Guild Wars 2

Well.. I feel that they are too difficult to see, due to the color and pattern on the floor. I can’t either tell the time or location they appear, the best I can do is to tell that there may be something red around…

For me, when the screen gets blurred it’s easier to see the red circled area, since the red circles glow..

Can this be fixed somehow? I have been trying it for about 30 times but I really can’t do it. By the way, I personally have some problem identifying colors, not so bad as color blind but I sometimes get very lost in fragmented color patterns. But it’s still very frustrating to fail the challenge due to it.

For me it doesn’t feel as if Liadri isn’t the problem.
The boss is fine, but where Anet messed up was the Arena itself.
Poorly designed… hard to see AOE floors, a cramped camera angle that screws over Norn and Charr.
Being in the same instance as everything else so the framerate gets shot for a lot of people when you have your entire server below you fighting a champion.

Try turning post processing off

Yeah the floor for the Arena is the only reason I haven’t beaten Liadri yet. It makes it very difficult to discern circles from the actual floor.

Grimno.6172:

For me it doesn’t feel as if Liadri isn’t the problem.
The boss is fine, but where Anet messed up was the Arena itself.
Poorly designed… hard to see AOE floors, a cramped camera angle that screws over Norn and Charr.
Being in the same instance as everything else so the framerate gets shot for a lot of people when you have your entire server below you fighting a champion.

I have to say this makes me a lot better…

Hell, I’m shortest possible for Sylvari and the camera screws me over too.
and it’s not just you’re vision problem. I don’t suffer from that and still have trouble seeing the circles. the floor pattern makes it awful to see. Then there’s the FPS drop of being in the most populated zone in the game……

mhmm the camera angle sucks. you go too close to a wall then ZOOM! and you can’t see anything around you. It’s annoying especially with a big character.

Color blind gamer here! I legitimately can not see the red circles during this fight. After trying around a dozen times, the closest I got was I picked up the first stone and died. I only got that far because I was somehow lucky enough to predict where the AoEs were going to land, and get out of the way in time.

I have found that pointing the camera far up, so I can see the black rain over my head, helps, but the red circles don’t reflect the size of the black rain, so I can be out of it and still die. On top of this, I imagine that it would be increasingly difficult to keep the camera pointed upwards once the battle starts getting more hectic.

All of the other gauntlet fights were quite easy – I finished them all in about 1-3 attempts each. This one isn’t just a lot more difficult, but it’s apparently legitimately impossible for me, since I can not see the massive AoE that one shots me :/. For that, I am quite… frustrated… at the design of this content.

TimeBomb.3427:

Color blind gamer here! I legitimately can not see the red circles during this fight. After trying around a dozen times, the closest I got was I picked up the first stone and died. I only got that far because I was somehow lucky enough to predict where the AoEs were going to land, and get out of the way in time.

I have found that pointing the camera far up, so I can see the black rain over my head, helps, but the red circles don’t reflect the size of the black rain, so I can be out of it and still die. On top of this, I imagine that it would be increasingly difficult to keep the camera pointed upwards once the battle starts getting more hectic.

All of the other gauntlet fights were quite easy – I finished them all in about 1-3 attempts each. This one isn’t just a lot more difficult, but it’s apparently legitimately impossible for me, since I can not see the massive AoE that one shots me :/. For that, I am quite… frustrated… at the design of this content.

I think I can imagine how you feel. Don’t be to hard to yourself please.

TimeBomb.3427:

Color blind gamer here! I legitimately can not see the red circles during this fight. After trying around a dozen times, the closest I got was I picked up the first stone and died. I only got that far because I was somehow lucky enough to predict where the AoEs were going to land, and get out of the way in time.

I have found that pointing the camera far up, so I can see the black rain over my head, helps, but the red circles don’t reflect the size of the black rain, so I can be out of it and still die. On top of this, I imagine that it would be increasingly difficult to keep the camera pointed upwards once the battle starts getting more hectic.

