Guild Wars 2

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Optional or not I would rather the devs focus on bigger issue is that so hard to understand.

Qol changes are nice but not at the expensive of other things that need to be fixed.

So, here comes this argument again – “would rather have the devs focus on bigger issues”.
I’m sure the devs are perfectly capable of deciding themselves what they should put their focus and effort on, that’s not something we decide for them anyway (if we did, maybe this class would be in a far better position, don’t you think? Maybe the performance when there are lots of players in a limited area wouldn’t be so bad?).
Thing is, we don’t decide anything what they should focus on. This lame argument always comes up when someone asks for something, which to another person is of no interest – “why waste resources on that, when this is far more important”.

Let the community come up with ideas and requests, but leave that argument out of the discussion, just to try and further show for the rest of the community what a bad idea it is.

So if we leave the discussion about what the devs should focus on out of this thread, there’s really no good argument against this idea if it was to be implemented as an optional thing, right?

The fact that this should be optional is a key to how needed or received this option would be. I can think of at least 20 different things that are Qol that will have a bigger impact.

Time is always a factor if this idea was fully code and sitting on a shelf and we were asked to pick this or any other qol improvement eversuggested. I can’t see picking this even over account bound potion tabs.

Maybe this should be revisted once every class has a heal that can actually target another player.

I don’t think this improvement will have the desired effect. When there are a sea of health bars like in a big pack if mobs it becomes hard to click on the health bar of the mob you want.

Even when you are able to click the name of the person you want to heal your aoe heal don’t heal the person with the lowest health or your target and he still may not receive the heals.

Adding a Qol improvement that only a small group would use and that doesn’t help in the area it was meant to help with a lot of rng is just horrible .

Let the people who are actually making the decision evaluate what are valid arguments. Time, man hours and impact may not be high on your list but in may be on the devs.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

I don’t think this improvement will have the desired effect. When there are a sea of health bars like in a big pack if mobs it becomes hard to click on the health bar of the mob you want.

I can’t argue against that, it would all depend on how they executed it. I’ve actually never played an mmo where you have to struggle so much against the ui; being able to actually pick the mob/enemy you want to target in a chaotic situation can be very hard sometimes.

There’s been a bunch of suggestions how to implement this, like thresholds before the health bars even show up and things like that. Maybe there shouldn’t even be actual healthbars, but something else.

I want to be able to help out with my heals on ppl that actually needs it, instead of throwing them out like candy, randomly (even though I still help out by granting grace of the land on the ones my heals lands on). Then there’s also the argument about healers not being needed in game modes other than raids, but that’s for another discussion, so let’s not go there please.

For healers to be able to do their work properly, we have to get the means of that. Something added to help out with that is what I would want.

People talk about how adding permanent health bars in smaller sPvP settings would create clutter and yet in massive groups of people (like for world events and WvW) there is absolutely no way to turn of player names (there is an option for it, but it doesn’t work in WvW or raids). So in WvW, for example, it just appears as though an army of blue text is clashing with an army of red text. As an example of how much nicer it would look if the option to hide player names worked in these settings, press CTRL+SHIFT+H and see how amazing two massive groups of players colliding looks in WvW.

Absolutely boggles my mind that I see people talking all the time about how the devs are anti clutter and this would add clutter and that would add clutter. The amount of name clutter that currently exists in WvW and large groups is already absolutely terrible.

zumaneil.9538:

People talk about how adding permanent health bars in smaller sPvP settings would create clutter and yet in massive groups of people (like for world events and WvW) there is absolutely no way to turn of player names (there is an option for it, but it doesn’t work in WvW or raids). So in WvW, for example, it just appears as though an army of blue text is clashing with an army of red text. As an example of how much nicer it would look if the option to hide player names worked in these settings, press CTRL+SHIFT+H and see how amazing two massive groups of players colliding looks in WvW.

Absolutely boggles my mind that I see people talking all the time about how the devs are anti clutter and this would add clutter and that would add clutter. The amount of name clutter that currently exists in WvW and large groups is already absolutely terrible.

It’s all about options.
Currently we have none. Those who don’t like it could still turn it off.