Buff-window filter

[the_antoshka]

I posted this suggestion on the official EQ2 forums, without any official reaction, sadly. Someone did recommend that I should inquire about the possibility of circumventing "the man" via a custom UI. Quite honestly, I'm expecting that the answer is no, but if someone knows the extent of modding possibilities, please let me know what you think.

the original post is here:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/p...opic_id=452143

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I'd like to submit a feature request for you consideration.

When in raid my buff window is often 40+ icons long. What's worse, at any one time anywhere between 5 and 10 of them are near-expiration and blinking, making it even harder to make out what they are. Many of them are similar enough or unintuitive enough to distinguish at a glance. Bottom line is that it's close to impossible to say in the heat of battle whether or not I have a particular buff on me.

And it's a shame. Especially with recent introduction of various proc-based self-buffs. My character's effectiveness, and my enjoyment of the game, would go up significantly if I had the tools at my disposal to properly react when such buffs are on me. It would provide that aspect of response-rewarding behavior that dpsing in raids today is severly lacking. Frankly it's often down-right dull unless you're just learning the encounter. Something that the chain-triggering system didn't quite succeed at.

There are probably only 4-5 such buffs that I want to actively monitor in a separate window where it would be easy to see them at a glance. It would be awesome if there existed a filtered buff bar that is basically a mirror of a normal buff bar, but would only show such spells that I define as "interesting".

I believe in the current state of the game the lack of this feature is quite limiting.

thanx in advance for consideration.