Quality of Life for PvP major icons?

Am I the only one that feels that buffs like Guard and Purify especially would be more noticeable on people? Visually Guard is very visible as well, true, but Purify isn't. And for all the good that it brings, it still gets drown out by the total amount of vfx.

The same way your own buffs and debuffs show up in green and can be set to show first before all others, I'd really like to have a setting to always keep both Guard and Purify on top of every other buff or debuff, and also have their icons quite bigger if possible. This would go a great way into accessibility and readability in the middle of pvp.

I'd actually add, they recently added cast bars under enemy HP bars for bosses in pve, so that means things can be added there. I wouldn't mind Purify and Guard icons showing up beneath HP bars in pvp?

Heck, imagine being able to customize what shows up there? What if I want Chiten or Neebula to show up there too? Bam, I add it too.

Everything that helps you also helps opponents, and at a certain point I gotta ask if this is just making it too braindead lol

I think for a PvP game, yes, all major effects should be extremely visible by looking at your opponent. Purify should be just as visually distinct as Guard. You should never have to look through the status from of your opponent for key information.

I noticed other games do cool stuff like put the status effects by the healthbar, the cumulative sum of damage increases or decreases, temporary increases or decreases to healing, etc. and they use a priority system so it just focuses on the most important stuff to not clutter the frame; just a single icon next to the HP bar with the most important information is good. Would also like LB to be visible on opponents in Frontline.

update PLD guardian vfx so the diamon lasts the duration or something. not jsut the cover tether thats kind of hard to see in a chatoic battleground

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Originally Posted by Atreus

Everything that helps you also helps opponents, and at a certain point I gotta ask if this is just making it too braindead lol

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The point isn't that it helps me or the opponent play easier, the point is accessibility and readability. If your idea is to base game difficulty on how much one has to fight against the UI, then I don't know what to tell you?
If you want more difficulty, ask for actual gameplay difficulty, not UI difficulty?