Poll: Monster life number display

I agree with haveing to guess is way more fun and exciting, at least on new mobs...so maybe make an option to see numerical values but monsters have a ?/? until you have killed a few. or if you really wanted to go crazy you could build it based on YOUR CHARACTER'S knowlege of the monsters' health. say you kill a little squirrel in 1 hit with a 10 damage strike, so the next squirrel you see will show <10 or something, becoming more accurate as you kill more, this could apply to monster weaknesses/resistances as well. but that would probably be way overkill in action RPG =D

I would like the option to see numbers float over people's heads when they take damage indicating what kind of change was made to their health, and from what kind of source (green for poison, blue for ice, red for fire, etc.)

With glowing orange around the edges of the number for critical hits.

In the event a player didn't want this displayed, they should be able to toggle it off under the options menu.

That being said, I'd much prefer a percentage rather than a set value. Something about percentages is much more telling in my eyes. More importantly, if these values were based on a percentage--which I suspect they are on the developer's monitors because it's much more practical--I believe they would be even easier for the devs in making micro-adjustments to more difficult than normal monsters because that's what percentages are for: setting a proportion to something that varies. It's simply better than some arbitrary number.

As with all UI, I think everything should be able to be turned on, or off, and even customized via the Options. If you don't put it in the game then people will just make custom UI's anyway, I think it would add more appeal to others if you didn't have to go outside of the game to Customize the UI anyway a person would like.

-Arcolus

Just make it optional if it's possible. Evey other option would be illogical.

Not showing damage/status changes and stuff is just a lot more subtle and helps.. immersion I think?
I wouldn't want to have them visible but that's just me =P

By default I would say no, but the option should definitely be available.

i'd like to have the option but not really a huge deal imo

numbers take away from the immersion

id rather not even have a life bar at all


much cooler if pieces of them are falling apart or w/e

zombies arms falling off

shields getting broken

etc etc