Guild Wars 2

It isn’t a simple matter of what I feel about how the aura looks.

Aura are game-changing. I need to see the aura that enemies have. If I have a choice between keeping visual clutter everywhere with the past aura vs. reducing visual clutter with the current aura, I would choose keeping visual clutter because that is how important seeing if there is an aura.

I think the auras are visible enough…. Besides, if they keep all the clutter, I’ll just keep having to manually click on every target and check the icons which aura they have…. -.-°

Just w8 until the big visual noise overhaul is complete until you make your judgement. Right now, they might be less visible, but if they keep reducing visual noise, everything will be easier to see.

The visual cluster are with shiny bright skills the cover the whole point like Guardian traps, or burning effect, or Mesmer skill. Touching the Aura was completely unnecessary.

Why didn’t they poll the player base on which effect the players think should be toned down?

Terrible, terrible decision. Like so many Arenanet makes in the last weeks (Ele Fireball visual nerf are you serious?)

Not only do all the auras look like kitten now, it’s also basically impossible to tell if someone has shocking aura or magnetic aura (i.e. stun when hit in melee and reflect projectiles auras) up because they all look the same with just a different small visual at the ele’s feet. And of course you can have multiple auras at the same time.

I think they forgot to reduce Arcane Shield’s visual noise.

and yet Reaper the elite with the most obnoxious visual skills known to man is still a thing…

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Terrible, terrible decision. Like so many Arenanet makes in the last weeks (Ele Fireball visual nerf are you serious?)

Not only do all the auras look like kitten now, it’s also basically impossible to tell if someone has shocking aura or magnetic aura (i.e. stun when hit in melee and reflect projectiles auras) up because they all look the same with just a different small visual at the ele’s feet. And of course you can have multiple auras at the same time.

I have to agree. I died because I couldn’t see the frost aura. This led me to being slowed down and easy to be focus fired and killed.

Vavume.8065:

and yet Reaper the elite with the most obnoxious visual skills known to man is still a thing…

It’s a fantastic animation and actually makes necros look powerful. Maybe some fo you woudl be happy dusting off your old Commodore 64’s and enjoy 8bit graphics….

Sigh.