Guild Wars 2

Can we have the option to turn off other player’s equipment/weapon effects?

Why:
My fps drops 30 frames when a Zenith staff is running around spewing lights all over my screen. It also hurts my eyes and is highly annoying.

Now every 2nd player out there is going to get a zenith skin and I’m frankly not looking forward to the game completely losing its realistic look and turning into anime pretty lights christmas party.

A bigger issue is providing an option to turn off other player effects completely (meaning skill effects). You (Arena Net) in fact do not support players with older computer systems at all. I bought a new machine 2 weeks ago and believe me game’s great and fast now. Before however I couldn’t participate in large events such as the Maw in 1-15 Shieverpeaks area because I would lag so bad the mobs would be dead before I could land a hit. Neither was I able to do WvW at all when more than 2 players were around me. Thank god I have the 2 grand to waste huh?

Now this issue has been brought up A LOT (too many effects and can we please turn them off), and frankly I don’t understand why this option (to turn them off) cannot be provided.

All other mmo’s I played had the option to:
a) show my effects only
b) show party’s effects only
c) show all effects

Thanks

Your complaining about 30 frames per second? In my opinion, this seems more of a high class problem

I think a simpler solution would be to turn down a couple of graphical options that make little difference, most effect your fps without giving a real difference.

Taralom.9562:

Your complaining about 30 frames per second? In my opinion, this seems more of a high class problem

I dont think OP was, they said “My fps drops 30 frames…”

a 30 frame drop from a zenith staff? Sounds like an exaggeration.

@sinzer yeah sure especially that I never had that 30 fps and I never noticed drops of fps after equipping zenith staf AND radiant gloves myself!
and my computer is as old as this game (but not ended yet I have to buy new GPU in exchange of that integred with the motherboard )

more than on zenith weapons I would be mad on friendly enginners that are spamming grenades – sometimes I have fps drops because of them

meh i kinda run the game at 12 frames on low lag zones LOL but thats cuz i cant afford a new gpu so meh not anet to blame there