Please. Anet. Allow us to disable virtuoso daggers out of combat [Merged]

[Salt Mode.3780]

There is a reason why the won't hide the daggers and this has to do with competitive play. You want to see how much "resource" they have before initiating a battle or to know how to approach it. I wouldn't expect PvE people to understand this logic but this is very much the case.

[Salt Mode.3780]

Like I said most people wouldnt understand why its important to have visuals for resource shown at all times when it comes to competitive play. Thats why people have complained about mantras over the years because there is no visual on the charges as well as they are instant cast. You can only assume and predict base on the usage.

[mortrialus.3062]

10 hours ago, phokus.8934 said:

No it wouldn't.  The whole daggers showing anyways is utterly over the top graphic design that isn't needed.

It's literally the single best thing about Virtuoso is being able to stand around with 5 blades.

[The Boz.2038]

14 hours ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

The only thing they need to do is hide daggers from enemies in WvW. That would give Virtuoso the needed edge in the element of surprise. Enemies should not know how many daggers we have, makes us too predictable.

Other than that, daggers are fine imo. 

The entire point of the design is to telegraph clearly what state the Virtuoso is in, to both allies and enemies.

[Levetty.1279]

7 hours ago, mortrialus.3062 said:

It's literally the single best thing about Virtuoso is being able to stand around with 5 blades.

Was pretty funny standing with 5 daggers pointing at the Empress' face and trying to pretend that Li was weird for worrying about us.

[Veprovina.4876]

4 hours ago, The Boz.2038 said:

The entire point of the design is to telegraph clearly what state the Virtuoso is in, to both allies and enemies.

Ok, and i said i think this should only apply to allies. 

Wether or not this was intended was never my argument.

[rune.9572]

Guys, all I want is an OPTION to hide the floaties, for myself only, on my screen only.

No, I don't want it to affect others, or hide them in PvP gamemodes. Come on. (unless we actually get a generic "hide other players' effects" option too, because that would be swell.)

You can stop jumping at each others' throats. Thanks you for coming to my TED talk.

[Kulvar.1239]

They should be hidden when out of combat with weapon sheathed.

If you enter combat or unsheathe your weapon, they show up.

[Kathkere.3068]

I second this. I'm currently still maining Mirage on my Mesmer but I'm interested in the playstyle of Virtuoso. But the permanent daggers floating in the air really kills it for me. Have it be shown in combat only or when we have our weapons drawn, please!

Edited April 20, 2022 by Kathkere.3068

[aspirine.6852]

I'd love to hide the daggers in wvw too. Not sure if this gives the spec too much advantage. 

[Lincolnbeard.1735]

31 minutes ago, aspirine.6852 said:

I'd love to hide the daggers in wvw too. Not sure if this gives the spec too much advantage. 

Why should it give a disadvantage in the first place? You don't see the initiative thief has, you don't see the adrenaline warrior has and so on. 

[aspirine.6852]

6 minutes ago, Lincolnbeard.1735 said:

Why should it give a disadvantage in the first place? You don't see the initiative thief has, you don't see the adrenaline warrior has and so on. 

I imagine Anet made them visible for a/this reason. 

[phokus.8934]

1 minute ago, aspirine.6852 said:

I imagine Anet made them visible for a/this reason. 

Visual diarrhea.  That's anet's approach with everything in this game.

[katte nici.9483]

1 hour ago, aspirine.6852 said:

I imagine Anet made them visible for a/this reason. 

The reason is it's shiny.

[Ashantara.8731]

Can you please either

• decrease the daggers' size to 50% of its current size, or
• make the daggers only appear in-fight (i.e., with weapons drawn) ?

Please.

Their constant visual presence is super annoying as they are completely oversized, and aestherically unappealing in color as well.

[Mungo Zen.9364]

I am fine with them and think they should be left alone.  I also think starting new threads for topics that have multiple existing threads is a good way to boost your post count and get a lot of alerts to reactions/quotes to trigger that dopamine rush.

[Ashantara.8731]

2 hours ago, Mungo Zen.9364 said:

I also think starting new threads for topics that have multiple existing threads is a good way to boost your post count and get a lot of alerts to reactions/quotes to trigger that dopamine rush.

??? 🤦‍♂️

I hate the fact that this forum has reaction emojis, but hey, I guess it pampers your ego to play hobby psychologist? Just a guess (I'm no psychologist). 🤷‍♂️

P.S. Thanks for sabotaging this thread. You could have at least left a link to other existing topics that address this very issue that are not the Virtuoso Feedback thread.

Edited May 28, 2022 by Ashantara.8731

[Urphen.2857]

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/114647-new-idea-virtuosos-floating-blades-should-copy-your-equipped-daggers-skin/?tab=comments#comment-1659649

 

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/113048-let-us-hide-the-daggers-already/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-1644185

 

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/112015-please-anet-allow-us-to-disable-virtuoso-daggers-out-of-combat/

 

Others asked this or similar things so you are not alone, maybe they bring somthing with the next big patch, otherwise there is not much hope since we have here in the forum the "its fine for me so it has to be fine for everyone" group, so its easier for anet to hear what they say since this means no more work for them.

Edited May 28, 2022 by Urphen.2857

[Ashantara.8731]

2 hours ago, Urphen.2857 said:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/113048-let-us-hide-the-daggers-already/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-1644185

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/112015-please-anet-allow-us-to-disable-virtuoso-daggers-out-of-combat/

Thank you! I'll suggest a thread merge. 🙂

[Fueki.4753]

There's been a number of people, including myself who asked Arenanet to remove this particle garbage out of combat (or when weapons are stowed) or at least to give the option to disable the visuals this ugliness out of combat on the client side.

Sadly, so far Arenanet has failed to even bother to publicly acknowledge that some players want this.

Arenanet made the problem worse by putting automated Blade generation on a minor trait, so we can't even prevent this disgusting particle effect by spending the Blades after combat.

Being forced into this particle effect at all times is the primary reason I played EoD as a Chronomancer instead.

Edited May 29, 2022 by Fueki.4753

[Lysico.4906]

Either disable out of combat or just pop pips in ui.    You don’t know how much initiative a thief has left in pvp you know

[Simonoly.4352]

Yes please - I'd very much like for the daggers to only appear when in combat. They're a bit of an eyesore and honestly it looks a bit silly having deadly psionic daggers floating over my head when chatting to story NPCs etc - it's a bit like my Virtuoso is holding a gun to the heads of these poor people.

[HotDelirium.7984]

I'll add I want different dagger skins instead of the generic blocky ones we have right now that float rigidly above us. Just like bladesworn ( and for simplistic reasons) give us a skin based off each culture. The base one is more human, a rugged one for Norn, plant-like for sylvari, industrial metalworked one for charr, technological inspired for asura. Any race can use any skin but as a bare minimum we should have more than one generic skin.

[ksgates.3509]

Some people like the Virtuoso daggers over their character's head and other's do not.  How about giving us that option?   Please consider this and not put comments like these into a black hole of the ignore.  Thank you

[curtegg.5216]

Hiding a Virtuoso mesmer in keeps in WvW is harder with the banner of daggers over your head saying: "HERE I AM!"