Comments on: Okay, it’s official… I’m an idiot

By: Grayzzur

Grayzzur — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:09:10 +0000

Nice. I knew they had basic and advanced tooltips, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find the option in the interface to get the non-basic tips. I looked under Controls, Display, Status Text, etc. I didn’t think to look under “Help.” Thanks again, BBB!

By: Feralan

Feralan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:56:17 +0000

Consider me another “idiot” then, who is VERY grateful for this post since it told me how to fix the sodding useless tooltips. What really threw me was that not all tooltips were borked, but about half across all my characters. If I was still a new player, you bet your big bear butt that I would want USEFUL tooltips and not self-evident silliness like “does damage” (no really?) or “heals for a large amount”.

By: thebitterfig

thebitterfig — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:13:17 +0000

Well, even in non-beginner tooltips, Heroic Strike still has the line “Good for moments of high rage.” tacked onto the end and it still bugs me.

Then again, the changes to the mechanics Heroic Strike and Cleave annoy me excessively…

By: thebitterfig

thebitterfig — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:09:15 +0000

I had my sticky-targeting moment in reverse… I was extremely annoyed that I was unable to get rid of my target and cursing at Warcraft for what I presumed was some sort of glitch with my unit frames mod…

By: D

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:46:55 +0000

I don’t mind the beginner descriptions, I know when I started playing I cared far less about how much damage something does and wondered when I should be using it. I should go check out the frost Nova tooltip. I think it took me 4 levels to work out I could trap mobs with it and run away. My poor mage dies a lot <.< I have found it to be annoying on my raiding toons as I'm trying to check the new changes to healing spells and got told it's a fast efficent spell. Yay. And?

I figured they could be changed but hadn't bothered to look. The most annoying default ui change I've found was a while back – the officer chat tick box was unchecked in the chat settings. You were in the channel, you could type to the channel, but you couldn't see it. It took me most of a 3 hour raid to notice it. It was off for every single toon with officer rank. Much confusion for a while.

By: Caliea

Caliea — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:39:08 +0000

darn

By: Caliea

Caliea — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:38:45 +0000

Thanks for not telling me before you did it. I may have lost sleep. :)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:27:11 +0000

But I was totally committed to risking your lives to perform the experiment. You’re welcome.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:26:39 +0000

I tried….

same old universe.

By: Caliea

Caliea — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:24:08 +0000

Wait… in that screenshot, you can choose both ‘beginner tooltips’ and ‘enhanced tooltips’…? Doesn’t that create some sort of wyrmhole that makes the universe explode? O.o