Guild Wars 2

I think that in bigger zergs, particle effects should be reduced drastically. If I’m in a big zerg, unless I am in a party with someone, I don’t really want to see ANY particle effects from them besides combo fields. As it is right now, I think that particle effects are the main culprit in lag during large-scale events.

I think that a very simple way to implement this is to expand our options of the nameplates that we see, and dictate particle effect scaling off of that.

I still want to see my OWN particle effects clearly. But I only need a bare hint of the effects of others. I wish we had a slider for how dimmed we would like them to be. I place a lot of AoE’s, and it is EXTREMELY hard and sometimes impossible to see exactly where my targeting ring is. Water is a big problem too… I can’t often see my circles OR enemy circles when I’m standing in water. (I’m looking at you, Shadow Beast!)