Guild Wars 2

Review your in-game tooltips please. A lot of the tool tips in traits, abilities, events and quest are either misleading or uninformative. I believe alot of bugs may have been reported in error due to misleading tooltips. You can save yourself and the rest of us alot of time and energy if the text matched the ability.

A few minor examples;

Mesmer Ability: Mirror Blade – “Throw an illusionary sword that bounces between targets, damaging foes and giving might to allies. It creates a clone at its first target.”

That doesn’t tell me the range on the bounce, that doesn’t mention that while damaging my foes it will cause Vulnerability (it does say that under the effects, but then it doesn’t clarify if ea bounce would get 3 vulnerability or would ea target target get 1, i assume 1 only cause I’ve played the game long enough) and the last line sounds like you went threw the mesmer skills after the fact and tact on the clone mechanics. Doesn’t flow nice.

I was checkin out mesmer abilities in the mist, so another one I was lookin at was Temporal Curtain – the Second effect Into the Void “Destroy your temporal, pulling your target into it” ….When i first saw it my first thought “Oh, that sounds kind of like Spectral Grasp, Death Grip” after using it on the test dummies I realized I pulled about 6 dummies towards me. Bug, feature, misleading tooltip? Who really knows!? I know the tool tip said your “Target” not targets or target and friends….In this case I think it ended up working better then advertised. EDIT: Forgot – it says ‘Destroys your temporal’ destroy my temporal what? is it really too much to have the tooltip state that it’s going to destroy your temporal curtain and not some random temporal thing you have out?

Necromancer Trait – Target the Weak – 2% increased damage for each condition on a foe. I’ve heard people state that this trait is bugged…but I think there is alot of misinformation about conditions. 3 stacks of bleed or 10 or 20 stacks of bleed still = 1 condition….

Indepth conditions and boon information aren’t readily available in game. 1 Tab in Hero Panel could put this information in one location. Detailing on mouse over what moves you have that can perform the condition/boon aswell as what they do. You can add the PvP tips in PvP tutorial (i don’t think people do tutorials…)

TLDR: I can’t trust your tool tips, and that peeves me.