Guild Wars 2

The March 26th patch changes to Wvw with the removal of culling and options for character rendering have had some interesting side effects, some positive, some not yet they have not done much to reduce lag especially in big battles.
While requested before, it is surprising that a similar option was not added for reduction of skill animation effects for Wvw and Pve large events.
On numerous occasions in Wvw over the past few days people are still unable to activate skills or have long delays making the battles a joke.
During certain battles in close confines such as EB SM or Hills it is at times actually impossible to see what is going on and all one can do is follow cmdr icon in map.
Aion had similar issues with skill animations and added a number of options to reduce their display because of the same problems in large Abyss battles. Anet would be well served to look into such options which would also help to reduce server lag.
Even in Cursed Shores today people were complaining about lag during normal events and dying because of it.