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r/heroesofthestorm•
Ignitus1

The mini tooltips for Ana's talents are poorly written and should be... empowered

Blizzard Response

Hey team,

I've only played a few games of new Ana and so far I'm liking the changes. One issue I've run into when learning her new talent tree is that a lot of the mini tooltips in her talent window (the brief ones before you hover) are really vague and don't give insight into what the talent actually does. Instead, they simply say "Empowers _______" without giving a clue as to how it empowers the ability.

The worst offenders are tiers 2 and 3, where the first talent in each window simply reads "Empower Biotic Grenade". I had to double take the first time I played it to see if I had read the wrong tier, but nope, that's how they both read.

In total, Ana has 6 talents that describe the talent with nothing other than "Empower".

This seems a little lazy and doesn't help the with quick decisions, nor does it help distinguish the different talents on different tiers. The mini tooltips are meant to be very brief, but I feel like they should still give some indication as to what part of the ability they empower.

Here are the current tooltips, with some suggested verbiage.

Biotic Enhancements
Empower Biotic Grenade -> Increase bonus healing and reduce cooldown of Biotic Grenade

Anti-Healer
Empower Biotic Grenade -> Increase area and healing reduction of Biotic Grenade

Night Terrors
Empowers Sleep Dart -> Increase damage of Sleep Dart

(Ew, "Empower" and "Empowers" on the same tier. Pick a tense and stick to it.)

Sharpshooter
Empower consecutive Healing Darts -> Increase healing of consecutive Healing Darts

Concentrated Doses
Doses empower Healing Dart -> Doses increase healing of Healing Dart

Armored Stance
Empower Shrike -> Increase Shrike damage and Aim Down Sights grants Armor

Dynamic Optics
Empower Basic Attacks -> Increase Attack Speed and Aim Down Sights grants Basic Attack Range

These could use some tweaks I'm sure but clearly we can do better than "Empowers". After all, don't nearly all talents empower something?

Posted Mar 1, 2019, 11:54 PM UTC

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Blizz_Daybringer:blizz: Live Game Designer•

Hello all!

This is a great call-out and was overlooked in the quickness that this rework came into fruition. The "Empower XXX" is a very normal simple tooltip for us when we are going through rapid talent iteration, and Ana's mini-rework came in so hot that we missed some of these.

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Blackstar_9I AM YOURS!•

Man it sure is nice seeing you guys everywhere over the sub, keep it up!

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Ignitus1OPMaster Nova•

Thank you, I appreciate the reply. The tooltips seemed out of place amongst the typical Blizzard polish.

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Spazzo965Heroes•

While you guys are looking at tooltips, could Kael's Sun King's Fury get looked at?

The short tooltip says "Living Bomb deals more damage after spreading", which is correct, but the long tooltip says "Living Bombs that spread to enemy Heroes deal 35% more damage", which I interpret as "Living Bombs that (will) spread to enemy Heroes deal 35% more damage", which obviously is the opposite of what it's actually doing

It should say something more like "Living Bombs created from the explosion deal 35% more damage"

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supalaserNazeepo plz!•

I think concentrated doses and sharpshooter are pretty clear as it is but yours is better. The others should be changed as they are almost misleading.

They've had this problem with Ana for a whole now too. Even before the rework the talent which required you to stack doses detachable box magazine said in the tool tip that it empowered doses when it hadn't increased the damage for months.

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ZanzureFriends?•

Good post. I wish there was a better way to make tooltip suggestions, because I hate how some abilities mention delays and others don't, and some abilities say "recently", which can mean 1s or 3s or what have you... These things shouldn't be too hard to fix.

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TheG-What•

The truncated tool tips are terrible across the board. Butchers are particularly bad.

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minor_correction•

The mini-tooltips often don't include the name of the ability because it's already implied when it shows you what letter the talent is for.

As an example Biotic Enhancements has a W next to it. The mini-tooltip can just say "Increase bonus healing, reduce cooldown"

I suggest making this adjustment for most of your revised tooltips. Take out the ability names where it makes sense to do so.

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Ignitus1OPMaster Nova•

That’s a great consideration. At this point I think anything is better than “empowers”.

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ch00blet•

Strongly agree with this, they should give SOME info

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PhDVa:dva: Nerf this!•

I actually picked Armored Stance over Dynamic Optics once because I misunderstood what the tooltips meant. I was thinking "it empowers her trait" because i thought of it as an aim down sights buff, not a basic attack buff.

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AMasonJarGet gabbin' or get going•

I guess the writer wasn't able to stick around.

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WolframRavenwolfMedivh•

Those are the abbreviated descriptions, not intended to really explain, just act as a reminder. It's always been like that.

Solution: Hold Alt! It expands the information and shows the proper, longer explanations.

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CrazyFredy:liming: Li-Ming•

Uhh, nope, every other hero has shortened descriptions for talents that accurately describe what they do, just in less detail.

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