Guild Wars 2

I noticed today while doing map complete in Frostsound Gorge on my Necro some strange banding issues with some of my ground effects that were not present previously.

Then I noticed blotchy colors on my character’s skin, again that were not there previously.

Including screenshots to show what I mean.

http://i.imgur.com/YmnXh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fbv2T.jpg

I have not changed anything on my pc (video drivers etc) and I cannot get them to go back the way they were previously.

I tried googling the issue but came up with nothing.

If anyone has any ideas please throw them my way.

Doing some exploring I noticed as I suspected earlier that it seems the game is using low res character textures, because the rest of the game seems to look the same with exception of a few aoe nerco abilities that look like they suffer from banding (will get a shot of these later), anyway, I took this screenshot of Eir and if you notice her tattoos are terribly pixelated except for the ones on her face, they look normal.

http://i.imgur.com/dwjOy.jpg

Please, anyone I need some help with this. Should I reinstall the game to see if it fixes it? I have already ran the -repair option and it didn’t change anything.

Some updated screenshots.

This is the color banding I mentioned before that was not present in the game.

http://i.imgur.com/4PIaZ.jpg

And in this one notice the shoulder and helm armor look higher quality than the chest armor.

http://i.imgur.com/E16WK.jpg

All of this was not happening last week, it started a few days ago and I cannot figure out why.