Fix the buff limit

PC General Discussion
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This anniversary event has made my build nearly unplayable. I already have to hamper myself by NOT using potions and incense due to the limited 8 visual spots for buffs above your bars.

This event added 2 new buffs that appear, Mother’s Blessing and March of the Goblins.

At any time, in combat, I’ll usually have these active buffs now (if i include consumables):

Mother’s Blessing (event)
March of the Goblins (event)
Ursine Strength
Might
Quickshift
Tempest
Iron Fur
Fevered Mauling
Heightened Senses
Provocation
Elixir of Fortitude II (or any other potion)
Elixir of Antivenin
Chorus of War (or any other incense)
Party Exp buff (depends if playing with others)
Provocation

That’s 15 buffs, and I can only see 8 of them.

I NEED to track Provocation as it makes the next hit after 16 seconds of bear form to guarantee overpower. (this is not continuous, you can freely shift in and out to pause/continue stacking.)

With 15 buffs I NEED to wait for at least 7 of them to fall off before being able to see it on my buff bar, which means I need to severely hamper my damage and survivability by not attacking and waiting for my buffs to fall off just to be able to see it.

This 8 buff limit is extremely egregious and needs to be increased or at least move stacking buffs you need to monitor like Provocation to a buff slot where you can actually see it.

I can’t even open my menu in combat and check my character sheet buffs instead because it doesn’t show the stacks there.

This issue is exasperated even more if you’re playing with other classes that can buff you.

Diablo 3 fixed this issue and you can see a bunch of buffs on your bars, so why are we regressing?

To further add to that, having any debuffs on your character (including needing to repair) will block the stack counter of the 8th buff on your bar.

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Yea, a year out and the fact they haven’t given a fix to this UI issue is insane. Feels as though we can only expect a buff bar solution along with a loadout page system once we get the expansion later this year. :sleepy:

Only gets worse with every patch and exacerbated by every aspect receiving a conditional buff that stacks over the experience bar.

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The good side is that once they fix this ui thing, they gonna somehow increase damage times 10000 from the resource generation or some nonsese as usual hahahahha

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Something really needs to be done, getting tired of not being able to do any damage because I can’t see my stacks.

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At least add something like a buff priority list. Rank all your potential buffs of skills/items/season so that the top choices will always show on the bar.

And while we’re on the buff bar topic, how about the name of the buff when you hover over it.

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this is 100% needed. buffs and debuffs need to be all visible.

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7

Dude you are so buff(ed)

Probably has a Bowflex

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honestly this is something that needs to change. On barb sometimes I can’t see what my bash proc is at to activate the hota buff.

Also why don’t we have any options to move the location of those buffs somewhere else on the screen? Damn this game is bad.

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You’re supposed to play by just mashing a controller spamming basic attack.

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Hoping it’s at least fixed in the DLC, at the very least.

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