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This is going to completely screw over a lot of skilled PvPers who use terrain and other things to outmaneuver opponents.
I am a 1vX player and solo ganker and I can tell you by implementing this feature you successfully crippled this type of play-style in one fell swoop.
Before TG DLC went live, a player had to make sacrifices to hard counter any form of stealth play. They were forced to use Radiant Magelight, detect pots, or other skills that would bring people out of sneak, invisibility or Cloak. With the Thieves Guild update you gave everyone a way to counter Cloak/Invis/Sneak with any form of Mage Light. Now with DB DLC even Stamina builds can slot Expert Hunter/morphs and pop stealthers. To make matters worse we now have the health bars and huge icons seen a mile away. The latter being the nails in the coffin.
Take a look at these screen shots:
First up, check out this distance
I don't even need to pay attention and I can already tell someone is down the road. Without the icon this player would blend in to his surrounding at this distance. For crying out loud the icon is as big as the player. It's nighttime and it normally would be (and should be) difficult to see things particularly at such a huge distance. Not anymore!
I thought I saw something.
Decent player tries to give the slip...
Not only can you see the homing beacon icon, you also have a huge red health bar sticking out saying "I'M OVER HERE!"
Please remove this feature. This is completely unnecessary and should not launch onto live servers. This is a blatant nerf to skilled players. A large part of 1vX and solo ganking is made up of awareness and movement. By putting this in you cripple us, especially Nightblades (intended?). Currently on PTS not only is movement speed broken, there is still the combat bug and then any competent Nightblade able to tell you how buggy and unreliable Cloak is. With this new feature added a player will be hard-pressed to get away from anyone let alone zerglings. Please remove this.
I got killed in pvp, nerf everything...