Guild Wars 2

They’re not visually interesting like the old ones, they’re not distinguishable, not remarkable, not desirable. How did this pass? This badge, which you keep above your head everywhere for everyone to see, summarize your efforts in a very competitive game mode. I’m really impressed that you turned it in something meaningless. Please, give us some feedback, Anet.

The art on the badges is great, they only need distinctive coloring.

The art is irrelevant because of the size, you won’t see it. How things will display when reduced is some very basic design concept, I’m serious when I say it’s impressive that this passed on a company that has very good reputation in this area.

They need to be more distinguishable, and honestly, a bit better looking.

I can’t tell what any of the badges are at all, period. The colors look washed out & the contents within a mess; indistinguishable.

i too got no idea what went through their heads when getting rid of perfectly good and appealing gem-based division naming and graphics. These things looked great:(

I totally agree, I have to click on a person and then mouse over the icon to tell what rank they are. It doesn’t help that I’m color blind, although I imagine it’s not great for anyone considering they’ll all just “shiny metal” color.

Kraljevo.2801:

They need to be more distinguishable, and honestly, a bit better looking.

+1

I am going to buy reading glasses to figure out what division folks are in

Yeh the art is good like people said

but

they need more intense colors to be more distinguishable and visible

Legendary looking like Bronze? Anet pls

Evan Lesh.3295:

Our amazing UI artist has already made a pass on these and they are much more distinguishable and bright.

I’m not so sure. Gold and platinum look very similar to one another. Ruby, diamond, and legendary were much easier to differentiate in that red, white, and black are much easier to distinguish than the very dull gold and platinum colors that were chosen.

I don’t oppose the new look, but keeping the roman numerals to identify each icon would’ve also been nice.

Imo they are hard on the limit but I like them 1000x more than this shiny colored stuff we had the previous seasons.
I prefer them more subtle.

Orangensaft.7139:

Legendary looking like Bronze? Anet pls

Awww man at least let me dream a little!

Evan Lesh.3295:

Our amazing UI artist has already made a pass on these and they are much more distinguishable and bright.

Are these changes live, or saved for a future update/hotfix?

Rashy.4165:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Our amazing UI artist has already made a pass on these and they are much more distinguishable and bright.

Are these changes live, or saved for a future update/hotfix?

^^would also like to know. Was in the game an hour ago and they still look very muddy and dull

Evan Lesh.3295:

Our amazing UI artist has already made a pass on these and they are much more distinguishable and bright.

I really hope you mean they are waiting to be patched in. The current badges i can’t tell the difference between anything.

Looks nice Mr “Amazing UI Artist”

Differences are much more noticeable, well done. Personally can distinguish between the old ones, but I can see how it’ll be a problem for others.

As a bronze player, I would like the bronze badge to look like ???? (the unicode pile of poo character)

Just make them different colored dots already

mrauls.6519:

Just make them different colored dots already

I mean the overhaul pretty much does that:

Brown, Green, Gold, White, Red

Evan Lesh.3295:

Preview /15chars

Very important fix. Very very very important.

Now, how about those afkers playing ranked matches to farm rewards….

Yasi.9065:

Very important fix. Very very very important.

Now, how about those afkers playing ranked matches to farm rewards….

Yeah I’m sure

Our amazing UI artist

will help you out a lot with this…

The new ones look a lot nicer but personally I think the old legendary symbol looked extremely bad kitten and It’s gone

I just logged in the game and I still can’t tell the dif. I say just remove the shield in platinum so it doesn’t look like gold.

The new old picture you’re showing isn’t what it looks like in the game when comparing platinum and gold. There needs to be a fine dif between platinum and gold and there isn’t right now that its a bit upsetting.

Wow, you got some pretty art there, PvP. Gratz!

New badges look much better in my opinion, well done.

Nice plates! They look great.

Evan Lesh.3295:

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Oh those will be nice! Old Plat and Silver was pretty hard to distinguish.

Put those icons on players, zoom our and see how it looks before you implement them =.=

I like that they aren’t over bearing and more subtle. But they should recognisable at a glance rather than taking a double look to figure out which rank.

Shadowstep.6049:

Put those icons on players, zoom our and see how it looks before you implement them =.=

The smaller version to the inside of the picture is what it should look like on players’ tags.

still gonna be impossible to distinguish bronze from legendary

Urejt.5648:

still gonna be impossible to distinguish bronze from legendary

other than the giant red circle?

Evan Lesh.3295:

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It certainly looks much more distinguishable but dont others think the badges had a bit too much detail on them to begin with considering their size in game?

That’s an improvement but honestly still pretty meh.

Entenkommando.5208:

Yasi.9065:

Very important fix. Very very very important.

Now, how about those afkers playing ranked matches to farm rewards….

Yeah I’m sure

Our amazing UI artist

will help you out a lot with this…

But, but, but surely all “devs” are just interchangeable cogs in the GW2 machine?

Although I really appreciate the effort and feedback, we can’t pretend that those new badges (even after the UI artist “fix”) are nearly as good as the original ones. The last season badges looked liked big precious gemstones when displayed on pvp ui, and they still looked like small shiny gems when above our heads, without any need for all the detail and artistic sophistication of the new ones. Let’s be honest, was there any reason to change them?

The previous season’s badge still stands out more! The obsidian black legendary icon was so much better!

ANET i think its very clear people just want more BRIGHT like if we have to look for more then 2 seconds to see if its silver or plat then you did it wrong….. you can easily mistake the 2 currently…

there was no mistaking old legendary and old diamond lol fix it guys its not hard

Just logged in today and the badges look great now. Thank you for addressing the problem.

You can mouse over them to see which Division it is… just saying.

I would like to thank you for finally giving us a hide pvp badge option, thanks

LouWolfskin.3492:

You can mouse over them to see which Division it is… just saying.

UX is about making a better experience for the end user. If the icon isn’t clear enough and they’re putting hover over, you’ve already failed.

Looked at the thread on reddit where someone posted the NEW versions (plus seeing them in game now) I’d like to update my opinion – this is a huge improvement and badges are much easier to distinguish.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/233742/badges-fixed.png

Thanks ANet for keeping the visuals up to scratch/easily identifiable.