gameplay that much more interesting, just speeds it up, although that can be significantly more fun. How often do they do this and with how many abilities? Is there a video of this new meteor build? All of the things I’ve experienced and watched are so dumb, writing of abysmal design. Hell, just today I saw a youtube video about a fun build that the youtuber admitted is very simple. What about this game isn’t abysmally simple that you do on a never-ending loop?

Maybe the answer is you would have to try this concept in a seasonal setting where you can extract things that are incompatible with it and adjust the game to it. No great answer. Perhaps that is most appropriate anyway as adjustments may be extensive, but it’s a big investment ask. The first step would be to determine if it’s feasible, then test it as basically/barebones as possible internally to see how it feels.