Increasing streak effects contradicts a previously made statement about reducing particle in WvW and Pvp to clear up screen pollution. If I understand the built focus, it was to be a highly animated game. The effects are not important, being able to recognize which attack is which should be, and understandably so, be the main concern.
I can respect the asura were built with a design concept in mind. The swagger, topsy turvy effect to them is implemented well, but this only adds to the confusion of what they are doing. When this is paired that they also have unique animations quite different from the other cultures (See guardian staff channels. Human male crouches and pulses, female human levitates and pulses etc) Asura climb and swirl. It is this swirling that they also use on things like guardian hammer skills, evading and simply coming to a stop after running. The cue’s that start/finish a lot of their animations are the same.
I understand that stances, postures etc begin to run short if u try to assign different ones to each profession of each culture, and respectfully that is a a-net problem, the player problem is that with their tiny size and similarities in skill animations it is difficult to determine what they are immediately doing. I will also propose it is impossible to exactly tell if heavy particle effects are already in abundance.
However to weight this discussion fairly, one also has to mention mesmer builds on Char/norn. On a node capture where they are defending their clone images are large enough in size that trying to click cleanly and immediately on the player can be difficult because the clone images take up a larger space on the node. This can’t be entirely worked to their advantage due to how clones spawn, but at times if they spawn tightly enough together the animation space they take up make it frustrating at best to precisely target the player. It is just easier to move around the round, even though you did immediately the recognise the player, you just can’t cleanly target them at your current position.
