Guild Wars 2

Reacting to buffs and debuffs on a target is huge whether you’re doing PVE or PVP, this is a good part of GW2 gameplay but there’s a major problem. It’s really hard to see quickly which buffs/debuffs are active on yourself or a target – the icons are all the same color/size and don’t appear in any sort of consistent order. I find this problem especially huge in PVP/WVW when trying to determine if a target has stability so I don’t waste CC.

Solutions:

1) Let players assign custom colors to specific buff/debuff icons.

2) Have the icons appear in a consistent order (eg if player has stability it will always be first icon on the left).

3) Allow players to set specific buff or debuff icons to a larger size, rather then changing the size of the entire UI or all icons.

These are pretty small tweaks, but IMO it would be a huge QOL improvement in all gameplay modes.

I would settle for a cursor that didn’t disappear as easily or just stop making the cursor hidden when you try to move the camera. -_-

It would make sense if the boons/conditions were always ordered based on priority for removal/corruption.

I have suggested a fixed placement for icons before and I still stand by that idea. The thing is buffs and boons can (especially on bosses) appear and disappear very fast on enemies that it can make it hard to read the descriptions if you want to by trying to hover your mouse over them as they are constantly moving.

Yes sure I have played the game since launch and should know all of their effects by now. But still, it’s good to get a refresh on info at times. Not only that but new conds/boons are coming into the game now and then.

So I agree with the OP – new options would be welcome.

Paulytnz.7619:

I have suggested a fixed placement for icons before and I still stand by that idea. The thing is buffs and boons can (especially on bosses) appear and disappear very fast on enemies that it can make it hard to read the descriptions if you want to by trying to hover your mouse over them as they are constantly moving.

That would be better handled elsewhere. Middle of combat is not a very good time to be reading those descriptions.

For example in Grim Dawn there is a section in the character panel that gives you some details about your most recently killed boss type creatures. Some sort of bestiary thing that records information about things your character has encountered would be nice.