Should health bars show exact numbers or only the bar?

Do you think other players/monsters/npcs health numbers should be hidden or should we see the health bar plus the exact health number of enemies?

I personally like when we only got the health bar, and no numbers, what do you think?

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ThexBlackxKnight

I love that the last two posts have exact opposite views.

Biccus

I don't think having a choice is the right approach tbh. I also believe that showing numbers or %s of enemy players is dangerous unless the corruption system also applies to kill assists.
if you know exactly how much health the other player has and exactly how much damage you can do with your abilities, you can leave them so low they die to a mob and don't get the corruption for the killing blow..

Blackford

Kind of have to have a health bar for things like bonus damage when the enemy is over or under X%, or execute effects for finishing off enemies.

And also to know how far a player has progressed. Double your max health? Probably shouldn't attack them.

George_Black

Blackford wrote: »

Kind of have to have a health bar for things like bonus damage when the enemy is over or under X%, or execute effects for finishing off enemies.

And also to know how far a player has progressed. Double your max health? Probably shouldn't attack them.

And would all that work with a player attacking a mob out in the open world, and another player hitting him just so that the mob lands the killing blow, effectivelly avoiding corruption.

If you are going to give useful feedback learn about all the systems of the game so far.

Songcaller

I appreciate the name plates without exact numbers they initially had. I believe the MMO will have the same parameters. I only want the name plates without exact numbers for anyone outside of my group or guild though.

roost

Dygz wrote: »

I don't necessarily care if it's numbers as long as it's reasonably clear what's happening.

This is one of the first times i'm actually agreeing with Dygz. The numbers/lack thereof don't matter. What matters are percentages, being able to tell what % of max health a target is at. I always thought there should be a different method of judging how powerful a character is in the open world rather than health bars. Ideally level would serve this purpose of helping you distinguish if a target (mob or player) is worth taking on, but when everyone is at max level most MMOs just rely on health pool info to relay that information. I think functionally it'll have almost zero difference whether or not you can see them, so it's not really worth arguing over specifics like "well maybe you can only see them if X" or "no numbers except for X" or whatever

Conrad

I prefer hp bars above head. No need for % or numbers, but HP bars so at least you can see who's low hp and who's not will be the best.

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