Is there any way to disable the new cast bar spell animations and revert to how it was before the new patch? I have eye issues and the new animations make it harder to see the CDs and recharge timers. The new animations look cool, but unfortunately for my eyes it makes everything a little blurry at times and generally much harder to see.
I was told to post this here by customer support from tech support thread.
Thank you!
Overall I don’t expect there to be an old version revert; but for those with sensitive eyes the ability to tone down the flashy effects would be wonderful.
Same here. This also gives me a headache after a little bit.
Best I’ve found is to use the Bartender addon until, if they even bother, to add a toggle for the icon cast bar.
I’m so tired of having to download addons to fix what Blizz screws up.
I am not a fan, at all, of the new “closing circle” animation that plays on top of an ability when a spell procs.
I play the Obliteration build of Frost DK, which means that during my cooldown windows, I need to be able to react near-instantly to my current procs of Killing Machine and Howling Blast. I enjoy that gameplay, and I have appreciated that I could easily play it with the default UI up until this point. But it is very difficult to react fast enough to my procs when the procs start playing an animation instead of simply lighting up the button. It feels like I am fighting the UI, not playing along with it.
All the other new UI elements added to the ability buttons in 10.1.5 are distracting, difficult to manage, and discourage me from playing my alts, but this is by far the worst. Please find some way or option to revert this change.
During Coordinated Assault, my bombs and killshot procs and the ability highlighted so I knew when it was up.
The new sweeping animation literally covers this up. I have to hardcore focus on the icon so I can tell when the proc is up. lmfao
Can’t even imagine not using bartender, just do it.
Surely a toggle option wouldn’t be that hard. There is way too much going on now.
I jumped straight into Dawn of the Infinite as soon as I could and almost went cross-eyed looking at the new spell icon animations. I thought my UI was glitched or something. They’re cloudy and non distinct making it very difficult to see when the spell is actually ready or not, especially in the middle of battle. Why they had to change something that wasn’t actually broken I will never understand and to do it without any kind of control over how it actually functions befuddles me. Now I have to use an addon I didn’t previously have to use to try and rectify the issue.
I vote for adding a toggle bc I like the animations, but those who don’t should be able to turn them off.
Really needs an on/off option hotfix asap. It’s incredibly annoying that there wasn’t one already. This is the Dragonriding speedy naruto zoomer animation but for action bars.
If it is an UI issue, I suppose this to be allowed to alter via modding. Check the approved modding sites the coming few days and hopefully something turns up.
Shouldn’t have to do this imo.
Just adding my voice to this. This is horrible. Especially when animations overlap, or there were multiple going off, I just felt like I was using the bars “blind” most of the time, because I struggled to work out what was available and what wasn’t. We need some additional options here.
Especially in respect of accessibility - I’m VERY surprised this made it through to live. I don’t consider myself requiring any special accessibility settings, yet even I struggled - I hate to think how those who do have some accessibility issues will cope with this.
Was this not on the PTR? Did not read of anyone complaining.
IDK why they bothered to make the icons clearer only to make them impossible to look at thanks to a useless animation. I’d rather they spend the time trying to improve the actual graphics of the game.
… and yes, it was in the PTR, but I along with many others don’t have the time to play that and the real game. Even when we do have the time, blizz ignores the forums, anyways.
Just like they’ll ignore this thread.
Just adding my support for a way to turn off the new animations.
Only just had the chance to login and play today and the new animations are VERY distracting. A way to turn them down or revert them to the previous style would be greatly appreciated.
For those interested … there is a temporary fix for this, either importing a Weak Aura in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/14yalko/disable_new_actionbutton_castbar_and_gcd_flash/ or using this addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/hideactionbaranimations. I’ve tried the WA and it works … (it might need the extra bit further down the thread including) … but haven’t tried the addon.
Thanks for posting these! The addon works great. My brain & eyes thank you.
So Blizzard… I guess your entire dev team couldn’t produce a simple in-game option to turn off this mess faster than those addon creators? Nothing new there, I guess.