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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

We have “Missed!” “Blocked!” “Obstructed!” “Evaded!” “Invulnerable!”

But we’re still missing “Reflected!” “Destroyed!”

It’s very bad to not be told what happened to it, unlike all the other situations. It’s especially a problem in WvW where a lot of things can happen for a lot of different reasons.

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Posted by: Katastroff.1045

Katastroff.1045

While at it, maybe they could also add:
BOOM!!!
KABANG!!
POW!!!
ZAP!!!

I missed them old Batman tv show.

O.o

Why simplify things when its so easy to complicate them ?

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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

That would be a funny mod, if mods existed.

But I’m actually very serious. Missing “Reflected!” and “Destroyed!” is such a big oversight that it can’t really be considered anything other than a bug. The game tells you exactly what happens in all other situations. Either you see damage numbers or you see one of those messages informing you what went wrong.

Especially for new players it would be good to know what happened if they suddenly get hit in the face while the opponent (npc or player) is facing the other way.

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

There’s always the Combat Log.

I’m not sure what ‘Destroyed’ is referring to, myself. Perhaps, I use no Skills with that in the description, I’m not sure.

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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

There are skills that destroy projectiles and there are skills that reflect projectiles.

The fact that you don’t even know that only shows how badly the game fails at communicating it to you and how much you show your support. (he played this game for 4 years)

Also, the combat log doesn’t show when your projectile is destroyed or reflected. If reflected (and it hits you), it just shows you that you got hit by the same skill you were using (but not telling you if it was reflected or simply used by someone else)

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

What has Skill Descriptions and whether one uses certain skills have to do with support of the game? Seems like a weird tangent to go off on.

Regardless, good luck on your suggestion (not a bug).

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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

I didn’t mean your support of the game, but your unintentional support of the idea to add the destroyed and reflected messages. Because in the past 4 years you have been playing this game you certainly have had your projectiles destroyed and you didn’t even know it was possible. Thus it shows how much this game failed at communicating it to you.

But then again, destroyed projectiles could show up as “blocked!” would be fine too.

And I call it a bug because the developers haven’t mislead you for 4 years on purpose. It’s been an unintended oversight. They worked to communicate everything to you with these popup messages, but they missed some.

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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

this thread got moved to the GW2 discussion forum, but maybe it’ll be more visible here anyway.

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Posted by: zealex.9410

zealex.9410

ehh idk from one this is consistency you are askimg on the other i play mesmer and this would be hella of visual noise so idk

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Posted by: Holland.9351

Holland.9351

It wouldn’t be more screen clutter than the other already are.

But if for some reason it would become too much, then they could add a checkbox on the options screen, so you can decide for yourself.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

I would prob find this quite useful myself