Is there finally a way to get the old visual effect back? (through option or whatever)

[Metharius.8637]

I get why they reduce them (well kind of, even now i bet some would still complain that skill still have to much effect ... )but it's been almost 3 years now. is there a way to get back the cool visual still featured by arena net in their video and screenshot ?(because obviously: showing a fire shield like this https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/en/uploads/forum_attachment/file/230291/gw012.jpg is more apealing than this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/traits-unleashed-forty-new-traits-and-more/ :^) )

anyway, has anyone found out an option or secret option that must be activated in the ini or whatever?(this could actually make many of my friend come back, just from the enjoyment of having your character blast stuff with style...)

thanks

nb: i already asked this 1 or 2 years ago but back then people said it was for pvp reason (e-sport ? it seems proposterous but i relly remember somone saying this lol...) but recently i found a video about GW2 saying it was not designed with pvp in mind unlike gw1 so... here is why i am posting this again, maybe dev finally decide to let people chose if they want to be bothered by "visual noise" or not since it does not affect gameplay anyway, just pure enjoyment.

[Blocki.4931]

You mean you don't have the bubble? I have it. Must be your settings

[Metharius.8637]

yea i have no bubble, be is fire, ice/frost or chaos(with the mesmer)ex: for frost: https://i.imgur.com/t8lvEqC.jpgvery far from https://i.imgur.com/NJRUksY.jpgthoses are old screen, but i just checked right now, it did not change;Please note that I DO NOT HAVE effect LOD activated (who is said to reduce particle effect is it a bug where the game thinks it's constaly activated ? )

[Randulf.7614]

You get a near invisible bubble for fire, but the original is gone and gone for good according to the dev team after they implemented it.

It was not for pvp reasons it was from feedback to reduce overall effects at the time

[Metharius.8637]

@"Randulf.7614" said:It was not for pvp reasons it was from feedback to reduce overall effects at the time

isn't that what effect LOD was for ? ... that's so sad they could have put a slider for thoses who want. i wonder from whom the feedback came.I do know some person who are competitive "extremist" in a sense that not only do they play int he lowest setting possible (you can't hide in grass if grass is deactivated :^) ) but they would be fine with no graphics at all and just hit&hurt box and terrain wall in an empty height map.

edit: anyway, i hope they will fix it one day, until then i think i'll stay on the side and hibernate from this game again(unless there is a mod), have fun.

[Randulf.7614]

The feedback came from enormous numbers of posts on the forums. I wasn't a fan at the time of the implementation, but what's done is done now

[StinVec.3621]

The 'feedback' about reducing effects were almost exclusively focused around decreasing or removing the scaling 'light show' effect on big creatures/bosses that would turn them into one giant ball of white light and hide combat-crucial information, as well as years passing and people still have no idea what the creature/boss even looks like.

ArenaNet's response? Remove the 'field' effects and replace them with this 1 pixel wide edge sprite (a static graphic which always faces your camera). I cannot recall ever seeing any mention of reducing the 'field' effects on the forums, reddit or elsewhere, but that is nearly all they did regarding efforts to reduce effects. The other change they made was to implement the 'Effect LOD' toggle option, though all it really does is make the 2 pixel, 10 millisecond visibility of arrows fired from bows (and maybe only ranger's bows) to instead be invisible completely...

'Absurd' and 'disappointing' are consistently the only words that come to my mind in relation to changes to the game and features that are implemented or removed, as well as for those that continue to not be implemented or removed in this game.

[Metharius.8637]

I strongly doubt that thoses old version are gone forever.

for some like chaos or fire armor they just have to take arcane shield and make a orange and purple version of it ... anyway, i'll wait and see

[DreamyAbaddon.3265]

I would also like to know if we can bring these effects back. ?