Hi there.
I will likely get flamed for this, but since we’re getting many drastic changes (that are in my opinion not needed like Dual-Spec) I’m starting to realise this isn’t the kind of fresh I was hoping for. But now that I’m slowly accepting the direction this is going, I’d like to make a small suggestion for something that technically is already in the game:
Could you add the Equipment Manager to fresh?
My thoughts:
I’ve been using, like many others, ItemRack (addon) a lot (and I likely will still do so), but there’s one very annoying issue with it; it doesn’t allow you to swap weapons in combat.
Because of this I used a /click command on all my skills that required a weapon swap, like Shield Bash on warrior. The /click command would then be sent to a macro on my bars that would /equipslot to the weapons… But this is no longer allowed since you can’t chain macros anymore…
So ever since the cata patch I discovered the equipment manager is also in the classic client now - you just can’t see it. But through macro commands you can create, update and equip equipment sets already, which I’ve been doing on my warrior.
Here’s an example of what I’m doing:
Create a new weapon set: (The example set is called ‘Shield’)
/run C_EquipmentSet.CreateEquipmentSet(“Shield”, 134400) /run local setID = C_EquipmentSet.GetEquipmentSetID(“Shield”); C_EquipmentSet.IgnoreSlotForSave(13); C_EquipmentSet.IgnoreSlotForSave(14); C_EquipmentSet.SaveEquipmentSet(setID)
Update the weapon set with your current equipped weapons:
/run local id=C_EquipmentSet.GetEquipmentSetID(“Shield”);C_EquipmentSet.ClearIgnoredSlotsForSave();for i=1,15 do C_EquipmentSet.IgnoreSlotForSave(i) end;C_EquipmentSet.SaveEquipmentSet(id)
/run DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(“Saved Shield”, 1, 1, 1)
Example on how to use it;
/equipset [worn:shield] DPS; Shield
#showtooltip Shield Block
/equipset [noworn:shield] Shield
/cast [stance:2,worn:shield] Shield Block; Defensive Stance
Now since the Equipment Manager is technically already in the current client - and I’m actively using it already. It would make a lot more sense to me for blizzard to just add it to the UI and show the actual button in the character panel. Like this it’s easier to manage the sets - and the actual functionality it gives is truly a QoL update that does NOT impact the meta like the (in my opinion wrong) addition of the Dual-Spec.
Some food for thought.