Guild Wars 2

I can alleviate two problems at once: The weird and hard to discern casting animations of asurans, and reduce the negative impact our overly glittery spell animations have, with about the same commitment of resources we would need to even begin addressing either problem independantly.

CASTING BARS.

There see? A simple icon with the skill name and some sort of ‘filling’ animation. If ‘filling’ is too precise and gives too much information, have a darkening opacity system that starts around 60 and slides to 100 with a quarter second linger after completion.

This might not completely solve these issues, but it’s a strong step in the right direction.

Casting bars are contrary to the overall design philosophy of the game so far.

The solution more in-line with how the game has been developed thus far is to allow players the option to render their enemies as a standard type – humans, for example. This allows the design philosophy (watch the action, not a cast bar) to progress unchanged while being fair to all. You still get to look cool on your own screen, while your enemy gets a fair view of whats going on.

1. I like that suggestion, still doesnt deal with over active particle effects, but then that can be solved more directly.

2. Im not trying to be a kitten but the design philosophies of guild wars 2 have strangled PvP nearly to death, because these philosophies represent challanging demands for innovation and then provide insuficient resources to the development team to meet these demands.

IE

E-Sport.

Launches without:

Spectate
Ranked match making
Leaderboard
Fun gameplay

and just enough resources to produce buggy versions of these things a year after launch.

Except fun gameplay. That probably wont get adressed.

Just spam aoe faster you will eventually hit them.