Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if this has been brought up before, but I feel that this should have been implemented into the game a long time ago.

The Thief has one, so all other profession should too.

Elementalist: could vary between different attunements

Necro: The locust swarm effect

Guardian: The rippling aura from The Flameseeker Prophecies

Mesmer: Blurred frenzy effect

Warrior, Engi, and Ranger….? I don’t know what to do.

hmmm, actually I see your point. I never notice that even though I main a Guard, ele and thief. I know my thief has a unique sound and effects when dodging But My ele and guard both have the same animation for rolls.

Good idea, I like it! might be hard for the team right now to do, but maybe in the future.

Ranger pets would roll to. That would be so cute

Sure.

Also, at least one class would keep the old dodge roll. I’d say Ranger (looks more like an agility thing) Warior could just do a plain dash like they’re plowing though things. Engie could do a short rocket jump.

You also forgot revenant. Probably some mists energy surge or something.

Arioso.8519:

Sure.

Also, at least one class would keep the old dodge roll. I’d say Ranger (looks more like an agility thing) Warior could just do a plain dash like they’re plowing though things. Engie could do a short rocket jump.

You also forgot revenant. Probably some mists energy surge or something.

Whoops, I forgot the Revenant. :d

Something with their spell effects to symbolize the mist stuff.

Mass Effect’s Asari dodge pls.

Please no. In addition to making fighting players in PvP/WvW even less intuitive to get into than it is already (multiple different ways to show the exact same thing as well as having to learn which effect is a does-something-on-dodge trait that might actually matter, and which is just useless fluff), the last thing this game needs in general is more effects. Especially on a mundane thing like dodging.

I actually would like this. Always thought a shroud roll look on Necromancer would be amazing, actually.

LameFox.6349:

Please no. In addition to making fighting players in PvP/WvW even less intuitive to get into than it is already (multiple different ways to show the exact same thing as well as having to learn which effect is a does-something-on-dodge trait that might actually matter, and which is just useless fluff), the last thing this game needs in general is more effects. Especially on a mundane thing like dodging.

It’s actually ANet’s intention for you to pay attention to effects such as that. Their whole gameplay style is based on not looking at UI, but instead, the players/mobs around you. So it’s actually reinforcing that very principle.

I like the idea of more telegraphed dodges. It is probably the only way to make a player feel cool while still technically nerfing them.

lolAirborne.8496:

It’s actually ANet’s intention for you to pay attention to effects such as that. Their whole gameplay style is based on not looking at UI, but instead, the players/mobs around you. So it’s actually reinforcing that very principle.

Saturating things with an excess of visual effects makes that harder, not easier. You would have them take one action and make it look like 9 different things even though the action itself is unchanged. Not only does that mean more animations for players to learn in order to know what is going on when a single one would have been suitable, but it adds to the ridiculous number of other animations both meaningful and not meaningful (like armour/weapon skin effects) that are happening all the time.

If they want us to play by looking at mobs and other players, the last thing they should do is make it like looking out for certain needles in a stack of other needles.

LameFox.6349:

Saturating things with an excess of visual effects makes that harder, not easier. You would have them take one action and make it look like 9 different things even though the action itself is unchanged. Not only does that mean more animations for players to learn in order to know what is going on when a single one would have been suitable, but it adds to the ridiculous number of other animations both meaningful and not meaningful (like armour/weapon skin effects) that are happening all the time.

If they want us to play by looking at mobs and other players, the last thing they should do is make it like looking out for certain needles in a stack of other needles.

That’s why they added a special feature just for people like you who would like to have an easier time tracking other players movesets. The option to use standard character models for enemy players.

With those switched on, it makes the tells easier to see, it makes it easier to identify what class you’re fighting, it reduces the visual wonkiness resulting from asura and norn having the same hitboxes and it kills the extraneous effects from glowing gear and weapons to minimize distractions. So if it’s that big a concern, then perhaps the standard models should keep a standard dodge animation as well. Basically, that problem you just described has been essentially solved already.

Personally recognizing a unique dodge doesn’t sound difficult at all to me. In fact, It gives me one more way to tell what someone’s class is if I don’t have them targeted and they’re not using an obvious skill.

TBH I consider standard player models a band-aid fix for what turned out to be a worse design choice than they originally expected. Different player races and various armour/weapon skins are not inherently incompatible with the ability to see what is happening, if they avoid excess. Which is exactly why I would like them to avoid excess. I don’t want to have to make the game ugly to be able to play it in the way it was designed, especially not for the sake of things that don’t really add much in the first place.

LameFox.6349:

Please no. In addition to making fighting players in PvP/WvW even less intuitive to get into than it is already (multiple different ways to show the exact same thing as well as having to learn which effect is a does-something-on-dodge trait that might actually matter, and which is just useless fluff), the last thing this game needs in general is more effects. Especially on a mundane thing like dodging.

I believe there are ways at least in PvP to standardise the player models so it wouldn’t bother you too much.

I agree with the OP, it’s always bothered me that thief has an on-dodge visual effect but no other classes do

Ranger has a lot of animal themes in his animations: snake, bees and a bear. So while dodging some animal should also appear like leaping panther or deer/stag.

By the way, it would be nice to see some animal themed utility skills like summoning a herd of stags running along and knocking down enemies on their way.