Now, I’m not knocking it as a positive feature – the more things to tweak and numbers to boost, the better in a loot-piñata game. One thing that does kind of bother me, though, is how direction-less the Devotion system is.
I’m not asking to have my hand held or anything, but it’s a very user-unfriendly UI since I can’t tell which constellations have which requirements or which affinity bonuses without hovering over them to look at the tooltip, and then just one at a time.
I think if there was some way to see, at a glance, what the required affinity/affinities are and what bonus points are awarded for completing the constellation, that would improve usability dramatically. Something as simple as a little graphic next to the constellation with required affinities on top (“3 O, 6 O”, where the orbs are colored accordingly) and the same on the bottom for rewards. Maybe even make it a toggleable menu item so that anyone who thinks that “dumbs it down” or is annoyed by the clutter can opt out.
As it is, planning it out is more of a headache than it should be, as I have to go mouse over the constellation I want, remember what affinities I NEED, then go look at other constellations to see what they REWARD…
It’s defintely more involved and, IMO, better than a simple hierarchical tree/web (-cough- PoE -cough-), but it would be super sweet to have a simple little tweak like this.
This is a really good idea. I found myself going back and forth constantly to see rewards/requirements, while trying to see which ones were good for my build. It will take a considerable amount of play time to memorize all of the Devotions, so having this would be most beneficial to new players.
I like the idea, it would definitly help most players.
But in my opinion it is even more important to have a search option, because that was my biggest obstacle so far. With all of my 3 chars it took me ages to find most constellations which give the stats i need. I am still finding new ones from time to time…
I think the UI for the Devotion system needs a complete rework. I had a friend starting the game recently, and he’s a huge theorycrafter, and he eventually just gave up on trying to process the Devotion tree because it’s impossible to mentally organize it into something reasonable right now without transforming it to a different model.
It’s a shame, because the current Devotion UI is beautiful. It’s just not very functional. The suggestion in the OP is useful, but only goes so far to address the issue. The search function could imply we could make use of a tagging system:
show all resistance stars; Aether resistance stars;
show all increased damage stars; +X% fire damage stars;
show all added skills;
show all proc skills.
etc.
Making the Devotion UI easy to understand and process could be a fun exercise for UX designers…
Such a list exists. http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28355 is one (i don’t know if the link works)
I found it to be very helpfull, but that really accentuates the need for an improvement. In game you simply can’t get all the informarion you want.
I found myself going back and forth constantly to see rewards/requirements, while trying to see which ones were good for my build. It will take a considerable amount of play time to memorize all of the Devotions, so having this would be most beneficial to new players.