Guild Wars 2

The gold star next to your name can be seen through walls etc etc…Makes you an easy target in WvWvW and sPVP as well. I can see people with it when they are on the other side of a wall like in the eternal BG jump puzzle. If I can see them with the star then Im sure they can see me through walls with my star as well lol.

Kinda unfair for both of us

Any chance Anet could reduce the opacity of the gold star? Make it fade with the rest of the name? Make it dissapear when in WvWvW or sPVP?
etc?

Thanks

Now I know why I am always the target 1st.

Not happy, you do something like complete the world to 100% exploring and you get punished for it instead of rewarded? :S

Yup, easy targets.. you can run but you can’t hide

That’s terrible on so many levels. It should only be visible on mouseover, just like your level.

Or there should be an option to hide it.

yeh today I saw 3 other players with it and before I even saw their names or waht color team they were I saw the gold star. I can also see the gold star through walls which means people are doing the same to me ….that isnt fair for either of us since we cant even hide around a corner and catch our breath cause we have a big gold target over our heads.

The gold star is beyond stupid. It should be an optional title. Not a “Please kill me first!” symbol that you are branded with for all time.

Gold star is frustrating as a mesmer since it doesn’t show up on any of my clones. =/

Snow White.9680:

Gold star is frustrating as a mesmer since it doesn’t show up on any of my clones. =/

Geez, that’s so silly…

yeh…I wasnt going to say that but it does make mesmers easy targets with clones lol

Since I can’t see my own nameplate, I don’t even feel I already had it.
I can only assume others see it.
Now they can even see it through the wall.
OMG, what have I done?

So THIS is why so many people were able to home in on my character (even when it was in obscure spots) in EB. Kind of makes me regret putting the effort in to get 100% completion.

I agree. This is quite unfortunate.

Wish I hadn’t Bothered getting the explorer achievements to finish off my 100% map completion now that i know this.
Really does explain why when I’m in the wvwvw eternal battleground puzzle and I try to hide from large groups of enemy players, they always seem to make a bee-line straight to my hiding spot…

This needs to be changed. Make it fade out with our name or remove it completely from spvp/wvwvw, that or at least give us the option to turn the kitten thing off.

I for one will be avoiding wvwvw almost completely until this is fixed.

Here is a perfect example.

Its inside the eternal BG jump puzzle from a few nights ago.

I am on the other side of a cliff and up and over that cliff is the Beast room with the monsters in it that you can unleash …its right after the dark room. I targeted the guy in the beast room and ran and jumped off the cliff. Its about as far as the targeting will go before it drops. He jumped out the room and continued towards the end of the jump puzzle and I followed his star until the targeting got to far.

Look at the picture…. I can STILL SEE the gold star he has through the mountain and floors.

Anet fix this please.

BTW I made this thread in General discussion…guess a mod moved it to bugs so I assume its a bug?

Angelus.1042:

BTW I made this thread in General discussion…guess a mod moved it to bugs so I assume its a bug?

I hope its a bug :p and not working as intended, unless Anet are trolling us by designing the 100% completion star to work like this :o

But if the post has been moved to the bugs forum, then at least i guess that means they are aware of it, though i see no reason to stop bumping this to the top just in case.