Guild Wars 2

I can’t find a thread on this topic on this forum..

Coming from a raid groups primary druid* , but also for things like backline support ele in wvw comes to mind..

*particularly at matthias where it is required to not be standing on a certain spot, and those moving out may or may not need extra healing.

The health bar removal makes playing a heal support class very tedious.
Having to check if a person needs healing, or wasting a heal on a person who doesn’t need it is resulting in taking much longer to get heals where they need to be.
I’m finding I’m spending more time in CA finding or checking a persons hp than healing.

Either by having to click the player avatar to see the health bar above that, or clicking squad UI, and then finding the persons name plate.

I could swear this used to be a checkbox in the options, but I keep getting told it wasn’t.

Can we have the health bars back ( or at least a toggle for it, independent of name plates) please?

I don’t think there has ever been an option to see HP bars above players heads on screen if that is what you mean. However I have always thought it would be very helpful to have them. At the time when I first thought about it I thought they didn’t add them because that would sort of go against their whole anti-trinity/healing other players view at the time.

However now with raids and other more challenging content coming out and the more dedicated healing classes/builds/roles being added why not have the feature?

You may have been confused with the option where we can choose to display other players names on screen above their heads turned on perm. I have that option set and npcs. I guess another thought from anet’s side may have been if people have everyone’s names displayed as well as HP bars it may just add more clutter to the screen.

Either way, I think we DO need the option available.

Yeah I mean in game – over the avatar’s head.
They were there until recently, Tuesdays quarterly patch I think.

Its odd I remember the option a few months ago(when raids first came out), but the toggle being gone recently ( couple of weeks ago). But literally everyone I’ve mentioned it to tells me it wasn’t a thing. Maybe I need to start drinking half cups of tea.

This thread in the bug report forum seems to link the health bar dissapearance with the nameplate bug being fixed:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Health-Bars-Gone

+1 to having ally health bars visible all the time in any game mode.

Especially wvw on healing classes so I know when it’s good to pop Druid AF #3 for example.

Oh im pretty sure it still only showed the bar if you hovered the mouse over the player. What I would like would be to have the bar show on screen for you to see always, not by having to mouse over people all over the place. Are you saying this was there before?

Since this is a raid issue at the moment, why not just have the characters icon in the raid panel be their health bar

Felahr.9830:

Since this is a raid issue at the moment, why not just have the characters icon in the raid panel be their health bar

It’d be simpler for anet to just toggle display of all the health bars which display when targetting someone, no?