Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Whenever I enter an area where there is a vast amount of players (world PvP/RvR for example) I’m having slight lag (mobs/players takes time to load) and a massive drop in framerate. I used to play a game called Warhammer Online, and my experience in that game was that is was AoE and visual effects that caused loads of lag.

Now, I can’t stop people from Aoeing, because most skills are AoE and they need to kill whatever is in front of them. But I wonder if I can do anything about visual effects instead? Just to turn the new year’s eve cascades of light fighting that we have now into something more simplistic that doesn’t stress our computers so much.

I have checked the options ofcourse, but couldn’t find any options or tab specifically for visual effects (just shadows and animations and such) . Is there a secret tab that I missed or perhaps any addons or mods that lets you alter the graphics in such a way?

If not, could the developers please add it, or something similar, as soon as possible? I like the game and I like the PvP so far, both structured and world, and it’s a shame I can’t do more world PvP just because I don’t have a monster rig available, and I’m sure many more feel the same.

The Shaders and Post-processing options will reduce the visual effects of skills. Reducing Shadows will also help — if you set it to Low you’ll only get a generic blob shadow under characters instead of the full character shadows.

I already have those options, and all options in the advanced graphic settings, set to either none or low, I’m afraid. Thanks for the reply none the less.

I guess I’ll have to live with it for now until I can upgrade my computer, or more options gets implemented regarding visual effects.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/We-need-the-effect-command-that-was-used-in-Aion-there-is-no-forum-for-this-so-I-put-it-here/first#post7115

This is exactly why we need the “/effect” command used in Aion.. many people can’t handle large events or masive WvsWvsW fights.. it’s impossible to enjoy this fights with 10 fps or less

I hope they can give us this command.. in Aion was really usefull

Bump this, we really need something like this feature