Don’t be scared homie.
You want to advocate slapping people.
I’ll be here when you are ready.
See age isn’t my reason for having a hard time seeing things. Having 1 working eye is my problem lol.
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/slap
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LOLZ <3 whispers to Chosen No need to feed the trolls… it will eventually get bored and move along.
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Yesterday I found my reading glasses in the freezer. Why did I leave them in the freezer?!
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All wolves need feeding.
I’m almost 50, screen clutter has always been a thing to deal with, what I did was get certain addons to customize my UI so I cut down on clutter, I use Action Bars which allows me to put my stuff where I want and cut out what I don’t like artwork etc.
Another thing I did was buy a 32 inch monitor, that was a great idea and is working as intended! Monitor was not expensive.
If you can play arena, cus that game is fast and furious, then you are likely a far better player than many.
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Either get a custom UI like elvui or adjust your UI to your needs.
I use default, don’t judge me I am a creature of habit people. In tge bottom right I have damage meters. To the left of me I have Tellmewhen for spell cooldowns. Above that I have the bosses bar.
Threat plates tells me who is near me and what they are casting. And any dungeon or raid weak auras are above the mobs frame that I moved
All pertinent info is at a glance right next to my toon. DBM, etc flow and go off below me. Anything else I want to know I will need to take the time to look not glance
Cursor trail my friend. Had the same problem as my mouse is how I turn.
Got it, and blew the trail up huge so I could always find it haha.
I’m 60 and fortunately I haven’t had any problems with screen clutter or visual effects.
Mind you, my reaction time and reflexes are all shot to hell though.
I dont think this is an age issue. I swear Blizzard deliberatly hides your mouse sometines to mess with you. Ive had instances where I stand still slowly moving my mouse around unable to spot it. Not untill I start shaking it around crazily it shows up again.
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I take advantage of the unfocused thousand-yard-stare when things start getting too chaotic or I’m getting too fried. Prevents you from zeroing in too hard on any one thing, and you react to periphery faster than anything you’re directly looking at due to evolutionary quirks.
If it’s a screen clutter issue, then I’d suggest some UI mods to help with that.
Play a ranged class. Like you there came a point where as a melee I could not see wtf was going on. Not sure if its age or just the game clutter has become stupid with people relying on mods now.
Since going ranged, its become a lot easier to see what the hell is going on.
Indeed, tab targeting is dismal. I actively avoid tab targeting in dungeons and raids except in the most fail-proof of cases (e.g. bosses) because half the time it’s going to grab some mob across the room in a pack we don’t want to pull instead of the one right in front of us.
Unless you’re elderly or are playing true twitch games, the decline in response time that occurs as you age should have no significant impact on your play in WoW or most other games.
Otherwise, and assuming equal aptitudes and absence of medical conditions/disease, the loss of lens flexibility and focus ability is the only age-related process that should have a marked impact on your ability to play today as well as you did in the past. A larger monitor and/or glasses can help that significantly.
All that said, everything above is correct. Modern WoW presents a much denser visual environment. There is far more visual distraction, far more passive and active visual obscuration. People in their 20s in our group have complained about the same issues of target-finding, picking things out of the mess, and losing track of the cursor.
I’d also echo the above suggestions regarding add-ons, and weakauras (if you’re not already using them). These can be tremendously helpful for shaping, consolidating, and presenting information how and where it best works for you, even for younger players.
The type of extended game play encouraged by games like WoW also reduces the frequency with which we blink, which leads to eye dryness and all that accompanies that. This alone can cause some issues, and can exacerbate the effects of presbyopia and eye strain.
One of the things that helped me after my eye damage was finding a color scheme for my monitor that reduced focus strain. I have a setting that dials back the contrast and brightness, adjusts sharpness, and shifts the color temperature a bit. The lighting effects and graphics don’t pop in the same way, but it’s significantly easier to scan around the screen in large-scale combat and other busy scenarios. I just swap between that and my regular profile as needed, and I can actually feel a sort of tension in my eyes disappear.
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A different MMO I shall not name has a setting that lets you turn off other players and / or their spell effects. This makes it SO much easier when you’re in melee in large group settings.
Keep in mind a lot of extraneous crap has been added. In WotLK you fought a warlock and his pet, or a DK and his pet.
Now, you fight a Warlock and his 10 pets and a nether portal shooting lasers at you, you fight a DK and his 10 pets, a dragon, and a big stream of ice. Monks and their 4 clones and statue and ghost of themselves, etc.
Everyone has oodles of pets, passive AoEs going at most times, and unbearably overproduced spell animations.
This makes it a lot more difficult to keep track of what’s going on on your screen in an arena.
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And in 40v40s, it makes for a scarcely distinguishable unit-and-VFX soup.
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Oh 40v40 is beyond horrible now hahaha