Guild Wars 2

Our aura under out feet when we are pulsing boons is no longer visible to other players, but it was during beta. I liked the idea of showing other people that I was helping them (through boons). Now they will just get the boons and not have a clear idea where they came from.

Was it disabled because people said the effect was a bit too strong? Well tone it down and display it for everyone!

EDIT: Also I’d like to point out that 2h hammer #3 skill (Phase Smash) still doesn’t work well with heights. It can blast fields, but won’t do any damage. #2 (Coalescence of Ruin) can also not do damage when the terrain is not flat. Kinda makes the weapon unconsistent and several people during the betas, including myself, reported these bugs…

Thats strange yes. Its like saying they acknowledge it being an issue, yet we’re stuck with it

I’ve seen it on other players, so you are mistaken. Perhaps they changed the priority on this animation so if you have reduced decals or some other graphics option enabled it isn’t displayed.

Edit: the only place I remember seeing it for sure is the pvp lobby. This could also be tied in to the post made the other day about reducing visual “noise” obscuring important tells. Now that I think about it, that seems like the likely scenario.

Are you talking about the passive effect of Facet of nature? I know if you pop the facet the symbol goes away

Well I was in a group with another revenant and I saw he had boons pulsing but I couldn’t see his aura. I asked, and he couldn’t see mine so I don’t know….only thing I have on low are shadows and number of characters rendered (because of WvW)
Also the aura displays with any pulsing boon, facet of nature doesn’t have to be active

I think they wanted to reduce ground clutter a bit.

I saw a herald aura in WvW yesterday.

I actually just saw a herald next to me in the 3rd hot zone n he had his full disco board and lights on

I asked a friend again and he tells me that he saw the aura so I guess in some situations with alot of spell effects it stops showing. But the hammer bugs still exist :p

I’ve now seen it in PvE on a certain NPC folks might be familiar with.