Ground AOE Visual Clutter is Ruining Gameplay

Gameplay Dungeons, Raids and Scenarios
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The amount of visual ground AOE vomit in the game is so overwhelming that it’s nearly impossible to see what’s going on during encounters.

The floor is constantly covered in a chaotic mess of colors and patterns. Between the spell effects from party members, boss mechanics, and random environmental effects, trying to discern between a deadly frontal, an incoming one-shot, or a harmless AOE is like trying to find Waldo in a field of wizards.

It’s too much. Please consider scaling back on the visual vomit or at least giving us more options to customize and tone down these effects, especially when the effects from party members are not relevant to my character.

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On which boss do you experience this?

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Literally everywhere. Large pulls are especially bad, Less so on bosses (though Ulda Lost Dwarves can be bad), Nok and Brack can be terrible, brown swirlies on brown floor in Halls.

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Hasn’t been my experience at all.

Maybe it’s a setting you can change?

Only thing that is somewhat of an issue is the swirls in Nokhud. (But that’s due to not paying attention too.)

Ulda lost dwarves are perfectly clear.

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Spend half a second looking at party health // HoTs and miss the ground effect in peripheral because of visual chaos and it’s GG.

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The Blizz 1099s will be here soon but yeah you’re 100% correct. You can chalk this up to beginner artists and designers. Usually 1st and 2nd year designers go overboard with glow and particle effects because it’s new to them and seems like it adds value to the design. Later they will learn that less is more but by the time they figure this out they will be working for another company.

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uhh, position stuff better? The ground effects shouldn’t be in your peripheral vision. It’s like the center of your screen.

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I mean, visual clutter does not impact rdps or healers nearly as much as melee, either way it’s still far too much regardless of the role you’re playing.

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I wish we could lesson or turn off certain friendly effects because yeah sometimes during a pull I know an afflicted just spawned in the middle of the pack that’s getting the crap blasted out of it and its hard to see and click on the faint white ghost

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What’s your spell density setting?

I really don’t find the ‘visual vomit’ overwhelming or hampering unless I’m playing Unholy (because of Defile).

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There’s a graphics settings specifically for this. You can make it so you only see the boss and your spells/abilities essentially.

Good thing that options been in the game for years.

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Lowest setting, can’t even tell a difference.

Is there another setting other than Spell Density which I have set to lowest?

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It’s whatever setting where one of the options are “essential spells only” or something like that. You could enable raid specific settings so when you are playing solo or 5-man content it isn’t lowered.

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true, cant see anything under darkness

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Examples:

  • Earth AoE circles of trash around dragons in HoI
  • Spin to win mobs in BH

Those are probably the worst offenders right now. 1 consecration and it’s almost impossible to see. Add 1 or 2 more AoEs on the floor and you can’t see anything.

Don’t understand how this is considered to be okay.

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You must play on a potato.

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What ground clutter? All I see is my defile spreading.

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