Guild Wars 2

I’m legally blind and lost my vision on November of last year. It wasn’t a gradual thing, and was a sudden BAM I went from 20/10 vision to nothing.

I’m thanking the PvP Community because you guys are awesomem and so supportive. Any team I told that I was blind before the match began has gone out of their way to work with me. Besides calling targets so I can tab target easier, they do lots of little things like character movements and skill usage to help with my decision making (I’m operating on limited information considering my vision loss).

In order to “read” chat I have to set up a lot of accesibility software, which means I can’t read chat at all while actively playing. However, reviewing chat after matches reveals all the supportive comments from my fellow players.

Pre-emptive ansewring. My vision is limited to part of the lower left peripheral of my left eye. It’s severely damaged, but somewhat usable. Namely, I can deduce the abstract shapes I see and things get easier when objects are in motion. I play the game mostly through sound. Anet did such a great job varying the sounds of the skills and implementing so many auditory cues such as the shouts with boons and conditions as well as the announcer letting me know what’s going on with the map (even though these cues don’t always trigger which complicates things sometimes). Also, I’ve logged a crap ton of hours on all professions so I can play from memorization as well (especially since most players have skill rotations and rarely deviate from them allowing me to counter while blind).

Again, thanks so much to the community for being awesomely supportive. I apologize ahead of time for courtyard and stronghold, those maps came in after I lost my vision so ’m not familiar at all with them and that causes problems.

See you in game and good luck out there, unless you’re fighting me then I hope your keyboard disconnects >_>.

10/10. Finally. There has been a drought for too long. Keep it up.

Great to see that you’re still able to play though and random people willing to help you out in those games without being elitist is really awesome.Hope you continue to enjoy yourself.

It’s so awesome to hear about the humanitarian side of the pvp community. Anyhow, if I remember correctly, I think you have owned my scrub thief in a recent match! Way to go. Hope you continue playing

This was a great read, thank you for sharing and I hope your eyevision stays the same

hey pvp aside i hope things go great for ya

Thank you all for the support! I plan on continuing to play and improve my gameplay despite my condition. The prognosis and recovery is coming along well, and there’s ton of research on getting people their sight back, so maybe one day!

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It’s so awesome to hear about the humanitarian side of the pvp community. Anyhow, if I remember correctly, I think you have owned my scrub thief in a recent match! Way to go. Hope you continue playing

I do have my moments when I can really focus and play well. My characters that I normally play with are a thief (Corosuvult Saterin), warrior (Sinestra Jhessia), and occasionally a necro (Khaervun Resz) and a ranger (Aesa Mielikki).

Hope to see ya’ll in game for some great matches.