Guild Wars 2

Why in all that is holy was this change made?

Why???

It’s annoying as all hell.

It’s like two googly eyes just staring at you in your peripheral vision O______O

Anet. Please. This was pointless. And tbh, kind of stupid.

There wasn’t enough clutter on the screen to potentially block ground targeting skills. This change HAD to be made in order to nerf ground target skills.

I think it’s very nice; it communicates your server’s current placement in the skirmish.

Lucky this change has been notified in patch notes once again!

Rising Dusk.2408:

I think it’s very nice; it communicates your server’s current placement in the skirmish.

What placement?

Yellow towers?

Is that 2nd or 3rd place?

Is 1st place pink gerbils?

+1

Get rid of them please. I am sure it shouldn’t be much of an issue…

Dawdler.8521:

Rising Dusk.2408:

I think it’s very nice; it communicates your server’s current placement in the skirmish.

What placement?

Yellow towers?

Is that 2nd or 3rd place?

Is 1st place pink gerbils?

Probably gold for 1st, silver for 2nd, bronze for 3rd.

There was pics of the new ui art were released few months ago I think.

But yeah more visual clutter.

It’s too high up, please place it directly in the middle of the screen.

You know what, I saw that_shaman’s datamining for those symbols and was like
“oh gosh, maybe an event, a surprise tournament???”
and now its like:
“wtf has changed, oh wat. We got 2 tower symbols with different colours?”
Well, I dont know which Dev is working on wvw, but I tell you what: Get a password for you PC, your 5 year old daughter is secretly drawing towers and paints them and uploads them into the UI. Stop her please. No childish behaviour.

Yall being foolish, these are clearly arrows that allow you to distinguish a quaaality treb cow shots aoe size

Jim Hunter.6821:

It’s too high up, please place it directly in the middle of the screen.

Maybe make them as big as mini map? That is what we call QoL improvement!

Natto.5819:

Jim Hunter.6821:

It’s too high up, please place it directly in the middle of the screen.

Maybe make them as big as mini map? That is what we call QoL improvement!

That would be acceptable as long as they also change it so that anytime you land a critical hit the screen flashes with ’60 era batman fight words like “biff!” and “whammo!”

Jim Hunter.6821:

Natto.5819:

Jim Hunter.6821:

It’s too high up, please place it directly in the middle of the screen.

Maybe make them as big as mini map? That is what we call QoL improvement!

That would be acceptable as long as they also change it so that anytime you land a critical hit the screen flashes with ’60 era batman fight words like “biff!” and “whammo!”

HAHA, I had an overlay that did that back when I played Everquest.

but its shiny! dont u like it? shiiiiiny!

Come on. This is so they can say, ‘hey, we’re working on wvw!….see????’

They should put the anet logo over them for eyelashes/brows ;-)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Arenanet-logo-400-whitebg.jpg

mybe they are changing some visual stuff first as preparation for other things that they might change … ???? o.O

Aeolus.3615:

mybe they are changing some visual stuff first as preparation for other things that they might change … ???? o.O

Hey now, you know better than to get anyone’s hopes up!!!

Why don’t u just make us all play in windowed mode for now on? You keep increasing the screen clutter with cheesey icons all over. It completely breaks the immersion. I feel like I’m playing some timed meta event more and more as time goes by. Would it kill you to allow us some immersion?

Stop trying to fix things…its just not working. Literally look at how little screen space I have in that scenario! Snd that’s not including all the special event icons and timers that will pop up (you can slightly compact them but they are still huge when packed together). The only thing i can do is turn everything off including my skill bar……u need to allow us to choose what we want allowed on our screen. All screen ui needs to be a separate hideable option.

more things to worry about then a small visual change…

Aeolus.3615:

mybe they are changing some visual stuff first as preparation for other things that they might change … ???? o.O

Sometimes you put on a nice dress before a funeral

We need less crap on the screen, not more. The timer is okay but it really should be movable. Why is the UI so inflexible?

What a waste of pixels!

ArchonWing.9480:

We need less crap on the screen, not more. The timer is okay but it really should be movable. Why is the UI so inflexible?

+1

And can we also get rid of the “XY JUST TOOK AB”?
Make it an option. I’m always in the middle of the fight yelling “THAT’S GREAT!! I STILL DON’T GIVE A KITTEN!!” and hey, I’m usually no ragey person.

That dev is an artist. I would like to see the details more close so I can appreciate the quality. Maybe icon can grow larger the longer you spent time in WvW? The bigger it gets, that means you winning!

Oh. My. God.
Who the heck cares?

Please take it away, there’s too much clutter as is from my perspective as a caster.

And those pop up blah,blah server just took blah blah objective wrecked many a cast in wvw. That stuff can go too or please make it a toggle for those who like it and want it on.

Turk.5460:

Oh. My. God.
Who the heck cares?

When I started to joke in TS about this thread I said, “People complaining…” and a guildie said, “You can stop right there.” The sky is blue too, you know.

Bunch of ungrateful ingrates!

People still care who’s winning? Totally useless feature imo.

Thankfully I play at 4k so I didn’t even notice until I saw this forum.

Not sure what size monitor you’re playing on but it’s barely noticeable yet it’s still there, I will agree nevertheless – an unnecessary addition.

It’s something I would rather see somewhere in the WvW panel if it so much as has to stay and if I really needed to see who is winning. I dare to add – not that anyone cares who wins these days.

You really only notice it if you try to notice it.

I forgot they made this change until I was standing around defending a camp for 30min. Then after I was done defending the camp I forgot it was there until I stumbled onto this thread again.

These pics here exaggerate it grossly.

