Guild Wars 2

With the Rising Flames patch the Nevermore critical strike effect was changed into a big (!) spirit raven.
I love my Nevermore immensly but it became a real plague specifically in raids but also in other group content.
As it happens especially the tank complains all raid long (in particular at Xera) about the huge ravens blinding and irritating him. All the worse if there are more than one player using Nevermore! In addition the spirit ravens effect is scaling dependent on the boss, resulting in huge ravens at the Keep Construct.

Nevermore was very beautiful and “impressive” enough as it was. So my plea is to at least reduce the special effect.

Welcome to the world of people hating your favorite Legendary. I own Dreamer and everyone hates it and complains about the noise.

Jipcat.5673:

With the Rising Flames patch the Nevermore critical strike effect was changed into a big (!) spirit raven.
I love my Nevermore immensly but it became a real plague specifically in raids but also in other group content.
As it happens especially the tank complains all raid long (in particular at Xera) about the huge ravens blinding and irritating him. All the worse if there are more than one player using Nevermore! In addition the spirit ravens effect is scaling dependent on the boss, resulting in huge ravens at the Keep Construct.

Nevermore was very beautiful and “impressive” enough as it was. So my plea is to at least reduce the special effect.

Hell no!

Swap weapons/transmute in raids if someone doesn’t like it.

The ravens are not even bad with a large mob, unless they’re playing in like first person, no way “blinding”. You should just tell them to suck it up buttercup.

The problem is not with the spirit but with the size scaling. Against normal foes, it is no different from any other particle effects. However, the size of the raven grows much larger against bigger foes and can cause annoyance.

“Just be glad I am not using Rune of the Mad King as well.”

Yes it is terrible if half of your raid group uses nevermore and got close to 100% crit rate.

The game itself has a lot of useless and unecessary particle effects which just override everything and you cant even see, even that big white globe with numbers when you hit, the thing that tell you for how much you are hitting, i dont even care to know that and is a waste of pixel in front of the screen :S