The skill can be used when there is yellow bubble around the pig but the bubble itself is barely visible when pet transparency is high. It's even harder to notice the bubble while moving and when all pets and familiars are out. And no, making transparency lower is not an option because then I will have my vision obstructed by skills.
So far the most reliable way to use the skill is to just spam the button and hope it is up, but that makes harder for me to get most of its usage because I may not hit the most monsters.
Without big UI changes the good ways to indicate skill readiness is either adding a buff on the bar or making skill icon grayed out when not active.
I kind of understand the idea here but IMO if, in game or application, something is possible to be done in less convenient way then either the feature should be blocked or simplified.
So the inconvenient, current, way to equip Synergy Ring on a "6th" character is to:
- log out,
- log into listed Synergy Ring character,
- unequip the ring,
- log out,
- log in back to the 6th character
- equip the ring.
Where it could just be:
- Equip the ring.
In either case the effect is the same: 6th character was able to equip Synergy Ring. The difference is that in 1st case I have to waste like minute or two just to wear some piece of equipment. If you think that is a good idea make such limitation/annoyance on every piece of equipment.