Guild Wars 2

Being new to this game I have some questions.

Professions have spells that give certain effects, like having x% dmg reduction for y seconds. Reflecting the next spell within y seconds.
Professions can apply blind on you that makes you miss with your next attack.

I find such things difficult to track. They are not very clear imo.
Is there some way to make this more clear? Like an addon or such?

Do I just have to become more experienced?
Will recognizing these things go smoothly once I gain more experience?

There are no add-ons for the game although there may be an app for Overwolf or some overlay that will give the info.

Honestly I’d say it’s an experience thing. All of the status effects, conditions and buffs have obvious tell tale icons to help you identify what’s going on. These icons will appear just above your heal skill and across the top of that skill bar.

With regards to the reflects the tells are rather obvious. Wall of Reflection (the Guardian skill) conjures a glowing blue/white wall of light. Feedback (the Mesmer skill) conjures a solid purple dome.

Most of these conditions last for one a couple of seconds at most and the critter targeted will have all the conditions on them displayed but I rarely bother to pay attention to while fighting one on one. If I’m ranging in a group boss event I can take a glance to admire all the stacks of conditions on the boss.

AdaephonDelat.3890:

There are no add-ons for the game although there may be an app for Overwolf or some overlay that will give the info.

Honestly I’d say it’s an experience thing. All of the status effects, conditions and buffs have obvious tell tale icons to help you identify what’s going on. These icons will appear just above your heal skill and across the top of that skill bar.

With regards to the reflects the tells are rather obvious. Wall of Reflection (the Guardian skill) conjures a glowing blue/white wall of light. Feedback (the Mesmer skill) conjures a solid purple dome.

Not all abilities are very clear though.

The guardian skill ‘’stand your ground’’ is just one short poof of a blue circle.

Through experience you will quickly notice the buffs on your enemies with their durations?
By recognizing the iconds?

Yashuoa.9527:

AdaephonDelat.3890:

There are no add-ons for the game although there may be an app for Overwolf or some overlay that will give the info.

Honestly I’d say it’s an experience thing. All of the status effects, conditions and buffs have obvious tell tale icons to help you identify what’s going on. These icons will appear just above your heal skill and across the top of that skill bar.

With regards to the reflects the tells are rather obvious. Wall of Reflection (the Guardian skill) conjures a glowing blue/white wall of light. Feedback (the Mesmer skill) conjures a solid purple dome.

Not all abilities are very clear though.

The guardian skill ‘’stand your ground’’ is just one short poof of a blue circle.

Through experience you will quickly notice the buffs on your enemies with their durations?
By recognizing the iconds?

That skill also has the audible tell of the Guardian shouting “Stand your ground!” but yeah you just need to pick up the icons. So stand your grand grants Stability (the little Pillar Icon) and Retaliation (the little Fist icon).

AdaephonDelat.3890:

Yashuoa.9527:

AdaephonDelat.3890:

There are no add-ons for the game although there may be an app for Overwolf or some overlay that will give the info.

Honestly I’d say it’s an experience thing. All of the status effects, conditions and buffs have obvious tell tale icons to help you identify what’s going on. These icons will appear just above your heal skill and across the top of that skill bar.

With regards to the reflects the tells are rather obvious. Wall of Reflection (the Guardian skill) conjures a glowing blue/white wall of light. Feedback (the Mesmer skill) conjures a solid purple dome.

Not all abilities are very clear though.

The guardian skill ‘’stand your ground’’ is just one short poof of a blue circle.

Through experience you will quickly notice the buffs on your enemies with their durations?
By recognizing the iconds?

That skill also has the audible tell of the Guardian shouting “Stand your ground!” but yeah you just need to pick up the icons. So stand your grand grants Stability (the little Pillar Icon) and Retaliation (the little Fist icon).

I meant for the enemy it can be hard to recognize when the guardian does stand your ground.
Not for the guardian himself.
Not sure if that was clear.

Yashuoa.9527:

AdaephonDelat.3890:

Yashuoa.9527:

AdaephonDelat.3890:

There are no add-ons for the game although there may be an app for Overwolf or some overlay that will give the info.

Honestly I’d say it’s an experience thing. All of the status effects, conditions and buffs have obvious tell tale icons to help you identify what’s going on. These icons will appear just above your heal skill and across the top of that skill bar.

With regards to the reflects the tells are rather obvious. Wall of Reflection (the Guardian skill) conjures a glowing blue/white wall of light. Feedback (the Mesmer skill) conjures a solid purple dome.

Not all abilities are very clear though.

The guardian skill ‘’stand your ground’’ is just one short poof of a blue circle.

Through experience you will quickly notice the buffs on your enemies with their durations?
By recognizing the iconds?

That skill also has the audible tell of the Guardian shouting “Stand your ground!” but yeah you just need to pick up the icons. So stand your grand grants Stability (the little Pillar Icon) and Retaliation (the little Fist icon).

I meant for the enemy it can be hard to recognize when the guardian does stand your ground.
Not for the guardian himself.
Not sure if that was clear.

I’m honestly not sure then as I’m not a PvP player. I would have thought you could hear enemy shouts when they activated, perhaps someone with some actual PvP experience could clarify for me?

To be honest, i didn’t look into any of those things while lvling my first toon. I was deep into my lvl 80 just trying to complete the world map, hapilly running around picking flowers. In year 2 when i started running dungeons and fractals i noticed my guild leader is yelling at me a lor fot not paying attention to the stats at all i only cared for my looks so then i started to learn more about stats and stuff. Just take your time and have fun it will come to you eventually you will learn all he things you need to know.