Guild Wars 2

The healing spring area of effect (and other ring effects such as wells and glyphs) renders as a series of hearts and jigsaw puzzle pieces.

An example can be seen in this image.
http://i.imgur.com/2eTm5.jpg

It looks pretty terrible, and I hope this is a glitch. On some lower setting options this is not visible because the shapes of the texture are completely blurred.

Yeah, it’s been there since the last beta weekend, and during the stress tests. Mentioned it on the forum, but don’t know if there was a response since the forums got wiped after each stress test. Only appears for friendly ground effect rings. And only if you have that option enabled. It used to just look like a white ring.

Maybe the jigsaw effect is intended to look like it … combines with something? Like a combo field?

Many of the effects could use some work imo. Lots of flashy stuff making it hard to see what’s going on, and very little info being delivered.

I"m guessing that the jigsaw effect is meant to be blurred in some way and serve as the underlying patter, but that whatever filter is meant to be used to finish the effect is either not working or not being applied correctly.

If I had to guess it’s one of those “texture missing” graphics, kinda looks that way to me. Y’know, default thing that shows up when the game can’t load the requested texture/model. In GW1 for example, if a model couldn’t load, it would show up as a cube with an exclamation mark on it instead.

This might be a similar sort of ’can’t find the real texture, so here’s this substitute’ thing.

It’s a combo field notification.

Rage The Numbers.7943:

It’s a combo field notification.

Every field is a combo field. No indication necessary.

I really doubt that the puzzle pieces and hearts are what this texture was intended to look like.