Guild Wars 2

As the game is finally getting increasingly more popular and competitive, certain things need to be customizable. In short, the UI needs more options

Important things that competitive players would like to see changed:

• DPS Numbers
  These don’t always have to be HUGE popups, specially when we crit, it’s very flashy and very distracting. We get it, crits are awesome, but they get in the way of important animations that we need to keep track of. These don’t necessarily have to be toned down, but there HAS to be an option to make the text smaller.
• Combat Log
  Let’s be realistic, the current combat log sucks. It only displays some sources of physical damage, and maybe sometimes if you die, you’ll see your condi damage. What a real combat log needs:
  • How much did I hit for? (this should include Lifesteal)
  • Did my attack crit?
  • How much did I heal (myself or allies) for?
  • How much are my condis ticking for?
  • Customizable color coded text to differentiate all these different sources.
• Particles
  Sometimes I don’t want to see my opponent’s entire body light on fire just because I put 1s of burning on him. It makes it exponentially harder for me to see his animations. Same thing goes for when there are explosions nearby and other such graphics. We need to be able to turn these WAY DOWN.

I get it, you want the game to look pretty and vibrant, but when all these vibrant, flashy effects are getting in the way of being able to tell what other players are doing, it becomes an issue.

Feel free to post any feedback, and I may add it to this list.

Thanks for reading,
Ac

Acandis.3250:

Sometimes I don’t want to see my opponent’s entire body light on fire just because I put 1s of burning on him. It makes it exponentially harder for me to see his animations

Haha! This.
Virtue of Justice I’m looking at you.

Agreed. I’d like to be able to move and resize all the elements of the GUI. In particular, the enemy target information; having this top-centre of the screen is annoying and obscures the action. Loosing sight of your enemy (and their attack animations) behind their health bar et al is so frustrating. Then of course there’s all the particle effects as well…