Guild Wars 2

Maybe it’s just me, but I find the new marker too large and annoying for a floater, especially when I’m in the middle of a large group. I play a bunker Guardian in WvW and am getting hit by large numbers of players at the same time very often, which means literal blankets of this intrusive hit marker emblem clouding the top-middle part of my screen for precious seconds at a time. It doesn’t help when I’m commanding.

I would have been happy with regular-sized text with a different color or something, or just a smaller graphic. It’s literally driving me nuts; seeing your Retaliation hit is not that important of a piece of information.

I don’t play my Guardian enough to get Retaliation of my own. Any chance of someone providing a screenshot showing this new floater? Thanks.

Sure thing. Went and aggro’d a few slow-hitting drakes real quick. Looks like a fist covered in poo. A fist of poo.

I agree, its way too big and looks kinda half kitten design wise. I couldn’t tell what it was to start with, thought it might be some new ranger skill because of the colour and it kinda looked like claw marks in the split second its visible.

So that’s what that is…

They tried to take the retaliation boon icon and put it behind the numbers, somewhere along the way someone decided it needed to be that slightly nauseating shade of yellow/orange instead of the white of the icon, then they added a flaring skirt which I can only guess is meant to be fire of roughly the same color (as far as Im aware not present in any of the other icons of retaliation) which obscures the shape and such.

Remove the skirt, make the fist the white of the boon icon with possibly yellow outline (not flaring skirt thingy), give it a mid to high transparency problem mostly solved.

Considering the state of WvW due to trying to keep it consistent with PvE its amazing what they decide not to make consistent.

Yeah it is a little… ugly.

Yeah this freaked me out yesterday, haha. I don’t like it. Too distracting and what in the world is the point of it.

I would like it to be shaded white and black, or blue and black.

I tend to judge games (and my ability to look at them) by graphical irritants like this. It’s a literal eye sore and it’s unfortunately bad enough to be one of the several factors that popped up this patch which are leaning me towards finding a new game…

I can’t stand the idea of a poop fist being the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Honestly an indicator helps learning curve pretty well, though text color can work. Confuse also has an indicator, and is just as massive, but being pink and mostly transparent, it’s not as painful.

Personally I’d like to see the image shrunk (and changed from brown! Yellow so it’s golden fists of pain). Another option is an icon in front of the numbers – indicate without filling half the screen.

Dasorine.1964:

…then they added a flaring skirt …

Just like the majority of the armor in the game.

Ulari <— could not resist

Is that a footballs ghost?