Guild Wars 2

As title says.

You know, those “red circles” when a enemy throws an AOE on you.

This Is also suitable when someone attacks you while you alt + tab’d your client (Check emails, etc.)

I agree with this only because the wider aoes are difficult to discern (the edges of the circle can be OUT OF FRAME!)

While I think beeps would be annoying, I do support the idea of having sounds associated with large incoming attacks. There was one tough guy I was fighting, I don’t remember what it was; a champ or something, but it made a sound before his big attack rather than a red circle. I thought it was nice, but I wondered what happened to any poor fellow who had his volume low. Probably could never figure out when an attack was coming and got crushed.

tl;dr sounds good, beeping no

WvWvW would be one big beep-show.

Dear god no! I would have to start playing with the sound totally off. They should just make the circles brighter and add some concentric circles inside the larger one. It would look like your standing on a target or a dart board. The sound effects are already a little burdensome.

Some sort of option to have various alarm type sounds (not too obnoxious) when standing in aoe would be useful especially for those who are colour blind since I can’t imagine they can see the aoe very well at times.

I have to agree with the others, a sound effect could end up being annoying to the point whereby people switch it off.

However, having it as an option (to aid those with colour blindness) is a good point though.

I do think that the current style of the visual indicator of an incoming AOE isn’t good enough. I think the colour needs to be brighter, and the border needs to be thicker.