Guild Wars 2

the centaur trebs, when they hit and produce a smoke effect, it gives crippling fps drops on my system.

cpu: i7 – 3770k
gpu: gtx690
mb: Asus Maximus V formula z77 LGA 1155
ram: 16gb 1866 ddr3
pwrsup: seasonic x-850
storage: intel 520 cherryville

There’s already a thread on the topic.

tl;dr: Seems like nobody told the skill effect coders about soft particles and other tricks, so instead they ended up spamming particles like our GPUs had infinite fillrate to work with.