Guild Wars 2

I’m having this same problem, I reported it with the in game report bug feature, I’m really hoping that this gets fixed ASAP.

i’ve also been talking about this issue in my forum suggestion please check it out and share any ideas you have too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Color-Blindness-Accommodations/first#post825910

yeah it gets very pricey after i do a dungeon. i think the worst i came out with was 3 broken armor pieces. plus it’s embarrassing cause it makes me look like i’m bad at the game when all my problem is that i can’t see when i’m getting attacked by aoe skills or walking into traps.

gets embarrassing when i go into dungeons and run right into traps i can’t see or die every 5 seconds from aoe skills. i really with that we could change the color scheme of things, it would help out a lot

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Color-Blindness-Accommodations/first#post677298

minbariguy.7504:

Wow, I’m really surprised that this thread was created nearly a month ago and still has no official acknowledgement. Even if it was commented on before, if the forums were wiped and the comment no longer exists, I think another acknowledgement is in order.

C’mon, ANet… I’ve actually been saying good things about your communication. Don’t shy away from this.

yeah i’ve been checking on it every day since i first posted it and not once have i seen any acknowledgement from them. it’s not like i’m asking about something that doesn’t matter, this effects many gw2 players so you’d think it would be important to them. i really hope it gets the attention of someone soon.

Spiders Spiders Spiders.8043:

The thickness of the lines is fine, it makes you have to pay a bit of attention. The red/green thing, perhaps just make it so you could toggle one of them as dashes rather than a continuous trace.

just changing it to dashes doesn’t help, it’s still red. and on most backgrounds a person with red/green color blindness can’t see it at all, doesn’t matter if it’s a continuous line, dashes, random shapes. they need to make it so we can customize the color so it’s something we can see.

An Idea is that you shouldn’t have changed the 24 hours for the transfer but made a special timer for WvW after a transfer. Players could still transfer every 24 hours, they’d just have to stay in that server for 7 days before they could play in WvW on that server.

i use it to play with my friends on various servers when they want to do a dungeon together, making it so people that only/prefer PVE are punished for people that are trying to exploit WvW isn’t right.

they could add something like a symbol above people’s head in WvW that represents their world, Each world has their own unique emblem for WvW so that people can quickly identify the enemy, all they look for are the symbols that aren’t theirs. they can turn off theirs to make it clear who are the enemy.

colorblindness and this game doesn’t mix well, it makes it very hard for me to play any PvP/WvW and i’m an ELE so it makes it hard for me to support my team when i can’t tell where i’m placing my skills at. some more color customization with the UI and skills would be awesome

the thing that sucks with the Red and Green is that i can’t tell the difference. i’m Red Green color blind so they look the same to me

thanks everyone, wasn’t expecting this much support for my ideas:P hopefully someone sees it soon

thanks Aedan, and yes Kiar, as someone else that suffers from color blindness, I agree that this is a problem that needs to be addressed. check out the link that Aedan gave, it’s my post on some possible ways they could help accommodate color blindness

Scorpio.3821:

I’m surprised that a moderator has not commented on this topic yet. Its a feature that’s appearing in more and more games each year… Global conflict, Battlefield 3, Maplestory, League of Legends, Left 4 Dead, and Call of Duty are just a few… http://www.howtogeek.com/93502/are-color-blind-gamers-left-out-science/

Yeah I’ve played many games that have this feature and it really helps. I’m amazed they didn’t have one at the start.
I’m also surprised that this hasn’t gotten the attention of a moderator yet. It’s a big thing seeing as though I’m sure about 7%-10% of their gamers are color blind too. Hopefully they notice it soon.

Hi I was just wondering if there was something you guys could do to make the game more accommodating to people with color blindness.

1. I know with gear it will say fine, masterwork and such for it’s rarity but when it comes to other things like materials and trophies it just shows a color not what rarity it is. Something simple like an option to turn on for colorblindness that will put in words for what the rarity of the item is, would be awesome.

2. Also for the first time today a friend told me that there are red circles for AOE damage when an enemy attacks, because I’m red/green color blind, I’ve never seen it before.

3. When I use a skill attack that has a marker showing where it’s field of effectiveness is it tends to blend into the ground and I can’t tell where I’m placing a skill at.

4. An option to pop out map markers more so I can see where things are when finding points of interest and vista’s. The colors of the things on the map sometimes are too close to the background colors that I can’t see them.

I’m not trying to criticize your game, it’s very well made and I love it. These are just some ideas that would help me and others that have various forms of color blindness. Thank you very much for taking your time to read over this.