Guild Wars 2

Topic describes the thread, but essentially I think it would be a great addition if we were able to see if our different sigils were on or off cool down during a fight. For Instance: (skip to the last paragraph if you cant be bothered to read.)

I’m roaming around the eternal battlegrounds and I fancy a refreshing swim in the lake just around the corner from Durios. However just as Im at the water’s edge an enemy burn engineer leaps out from behind a shrub and attacks me. We exchange blows, however the engineer pulls out a flame thrower and lights me up like he’s snoop dog. However I have a cunning plan, I look down at my dagger. Little does this snoop dog wanna be realize Iv got a sigil of generosity equipped. I charge and lash out at the engineer to transfer all the burns >:D. But no!! The sigil must have been on cool down. I roast to the ground and the engineer whips his marshmallow’s and roasts the entire lot over my smoldering corpse.
THE END.

So yea essentially, it would be amazing if there was some kind of indicator that showed whether or not our sigils are on or off cool down. Maybe like a small image of the sigil next to food buffs/blood lust and other buffs etc? This could potentially allow players to be able to plan their bursts around weapon sigils.

Thoughts?

This would rock. Knowing when you can proc your sigils would be really helpful.

Aye.8392:

This would rock. Knowing when you can proc your sigils would be really helpful.

Would be great for setting up bursts.

Yes please, we already have icons for stacking sigils, why not just add an icon for all sigils, this world allow you to see your enemy’s sigils in pvp as well. I think it’s only fitting.

this came up in the pvp sub a lil while back. dev came in and asked how would u even expect this to be implemented in the interface.

some users went about that, but i don’t remember if he ever came back to comment in the thread.

Not only sigil cooldowns, but I’d say show every hidden cooldown on the character, such as sigils, runes, and trait procs (WoW for instance has ability alerts).

Having no visual information on some of your own character abilities is pretty bad IMO.

leasm.1279:

Not only sigil cooldowns, but I’d say show every hidden cooldown on the character, such as sigils, runes, and trait procs (WoW for instance has ability alerts).

Having no visual information on some of your own character abilities is pretty bad IMO.

This… definitely this.

It only makes sense, and is rather silly to not have it.

Jaxom.7310:

dev came in and asked how would u even expect this to be implemented in the interface.

For traits, that is pretty simple. In fact, you could kill two birds with one stone.

Have a small UI box at the edge of the screen (customizable so you can move and minimize it). It has 9 hexagons in a square (Tic-tac-toe style). Each hexagon represents a trait. From there, you can actually change traits by just clicking on a given hexagon. Also, each trait that does activate with a cooldown, give them a bright color, and the rest have dark colors. When the trait activates, grey it out and put a countdown clock over it just as skills have. When it is ready again, the bright color is returned.

The same can be had for runes and sigils. It may not be perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

Kageseigi.2150:

leasm.1279:

Not only sigil cooldowns, but I’d say show every hidden cooldown on the character, such as sigils, runes, and trait procs (WoW for instance has ability alerts).

Having no visual information on some of your own character abilities is pretty bad IMO.

This… definitely this.

It only makes sense, and is rather silly to not have it.

Jaxom.7310:

dev came in and asked how would u even expect this to be implemented in the interface.

For traits, that is pretty simple. In fact, you could kill two birds with one stone.

Have a small UI box at the edge of the screen (customizable so you can move and minimize it). It has 9 hexagons in a square (Tic-tac-toe style). Each hexagon represents a trait. From there, you can actually change traits by just clicking on a given hexagon. Also, each trait that does activate with a cooldown, give them a bright color, and the rest have dark colors. When the trait activates, grey it out and put a countdown clock over it just as skills have. When it is ready again, the bright color is returned.

The same can be had for runes and sigils. It may not be perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

Not sure how hard this would be to code into the game, but it would be amazing if something/anything along these lines could be introduced in the future.