Guild Wars 2

You want to help with the clutter of watching a game?

Color the circles their respective team colors. Flashy Elites like Glint? Turn the whole dragon red for red team, just an example of course.

At least do this in Spectator Mode.

Players in the game being played might have already become accustomed to spell effects with different other colors (ala a distorted mesmer). However for those watching, not playing the game but taking to the sidelines and using the PoV and cameras, even a bit more information would help make the flashy effects a bit more understandable.

Thanks!

Changing skills that are attached to character models like Glint may be a bit much, since you can usually clearly see who is activating it, but I agree with the overall idea here.

It would be nice for certain skills, such as Feedback or Portal to be the color of the team it belongs to. Would be great for PvP where there’s no comms and WvW too.

Great idea. Ithappens too often that i dodge a skill by a teammate because i cant clearly see who is casting it/has casted it. But before that can we please have at least enemy combo fiels marked with a red border instead of a white one? That happens since the HoT release and still istn fixed for many fields, like druids staff water field. Want to blast it? Too bad it was casted by the enemy druid instead of yours.

I like some of the feedback already on my suggestion. Portals being clearly marked a color based on their user’s side would be a very good change. For the sake of balance, keep the portal when it is laid but not active the same color it has now, but when it goes live it should be a lovely shade of blue or red.

Another thought I had: Clear Red or Blue outlines on certain skill animations. Dragon Hunter’s Hunter’s Ward for instance? Have those arrows get a distinct outline so both sides know when someone is launching their Ward. Same thing for Meteor Shower from a Staff Elementalist.

I do not think these would ‘trivialize’ fights as it helps everyone see which side just did a strong AoE. Rather, it serves as a better output of critical information when there is just so much going on, without directly impacting the effects themselves.

I do admit, the faster course might be full-on color palette swaps to just red or blue, but an outline might be a better option.