Question:

[Tiphison]

I left a few days after the Combat Changes and just came back to find my hotkeys wiped and a flood of new skills I learned.I don't understand why all the skills had to be renamed but well, they are. Either way, I have no idea what does what and what's on the same timer so I'm a bit overwhelemd on what to fill my hotkeys with.I don't expect anyone to type up a full thing on what specials use the same timer and what not, but if anyone is around level 20, I'm 24, and could let me know what their hotkey layout is, that'd be much appreciated... Just something to get started on. Or perhaps a website that has the changes listed. Because right now I'm a bit overwhelemd with all these specials that sound the same and not knowing what's on the same timer.Also, what ever happened to all the skills I had upgraded that no longer exist? Was I just screwed or what?<div></div>

[SageGaspar]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>Tiphison wrote:I left a few days after the Combat Changes and just came back to find my hotkeys wiped and a flood of new skills I learned.I don't understand why all the skills had to be renamed but well, they are. Either way, I have no idea what does what and what's on the same timer so I'm a bit overwhelemd on what to fill my hotkeys with.I don't expect anyone to type up a full thing on what specials use the same timer and what not, but if anyone is around level 20, I'm 24, and could let me know what their hotkey layout is, that'd be much appreciated... Just something to get started on. Or perhaps a website that has the changes listed. Because right now I'm a bit overwhelemd with all these specials that sound the same and not knowing what's on the same timer.Also, what ever happened to all the skills I had upgraded that no longer exist? Was I just screwed or what?<div></div><hr></blockquote>The general rule of thumb is that attacks upgrade on fifteen level cycles. You can sort your knowledge book by level now, so if you do that and go to the end you'll have the CAs that you should be using. Keep adding them to your hotbars, and when you get back to something that's a repeat, you've probably found the last skill you need.Exceptions are Cheap Shot and whatever our stealth is called, as that sticks around from the earliest level. Also evac, but I don't think you have that yet. The other thing to watch out for is the same icon, two of the same icon generally means the same timer. Looking at a screenshot I took a couple levels ago, no two of my same attacks had the same icon; some had the same picture with different colors, but not the same icon. The exceptions are the Mastery attacks, which all share the same icon.As far as layout, there are some skills whose reuse timer is "until cancelled." Those are long-term buffs, so put them off to the side somewhere, you just put them up and forget about them. One change you might not have been around for was the offensive/defensive stances. You can only have one of the two up at a time, and you can toggle them whenever you want. They both add to your offensive or defense and subtract from the other. You'll notice that one goes up when the other goes down if you have them both on your hotbar. Offense looks like a guy with two batons and defense looks like some sort of puffy cloud thing, if I recall correctly.</span></div>

[Tiphison]

Cool thanks.And that explains the buffs... I was playing on the PvP server and was getting frustrated by how I could only have one buff, wasn't sure what that was about but this explains it.Alot to relearn, lol. I was thinking I'd just jump in from where I left off.<div></div>

[Mathe]

<div>Playing as the Archetype and Class before choosing subclass was removed, so all the old archetype and class skills you had were removed and replaced with Swashbuckler ones. Being level 24 means that you were probably still using a lot of old Rogue ones. Best way to find which are the ones you want are to go to Knowledge and sort by the type, the last one in each group is the best one (unless you have Mastered lower ones, but I would guess not at those levels).</div>