Guild Wars 2 adds the ability to hide visual effects for certain legendary trinkets in today’s patch

I don’t know about you, but when I get a powerful piece of equipment, nothing cools down my excitement at the new shiny faster than some needless particle effects that pour off of my character’s body; I don’t need my shoulderpads to spill with energy like a poorly sealed nuclear reactor to know that I’ve gotten a stats boost. Apparently a number of Guild Wars 2 players felt similarly about the visual effects of the Aurora, Vision, and Coalescence legendary trinkets that were introduced in July’s Legendary Armory update, as they asked the devs to grant an option to toggle the effects off. Now, with today’s patch, players will be able to do just that.

With today’s update, players can simply tick checkboxes on or off when equipping the aforementioned trinkets, adding or removing the trinkets’ contribution to the stack of buffs, which in turn determines which effect is displayed on their character. ArenaNet points out that this is possible now due to some improvements in the way the team handles the stacking buff problem, which in turn allowed the devs time to make this feature available.

Today’s patch should also be the one that makes the next free episode of Visions of the Past, Steel and Fire, up for grabs for free, so if you’ve been among those players raking in all the free Living World stuff, don’t forget to do so this week.