Guild Wars 2

Of all the things to put it; this is one that bothers me the most about the latest feature update. Upon dying you now get the redtext message:

“Not enough health”

… if you happen to hit one of the. now non-existant, power buttons.

So it leads me to believe one of two things:
1) there will be a mastery of some kind in the future that will allow for self-resurrection
2) There was enough complaints that ‘my powers don’t work when I’m DEAD’ that even though the entire tray has disappeared because some people can’t comprehend that being dead means no abilities.

I hope its the former but I suspect it’s the latter.

Living dead state confirmed.

Sounds like health is a resource? You know, like some champions in league of legends that spend health instead of mana. Not that there currently is a mechanic where you usehealth as a resource. Maybe a specialisation will use it? Im just grasping at straws here.

guess new players experienced confusion and fear when, on reaching zero health, they suddenly and unexplicably dropped down?

Metrics confirmed that new players are too stupid to understand that being dead and having a big interface show up on your screen wasn’t a clear enough indicator that you can’t currently use your other skills.

The metrics said it.

METRICS

FrizzFreston.5290:

Sounds like health is a resource? You know, like some champions in league of legends that spend health instead of mana. Not that there currently is a mechanic where you usehealth as a resource. Maybe a specialisation will use it? Im just grasping at straws here.

Sacrifice, losing a percentage of your health as an additional cost for a spell, was a mechanic in GW1. Many Necro spells (which became the self-inflicted condition effects in GW2) and a few Ritualist spells used that resource.