Guild Wars 2

Hey.

I just got the cobalt and I absolutely love the flames, but the light it gives off irritates my eyes, it is a constant bright light on the ground, especially on snow.
It is probably just me being weird about it, but since the light is player only, is there a file or anything I can change to turn it down or off ?

At least you can turn of the light if you sheathe it .. Jormags Breath however also has its light on .. and normally i like that also .. but sometimes in Frostgorge its really a little over the top.

I don’t know that there’s any way to have flames without light. However, you could get Ebonblade, which is the same sword design with no flames at all. I know you want the flames, though

But I love that it gives the light. Do you realize how awesome it is? It’s like a torch that doesn’t turn off each time you take damage, it’s amazing!

Maybe there should be a setting to adjust the lighting, but it’s good for dark dungeons.

I can understand your plight as, lately, I get eye strain looking at my computer monitor. However, I also love that Cobalt is a light source. I wish more weapons did so.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ebonblade -.-

The thing is I am very low on Transmutation charges and I Transmuted it from the Ebonblade, and it would be a waste of 2 charges just to get it back to Ebonblade.
That is why I am asking, if anyone knows how to turn the light from it off, since it is a player only thing.

uzo.9125:

The thing is I am very low on Transmutation charges and I Transmuted it from the Ebonblade, and it would be a waste of 2 charges just to get it back to Ebonblade.
That is why I am asking, if anyone knows how to turn the light from it off, since it is a player only thing.

Basically, the light that is cast by Cobalt onto the surrounding area is also visible to nearby players, so it is not just the owner that sees the illumination on the surrounding area.

Due to this being a global effect, it cannot be disabled locally by making adjustments to your client graphics settings. Due to the way lighting is designed in the game, this light cannot be disabled on a per client basis, much like you cannot currently disable or hide spell effects (let alone specific ones) that are generated by you and other players.

As it is likely something that would need a complete redesign of the lighting engine, I do not think that you can expect to be able to disable the environment illumination that Cobalt and other environment illuminating weapons/armor generates for quite a long time, if ever.

StinVec.3621:

uzo.9125:

The thing is I am very low on Transmutation charges and I Transmuted it from the Ebonblade, and it would be a waste of 2 charges just to get it back to Ebonblade.
That is why I am asking, if anyone knows how to turn the light from it off, since it is a player only thing.

Basically, the light that is cast by Cobalt onto the surrounding area is also visible to nearby players, so it is not just the owner that sees the illumination on the surrounding area.

But it is not visible to other people.
For one, there was no light from my friend’s Cobalt and he says the same when I pull mine out and on the Gw2 wiki it says it is player only too.
“Has a blue fire effect when wielded which produces a glow visible only to the wielder, providing illumination in dark areas.”

So there must be a file there can either be removed or changed to remove this light effect.

Kind of makes me wonder if anet didn’t intend for Cobalt to be a legendary. Think about it – Ebonblade looks almost exactly the same, but has no flames on it(possible precursor). Cobalt’s effect is similar to those of legendaries imo.

In any case, please don’t get rid off those flames. If you don’t like them, simply apply Ebonblade skin on your weapon.

Yoroiookami.3485:

Kind of makes me wonder if anet didn’t intend for Cobalt to be a legendary. Think about it – Ebonblade looks almost exactly the same, but has no flames on it(possible precursor). Cobalt’s effect is similar to those of legendaries imo.

In any case, please don’t get rid off those flames. If you don’t like them, simply apply Ebonblade skin on your weapon.

It is not the flames, I love them.
It is the light, that only the person, that has the sword equipped gets.

uzo.9125:

Yoroiookami.3485:

Kind of makes me wonder if anet didn’t intend for Cobalt to be a legendary. Think about it – Ebonblade looks almost exactly the same, but has no flames on it(possible precursor). Cobalt’s effect is similar to those of legendaries imo.

In any case, please don’t get rid off those flames. If you don’t like them, simply apply Ebonblade skin on your weapon.

It is not the flames, I love them.
It is the light, that only the person, that has the sword equipped gets.

There is no workaround. Cobalt comes packaged with flames that light up the surroundings of the blade. Honestly I don’t care, if anything it helps immersion.

The only “workaround” is what i said already .. directly sheathe your weapon as soon
as you are not fighting. You must maybe assign a key for that in the options, i use
the X for it.

It wouldn’t make much sense to have a flame that does not function as a light.