50% Marker on HP bars

Certain skills benefiet from knowing when your opponent is below 50% hp. Sometimes it looks like they are just below, but come to find out when you use the skills they weren't, and you just missed a good oppurtunity.

I think it would be very easy to just place a little marker at the 50% mark on the HP bar. Once the little line at the end of the "red" falls past the marker, you know your opponent is below 50%.

An even more ideal fix would to display your opponents actual HP. Somewhere on the bar it could show there current hp/total hp. Although, this isn't really neccissary.

Ingenious. Just a little tic on the bar to indicate the point of "No Return!"... well, ok, not no return, but you know what I'm saying.

considering the number of mods that are 15^50 or the like i don't see this as a bad idea, as long as it includes our own health bars.

I think we should have a little number at the end of our health bars, just next to the condition/hex/enchantment arrows, that show how much dp they have.

2008 EDIT: Wow old thread . Don't know why we'd need DP indicators...

Perhaps the health bar should turn a darker shade of red when under 50% health instead of a line, might make them stand out more and be a bit clearer.

I agree about the tick on the hp on 50% and also about the DP but only to party memers...and maybe more discret - ctrl+click on party member repots the DP only to you.

Well since you can see your own hp as long as you can subtract you'll know when you're below 50% but for convience's sake, 50% markers all around!

/signed

Some will do the math and some are more visual. Besides someone may be switching weapons and even armor during action that change the hp amount. So it would be good to see the 50 percent mark visually. And using the interface options to make the bar bigger should make it so we can see it in the corner of our vision, when looking directly at something else.

the line might be hard to see. perhaps changing the bars color. I would also like to have a bar that tells you when hexes wear off of the enemy. this way you can keep up with your casting. some builds are primed to run on timing.


~the Hexing Rat~

changing colors may work, but i'd prefer it be an interface option. I myself may keep thinking I've been caught by a hex or condition if I see it change color.

Totally signed, I'm fed up with using the Exprince Bar as the marker...good idea eh?

Showing a little Mark for 50% of Hp bar seems like a good idea.. /signed..

Showing Others Total Hp and stuff /NOT SIGNED.. Simply becouse this will have bad effects like exactley showing Spike teams who they can easyly spike and well, going that far we might aswell show their skills and attributes? So Mark for 50% hp - Yes, Show Enemys exact hp - Hell no..

Also, This could kinda help ppl to lets say chance their weapon to a 20v50 weapon when getting under 50% hp.. >_>

~Shadow

/signed


I think that's a very good idea. Should be easy to add and would help a lot. Although I don't wait for the health to drop too low while monking, sometimes I feel like the additional healing from Word of Healing should trigger, while in fact it does not. With a marker like that, it would be much easier to know when a skills or weapons above/ lower 50% description or mod would trigger.

didnt think of that. how bout a speech bubble that pops up.


"Oh crap there goes half my life!"


~Rat with bubbles in his nose~

"I'm halfway dead!"

edit: Hmm, half alive or half dead? Optimistic or pessimistic.

A little nub right in the middle would look nice, I'd say.

/signed
I also disagree with showing exact health of enemies, but only because I wouldn't want anyone knowing too much about me in a pvp match(though I would love to see how much health monster bosses have). The health marker(of whichever kind) would be very useful.

/Signed a-plenty.

I'm more inclined to go with the idea of custom markers on your health bar, so you can put your own up, but allow for the allocation of set marker points like a 50% marker as the OP suggested.

Because there are situations where you would want to know when your foe is at 20% health for example.

Why anyone would see something wrong with this, I do not know. It would be very easy just a visible tick. Wouldn't even have to be a big ne either.

/approve with pleasure

/signed

Not hard to implement, nothing bad with the idea.