Another Guild Wars Beta Event

[TriggerHappy]

There are a few things about the GUI that would be nice to add/change.  A stats window would be really nice, something that can show you the total armor you have, rather than having to add up in your head from the inventory page.

That is not how armor works in Guild Wars. It is not added up. The damage is location based (like in Morrowind), each piece of armor is used individually when your character is hit. A "roll" determines where you get hit. For example, if you had torso armor with a 50 rating, but gloves with a rating of 30, you'd take more damage to your arms than to your torso from the same attack. That's why it's important to keep armor rating high on every piece.

Also, something showing the amount of damage you'll do with a normal attack (before armor) would help, especially when a lot of the weapons come with modifiers that have damage +/-X% and the fact that some of your attributes will enhance damage (ie swordsmanship for warriors, marksmanship for rangers, etc.).

Your "normal attack" is whatever's listed on your weapon. You'll do that much damage if you meet the weapon's requirement in it's governing attribute. Beyond meeting this requirement, you get a 7% bonus to damage for every rank you have above it.

Example: you have a sword that requires 8 in Swordsmanship to be used (if you don't meet this requirement, you'll do pitiful damage with it). If you have 8 in Swordsmanship, you'll do the stated damage on the weapon (before armor or other modifiers). If you have 10 in Swordsmanship, you'll do 14% more damage (again before armor). This is the same for Marksmanship.

FYI, Strength (the warrior primary attribute) only comes into effect when using attack skills (no effect on normal attack). And only provides (edit: forgot that it got nerfed) 1% armor penetration per rank. It's alot more useful to have high weapon mastery.

The last thing I'll say for now is that it would be nice to be able to issue commands to the henchman (this is a game based on strategy, after all).  Nothing complex, but a retreat command would help a lot.

This is promised by the developers ... but, we'll see.