All of the other gauntlet fights were quite easy – I finished them all in about 1-3 attempts each. This one isn’t just a lot more difficult, but it’s apparently legitimately impossible for me, since I can not see the massive AoE that one shots me :/. For that, I am quite… frustrated… at the design of this content.

As someone who is partially colorblind and had a lot of trouble seeing the red circles this is what I did…

Phase 1
- The shadowfall attack will always start on the opposite side of the light field. The 2nd shadowfall will always be on the lightfield. Shadowfall never hits the same spot twice; in phase 1 it always goes one side then, opposite side, (Looks like a / in 1+2 turns) afterwards it does the same thing but in a way that finishes the X (looks like a \ in turns 3+4.) After the X is formed it restarts. If you pay attention to where the AoE hits (can easily see the giant shadows falling) you can always predict either 2 or 3 safe areas

Phase 2
- This is much harder to start when you can’t see the red circles, but once you understand the pattern it is much easier. Shadowfall now covers 2 areas. On odd turns it will look like / (2 aoes opposite of each other) and on even turns it will look like \ (also 2 aoes opposite of each other). If you can’t see the red unfortunately you’ll have to guess at the very start of the transition which area is safe unless you have an invuln or use your dodges correctly. However, after the 1st shadowfall you always want stand where the latest shadowfall occured. Basically you just kite the boss around in a circle making sure you run to where the AoE just occured.

And make sure you kill the rifts/pulls the moment they appear in phase 2 or it will really screw you over.

In other words the trick is to focus on the pattern not on the AoE circles.

GoldenTruth.2853:

TimeBomb.3427:

Color blind gamer here! I legitimately can not see the red circles during this fight. After trying around a dozen times, the closest I got was I picked up the first stone and died. I only got that far because I was somehow lucky enough to predict where the AoEs were going to land, and get out of the way in time.

I have found that pointing the camera far up, so I can see the black rain over my head, helps, but the red circles don’t reflect the size of the black rain, so I can be out of it and still die. On top of this, I imagine that it would be increasingly difficult to keep the camera pointed upwards once the battle starts getting more hectic.

All of the other gauntlet fights were quite easy – I finished them all in about 1-3 attempts each. This one isn’t just a lot more difficult, but it’s apparently legitimately impossible for me, since I can not see the massive AoE that one shots me :/. For that, I am quite… frustrated… at the design of this content.

As someone who is partially colorblind and had a lot of trouble seeing the red circles this is what I did…

Phase 1
- The shadowfall attack will always start on the opposite side of the light field. The 2nd shadowfall will always be on the lightfield. Shadowfall never hits the same spot twice; in phase 1 it always goes one side then, opposite side, (Looks like a / in 1+2 turns) afterwards it does the same thing but in a way that finishes the X (looks like a \ in turns 3+4.) After the X is formed it restarts. If you pay attention to where the AoE hits (can easily see the giant shadows falling) you can always predict either 2 or 3 safe areas

Phase 2
- This is much harder to start when you can’t see the red circles, but once you understand the pattern it is much easier. Shadowfall now covers 2 areas. On odd turns it will look like / (2 aoes opposite of each other) and on even turns it will look like \ (also 2 aoes opposite of each other). If you can’t see the red unfortunately you’ll have to guess at the very start of the transition which area is safe unless you have an invuln or use your dodges correctly. However, after the 1st shadowfall you always want stand where the latest shadowfall occured. Basically you just kite the boss around in a circle making sure you run to where the AoE just occured.

And make sure you kill the rifts/pulls the moment they appear in phase 2 or it will really screw you over.

In other words the trick is to focus on the pattern not on the AoE circles.

Thanks a lot… You remind me someone said “when the environment pushes you to the limit, you will be able to make it.”

Red circles are very very hard for me to see as well. I need all my attention on them or I will not realize when they first appear.

It honestly feels like they have a camouflage to them, as if anet intended to be really hard to see them.