Guild Wars 2

I found it really tiring to keep my eyes on the screen when there are a lot of people throwing their skills at the same time, because of the glaring skill effects. Today I fought 5 world bosses in a row with my guildies, and after that I had to quit immediately and let my eyes to rest. They hurt so badly.

I checked the options but surprisingly there is no such option to turn down or off the light/particle effects of skills.

It’s just my suggestion but can we add some options such as “simple skill effects of other players” or “turn off skill effects of players not in the party”? Considering this may be useful in WvW as well, I think there also should be choices on both friendly and enemy players.

What do you guys think?

/signed
impossible to play LH ele, coz I just can’t see any animation in this rainbow show

I remember when I used to do the meta boss train. Dwayna temple (I think) would have the screen flashing allover the place (I’m guessing it was a bug) as well as spell effects. If anyone was prone to seizures then god help them if they played that.

Paul.4081:

I remember when I used to do the meta boss train. Dwayna temple (I think) would have the screen flashing allover the place (I’m guessing it was a bug) as well as spell effects. If anyone was prone to seizures then god help them if they played that.

Yea.. Dwayna is pretty bad, I usually turn to “best performance” graphics there to avoid too flashy scenes.

Not a lot people have the same trouble as I?

Please leave a few words here. I believe I am not the only one feel uncomfortable on the skill effects

This subject has been broached many times. Either the game was coded so as to make it hard to allow players to limit the particle effects on their screens, or ANet just doesn’t consider this a serious enough issue to allocate resources for. And yes, I would like to play the game without getting a headache.

they have the “effects LOD” option on the graphics menu,
but unfortunately, it doesnt do anything…
it is an old issue

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Reduced-effects-You-sure

I agree

This is a really beautiful game but theres nothing beautiful about it when fighting a big boss, the screen just becomes a blur of flashes, the boss cannot be seen and neither can your character. Most of the time in LA LS i had to use the orange bar (bottom center of screen) to see when my combos had finished.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/fight_cartoon.jpg

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/fight-cloud-cartoon-people-fighting-36372724.jpg

^ If this is the effect that Anet went for, they did well