I scratch my head when I read people say things are flashy here lol. For a while I used to have all settings at max, then we’d have those world bosses and stuff (like Odin, Ixion, Behemoth, etc), you couldn’t see anything. Just grinning at your screen like Louisoix. My wife asked what’s going on and I just said I don’t know :3
With graphics tweaked (self max, and further levels of separation getting less allowance) I feel you can see without issue though, and so at that point I do miss some of the epicness. Paladin dropping massive swords, and here I’m watching a slow hammer fall as one of the more flashy events (it’s cool, but I feel like looking at the GTX off and on comparison images when comparing combat effects between the two games, where FFXIV combat effects are GTX on lol).