Guild Wars 2

If they had an option to remove or minimize weapon trails, ground effects, etc. to an absolute bare minimum amount with strongly defined borders, that might be alright. As it stands, I don’t know how they expect to make complex mechanics, especially any that require avoiding boss telegraphs.

This is honestly my biggest disappointment with HoT, and the reason I won’t be purchasing it: the complete and total lack of visual clarity in combat. Imagine trying to play Dark Souls with a mod that made enemies explode into a shower of sparks and smoke every time you hit them. It’d be practically impossible for the average person to get through it, and it’d be frustrating to do so even if you managed to.

I’ll be honest: this is one of the biggest reasons, along with a lack of movable UI elements, that I am hesitant to try and pick up the game again, and I can’t help but wonder if I’m alone on this. The inability to properly engage with the game’s combat (because it’s reliant on something that’s nearly impossible to see) is a massive turn-off.

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(for those of you that don’t know, Galileo was the first person to openly admit the planet earth was round, and was branded a heretic by the catholic church for going against it’s teaching, and spouting his satanic lies.)

A correction: It was actually for his championing of the heliocentric/Copernican model (where the Earth orbits the sun), as opposed to the geocentric model (where the sun orbits the Earth), which was the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church of the time. He was preceded by Nicolaus Copernicus (where the “Copernican model” got its name from), and possibly several other ancient writers, although there’s limited textual evidence for that.

The “flat Earth” belief is, in any event, largely a historical fiction, with most cultures since the Greeks knowing that the Earth was round. The idea of people believing that the Earth was flat was propagated by men such as John William Draper, who were interested in supporting a thesis of the incompatibility of science and religion, and who had no qualms about inventing history outright to do so (see his book “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science” for more information).