No you are trading instant damage for more damage over a longer time, the visual clarity is an oversight not an intentional thing that would be silly.
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+1 for this, I havenāt been able to use it at all even though Iāve wanted to, playing HC with a friend and using it basically blinds us completely to anything that happening, just far too much of a risk.
I donāt understand why its not a ground effect instead of a cloud effect for clarity. My party dreads entering a room Iām clearing since they donāt use outlines and they basically enter a black room.
Itās funny because at first, I thought it was normal mobs using smoke bombs since when I unlocked it was near the bandits around ACT1, and then when I fought some random animals I was like āoh this is meā.
Really need to change it or make it more transparent.
It has now been acknowledged in a blue post 
āA fix will be implemented later this month in a larger patch.ā
Bumping this. And will continue to do so until fixed.
Whereās this post?
I respecced to bonespear at level 30 because it just sucks how bad it blocks my vision and my wifeās and weāre couch coop 
+1 please fix this issue
Honestly if they were to make this visual similar to Blight, that would be 1000 times better,
Hard agree. Killed me several times being unable to see anything else so I unspecād it.
Doesnt need that upgrade though
That upgrade basically increase the damage output of CE by 0.5 (Rank 5) to 1.2 (Rank 1) depends on the CE Rank, instead of putting 4 points to Max CE, a single point will give you double the damage. However, the downside is it the damage is dealt over 6 seconds instead of instant damage and if the skill is count as DoT, it cannot crit nor overpower.
EDIT: Increasing the rank is also increase the damage of the DoT so the damage output is always double but without the chance to overpower and crit.
Itās very good when you have certain gear synergies but it makes everyone hate you, including yourself. It makes it literally 100% impossible to see anything. No ground, no spell effects, no mobs, no players - nothing but a huge blob of black.
TBH Iām astounded it made it past any level of testing, itās that bad. Please fix!
I was playing with my friend who is a Necromancer and his AoE from blight made it virtually impossible to see the enemy AOEās on the ground. This needs to be fixed ASAP. Please contact the developers on Twitter about this issue.
Quite surprised they havenāt fixed it yet. When they do, Iāll need to replay the campaign because I couldnāt enjoy any boss battle because it was just a black spot on the screen.
No matter what you fight, black spot of death is all you see. I got used to it, but when thereās people around, I try to spam just blight instead, else no one sees a crap. Normally I use blight + corpse combo.
PLEASE FIX THIS
Its almost impossible to play with this, it it stays like it is right now.
They replied in the bug section that a fix will be apply on the next big patch (so no hotfix)
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Then lets hope it will be soon
Do you have any link for of the Blizz Reply Post? I cant find it.