Guild Wars 2

First of all let me say that even through all anet’s balance fails, this is still the best pvp experience I’ve had in an MMO just for the action combat and not having to level a character and having everything on even terms and it being free with the exception of the buy to win HoT issue.

But one thing really bothers me; well 2 actually:

1. Despite the “toning down” of some effects, I still cannot tell half the time what boons people have/what they are doing due to a combination of two things: the character animations are either too hard to see/or asura etc in clutter and I have to look up at the character’s name plate that I am attacking to see what boons they have. For the most part.

Oh wow that takes one second to glance up at, right? Well that 1 second annoys me and could cost me a win when I’m having to glance up so often when I’m trying to keep my eyes on the field and the character’s animations….see my above complaint. UI mods would fix this but anet doesn’t allow them I think. Stability for example has no animation tell of it’s own.

Let me give you a little example of why this sucks: Bandit’s defense on thief lets you block and then knockdown; If I’m fighting a zerker war for example and I block him when hes all up in my butt, I have to glance up for a second while the fat cow is right next to me to check if he’s got stability to see whether or not I can kick him down. If I kick him and he’s stable I’ll be dead in 1 hit from being kept in place by the kick’s animation, and also I might be dead regardless in the split second it took me to glance up and not watch his animations.

There are probably better examples but you get the idea. Also to help the character animation issue I would like cast bars and also standard model option for ALL game modes please. It was a nice goal to have everything animation based but it’s just not working IMO.

For the glance up issue, put the kittening boons on the target enemies’ head for christ’s sake.

Am I alone in my opinions here? ;-; This really annoys me.

It is indeed annoying to have to look up when you’re trying to make a quick decision or reaction.

Being able to move around target windows would be amazing. Actually, more customization options should have been added long ago. We don’t all like the default and only setup for the game’s UI. Anet, I bet you would gain customers if they knew that you could customize your own UI.

What would also be nice is being able to see all the enemies on the side of the screen just like you can see your teammates on the left side, even if it’s just nearby enemies, like let’s say within 1200-1500 range. To see what boons and conditions all enemies have would be extremely helpful, and I don’t think it would lower the skill floor of this game. It would simply be a QoL addition.

I look at it like this. It separates the bad/average/good/great/ and best players in the game.

For instance i was low on health and it was a 3 vs 3 fight. All of a sudden a thief jumped in insta killed me. I literally didnt even see my down state and i saw him run out of the fight. Perfect timing and i was impressed.

Its like any live sport like basketball or kick boxing. If your throwing low kicks over and over and looking at his legs and he defending your gonna look at his leg and throw the head kick. Another example would be like a PG on the fast break. You have a 3 vs 2 and you are running down the middle 1 on the left and one on the right. There is literally 8 things you can do and you have about 2 sec to decide.

Those who can multi-task the best and see whats happening before it happens will have the most success.

The problem is that boons and conditions jump around like bunnies. I’ve said this for a long time, there should be an option to have a specific position for each boon/condition. If you want to check if the opponent has stab, you shouldn’t need to look through all of the boons, same goes with blind.