Blizzard on Limit of Talent Loadouts - Storage Limitations, Addon Solutions

Live Posted 2024/04/30 at 3:35 PM by Anshlun

I’m wondering why there’s a cap on the amount of talent build loadouts you can save. That’s very limiting for players that do a variety of content. I personally need multiple builds for specific raid bosses, 2-3 builds for keys, and if I were a PvPer I’d need at least a build for BGs and another for arena.

Can we please either significantly increase the number of loadouts or remove the cap entirely?

Thanks!

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Comment by dlbert2000Why aren't they saving them locally if storage is a concern like they do for macros...? That isn't an answer

edit for the very confused people confidently giving wrong info in the replies:

Account wide macros (the main macro page, not the very limited character-specific second page) is NOT saved on the server. Go to your _retail_\WTF\Account\ folder and move macros-cache.txt out of your folder and see what happens

"We store these talent loadouts on the server so that you have access to them on any device you log in on"
Re-read my post! I know it's a very long sentence but keep at it! There's an obvious want from the community for more than just 10 loadouts, and if they can't give us more because of storage problems, let us save them locally like they do for account macrosComment by YveltusThere's no way man, they could literally just save the loadout strings and a loadout name and be down a couple of bytes per character. I've got an old SSD lying around they can borrow off me.Comment by pallybebPlayers needing more than 10 loadouts for a single character seriously need to consider touching grass.Comment by toljarI really hate Blizzard pointing people to use addons to fix their crappy systems. This goes back to them now struggling to fight against WA when it comes to raids, because their personal UI sucks and does not display any of the information that raiders/M+ and PVP people need.Comment by SouledkWhy aren't they saving them locally if storage is a concern like they do for macros...? That isn't an answerComment by cloudflare2211Why aren't they saving them locally if storage is a concern like they do for macros...? That isn't an answerWe store these talent loadouts on the server so that you have access to them on any device you log in on.Comment by FaerlynnThey must be kidding us, this is the repeat of diablo 4 stash loading for all nearby players. Entire talent loadout can be exported in a single string of text, there's no way it's not similar enough in their database. What sort of space issue are they talking about? The inventory itself with bank on every character probably takes more space than all 10 talent builds, not talking about completion markings for all the thousands upon thousands of quests, achievements etc. Their answer makes no sense, either they are playing us for fools and lying, or they are so incompetent that this makes no sense.Comment by NagasshI'm not tech savvy enough to poke holes in this but it feels like whatever they're doing ends up in a pretty poor end-user experience.
Considering talent loadouts can be imported via a string that, if I was compelled to, I could ram into the macro system or hell even carry it around as ingame mail - I find it hard to believe they couldn't find a way to store it ingame in a fashion that didn't oblige me to use addons for it.

Things like this are one of the reasons people blow up any time a nutcase advocates for removing addons from WoW wholesale.Comment by ArcusOfBloodhoofWhy aren't they saving them locally if storage is a concern like they do for macros...? That isn't an answerWe store these talent loadouts on the server so that you have access to them on any device you log in onComment by westomoprestoThere's some addons that store extra loadouts locally
Just use one of those /shrugComment by SouledkThey must be kidding us, this is the repeat of diablo 4 stash loading for all nearby players. Entire talent loadout can be exported in a single string of text, there's no way it's not similar enough in their database. What sort of space issue are they talking about? The inventory itself with bank on every character probably takes more space than all 10 talent builds, not talking about completion markings for all the thousands upon thousands of quests, achievements etc. Their answer makes no sense, either they are playing us for fools and lying, or they are so incompetent that this makes no sense.Comment by BravusWhy aren't they saving them locally if storage is a concern like they do for macros...? That isn't an answerComment by RellyneI'm not tech savvy enough to poke holes in this but it feels like whatever they're doing ends up in a pretty poor end-user experience.
Considering talent loadouts can be imported via a string that, if I was compelled to, I could ram into the macro system or hell even carry it around as ingame mail - I find it hard to believe they couldn't find a way to store it ingame in a fashion that didn't oblige me to use addons for it.

Things like this are one of the reasons people blow up any time a nutcase advocates for removing addons from WoW wholesale.Comment by REVvyet another day of wow players creating their own problens to complainComment by AdelnaPlayers needing more than 10 loadouts for a single character seriously need to consider touching grass.Comment by FizGnomeCan't see why this is an issue.. 10 different talents are more than enough for anything. people are silly in chat.Comment by Ct214476Players needing more than 10 loadouts for a single character seriously need to consider touching grass.Comment by MushmouthLoadouts are just alphanumeric strings. They're like ~70 characters on average. If they actually have 7mil subs and every single person had 15 loadouts that would be like 7.5GB of storage total. They can't manage that?Comment by Acolyytei steadfastly refuse to have anything more than PVP and PVE loadouts. i dont understand how some of ya'll be messing with so many damn loadouts, would be infuriating.Comment by RellynePlayers needing more than 10 loadouts for a single character seriously need to consider touching grass.

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