You might to be able to change your animation setting from outside the client by browsing to “appdata/Guild Wars 2/” on your PC and accessing the file “GFXSettings.Gw2-64.exe.xml” with the text editor of your choice. The line in question would be #53 (should look somewhat like
<OPTION Name=“animation” Registered=“True” Type=“Enum” Value=“low”>
)
which you’d want to change to either
<OPTION Name=“animation” Registered=“True” Type=“Enum” Value=“medium”>
or
<OPTION Name=“animation” Registered=“True” Type=“Enum” Value=“high”>
Worked for me to change video settings whitout the client being run (although I don’t have any issue with the outfit yet)