Guild Wars 2

Please reduce shiny, glimmering, weapons/armor with sprites everywhere

I understand that a weapon glowing and leaving a trail while attacking is ‘cool’, but it has it’s limits. When people first started getting legendaries, yes, it was awesome because there were so few. Now there are so many some things are becoming quite overwhelming.

I was doing a dungeon the other day with a group of 3 warriors and a guardian (Go figure. Zerk zerk zerk after all..), and each of them had either Twilight or Sunrise. Well, if you haven’t seen 3 warriors with legendaries doing what warriors do, it’s just one big cluster kitten. It was incredibly hard to see and figure out what was going on. My screen was basically just one giant disco ball, and, eventually, the joy fades and your left with just a mess.

Everyone understands that shinies are understood as better than just matte weapons and ‘cooler’. I understand that nobody wants them removed completely, but they’ve lost their luster and could use a tone down.

Thoughts?

Have you tried adjusting your graphics settings? Whenever I go to do a large event I drop my general settings to improve my frame rate, but there might be some sort of particle effect setting you could try fiddling with.

I have Bolt and personally I’d be pretty upset if Anet went and reduced the shine since that was one thing I found to be so attractive about it. My main is a mesmer, so it’s pretty fun to suddenly have four of me all dashing around with lightning sparking everywhere.

my thoughts are that this game DOES need an option to tone down all the “spectacular” effects in this game, in PvE it doesn’t really matter but in PvP it can get reallly difficult to tell what is going on sometimes, and all the bloom and flashes can hide animations etc quite well.

TrOtskY.5927:

my thoughts are that this game DOES need an option to tone down all the “spectacular” effects in this game, in PvE it doesn’t really matter but in PvP it can get reallly difficult to tell what is going on sometimes, and all the bloom and flashes can hide animations etc quite well.

I think that is what I was trying to get at. There is no ‘particle effect’ option in the menu? I don’t have access to my desktop atm so I can’t check. I definitely agree that that really should be an option if it isn’t – so long as anet doesn’t meddle too much with the weapon I worked so hard to get (I mean outside of individual players adjusting their graphics settings).

I don’t want to “turn down my graphics” off max due to too many sprites/shines weapons/armor.

I don’t have an issue with skills or effects; I think they’re perfect.

I have an issue with max height Norns spamming Hundred Blades with Twilight.

A “spectacular effects” slider would be a fantastic solution.

So instead of agreeing on an option to in some way turn down the affect duration or something like that, You just want everybody to have to deal with shine-less legendary weapons when it seems you are the minority in this instance.

Very “PLAY MY WAY” of you

RealBGB.9132:

So instead of agreeing on an option to in some way turn down the affect duration or something like that, You just want everybody to have to deal with shine-less legendary weapons when it seems you are the minority in this instance.

Very “PLAY MY WAY” of you

Very trolly of you.

Read my previous post. A very “ah ha” moment. ‘A spectacular effect slider would be a fantastic solution.’

Take your trolling else where. Thanks.