There are a ton of toys in the game, some fun, some odd, some questionable. A big issue a lot of them have in common is a completely arbitrary and unnecessarily long cooldown or restriction. Seriously, toys that are cosmetic/fun having a 12 hour cooldown?! WHY? The 12 string guitar from the diablo event only usable in an inn? What sense does that make? It quickly became one of my favorite toys as it took me back to being 15 and playing the original diablo for hours.
Can this be worked on? evaluate the toys and make them more usable? I understand some are annoying, and maybe implement a fix to that like the ability to turn of toy sound effects or toys cant effect your player if generated by other players without permission, a toggle in the options pain.
Personally, my favorite toys are the costumes. Ive had the red ogre suit since it was released in the TCG and use it basically daily. The other costumes I love to use are the ones that can be used in combat. There is nothing more disheartening for me than working to earn a costume that disappears either upon combat or receiving damage. On top of that many of them have 1+ hour cooldowns and may only last 5 minutes. Even if there is no animation for the attacks (admittedly I do prefer costumes with proper animation most of the time but I also understand that is a lot of unnecessary animation. Plus shooting fireballs out of the darkmoon wolf form’s mouth entertains me too) I still enjoy the costumes so I would love to have them all work in combat.
They can, because they have, decreased the CD, increased the use time and made some unusable in certain situations. There is zero reason the toys are the way they are, they can change them, they just refuse to for whatever reason.
I presume on some of them its to stop spamming and griefing. As most people know with games and gamers, any freedom you give them will instantly be abused.
Mind you some of them really need their cooldowns readjusted. 12 hours for something that lasts 1 minute and only makes the player do something is utterly deranged.
So make them unsuable like they have already with others. Like they do with mounts, in certain places make them no mount and no toy zones.
The legion one that spawns a green puddle of crap on the floor? That can no longer be used in instaces. They can and have done it before, there is no excuse why they cannot allow us to have fun in the open world.
While we’re at it, can we expand the functionality of some of them? I love the Drust ritual knife, but I rarely if ever get to use it, can we make it like the Gin-ji knife set where it works on things other than just “recently deceased” player PVP corpses?
Blame the people that abuse certain toys, and when confronted about it, they always have the SAME response: It’s not against the ToS! I cAn Do wut I waNt!!111
Same reason for a lot of dumb things in WoW.
How to spot degenerate gameplay: they always hide behind the “it’s not against the ToS” excuse.
The actual reason why toys get banned in certain areas or changed to dumbass CD’s has nothing to even do with this, people have abused toys in the past to make raid encounters trivial, it’s the same reason that nameplate addon was eventually banned, after the King Rastakhan fight made the entire thing trivial it forced Blizzard to break it.
It’s to prevent people from annoying the piss out of everyone around them. The sound from the train is extremely jarring to me bc i wear headphones when i play.
