Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have a computer that can easily play WvW and other intensive things all on high settings. But I have noticed an issue when I encountered another player using a combination of gear. When he is out of the frame, my FPS is fine. As soon as he enters my field of vision, it drops. If I get really close to him, the FPS drops to 3. I asked him about it and his only reply was “new meta”.

When he gets into the frame

And finally, up close

Doh…. I forgot to blot out the names. one sec

It appears to be an incorrectly large number of the same glow effect stacked onto of each other. Effects like that can lower framerates drastically, esepcially as they occupy more screenspace.

It could be a random bug on your side or an exploit of a glitch. If it does become a serious issue, you can try dropping the model detail (I believe that’s the name) to the lowest setting.

Hey, I’m in those screenies!

That’s what happens when you use the tonic exploit to aura-stack a legendary. It’s not your side, it’s directly caused by that guy exploiting.

DrakoRoma.4167:

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you can try dropping the model detail (I believe that’s the name) to the lowest setting.

Unfortunately, even setting Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality to “Lowest” makes no difference on the displaying of both back pieces and weapons, as well as any effects on those back pieces or weapons like legendary auras or spinal blade back item glow. Even turning every single graphics setting to the lowest setting possible does nothing to hide any of the auras or effects on legendary weapons or back pieces.

It’s completely illogical and ridiculous that we have settings to make standard low quality armor forced on everyone else, but back pieces apparently do not count as armor and we also cannot remove the graphics and effects on weapons (primarily those annoying legendaries and their effects)…the main things that actually cause graphical FPS issues, are visually annoying, and that players would actually desire to make hidden.

Magnus Heartseeker.7958:

And finally, up close

Guy on your screen use bug on stack aura and lag this game. Report him is easy way

I just got time to read all of this. Thanks for all the info guys!