Completely agree. This discussion has been going on on the EU forums too.
Here’s just a small idea of how many times this is being asked for by the community.
Here’s Kripparrian talking about it.
Here’s Quinn69 reacting to Kripp talking about it.
Here’s a bunch of posts on Diablo forums both new and old requesting this feature.
This is one of the most talked about. Most cross posted feature I’ve seen. Multiple posts with tons of replies and likes on each post from separate accounts agreeing with this point over YEARS.
When you have an issue that’s brought up this much usually Blizzard at least address it, but we’ve had radio silence from Blizzard on this issue almost like they are trying to avoid it completely.
I don’t remember anyone complaining that 8 or 12 skill slots were too many like in Lost Ark or POE. But many, many people have come to complain about 6 skills being too few in D4. It’s too much of an oversimplification for a game with this much depth. When you actually go to use it you’re nerfed to just 6 buttons to press and it makes building classes and combat boring.
No one is asking for wow levels of buttons. In fact I think the best compromise and a suggestion that Blizzard might actually take seriously is for the inclusion of an ultimate button.
Ultimate was the one skill I felt I could barely include in my builds because the cooldown was so long. If you added a button for just ultimate it would have the lowest affect on balance. I never felt like I needed it anyway during combat, so I don’t really see how much a 60s cd will really affect the pace of combat or your clearing of mobs. I think it would be pretty much the same. Any issues with skill point distribution, these points could just be given for free at certain levels. It’s only 3 points. And the console players wouldn’t have to have a huge remapping of buttons. Ult could very easily be assigned to the press of both shoulder buttons and not need an extra button for it.
This post here was from the console forums asking for modifier buttons for even more than just an ultimate button.
Console players are much better than Blizz give them credit for.
What I’m suggesting is a compromise. One ultimate button to free up one slot on my action bar for more interesting lower cds, and still be able to use this skill without it affecting the rest of my build.
Only ultimate would be able to be slotted into it but at least I’d get to use my ult.
I noticed all my friends didn’t take ult. And looking through the builds for all classes I could see many options that did not include ult that would outdamage ultimate builds. I imagine lots of meta build guides will tell people not to even take it.
It kind of seems like a shame to design these skills then people to barely use them in builds. I think Blizzard would even see for themselves that ult was not a very popular choice in peoples builds and this was primarily because you have so few buttons.
So yeah. Please Blizzard, it’s demonstrably obvious this is one of the most requested features on the forums. Please address this issue and perhaps consider giving us an Ultimate button if nothing else.