| Originally Posted by Lmnop |
| What the hell? You think that I, as a Warrior, feel more like my BRD is doing 6x as much work if I see 6 lines of text instead of 2? You think people don't just filter the shit out of everything but themselves anyway? |
That's just it - you can filter it out. What IfritnoItazura complains about is not all that terribly different from people who crab about being /checked all the time. You can filter it out, you've been able to filter it out for five years. If its a problem for you, filter it and it stops.
Its probably also just a ton easier to log the 6 lines than a single sentence accounting for those in range. The server has to check which targets were in range that recieved the buff and log it, so it probably IS easier to code it so they account for each target separately.
If we want to get real picky about space and consistancy, I could go through the all the items in the game that screwed up items with possessive names ending in "s's," which is incorrect.
And again, I find all this "consistancy" talk humorous. "March is not Haste, March is March." What does Haste do? What does March do? Decrease delay and lower Magic recast timers. They're both Haste, March is just given in two tiers of percentages. Haste Samba is not a true Haste, it only gives reduced weapon delay without lowering recast timers. There is a distinction there.
I'm not arguing for the sake of doing so, but because half of the argument presented is flawed. You want to make a distinction between Flash and Blind, fine, but the end result is the same with different potentcies and magic types. Flash is a stronger blind with shorter duration and a signifigant enmity spike. Blind has a longer duration, weaker effect and smaller enmity generation. They both still blind and they both get the same status icon.
Really, if we asked SE to make all these petty distinctions, our status bars would be loaded with different icons and we'd probably lose track of which meant what. Best to keep it simple sometimes, I'm sure these guys have more than enough work.