The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.
The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.
well, not having them, without having an options to HAVE them is better than having them, without an option to NOT have them.
So it was the right decision, imo.
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The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.
Lame! I feel less motivated to get my Champion titles in PvP now.
think it’s a better change, besides pvp titles are irrelevant for WvW purposes. You just focus fire the Champion one with 5 players so they die more often.
Title just create text clutter on screen. 40ppl, and when all of them have “Great Champion Volunteer Walking Amongst The Mortals And Some More Bla-BLa-Bla”, it’s very painful to see.
The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.
thank you!!! <3
one thing that bothers me in WvW is that most of the time in a zerg I can’t tell the difference between downed and dead opponents. an option to not display names of already dead opponents really would be a huge improvement for me.
Thanks Devon! Are you guys considering changing the name tag on enemies to say just “JQ, SBI, FA + rank” etc? That would also really help with the clutter
Thanks Devon! Are you guys considering changing the name tag on enemies to say just “JQ, SBI, FA + rank” etc? That would also really help with the clutter
We are tossing around ideas for this as well. We have not settled on a solution as of yet.
That sucks – I enjoyed everyone seeing the titles I have worked hard for!
99/100 people don’t care what title (or even rank) you have, i can see how it might make you feel like you acomplished something though because they’re so insanely hard to obtain
Anet made the right decision to disable titles. I wouldn’t mind if they implement an option in the future to see the titles, but the default should be off.
As someone stated in another thread a few weeks ago, all we really need is a arrow or dot over everyone’s head in the color of their server: green, red or blue. That would be the ultimate reduction in clutter.
The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.
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Perfect solution, thank you.
If I see thirty red names, I don’t need to know each of their titles. If I see 2-3 names, THEN titles may be of more interest.
I don’t personally care about a checkbox; options are always nice, but there are MANY more things I consider more pressing than seeing EVERYONE’s title in WvW.
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Now, Devon, it’s clear you guys agree that titles can be unsightly clutter.
So why stop at WvW? Why do we have to put up with titles even in PvE? Sure, in PvE it isn’t as intense a problem as it was in WvW, but it’s still annoying to be forced to see unnecessary grey text around my screen that adds nothing to my play experience. Specially when the only alternative is turning off names altogether, which is detrimental to gameplay.
Just something I’d like to point out: for me, it’s a much different situation as I’m from T7/8, so titles are a lot more noticable since there are many more small-group fights. I can understand how they wouldn’t matter as much in the upper tier ZvZ, but down here, it’s fun. :P
Also, I’d be fine with a checkbox. Some great ideas here for clutter reduction, too.
The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way.
Glad to hear this because.
I love cleaner tags.
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Glad to see you making titles less important again. I really enjoy grinding out those WvW ranks in a huge zerg so the enemy knows I can spam 1 like a champ. That champ slayer title I worked hard on didn’t say anything about my abilities and neither will my champ illusionist. (If I can every drag myself back into SleepyPvP.)
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I like cleaner UI, but something does feel wrong about this change (aside from the missing patch notes). WvW has the hardest to get titles in the game, yet its now the only place where no one can see them.
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I’ll have you know the FIRST DAY the forced titles was implemented.. I disabled all names except my target. The titles are to god kitten big. They should be a part of the target health box, NOT the name on top of character heads!!!!!!!
Thanks Devon! Are you guys considering changing the name tag on enemies to say just “JQ, SBI, FA + rank” etc? That would also really help with the clutter
We are tossing around ideas for this as well. We have not settled on a solution as of yet.
Now, Devon, it’s clear you guys agree that titles can be unsightly clutter.
So why stop at WvW? Why do we have to put up with titles even in PvE? Sure, in PvE it isn’t as intense a problem as it was in WvW, but it’s still annoying to be forced to see unnecessary grey text around my screen that adds nothing to my play experience. Specially when the only alternative is turning off names altogether, which is detrimental to gameplay.
Once they remove culling in PvE, they’ll to fix it there as well. They just don’t think that far.
How possible is it to remove player names altogether, and replace them with visual cues, like an icon instead? This only applies to WvW.
It seems excessive and redundant to see “Other Server Invader” spammed across the screen. I think small, simple icons would be much more efficient. Maybe a small shield, with the color of the server as the background, and insignia on it to represent their rank. Something much more concise and recognizable. It would help tremendously to reduce the clutter in large groups of people.
I agree somehow, unless they change their attitude towards showing player’s "real" names in WvW, there’s often not much use to showing names at all. Except you see quickly if you’re just running into a random zerg or a guild group.
