Guild Wars 2

Hey, sorry if this has been posted. I’ve done a quick search, but only have a short break at work

Anyway, I’d like the option to turn down spell effects. If this is already in, I can’t find it.

I want this, because:

a) I can’t see. I am a thief, and when I am in melee, I cannot see me or the enemy NPC I am attacking while meteors are falling from the sky and grenades are exploding around me. This makes it very tough to know when to dodge attacks or see AoE circles on the ground. This hasn’t been a problem in range, only while in melee.

b) My computer slows down. I have my graphics settings tuned as best I can to balance making the game look beautiful and have decent performance. However, it does noticeably slow down when those effects are happening. This is not limited to large battle dynamic events, but also in dungeons. This is also only a problem when my thief is in melee.

Currently my graphics settings are almost all set to Low/None with Shaders set to Middle and Rendering set to Native.

I agree it’s difficult to see the enemy in a large group event at times. It’s a pain trying to target with mark spells. Another suggestion would be to make your target always appear on top of the spell effects, or at least make the ring around the target’s feet always appear on top.

the spell effects are blinding bright, even if someone attack my character and it generate the flame it start as very bright and a second later i can see again. in my opinion there must be an option to tune it down without tuning everything else, i think that i might try to play the game without post processing and see if it fix it, the game looks a lot less beautiful without it.