Guild Wars 2

Being able to only see the downed skills while i’m downed and fighting for my life doesn’t give me any opportunity to read and memorize what they do. I’ve been playing GW2 on and off for 2 years and i still don’t know what skills 2 and 3 do on any of my characters. It was over a year before i even knew about Bandage.

In wanting to help make learning the downed skills easier, i suggest you place them on the Weapon Skills page (or somewhere else, if more appropriate) so that they can be learned before being downed, or at least when not currently downed.

Not being able to pre-learn these “hidden skills” (and the Necro’s Death Shroud “hidden skills”) has been one of the few places where the game has felt un-user-friendly to me and has created a barrier to being able to play the game enjoyably.

I thought about suggesting this in my thread here about the leveling change to downed: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Delayed-downed-state-access-and-confusion/first#post4343556

I think you’ve got a good idea here.

It will be in the next feature pack, don’t worry ^^.

Totally agreed. I was always baffled by the fact that in order to learn downed skills I need to hop back and forth between a wiki page and the game. Even having played since launch and with 8 80’s I still don’t know what at least half of my downed skills do.

The functionality of special hidden skills that come with elites like Lich Form also take an unnecessarily long time to memorize since there is no way to study up before hand (again except tabbing over to a wiki page).

Since ArenaNet seems to be focusing on adjusting how they teach new players the ropes I hope they don’t forget this area again.