Guild Wars 2

Thanks, starlinvf. Not playing in the dark; already wearing tinted glasses and using f.lux to set screens darker – the problem with dimming screens using f.lux is that this dims everything on the screen and makes some things too hard to see. Just trying to limit the amount of flashes.

Yes, I have epilepsy, but strobes are not a current trigger, but they have been in the recent past. I’m looking for preventative measures (other than to quit gaming). I know it would be a lot of programming on ANet’s part, but my wish would be to have the option to turn bright flashes off. A girl can dream!

Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of/lessen/decrease the amount of flashing or strobe effect a boss or environment has? Currently I’m in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, and I keep hitting areas where there is lightening. The constant flashing isn’t good for me, so I just run through and miss all of the content where it’s happening. This also happens in boss fights, especially – and the mystic forge is awful for me. Is there a setting I can use to decrease this effect?
Thanks in advance!

Thank you, Valkyrie, this worked beautifully.

Would someone help me with settings that will bring up GW2 on my monitor #2? I can’t find where this is set, and it seems to default to monitor #1. For other reasons, I’d like my gaming monitor to remain #2.
Thank You!

I’d like to see leggings without skirts, too. But I’d also like “coats”/“chest pieces” that aren’t bimbo tops that show lots of skin and are not just slightly girlized versions of what they guys’ is. Something that’s truly pretty. If a warrior can run around with her breasts hanging out (good deity, even Scottish warriors are smart enough to put multiple layers of cloth over their delicates), they can also run around wearing more frilly clothes. Each is equally impractical! And I won’t even start on the hideous options for head armor – I hide it, unless I have on my aviator glasses.

I have very mixed feelings about this Megaserver System, but mostly I am not a fan of it.

The server will be great when I’m making a new alt and leveling it up doing map completion. There are so many areas in the current system where I find myself alone doing the map. This is not all bad, though, it makes for developing better fighting skills. But when I hit a place where the boss or event is designed for a group, then the megaserver system will be great.

I belong to a great guild, HOME, on a small server, Ehmry Bay. We do missions regularly, and have a lot of wonderful social events. The new server system will be fine for this guild and all of the goals we have. However, this guild cannot do all of the battles GW2 throws at us. It is too daunting to try to organize our guild, let alone our server, for those mega-world bosses as Tequatl and Triple Trouble Wurm.

The saving grace for me to do these bosses, and the Marionette when it was a part of the Living Story, and get those achievements was finding the TTS guilds. This is a fantastic, beautifully organized group of people who have dedicated their time freely to organizing people who are serious about doing these fights. I thought I was just joining them for a few times to get my Tequatl achievements, but I ended up joining a guild for many reasons.

We do the Tequatl fight every night at 10:00 server time. This time works beautifully for me because it allows me to have my evening family/dinner time, then to spend a bit of time in my HOME guild and then to join this great group of socially zany and seriously organized folks to bring down the dragon in Sparkfly Fen. I really enjoy TTS’s emphasis on having fun, staying positive no matter what the outcome, and teaching anyone who wants to learn how to fight each position necessary to bring down Teq. They really do a great job at allowing new people to join, never assuming that everyone on the map already knows the fight, and keeping the chat away from negativity. It’s also lovely to work with a group that spans the Pacific Ocean and has so many countries involved. We have people in who just rolled out of bed and others who are doing this fight as their last thing before going to bed.

As I understand the Megaserver changes and the scheduling of boss fights, we will lose this time slot and the ability to pop overflows to do an event on our own without interfering with others who want to use a map. The 10:00 Tequatl (okay, the fight is at 11:02, but we gather at 10:00 and organize for a while first) fight has become my night time ritual and I’ve enjoyed gathering with this group of people. I will be quite sad to lose this for many reasons: the loot and karma help me to do other things that don’t make much loot such as leveling my own alts and helping guildies do theirs; hanging with the TTS crowd is where I learn a lot about the game by listening to discussions about builds, fighting strategies, and Tyria lore (or is it Tyra, hmm, can never remember – gotta ask Kenage Achalarus which it is).

I haven’t gotten all of the Wurm achievements, yet, because the time TTS does Wurm is one that I can only occasionally do. With the megaserver change and the elimination of overflows, I’m doubtful that I will be able to get these at all. The Wurm takes a full map’s worth of people, great organization, and concentration by all. If we cannot populate the map with only TTS people (which also means guests who may be new to the fight and not members of TTS, but are serious about wanting to do it), it will be extremely difficult to organize this and make it happen. The whole thing about having to have a guild “buy” the right to do the fight is silly. There are so few regular guilds who can do Tequatl or Wurm on their own.

The regularity with which TTS does these fights is what makes them possible. Not everyone makes it each night, but there are enough people who have done it recently that we’re able to teach the new ones or those who’ve forgotten how to fight the battle. Doing it once a week or less, it wouldn’t draw as many regulars, and it’s bound to conflict with some people’s regular guild missions time. I can’t imagine any regular guild doing a World Boss such as Tequatl or Triple Trouble once a week or every other week. Large guilds like TTS dedicated to organizing these fights are doing the regular guilds a service.

Please, ArenaNet, do your magic and help TTS and the other world boss guilds be able to continue doing Tequatl and the Wurm. They really are providing an add on service to regular guilds. My HOME guild council members work hard enough without having to try to take on the tasks that the TTS leaders do organizing these fights. I appreciate belonging to each guild for their different purposes.