Guild Wars 2

You know the red circle that appears by enemies throwing an area of effect towards you? What do you think about the change? Is it better or worse, because I feel it is more obvious. I do not like the effect but it works for me. Personally I would have suggested a more ’’pulsing’’ effect rather than ‘’smok-ish’’ but that is me. Shoot!

Far better now IMO. Much clearer effect.

It’s a lot better now. A bit like the alert circle you get in MGS4.

seemed to be alot easier to dodge because of it. I would have preferred it would be larger more noticeable personally because it’s difficult to tell it apart from the good AOEs and as a support class I swear someone programmed these bosses to drop their AOEs right where the heal zones are 99% of the time.

Keep being open minded. It is good to share your thoughts for anet to review of what you think of the AOE notification circles.

It’s fire.

Stay out of it!

As brought up in the other thread about this, it’s great for those of use with color vision impairments. The new version has kept me alive several times.

the wavy effect isn’t my cup of tea. I appreciate them making the circles more noticeable but would rather have solid circles instead of wavy burning ones

It looks nicer, however it is hard for me to tell the colour difference because I am colour blind, so idk if it’s an enemy or ally AoE.

I think it would have been better to have used the new effect for enemy AoE and left the old one for friendly.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I think it would have been better to have used the new effect for enemy AoE and left the old one for friendly.

Could not agree more.

I don’t like it, there should be an option to have the old circles.

It’s really distracting and ruins the aesthetic especially in dungeons like CoE. The old circles were nice and clean and that’s all you need.

While they’re great & very helpful for some people i don’t like them and would like to see them as an optional feature. As Ace said they’re distracting espically in dungeons like CoE, they give me headaches and now make the dungeon unplayable for me. An option to turn the new animations off would be fantastic,

theres a thread already up in the suggestion forum requesting this for those who are also struggling with the new animations should check it out:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Option-to-Revert-to-Old-AoE-Circle-Animation

I prefer the big red ring, not that my dodging skills have improved any, but at least I know now it was an AOE that killed me!

I like it <3