Guild Wars 2

There are literally hundreds of posts complaining about the visual noise reduction, but almost no thank-yous. The reason is that when you take away visual effects, you take away the very thing that makes their character feel powerful, magical, and fun to play. There are always a couple of exceptions, but I think it’s safe to say that nobody wants the cool effects taken away from their own character. Complaints have been about too much noise from other characters. So please give us an option to turn those down for other characters, but let each person have their own stunning effects. Our characters are supposed to be magical (throwing fireballs, summoning lightening, etc.), and the only thing that makes that magic come to life is the visuals. They have been so well done in this game that it tears at the soul to watch them be stripped away with each new patch.

Why bother with a thankyou thread if they haven’t fixed stuff?

My point exactly. The players don’t like it. Please read what I said in my post.

Unfortunately, Anet don’t do options. Its all or nothing. This is definitely one of those things where it would be nice to have options.

And from what I hear, people are finding that the changes are still not having the intended effect in the end. Targets in group combat tend to be too brightly lit up and cluttered with effects to see properly.

Thank-you for ruining a great game.

When I was looking up GW2 2 years ago on youtube before buying it, I wanted to see how awesome skills look, especially magical spells. I fell in love when I first saw the elementalist and mesmer. Now what? It seems the game is going back in time to graphics from the 90s. Many of the new possible clients won’t even consider buying this game after they will see how the spells look…