Guild Wars 2

Anyone else tired of these aoes you can’t even see? Pirate boss at the pavilion is one good example: There’s lots of aoe attacks that goes UNDER THE WATER. Can we see them? No! Enjoy being dead or downed!

Or how about the gauntlet? Fancy cool looking ground with holes. Let’s put visually bad designed aoe rings there for the “lulz”. Oh you wanted to see them? Too bad, the ground is more pretty this way.

I think it’s time to re-redesign the aoe field rings. They are simply terrible. This latest patch just proves it once again. (Not that aoe isn’t terrible in existing content and all…)

edit: And accidentally the title.

I keep having issues where the AOE attacks will damage/kill me before the game even renders the rings themselves. Kuraii the Cruel is terrible with this. I’ll get downed + defeated and 2 seconds later the rings finally show up. Makes me wonder if the Effect LOD is also culling the AOE telegraphs, which I think it shouldn’t.