“I don’t get why anyone is complaining”
None of those saying so said it was a good change = It seems as if no one needed this anyway.
Fights often look more like a disco than a fight because of all the added effects. That can be ok if it’s not a huge fight and if there’s no guardians with twilight around.
Anet realized no one is able to see anything of the fights because of the “visual noise” and so it doesn’t make sense they’re adding more instead of keeping it on a minimum.
Also: People are different: visual noise highly distracts me wheras others don’t even notice. As a fun fact: It takes me ages to find my way around a dungeon because there’s so many mobs I need to kill that I can’t concentrate on where I have to go. Silly, I know.
So if you complain about the complainers: Was it necessary to have this thing? Might it interfere with gameplay (casters)? Are people different?

Is that the improved WvW UI they were talking about? lol. It’s just an icon. Gosh this game sometimes: You leave for a year and when you come back to check how things have evolved you see that nothing has changed. Even SAB is still stuck at world 2.

I’d just like an option to make the message that says who took what to be available or go away. Just distracting.

Those are the ghost thief memorial tombstones

This thread is a symptom of the terminal disease that wvw has due to Anet neglect.

Nothing of any great relevance is attempted to fix the game mode but they throw in an unwanted change that nobody asked for in an already vexed community….its like a poke in the eye with a stick.

Another patch, plenty of fixes for pve but wvw gets a useless piece of clutter. Better option would have been a small icon in same line as tick.

I sometimes play on a 15" lappy so yah small screen, and as a caster would be nice to have a toggle option for this stuff.

Mighty Sorceress.2387:

Those are the ghost thief memorial tombstones

hehe I Iike your style

should it be bronze when last, silver when 2nd and gold when 1st? cos it doesnt work at all.

Xillllix.3485:

Is that the improved WvW UI they were talking about? lol. It’s just an icon. Gosh this game sometimes: You leave for a year and when you come back to check how things have evolved you see that nothing has changed. Even SAB is still stuck at world 2.

More raids, many PvE improvements, PvP seasons.
WvW: 2 tower icons.

I’m sorry did he got triggered by the 2 little icons and the bar with the timer? If yes wow m8 there goes 60% of your screen.

How come you get so triggered for 2 small icons?

zealex.9410:

How come you get so triggered for 2 small icons?

Emmanuel Lewis and Gary Coleman?

zealex.9410:

I’m sorry did he got triggered by the 2 little icons and the bar with the timer? If yes wow m8 there goes 60% of your screen.

I’m sorry did you get triggered by my little 2 sentence post about the little icons and the bar with the timer? If yes wow m8 there goes 60% of my posting time.

srsly though, you gotta admit that we are losing more and more screenspace as time goes on. These little icons keep piling ontop of eachother, and it gets pretty ridiculous as is during pvp tournament events and other stuff like that with the notification spam…..if you aren’t new to wvsw you should realize this. If nothing else I hope this posts STOPS future screen clutter from occurring…….I feel I should have made this post back when the skirmish timer itself got added, although I’m sure you would have been there at that time to post the exact same comment. Just as sure as I am you would post the exact same comment the next time they add another item to our screens in the near future.

Everyone has pet peeves bro. I consider this a quality of life thing that can be proven beneficial to everyone to some extent whether they care or not. I mean don’t you want the many many months they otherwise spend on these ui change to have been used on something else in the mode? I think thats a fair argument, we should be friends bro. I want the devs to spend their time giving YOU what you want bro. Let me help you bro.

~Kovu ~Kovu ~Kovu

Justine.6351:

You really only notice it if you try to notice it.

I forgot they made this change until I was standing around defending a camp for 30min. Then after I was done defending the camp I forgot it was there until I stumbled onto this thread again.

These pics here exaggerate it grossly.

I didn’t even notice it when I played last night. /shrug

is it really that big of a deal?

jamesdolla.3954:

is it really that big of a deal?

Not at all.
But over the years the WvW-(forum)-community has grown so toxic and dissatisfied with everything Anet tries to improve their game mode that complaining about it is the only thing they know.
Even if Anet did exactly what they want them to do, they would keep complaining. No wonder the Devs wander off to Reddit.

Naub.1475:

jamesdolla.3954:

is it really that big of a deal?

Not at all.
But over the years the WvW-(forum)-community has grown so toxic and dissatisfied with everything Anet tries to improve their game mode that complaining about it is the only thing they know.
Even if Anet did exactly what they want them to do, they would keep complaining. No wonder the Devs wander off to Reddit.

That’s a bit unfair towards the players. Actually anet is as well as they probably think what you’re saying.
Thing is: No matter what change people will complain. And this is a minor, yet still unecessary, clutter thingy. You can ignore it but still think twice before adding more and more clutter.

The funny thing is that we were fine for the most part if being left alone by anet. There were complaints here and there; new maps, punish nightcappers, I want a 24/7 queue – but the majority of players were still fine until HoT – at least on EU. NA had different issues than EU but both were brushed with the same brush. Servers and communities were destroyed. But the pillars of wvw were/are: community, style (kitten , I miss gunnar’s roamers), roamers, guilds – a lot has been destroyed in the past year/past nearly 2 years. So wvw has got no real purpose anymore or at least it feels like it. I still blame the botched implementation of stats in June 2015 and Hot/lack of balance for the majority of problems wvw has got.

ETA: Forgot to add my name

~Jana

My brother always signs sms with his name and I honestly have the urge to travel to him and give him a good ol’ headbut.

Great that Anet combined threads and changed the subject title without even noting it in a reply. Driveby stealth moderation is the best :/

To those arguing “who cares”, yeah I care. It doesnt matter its a gameplay change that has massive impact on WvW, the design of an entirerly new map or a tiny little icon, after all these years I still care. For those that do not care, well dont post then.

The who cares crowd are probably the same people that would be perfectly happy for Anet having us pay per commander color, an intregal part of the functionality of WvW.