Guild Wars 2

So I don’t know if this has been requested before, but I was wondering if it would be possible to have the white remaining boon/condition duration border be attached to effects with limited duration such as Alacrity, Reveal, Infiltrator’s Return/Shadow Return, etc. While it doesn’t really change much to the game, it would be nice to know exactly how much longer an effect will last at a glance.

Thanks.

+1 Because I usually don’t have the time to hover my mouse over the icon and wait for the pop-up to see the timer and description. Too busy steering.

:Edit: These servers sometimes, took several minutes for this post to finally load and then it gives me two of them. Then the attempt to delete the second takes well over a minute to acknowledge as well.

I would definitely appreciate something like this. It makes buffs much more difficult to keep track of than boons without having something.

While they’re at it, perhaps they can also make a menu option to overlay a number over the icon in the same way that you can toggle a number for cooldown of your skills, for both buffs and boons. I suppose one could argue it would make it harder to see said icon, but for a player who is more familiar with the icons it’d be nice to have a more accurate indicator than just the white border line.

Especially since the current “white border” indicator is depending on the initial duration of the boon. You can have half a bar left and it could be 2 seconds (for a 4 second initial duration) or 10 second (for a 20 second initial duration). And then you start throwing in multiple applications of a single boon and the bar becomes almost useless besides “its almost gone or its not”. Having numbers would avoid that.

BEST IDEA I’VE SEEN ON THESE FORUMS IN MONTHS.