I’m really struggling on some maps, esp. ones with lots of textures and low lighting, to see where everyone is and more importantly WHO they are so I know if my DPS is dying behind a pillar somewhere. I have kind of bad vision and my eyes are always going to the health bars to look for dispels and heals. I try to add markers to my own teammates every time to help, but I still struggle. Any healers have advice on keeping track of where everyone is and who is in range?
Then there’s actually tracking what CDs people have popped. Do most people just look at the enemy players to see the spell effects or are they solely tracking big offensive CDs through omnibar?
if the graphics are that distracting you can try turning your video settings to lower quality.
but I think you are experiencing one of the more common pitfalls for people trying to improve at arena: there is a ton of information on the screen and it’s not easy to quickly process it all to decide your next best action
it’s honestly just something that comes with a lot of practice - if you play enough games you will notice your globals becoming more muscle-memory. you will be able to spend more time analyzing your team’s position and everyones buffs/debuffs/cds instead of thinking about your next global
Ability team tracker you can put whatever cds you want and it will show when ur partner presses it and what the remaining CD is.
You can also try setting friendly nameplates as the only ones that show? I set mine to only show enemy nameplates and then I mark team
I have team nameplates set to half the size of enemy name plates, helps out a lot with tracking my team.
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Like someone said above, ATT is really helpful and marking your team. Just try to take the game slow while learning and getting use to what you’re looking for and when to look for it.
WAs are huge also.
BigDebuffs is also an amazing addon to help with seeing enemy cds. Also gladiusex is a good option for tracking enemy cds.
I think the best way to get better awareness is focus on improving one thing at a time. You should be comfortable enough with playing your character rotationally that you don’t really have to stare at your own action bars.
When you’re able to do that you can get much better at paying attention to both positioning and CDs. Focus first on just where you move your character and where it’s generally safe to stand, until it becomes automatic for you.
At that point you should be comfortable enough with playing your own character that where you should generally stand and how to do dps/healing rotations are second nature.
Now you have more room to focus on enemy CDs and kill windows as well as your partners. Pick one of them at a time to get better at dealing with and then it’ll just be mostly second nature. You’ll be more comfortable adapting positioning more offensively than normal when you know your team is safe, and vise versa.
Trying to do everything all at once will just overwhelm you and make you fail, but focusing on one thing to improve at a time will already help you grow a lot as a player
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Can you share the script for this plz?
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/run C_NamePlate.SetNamePlateFriendlySize(60, 30)
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