Guild Wars 2

Ever since the change to culling in PvE, there have been instances where visual effects simply didn’t show. Most of these were minor, like ghosts not being ghosts or ranger spirits not having glow, but there’s a few that actually impact the game.

Yesterday, I was in CoF path 2 and apparently, some of the NPCs there use Eruption. I say apparently, because the only way I knew is when I checked my combat log to see what instantly downed me. There never was an animation.

The same happened at the Golem MkII world boss event: the static field that is supposed to show before it actually triggers, didn’t always show (but always triggered) making it very hard to survive.

While this happening is fairly rare (once every month or so fortunately) I’m sure you can imagine why this is a big issue. One-hit downed attacks aren’t my favorite to begin with, but if you can see them coming then I can live with it (pun intended). But this graphic issue should be looked into, because it’s greatly interfering with gameplay at times.

Ahh and I love when i’m walking peacefully in an open field (either in WvW or Pve) and I get instant downed, with no ennemies around me with no sign of combat.. at all..