Guild Wars 2

We’ve all thought at one time or another how much better it would be if Boons and Condis were easier to see. It doesn’t help that Boons all have the same color icon. This makes it very difficult to see what Boon you or your enemy has without actually having to focus in on every individual Boon. If every Boon had a different color icon, you would be able to pay better attention to the combat.

Example. I’m a Necro that wants to Fear this Warrior. I notice a green icon pop up. I know this means he has Stability without taking my eye off the Warrior, so I wait on my Fear.

This applies to Conditions as well. Some give off special screen effects, such as blind and chill. But you have no idea how many stacks of bleed you have unless you’ve got 20/20 vision and can watch the combat and see all your Boons and Condis perfectly fine. For me? I have to squint and glance at my Condis. I could be missing a very important ability tell during this time.

I’d also like to suggest having Boons on one side of the UI health bar, and Conditions on the other. I’m sure ANET experimented with this at one time, and resulted in what we have now, but just in case, I threw it out there.

I believe a change like this would also make the game more watchable from a spectator point of view. It’s extremely hard to watch a stream and decipher which Boons/Condis the player has.