Guild Wars 2

Why did they add a crappy De-Rez fizzle effect on the weapons? I really liked the skins for their nice CLEAN look, i liked them so much in fact that i got all of them… (aside from the two bow skins) twice. Yep i bought them twice so i could use them in pvp and in the main game and now they all look awful. It took me 20 hours and 10 gold to get all the skins. And last week my 20 gold MF armor became pretty much useless so i’m starting to wonder if i should even bother trying to get nice stuff in this game.

Did you recently change your graphic settings or hardware? I did not notice a change. When the wepons are sheathed they are ‘inactive’ and smooth as you describe and when you wield them they have the pixelated effect.

My Super Sword has always been this way.

Can you turn the effects off in your graphics options? Since I played on the lowest settings most of the time, I didn’t even know about the fizzle effect until I shifted my effect settings up a little. I think they’ve been around since the weapons themselves, unless they changed that.

Like Cryx said, they’ve always been that way when wielded.

CryxTryx.9208:

Did you recently change your graphic settings or hardware? I did not notice a change. When the wepons are sheathed they are ‘inactive’ and smooth as you describe and when you wield them they have the pixelated effect.

My Super Sword has always been this way.

No same hardware same settings as day 1, the skins used to glow when I unsheathed them but never had this “phasing” effect. And it just started happening after this update.(though i took a little break during the invasion living story)

Odd, I’ve had the og backpack, sword, gs, staff, and scepter on my mesmer since April and they’ve always had the effect on them.

Sadly i only have two screenshots of the SAB items beforehand.
Backpack Before
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407925346544/FE424DE02B132045B257E8592EA88BE328FCFE74/
Backpack After
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407925334627/A89753135450AF24397A83CEB719C50765BFB49F/
Staff Before
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407925352076/7F55C911727D0834277A8CBBD0AF8AB77B0A5CB7/
Staff After
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407925319411/A70AD1144211C732FB50D167267AC1717282D8F2/
And here’s what the sword looks like for me now
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407925383163/4D88094B66738F7C15B3208A9A6E803226E510D7/

So
1: I’ll admit the backpack looks a little nicer with that effect
2:While i do see an effect on the old staff the new one looks like Q-Bert blocks are coming off of it.
3. Is that what the sword looks like for everyone else? Because it used to look the same as it did sheathed, it just lit up like a glow stick.

I still have some pics of my mes from a while back to help compare…sadly only scepter/sword and staff. Hard to say on the staff pic, not really clear…you can def see that effect on the sword though.