Imaging a boss uses the tiniest dagger ever. He casually walks over, stabs you, and you took 30k damage and died. How would you feel?
Tonberrys.
Imaging a boss uses the tiniest dagger ever. He casually walks over, stabs you, and you took 30k damage and died. How would you feel?
Tonberrys.
This.
Anet needs to acquire the rights to tonberries.
(edited by Levetty.1279)
More examples. The biggest the attack (and damage), the more the visual cue have to be so the players know they must dodge this or die. 
More examples. The biggest the attack (and damage), the more the visual cue have to be so the players know they must dodge this or die.
They actually do that on smaller enemies, there’s a very distinct “I’m Charging up a big attack” effect common to almost all enemies with big attacks.
The larger enemies (like bosses) sometimes fudge it a bit. However, you’re asking for ridiculously overdone effects like in a lot of japanese games and animation, where somehow every weapon glows like the sun and evey hit has a massive flashy effect that takes up half the screen or something. What it seems like you’re asking for is just plain contrary to the visual style of GW2, and would look ridiculous in a lot of cases.
In fact, that game is already so overloaded with flashy effects that it works to the detriment of the combat mechanics and makes it harder to see and react to attacks than in would be if things were LESS flashy. Ever try to get bonus damage from theif or ranger side/back hit traits in a big event? It’s nearly impossible. The new “Effects LOD” option doesn’t seem to do much of anything to help that either.
My biggest gripe with big hit damage attacks is persistant floor effects I think. With very few exeptions, floor effects are only noticable via red floor circles. In a lot of places this works, but in many places the ambient lighting is orange/red, or the ring effect is covered by water/etc which results in taking damage from a source you couldn’t see clearly.
As far as actual direct attacks, the game is generally pretty good about communicating them I think, though I’ll agree that in a few cases some things could be better telegraphed or communicated in boss fights, the vast majority of small enemy effects are well designed and make sense for the damage they do.