The Sky

Come on, I know you guys can make some better skies than what you have now. Even Counterstrike has better looking skies, and it's just four or five simple bitmaps loaded without any stretching, not much work involved. I'm not saying Guild Wars should be like Counterstrike, i'm saying you can do much better than.. these blurry smudges you call a sky.

EDIT: In addition, there should be better blending between the sky and horizion.

For example:

Looks really bad. Personally I find all of this distracting, and it makes me feel really detached from the game "world". It makes it feel really fake.

I am also not saying guild wars should be like counter-strike but I'd love to see a more accurate collision detection. It would be much more exciting if I felt like I could actually dodge magic projectiles or heavy armed club swings.

You can dodge projectiles, try strafing back and forth.

That screenshot sucks, I've never experienced that problem.
Are you sure it's not a driver problem of your display card or something related to your PC?

Actually, I didn't really look close but Year of the Domino is right, it's your graphics card/driver. The skies looked pretty sweet when I played and the atmospheric perspective was also pretty sweet.

I did however get hit by magic projectiles and arrows that landed beside me... and I'm able to hit and be hit by projectiles going through rocks or trees.

Aye, my skys look fine, and I don't even have the graphics all the way up... can't stand how everything is glowing on high settings.

Often I can hit people and mobs through objects... for some reason most objects are not solid... but major ones are like walls and the ground

Year of the Domino? Very good, pretty close. But Dominus in latin means Lord. So "In the year of the Lord"

Anyway, so far I haven't experience and graphic problem, just sometimes my character jumping from one spot to the other when I click on something to attack. Donno if this is due to lag or what.

Looks like the view distance is quite short on that screenshot. Have you got the graphic options all on high?

Talking of skies, transition day-night would be nice too.