Guild Wars 2

Give us the option to:

>Turn off particle effects. (LOD does nothing. AoE rings and projectiles are ignored and turned into VERY simple projectiles. Rainbow-farting unicorns and anything that isn’t clinging to your weapon will be simplified and removed respectively.)

>Prevent music/sound effects from loading and playing.

>Turn off the sparkles that engulf everything. (not really important and very ugly to look at in combat)

Why have these you ask? Because it will help the lag. Why do I think it’ll help lag? Through some miracle, I have had instances where certain parts of the game coughmusic coughsparklescough just fail to load for a few hours and my FPS stays around 20 the entire time which is excellent for my POS laptop.

Not only that, it is hard to take a boss seriously when it is covered in light purple sparkles, blue mist, fire, claw scratches and other stupid crap to the point that I can’t even tell if its about to kill me or not. It looks bad and those who made it that way should feel bad. >:I

I like the music, don’t get me wrong. What I hate is when the same battle themes (Caithe’s Daggers and The Hammer Falls) play all the time, everytime and even forever when the infinite amount of sparkles literally puts my FPS to .05. That is a frame every 20 seconds.

If people would rather take performance over pretty, I think they should have that option because the options currently presented to us are not good enough. Please anet, prove me wrong and make this happen.

EDIT: Got through my irritation. Proofread it. Ironed it out.