Guild Wars 2

I generally find the aesthetic design of Guild Wars 2 to be appealing, however, I do not like the highlight effect that is applied to character models. It is possible to avoid this effect by keeping the shader quality set to Medium, however, this will also disable several other significant effects as well.

Below is an image comparison of the effect; please take note of the NPC in the background.

With Highlights:
http://i.imgur.com/W35mN.jpg

Without Highlights:
http://i.imgur.com/qscCx.jpg

In conclusion, I would like to propose the ability to disable this effect individually, as some people may or may not favor using it. This would also give players a greater freedom over their personal visual preferences, as well as frame rate performance.

I highly agree. The biggest problem with this is imo that the light is always coming from the right. If you rotate your camera around you char the light does the same, including the shadows.

If that effect came from a global light source (sun, moon) it would a least make sense, but the current implementation is imo just a cheap effect without real substance, that doesn’t even look good.