Guild Wars 2

I seriously can not see the aoe circles at all during this fight. It’s super frustrating, and this has been mentioned before. Are there any plans at all to have a fix for this?

i heard about them talking about this couple of months ago.
I dunno if they’re still gonna make good on this.

Sucks to be you brah.

All I can do is try to stay far away from him and hope I’m not standing in a circle. It kittening sucks.

You’re doing it completely wrong. Just Melee him and when he starts his AoE dodge backwards and then foreward. If you are a Mesmer you can also use Feedback and stand still, as a Guardian you can use Wall of Reflection and Retreat.

I’m a necro, and all the pug groups I’ve been with range attack him. It doesn’t matter, this is still a huge issue.

Can still Melee him and dodge, huh?
I’m having a 0,5 sec delay on dodging, 23h30m/7 – everywhere. Trust me, this sucks even more because i will just die at some points without beeing able to do anything.

Red circles are misleading anyway though.

The red circles don’t mean much since the sparks hit outside of them anyway. If you can see the green sparks you should be fine. Just stay ranged at a decent distance away, use F1, and watch for them to fall down and dodge when they are about to hit the ground near you. The animation that starts his aoe is the one where it looks like he is hugging himself and you have more time to react the further away you are.

I can see the sparks right before they hit me, so I would hope that the red circles would help if I could see them. I’ll keep at it, maybe I’ll just learn to adjust like I’ve had to in every other dungeon in this game. It’s still a pretty serious issue, and arenanet has never once commented on it.

yea these guys basically got it spot on. If you can’t see the circles (i feel for you), then you’re going to have to melee him and use 3 regular dodges or 1 dodge and 1 big dodge (like warrior gs 3, thief roll or withdraw) or just negate all the damage altogether with something like warrior shield, guardian block while healing, focus 5 works good but shield 5 is pretty much designed to be anti lupi, same with mesmer feedback, and anythign elementalist. I know there’s more but you get the jist of what i’m trying to say

Wouldn’t it be better if they just corrected the issue? There was another guy in one of my parties today that had the exact same issue. I started running Arah with my necro because I love the look of the light armor. My only real option that I can find is to use death shroud when the aoe circles are about to drop.

I never look at the red circle. They are misleading as Dub said. I just watch for the animation and watch for them dropping on me. You could go in melee range too but that is riskier. You would need to dodge twice as soon as you see him hugging himself and then you wouldn’t have a dodge left if he swipes right after and that may instant down you unless you have a sigil of energy to swap to right after your double dodge. You also have to be fast or you will be downed since the bolts hit right away at melee range. You can watch how I do it at 3:40 on my video though I couldn’t swap to my energy sigil set and you can see what happened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ25Ts2LAuk If you get downed in melee range that also makes it harder to revive you and could get others killed that would try to revive you so keep that in mind if you try. Either way that must suck for a lot of the other content but it shouldn’t be much of a problem for lupi given you can see his sparks and he has his animations that give you some time to react and get away safetly.

Every enemy aoe has a red circle. Every enemy ground attack has also a red circle. How do you expect them to fix that? It would mean to redo this for all the content in the game. I’m not saying i dont feel for you, it sucks, but to change all this for just a few people? Im afraid its not gonna happen…

LoL has colourblind mode, no reason gw2 can’t have.

codpin.6542:

Every enemy aoe has a red circle. Every enemy ground attack has also a red circle. How do you expect them to fix that? It would mean to redo this for all the content in the game. I’m not saying i dont feel for you, it sucks, but to change all this for just a few people? Im afraid its not gonna happen…

By adding in a setting that allows the player to set the color. That would actually be helpful for non-colorblind people too! Someone thought it was a good idea to put red circles on red platforms in CoE …

Nikaido.3457:

codpin.6542:

Every enemy aoe has a red circle. Every enemy ground attack has also a red circle. How do you expect them to fix that? It would mean to redo this for all the content in the game.

You know nothing about the process that goes behind software development, and I hope to god that anet’s did not do it the way you imply it to be. It is very likely that you could change a few variables to change the color of said circle no matter what type of enemy you’re dealing with without having to go through all the game content. If this game has been reasonably well developed it shouldn’t take much to give us the possibility of switching red into something else as an option.

I wasnt implying that all the content had to be redone, just the fact that the color of those circles had to be the same in all content. As someone else already suggested, being able to choose the color yourself would be a solution. But again, as i said earlier, doing this would take even a bit of effort and will be useful only for a handful of people and i dont think anet will even consider this.

Even though its a handycap for GL you pretty much have an advantege on every normal size boss in this game over people who can see right. There is way to many colors and sprites poping off in this game in a group of 5 on a normal sized dungeon boss and 90% of the time i can’t even see the animation.

Most of the time i roll a guard and just the burning from a guard makes it so hard to see any boss animations, ANET tried to go all out and make the game look good but they messed up in my opinion. Sometimes i wish i was colorblind.

I’m assuming the op is red-blue colour blind (meaning they look the same I think, pretty sure it’s similar to our green, forgive me if I’m wrong). The burning animation won’t stop distorting his screen just b/c he/she doesn’t see the colour the same as most people, he’ll just have the distortion look different… still there.

Worst part is, if the colour patterns are the same as league of legends, then people for that type of colour blindness will see ally and enemy aoe circle as the exact same colour. No advantage here.

haviz.1340:

LoL has colourblind mode, no reason gw2 can’t have.

+1

Surely the only thing stopping it in GW2 is ANet not caring.

Any chance I can get a reply on this Robert?

Speaking as another colourblind player: GW2 really needs some drastic improvements in the colour scheme. There have been times where I have not been able to see the red perimeters of AOEs, either. It’s tremendously frustrating when you are the only person in the party who goes down and they all question your dodging skills.