Guild Wars 2

This has been asked for since druid came in the game.

Now, a new expansion is ocming. A new expansion means brand new enemies/mechanics that nobody knows how to beat yet, its a perfect place for a healer/support char to shine.

Please, for the love of all that is sacred, let us have an option that makes players healthbars visible in PvE, hell even a small health percentage number next to the player name would be amazing. Tired of spamming heals hoping someone in need received them. Some of us like to play pure healers/Rezzers in events.

If lots of healthbars in a zerg would be difficult to implement, maybe an option like “Show other player’s healthbars if they are below X% health” would help.

It can’t be that hard, can it?

I hope not, but UI probably has a lot of pitfalls on top of the spaghetti code of a 5-year-old MMO.

Fingers crossed, though. Raids wanted visible HP bars too, but the only way so far to do it has been through ArcDPS or something else that reads no-no places in the game memory.

We had them for a little while, HP bars were fully visible in squads. They got removed because people complained about visual clutter.

Its part of the “this game doesn’t need healers” mentality. If this were any other game, players would be ecstatic to have health bars (especially the DPS-havers!) because it means they could actually stay alive for more than a few seconds with someone healing them. In GW2.. its just screen clutter.

If clutter is the problem, I guess something like this would work at least. It would make a huge difference u_u.

Knuckle Joe.7408:

If clutter is the problem, I guess something like this would work at least. It would make a huge difference u_u.

I’d take that in a hot minute. Just color coding near the character name plate would help a ton. I’m not looking at big-time raiding, but I do toy with healing with my guild group, and after just a few fractals, I already want a more reactive interface.