Why didnt Blood Dk get any Spell alert thingies?

[XxLightningxX]

.... Why? i want them so badly lol couldent they give us a little pool of blood on top of screen when next blood boil was free or something???

[Deleted]

:P you could make your own using Power Aura's but I think the reason for it is because Blood doesnt have any interactive proc ability like frost or Unholy?

I dont use them personally I just use the glowing action buttons :P keep my screen clean.

[Huckfealing]

As Chudz said, there really isnt a whole lot to watch for.

[Nyanmaru]

The free blood boil should definitely be a "glowing action button" and a "official power aura".

I can't think of a reason why it wasn't implemented.

[konaman]

it was not implemented because you get it from refreshing blood plague which is not a random occurrence like say art of war for a paladin.

[Assassin1344]

I made my own for the free blood boil using bliz icons it looks legit and works just fine

[Xaos]

.... Why? i want them so badly lol couldent they give us a little pool of blood on top of screen when next blood boil was free or something???

Because its controled rather than a random proc..
Also run diseaseless its better. (unless you need the melee slow % debuff ofc)

[Nyanmaru]

it was not implemented because you get it from refreshing blood plague which is not a random occurrence like say art of war for a paladin.

Neither is Dark Transformation, even though it got both blinkies...

[konaman]

Neither is Dark Transformation, even though it got both blinkies...

I think that Dark Transformation got an aura so that you don't have to monitor another meter where as when you refresh blood plague you know that you get a free blood boil.

[ChildeRoland]

Blood didn't get any because Blood doesn't need any. There is no exciting random procs in blood.
Tbh I find Blood the most boring spec of all classes of all specs currently in the game. I'd rather heal :<

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Neither is Dark Transformation, even though it got both blinkies...

You don't press on your ghoul to get to see how many stacks you got, nor focus it if you need focus on anything else.

[Nyanmaru]

Blood didn't get any because Blood doesn't need any. There is no exciting random procs in blood.
Tbh I find Blood the most boring spec of all classes of all specs currently in the game. I'd rather heal :<

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You don't press on your ghoul to get to see how many stacks you got, nor focus it if you need focus on anything else.

The DT button is only usable while your ghoul has 5 stacks.
It's pretty much the same as with the free BB (it's only there when your blood runes are on CD).

I don't focus on my blood plague uptime either.
If a blood tank can look at the debuff aura's an unholy DK can look at his DT button, too, can't he?
And you don't want to be DCing while DT is up, how do you monitor this when there are 2 Unholy DKs in your 25 raid or you can't see your pet?

The only reason why there is no power aura effect for the free blood boil is a lot simpler than any gameplay reason:
It's extra time for blizzards devs to implement and test, but that's not a bad thing since no tank gives a damn about that one blood boil he gains, a lot even skip the talent after all...

But from any gameplay argument, it's perfectly valid to have a visual notification for when your BB is a) free and b) does not conume a rune when used. The power aura may be overkill, but the shiny button would be very appreciated.

[Shirosaki]

DT requires 5 stacks. If the free BB required 5 blood plague refreshes, that'd be one thing. But it doesn't. To be crude, if your mind cannot keep track of the idea that after you refresh blood plague you get a free BB, then you shouldn't be tanking anyway.

Should we also have a shiny conspicuous notification every time we get a death rune? Or should we just know that every time we use a rune it'll become a death rune?

Precisely.

[Nyanmaru]

Should we also have a shiny conspicuous notification every time we get a death rune? Or should we just know that every time we use a rune it'll become a death rune?

I don't know what game you are playing, but my WoW has got something called a "rune bar" which exactly tells me when I got a death rune.

Does a tank that does not focus on using diseases, one that only uses them to boost his dps during DRW keep track about the state of his diseases? Certainly not. If you don't immediately use your free BB, how do you keep track if your next BB is still free or if it starts to consume a rune? And now don't tell me to subtract X from the total duration of my diseases so I could now that X seconds after I used PS the BB will be free...

Once again, why does a DC spamming UH DK need a shiny effect for his DT when he also see's that his greyed out button becomes available?
To be crude, if your mind can't keep track of the idea to look at the DT icon after you cast a DC, then you shouldn't be dpsing anyway. See what I did there?

Would it hurt in any way that the BB button lights up when it's a free BB through the use of the talent?
What is wrong with a blood DK wanting to have some eye candy on their screen too?

a) it's not a big thing and without any power auras the spec feels like missing something (though it gives a good feeling to not have to rely on stupid procs)
b) if you don't want them while tanking, you can disable them.

It's just the same like all the GFX in WoW, if you or your computer can't handle all the siniyness you can tone it down. But it sucks to have no way to tone it up.

[FatedPrime]

But it sucks to have no way to tone it up.

I think you're making a big deal out of nothing, since the two situations you're talking about are quite different.

But, to reply to your post: you can 'tone it up' with the addon called PowerAuras. Hurray, problem solved.

[Nyanmaru]

I think you're making a big deal out of nothing, since the two situations you're talking about are quite different.

But, to reply to your post: you can 'tone it up' with the addon called PowerAuras. Hurray, problem solved.

Everyone could tone it up with PA before, too, so why was it implemented at all?

Blood tanking only has 2 more or less significant procs. One is the free BB, the other is with WotN.
If you don't plan to spam your free BB the second it gets available, you have no way to track if the proc is still there.

[Damax]

I don't know what game you are playing, but my WoW has got something called a "rune bar" which exactly tells me when I got a death rune.

I don't know what game yo are playing bro, but my wow has got something called a ''buff icons bar'' which exactly tells me when i got a free blood boil

[Marsc92]

I don't know what game yo are playing bro, but my wow has got something called a ''buff icons bar'' which exactly tells me when i got a free blood boil

Yea pretty much this. If u can't look at a buff then your just bad. If ur here arguing for a shiny button and only that then your also bad. DT is slightly different, I don't agree it deserves a PA but ur just a downright idiot if ur mind can't comprehend the fact that your next BB is free after refreshing Plague. And yes, as mentioned. If this is indeed the case,
you shouldn't be tanking.

[Nyanmaru]

So if I can't look at a buff I'm bad? All the unholy DKs that are happy with their shiny DC proc animation are bad?
You immediately see the greyed out DT becoma available on your ability bars and you also get the DC proc in you buff bar.

Point taken? It is just the same. If all your arguments are "I wouldn't need it." that's fine, really. But just because you say you don't deem it worthy because of personal preference does not make it unworthy.

Calling people "bad" because they want a visual information for their talent procs is not helping your argument at all. I never said I wanted the PA to know if it has procced, but I wanted it to know if it's still active. I've got different priorities than "use that GCD for that free BB" when I'm tanking. So if I can't use it immediately I want a little visual that helps with this information without having to wade through endless short time procs and buffs in my buff bar.

I still fail to see a point why it would be bad to have a little shiny animation for this, that you could even turn off if you don't want it.
Convince me why it would be a bad thing, not why you deem it's unnecessary.

[Occasus]

It would be a bad thing because it would take some time for the devs to implement when there is no need for it in the first place. As far as I'm aware, Blizzard didn't give any class a power aura for something that you can easily monitor yourself or is very reliable. DT is different because the stacks of shadow infusion appear on your pet and not on you.

[kerwyn]

The free blood boil should definitely be a "glowing action button" and a "official power aura".

I can't think of a reason why it wasn't implemented.

You control when it activates. No reason to waste programmer time with any notification. (The button should light up, that's it)