Guild Wars 2

Anet would it be possible to re-design the downed revival graphic.

One for downed, but not dead characters.
Another for dead characters.

This would make it so much easier to diffirentiate between who I should be reviving and who I shouldn’t. Especially with 5-10 people downed.

Isn’t one blue, and the other black? Or, is that just NPCs?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t one blue, and the other black? Or, is that just NPCs?

I believe the black one is NPC’s downed for a finisher animation.

On the mini-map the icon changes from the blue arrow to a black circle with a blue skull and cross bones in it.

On-screen all you see above a dead player is the same blue revive arrow. Unless the player is self-healing to revive themselves or throwing dirt they lay there and look almost exactly like a fully dead player. It isn’t until you start reviving them or actually target them that you notice they are actually fully dead.

edit to add
It has confused me and wasted precious seconds at times. I’d have run over to a player I could tell was reviving themselves over this fully dead player had it been easier to tell, especially if they are right next to eachother you cannot tell which is which on the mini-map.

StinVec.3621:

On the mini-map the icon changes from the blue arrow to a black circle with a blue skull and cross bones in it.

On-screen all you see above a dead player is the same blue revive arrow. Unless the player is self-healing to revive themselves or throwing dirt they lay there and look almost exactly like a fully dead player. It isn’t until you start reviving them or actually target them that you notice they are actually fully dead.

Yes excatly this, I was refering to onscreen graphics because let us be honest. The mini-map is rarely used to pick out revive targets, and this change is nothing major it would only take them an hour or two to change.

It would be nice to see the difference between dead players and downed players because of events like teq where you want to rez the downed players but there are so many dead around you so you don’t know who to rez and the mini map just shows a bunch of black crossbones everywhere. Tea is just one example, there are plenty more.

bump – Apolgise but this is an issue and would make the game a lot more user friendly.

This is something the WvW community has been requesting for a long time.

Would love to see the names of the dead as translucent gray.