Guild Wars 2

One thing that has always frustrated me about playing in a group is that whenever I buff or otherwise support someone in some particular way that isn’t healing but still contributes to that person’s success, I don’t get any information at all about the success (or not) of that action. The three instances of this that come up most often as I play my Guardian main are Retaliation, Aegis, and Burning.

Currently, when I pop Virtue of Justice (which gives everyone nearby a 4 second burn on their next hit) I don’t get any indication whatsoever that those people got any use out of it. What I’d like to see is a separate, differently styled damage popup for the damage that those people are doing as a result of my action. In other words, if we’re all fighting a boss and I hit VoJ, I’d like to see my burning numbers and the burning numbers that I enabled my party to apply. As it stands, what I see is mine tick and then the ticks stop because someone else’s have taken over.

Same thing with Retaliation. I have so many AoE retaliation sources, but when I apply them to my party I don’t have any way of seeing that it did any good. What I would like to see is a floating combat text popup for my party’s retaliation hits that I applied, just like mine, only styled differently so I can tell what’s what.

Aegis is a little bit different, as instead of doing damage, it absorbs a hit. What I’d like for that is for floaty text indicating that my party member blocked an attack with my Aegis, just like what I get. In addition to that I’d also really like to see how much damage that would have done if it had connected. So instead of just Blocked! it would say Blocked 1093! or what have you.

I’m sure other classes have similar things that I’m just not aware of.

I think that it would be an unnecessary clutter on my screen with that many different numbers that aren’t my own damage.

This would be a decent way to know your skills are being used. I agree with koko though that this would be potentially a big cluster of numbers.

Maybe have it be an option that can be enabled if you like it? (Sort of like color blind mode on certain games.) Think about the nightmare levels of lag this would cause for most people during boss fights….

Seems like a lot of work though just to have extra damage reports.

While I agree that it would be nice to know if my skills have helped someone, on the screen info would just add to the clutter. Maybe it could come up in the combat log, or game messages in chat instead.

Make it a toggleable option, easy peasy.