Guild Wars 2

coglin.1867:

I spend a great deal of time in WvW, and this has never been an issue for me in the least. To be honest, I have had so little problem with anything even close to this, that I could not have fathomed this to be a problem until I ran across your post.

Honestly, I see more potential problems with not seeing downed or dead players names then I can possibly imagine the improvements would be.

Well, like I said, it is not at all a neccesaty nor am I picking holes. I fully understood from the start that this would not effect everybody. This is also why my suggestion was to add an OPTION to change this. It’s just a tweak.

On the other hand, you may find this much more annoying when player models aren’t loading or when you’re playing GvG as co-ordinated strikes cover your entire screen with effects.

After playing various amounts of WvW or PvP it has come to my attention that the ‘name plates’ of dead players are in fact, extremely annoying… I’m not sure if I’m the only one who has discovered this problem, but during and after participating in huge scale battles it sometimes becomes difficult to locate an active player among the many dead player names. I understand that dead player names can be very important, if you’re hoping to be located after death, or as a signal to enemy players that a dead player may be watching, but it would also be nice to remove them.
It would be fantastic if there was an option added to remove dead player names (I say option considering that not all players would like this removed). Even within certain parametres such as “Only remove dead player names within WvW”.
Obviously this is not a very controversal matter and may never be important enough to bother changing but it may be a fantastic ‘tweak’ to the game.

This is a very small issue but one that can easily be fixed which is why I have niglected to make a giant post on a question that can be answered short and simply.
Is this worth changing? It is in my opinion.

I think a lot of people are recieving deminished rewards. Today I recieved 15 from my first run of the dungeon (previous run was a partial completion about a week ago). I ran it a second time and recieved 2…

Heading back on topic…
Do I think it is too much work for a skin? That’s a tough one… But first think of this. Is it really ‘Just’ a skin? There is no straight answer but the more thought I put into this topic the more I realise that it actually isn’t ‘Just’ a skin.

I understand exactly how you feel Daedalus.9382 and I totaly agree, but consider the statistics that aren’t listed… The weapon is a symbol of your effort. It proves to others that you really do have the skill and statistics you require. When you wield this weapon you don’t just wield a skin you wield every last bit of work you put into it. That alone is enough tell other people to keep clear (and if they don’t… well that’s where your skill comes in). It also gives power to your entire group of people, it is a symbol that your team has the better player(s) and lowers enemy moral. You’re not just wielding a weapon that anyonecan use… your wielding a weapon that can be used ONLY by those that are worthy of it.
So with that in mind I started to feel a bit better. Oh, and I was reliefed to hear that they will never be outdated aswell… So you’ll only have to do it all once.

But… It would be nice to see the slightest stat boost. Just to make you feel better :D