Guild Wars 2

I searched suggestion forums, but didn’t find any suggestions relating to this subject.

My suggestion is to offer option for players to disable skill effects(all the amazing skill effects that look pretty and such, but sometimes block the view). This is more or less for WvW purposes.

I used to play this other MMO which did have possibility of disabling skill effects and add markers on the ground with an add-on(of sorts) showing where aoe effects land. Being able to see what’s happening and flawless gameplay was more important than seeing those pretty effects for me, as the effects often would block your view and when there was tons of effects, it would start dropping fps for fights where you need lightning reactions.

Same thing applies to WvW also. Being able to react fast to incoming enemy forces within second or two can mean the difference between if you live or die. Fighting in WvW while there is lots of players on screen makes my fps drop a lot(i think it goes down to as low as 1-10 fps when there is 50+ players on screen). I think the fps drop in part is, because of so much effects on my screen simultaneously. I would rather have the option to disable all skill effects as long as i can see character animations, damage numbers and aoe circles or even aoe circles that have the skill being cast written on it. For example red circle saying “Meteor Storm” or maybe even color code the circles depending on what kind of effect hits on it(let’s say red is harmful effect, blue is healing effect etc etc). This could maybe improve my gameplay and fps in those bigger fights and i would more than gladly disable skill effects as long as gameplay becomes better. I know my computer isn’t top of the tier anymore, but it’s not that bad either(and no, i don’t think i will be able to upgrade anytime soon). I can run 20 vs 20 or 30 vs 30 fights pretty well, but anything more than that starts to take the toll on my computer.

So if i was given the option to disable skill effects(as long as i can see where aoe’s land) i’d do it.

Just my few cents.

Yes, it’s often impossible to see an enemy wind up for a huge hit/effect (one which will probably kill your character if you don’t make them dodge or the like) when there’s 20 other people putting all manner of burning or other effects on them. It does look great, but functionally it makes it quite impossible to fight with any sort of pro-activity.

by far this is something i really want implemented in the game as most bosses or champion mobs have 1 hit skills that require you to dodge at certain time wich they signal example would be liutenant Kholer in ascalon catacombs he raises his sword before doing the AoE mega range pull in followed by the instant kill burst however you cant see him raising his sword or anything at all when theres a rain of fire lightning water and all sorts of effects on him.