Guild Wars 2

So I know I may well be in the minority on this, but I really like the old beta flavor names for the secondary attributes (Malice, Expertise, etc.) over the generic descriptive names. Contrary to what most people seem to think, it would take very little extra effort to learn them and what they do (they have tooltips anyway) and IMO would make them seem more interesting.

I know I’m not going to change everyone’s mind who thinks otherwise, though, so would an interface toggle option to display them instead be out of the question?

Bump for great justice. I’m curious to see if there’s anyone else who would like to see this. The generic names are just dull.

Eh…

I don’t have anything specifically bad to say about the idea, because it’s about as inoffensive a change as you can get, but I can’t say I’m personally interested in it. These are labels that appear if you hover over the stat icons on the Equipment tab and the Traits tab…and nowhere else, really. Once you learn the icons, there really isn’t even a reason to hover over them and see the text at all.

In light of how invisible they are, I’d rather their tooltip just explain what they do, rather than give a flavorful term that gets used nowhere else. Enabling it as a menu option keeps it from being confusing, but if they’ve already read it, I’m not sure why they’re hovering over the icon anyway. (And if they’ve forgotten what it is, labeling it “Malice” is hardly going to make it clearer.)