Guild Wars 2

I think the boon/condition display system is in need of an overhaul. The idea that all of the icons are similar fits a certain aesthetic style and looks nice to a a degree, but its not a good gameplay interface.

Other games use a variety of icons with different images and sometimes shape, but most importantly colors. The way human brains recognize color is just much faster and takes less attention than the way we differentiate similar images. With these various icons, its easy to recognize a bunch of buffs and debuffs while maintaining focus on the rest of the interface/battlefield. With the current system of uniformly shaped/colored boons/conditions, it’s much more difficult than it needs to be to take note of these various statuses while maintaining attention where it’s needed elsewhere.

I agree. Color coded boons and conditions would be much easier to recognize. That being said the boon/condition system in this game is a huge step forward from having to memorize over 100 different buff and debuffs icons like in wow.

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I agree. Color coded boons and conditions would be much easier to recognize. That being said the boon/condition system in this game is a huge step forward from having to memorize over 100 different buff and debuffs icons like in wow.

Hmmm, never played WoW, but I played TOR and I never had a problem knowing all of the buffs/debuffs. As I understand it WoW had more.