Guild Wars 2

There are a lot of different options in this game as far as skills go and different combos. As a new player it would be VERY frustrating to come into a game and have such very vague skill descriptions.

Part of the fun of building a character is to theory craft. You look at your skills, see what they do and see how you can make a build out of it. I find it very hard to be able to do this because Arena Net has not made a very descriptive UI for the skills.

At least make an option to where we can turn on or off descriptive skills. Why in the world would you be so vague in this department where it is so important to know what everything EXACTLY does?

I have been using the Flamthrower kit for the past some odd levels, thinking that the skill “Airblast” does burning damage. Well I was wrong, because after making a post stating that Airblast isn’t working correctly as it is not adding burning damage to my enemies, someone tells me “oh it doesn’t do that, it only extends burning damage”.

Why in the heck wouldn’t you say that then on the description?

Anyway I really like this game, but I have run into more questions regarding what skills and conditions actually do what.

I really hope you plan on fixing this in the future ArenaNet, especially for people who have never played your games. It is quite frustrating and can be a major turn off.

This is being worked on. In one of the other threads, a dev mentioned they’re working on a system that automatically displays what the skill does based on the skill’s effect, rather than them having to re-write the description each time they change something.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

We’re working on a system that will base the tooltip on the mechanical effects, so we don’t have to make sure they match up by hand.

LINK: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Superior-Rune-of-the-Centaur/first#post2001206

Thank you for replying to this thread with this!