Poll: Monster life number display

This option is more of a personal user preference, but i think its nice to have something like that in the options as an add-on.

having the number within the life-bar of the mob should reduce any UI clutter and on MOBs with little life most will simply ignore the added info because its unobtrusive.

besides once you know skelly type A has 870hps you wont be looking at its life bar when you do one or two hit kills on them but when you only do 20dps you may pay a bit more attention to the numbers over skellys head.

I would like to see it as an option. This game seems to be very player oriented, what is wrong with another choice ;). Give us two options.

Example:
Activate health numbers for all mobs
Activate health numbers for bosses only

would be awesome to be able to see the health of monsters more precise than just a health bar

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

I want as many numbers as possible because it helps to come up with some stats for the monsters. I am also of the opinion that the damage we deal to monsters should be displayed above this heads as we hit them, along with miss, red text for critical hits, dodge, block, etc.

I very much second this. Make them optional, as well as making the combst text optional. Personally, I will have them on.

Could of had a fourth choice, "makes no differnce for me". The overwhelming majority of the third choice would have been divided up on that idea imo.

Normally I always want to see monster life bars and my damage numbers in floating text. But after playing Path of Exile for a few days I've realised how nice it is not to have them. It might sound silly but I think it really adds to the dark fantasy atmosphere when you don't know for sure how tough the enemy is or how effective your attack is, you can only go by the results. It feels more real, and I like that. No thank you on the life number display!

afaik the guilty pleasure of mankind was it always to be nosey!! on mastering a lot of p&p rpg´s the most contrived question by far is 'how much life -xy- is on/has' x..x

so 4 sure -as the majority- i would appreciate an option to make life bars possible to see!!

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Here is my view on it:
It's a free game, and so it needs to appeal to large numbers of people. The best (IMO) way to do that is to not force one style or the other on anyone. Put it in the options should be fine.
And ya, this is just one option (maybe 2 or 3, depending on how indepth the customization you decide on for this is)....so, I can't really see it being too much clutter.

just read a bit further, and found a post that already said it, but I'm here to repeat it

Please, add some kind of indication that you missed. It's incredably annoying when you can one-shot thing (Assuming you hit), but when you miss you can't be sure it was lagging or if it was actually a miss.
This is kinda essential in my opinion