Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed that no one talks about this issue anymore. Is everyone just okay with not being able to see what they’re attacking in a large group? This patch has yet AGAIN shown the ugly side of Guild Wars 2’s particle effects. It’s over-kill.

As melee, I couldn’t see ANY of the champs or elites I was attacking, so I wound up dead very quickly since I couldn’t see what I was attacking or when they were possibly about to do a big attack that I should have dodged. I even set character limits to the lowest and while my FPS was awesome, all I saw on my screen were abstract arrangements of blue, white and yellow. It was very pretty but got old very fast. Eventually I switched to a rifle and my fun and enjoyment were reduced to: Hit Tab -> Mash all skills.

ANet Team: Please give us some sort of slider to lower the amount of particle effects. You were supposedly working on this a long time ago, any update on that? Forgot the dev’s name but he said that the game would be smart about reducing the particle effects. I still think it would be better to give us a slider to let us decide ourselves.