u/Rahavic_Jr

So today I broke my client.

I had Threat Plates installed and it has been great on my main. Big help in reducing and managing my aggro while in dungeon and just looks clean with how I had it setup. I went on an alt and tried to load the profile from my main and then realized all Names (I want to specify this as it caused a lot of confusion) on NPCs and Enemies were gone. I messed around a bit and couldn’t get it to work so I went DEEP down the rabbit hole for about 4 hours now and the only thing that will show an NPCs name above their head is setting my Interface option under Names to ALL NPCs. Hostile or Interactable setting does not work. It shows nothing but a ! or ? above the NPC’s head and nothing above an Enemy’s head unless I target them.

Okay that’s fine, but I now can see all NPCs and Enemies Names from about 500 yards away. I’m talking FP fly over I can see crabs on the sea floor. Fine, I’ll adapt and use Threat Plates to show what I need.

My question is now is Plater a better option to control what I see on screen? I’ve tried every CVar script you can imagine. Deleted Cache, deleted WTF, deleted Saved Variables, reset Game Settings from Bnet launched, evrything. Nothing will fix this issue and as far as I can tell a full clean wipe and reinstall won’t work either. So what are my options?

Again I don’t want Nameplates. I want Floating Names like the game comes with default and if I can’t use that then I’ll use Plater or what I have now which is ALL NPCs on and looking at mob from 500 yards out.

Nobody in guild or anywhere I’ve talked to has ever heard of such a thing so I’m here now reaching out to you kind folk. Thanks again for taking the time.

Also: I guess people play with this option on all the time to see every NPCs name on the screen apparently. Insanity.

Also also: I do not want nameplates on everyone and eveything around me. I am fully aware of what V does and every incantation of pressing it with other modifiers.

So you’re probably wondering what I mean by the title but I thought of something so simple that would actually incentivize tagging and using your other characters. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned yet and why I hadn’t thought of it until after watching EVO Japan footage.

So essentially *EX Tag* would be a Tag where you also used meter that would tag in your character AND add 25k HP to your health bar. The amount of life is just a number I thought would make a little sense from what I watched and the amount of meter would have to be 50 or so or half your bar. Now you have a reason to maybe spend that meter and tag in another character.

If you choose to use it and then quickly get your main back in, or if it results in a cooldown of your assist bar similar to lockout I’m not sure but it’s something I can definitely see being used strategically that wouldn’t effect the game flow. It would just give you that last ditch effort to maybe get back into the game. Could the person already in the lead decide to burn a whole bar to go back to full life? Yes, and that’s where it gets messy but something like this could work if fleshed out.

Let me know your thoughts and thank you for taking the time.