Would you PLEASE consider making this place a 'no magic' zone?

They should just make it so that no abilities can be used with the GS.Period.

As already noted, people can use their abilites to distract/cheat

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Originally Posted by TetsuyaHikari

Yeah. Someone suggested in-game that I just filter out the sound effects from other players, but that's just slapping a bandaid on it. It's not really a solution since I have to turn the effects back on whenever I enter an instance or whatever. Sometimes I need to hear a cue from a skill in order to decide what to do next.

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Well, depending on what you prefer, you really don't have to turn your settings back on for instances. With the Others filter set to not show anything, you'll still see everything from your 4-8 man party (there's a Party filter that you can set separately if you ever need to). The only effect Others has, as far as instances go, is CT/ST/WoD, as it will filter out the other alliances effects. This is NOT a bad thing in my eyes. That being said, it's honestly more than a bandaid fix to the problem IMO. I have yet to even notice anyone doing spell/ability spam, so the world actually seems peaceful and void of those specific jerks, even though I KNOW there are people that do it. Locking out spells and abilities is more work than necessary, all things considered, because you also lock out useful abilities such as Sprint and Swiftsong.

macro this...

/battleeffect self off
/battleeffect party off
/battleeffect other off

make another macro to change off to on. i don't think there is a macro for player sounds. but you can go to System Configuration>Sound Setting and under Player Effects Volume you can disable the sounds of other players.


P.S. only way to file an harassment report for skill-spam usage is if they are following you around purposely trying to annoy you. and even then, you still have to ask them stop for it to be harassment.