Guild Wars 2

Excuse me if this is better discussed elsewhere, but I couldn’t find something along the same lines.

One of the things that bugs me the most about the necro, is Death Shroud. Why?

It completely changes your character UI. Was this done so it purposefully looks like the downed state? Being the necro’s special tool, I don’t understand why it removes the following crucial functionality:

- Knowing when my heal is off CD
- Knowing when my skills are off CD
- Knowing exactly how much health I will leave with
- Knowing how much endurance I have. I can still dodge in DS, so why can’t I see this vital information?
- Boons and conditions?

Why is all this important? Well, I may want to heal my group and do some condition/boon control. I shouldn’t have to remember whether this skills are likely to be off CD or not. I should be able to see.

Also, the life force of DS has no quantifiable value. How do I know how fast it’s going to go down when I get hit?

I’d be much happier if it just removed the functionality of 6-0 when in DS, and swapped the 1-5 action bar over to the DS skills (a fifth one would be nice also…) and used the existing DS life force bar, greying out the health orb whilst in DS.

Thoughts?

It is like this way because DS was initially activated when you were downed. Basically they took that aspect out but left the UI and everything else the same.

This has been reported a few times and I believe arena net have taken note, hope to see advancements in the near future