Personally I don’t give a darn about my skills looking impressive. I want to be able to see what my enemy is doing, and I am tired of not being able to do just that.
Then go into your graphic options settings and adjust them so you can see your enemy. Do not make other people suffer when you can take care of your simple problem with a setting.
The whole problem is that, even with reduce effect LoD ticked, you still can’t see squat. Get any small group together and the game looks like someone is violently shaking a lava lamp in your face. It is rather selfish to demand that the notion of conveyance be ruined because you want the game to look like a back-lit tie-dye t-shirt is trying to eat your face.
Then you should be telling Anet to address this issue with the settings not breaking every players graphic immersion in the game.
You don’t get it. Your “immersion” is a fickle and irrational thing that is exclusively a you problem. Visual clutter in a game that requires visual cues is an everyone problem. You can get over your attacks not being as flash as you want them to be. Nobody can get over being unable to see.
Function takes precedence over form. The argument you have to make isn’t why it is I should ruin your immersion. It is why you should have the option to ruin everyone’s function.
your post is really strange… you type your comment as if the clutter issue has been resolved or something… :|
have you played PvP after this whole “reduced visual noise” patch? you still “cant see anything”.
i never really got the whole “you can’t see anything” thing. it just never affected me at all, at least not in PvP, which is the main reason for ArenaNet patching the effects. you know, the whole spectating thing. this may very well be an issue while spectating, but ive always been able to see perfectly fine while playing. once you play the game, after a while, you start to just know when to dodge. its really not bad at all. at least its not as bad as you are describing it. “ruin everyone’s function” … pff, really? whenever someone brings up the whole “i can’t see!!” thing its almost always just an over-exaggeration of the issue. they talk as if every single thing around them, within a 30,000 meter radius, is just constantly glowing when it isnt.
huge groups in WvW or groups for killing world bosses is another thing, some enemies are LITERALLY glowing with effects but you cant really fix that… at all. besides, that isnt even the effects. that is a problem with the way ArenaNet SCALES the IMPACT effect on enemies. they just took a short cut with the Elementalist and made everything super tiny. Even now the impact effect is ridiculous and will cause the same issue. the impact effect doesnt even match the size of the tiny needle of flame you are throwing at the enemy either. so not only is the issue not resolved, you now look incredibly stupid. this only highlights the scaling issue that ArenaNet cant seem to figure out how to deal with. things just dont match at all. i guess this is where people talk about immersion. i dont know about the whole immersion thing but personally i just dont like looking like an idiot. so, yeah. everytime i throw a “fire ball” i dont want to literally be thinking in my head “Wow… pathetic.” its annoying.
it all depends on the amount of people you have. if you have over 5 people attacking in an area at once you are going to have to deal with this ‘issue’. they cant fix it unless they remove the particle effects all together and just use those little red AOE circles that pop up to indicate dangerous areas. thats the only way you will “be able to see” because it just isnt possible to fix it if there is over 5 people using their abilities. even less than 5 depending on what classes you group up together. even as the effects are now, if you were to put two mesmers together with wells in PvP you would see what i mean. its a cluster of visual confusion. and thats only two people. its not fixable unless you literally remove all particle effects from every class. i dont think you or anyone else would want all the effects removed. at least i hope not. but maybe there is someone out there that does! so you know what? OPTIONS! yay! graphic options are great.
i dont see how some people cant agree on even having a simple option in the graphics settings to revert the effects back to normal. it doesnt affect you. i mean even now there is still clutter. your whole argument really makes no sense. if there was an option everything would be fine for the people that just want their effects to not look completely ridiculous. technically everything that you care about still wouldnt be fine since there is STILL clutter, even now. but that isnt my job to fix, it is ArenaNet’s. this hasnt fixed anything that is for sure… but if there were an option at least the effects would not look terrible, so that is one thing fixed. c:
anyway, anyone that has been playing for more than a day… or hopefully even less, unless you are really slow or something, has already gone through the graphics settings. im pretty sure that if someone felt that they are being blinded by the effects then naturally they would open up the menu and go into the graphics option looking for a way to lower the effects. then they can just disable or enable the option and go on their way.
besides, i hate to break it to you, but people are just generally… well, bad. the effects are more than likely a very minimal factor as to why the people around you cant “function”. the realistic answer to why they cant “function” properly is that they probably just suck to begin with.
everything is still “blinding”, not to mention the guardian’s blue fire. put that together with every other spell from a majority of the classes that just so happen to be in your current PvP match and guess what? the effects are all piled up in a big glob — you still have the same problem. except now every spell looks terrible individually and every spell together still looks like a disgusting “blinding” light. all they did was make spells look bad. like, really bad. well and they also managed to upset a pretty big part of the community, so there is that too.
for the love of sweet baby jesus! those wells used to be works of art. like majestic creatures! now they are more like half finished paintings after an artist got drunk and threw up all over them.
for the most part its really my fault i should have worded this whole post a bit differently the examples i chose were just examples, someone earlier mentioned the green night in the sylvari story and thats a great example too that kind of route. im not sure i just find it really interesting how story between those characters could play out more diversity is never really a bad thing