Battle effects

so how do people like to play me personally i like the effects but the same time they can get a bit messy and to flashy though i have never played with them off but feel it may not feel like an actually battle without the effects so im just wondering what peoples opinions are on this subject

I turn other people's effects completely off. I turn party member effects to partial. And keep mine at on.

Everyone do as he(she) likes. I play with "show limited"

It's OK when doing 4 man dungeons, but any bigger party instances, it becomes a nuisance, so I turn them off. With different looking AOE effects, it gets confusing on what is an attack against the boss or against you.

I keep it on in most of the fight, but sometime it gets really obnoxious when the boss is medium to small size, for example Lamebrix in A10S. Spells like Blizzard 4 and Fire 4 completely obfuscate the boss , while this might not be an issue for most jobs but for melee DPS where you have to do positional attacks things can get pretty wonky. Doesn't help that the boss like to spin around either.

Just yesterday I changed them to "Show limited" incuding mine.

I would love to keep them on but my poor graphics card can't handle it. So I keep the effects of others off and my own at "show limited".

I've gotten used to bright flashes of light being the effect.

O.o..didnt know we could turn other peoples effects off or partial...i mean, sometimes the are you are on is soo birhgt with soo many aoes and stuff exploding at once you cant even see wtf is going on.

I turn everyone elses effects off. I am the main character of my story. So I only need to see my effects.

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Originally Posted by Neiker

O.o..didnt know we could turn other peoples effects off or partial...i mean, sometimes the are you are on is soo birhgt with soo many aoes and stuff exploding at once you cant even see wtf is going on.

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The option is in character configuration -> character and not in the graphics settings section.

is there a way to turn off all the dmg numbers i could probably do without seeing everyones dmg

IMO it's better to just choose "Show Limited", because iirc if you turn off completely you can't see other player's AoE like Shadow Flare or Asylum.

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Originally Posted by Bertie91

is there a way to turn off all the dmg numbers i could probably do without seeing everyones dmg

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Character settings > UI settings > HUD > Click off "Display pop up text"


On effects, I wish that "others" didn't include NPCs. I want to be able to keep effects of people outside of my party off while NPCs are on. Sometimes I forget to turn this back on and don't even see an NPC healing me.

I have mine all the way on for everybody, i was trying to look at a boss model in dun scaith and couldn't see the boss through all the animations :P

if their at the same settings I made 2 years ago then it should be (Party: full, non-party/alliance: partial, self: full)... I belive I set it this way cause on my 1st run of LoTA, felt like movie hero standing in an exploding munitions wearhouse & remaining after without even a speck of durt/damage after, just nothing but "O.O how did I just survive that!" (along side the confusion u get after its over about which way to go due to blindness lol... you seriously do thou)

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Originally Posted by Neiker

O.o..didnt know we could turn other peoples effects off or partial...i mean, sometimes the are you are on is soo birhgt with soo many aoes and stuff exploding at once you cant even see wtf is going on.

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You're not alone I just found this out myself and been playing for over 3 YEARS!

I wish we could tone down the blackmage's lb3. I swear in some contents, using that meteor during specific phase could actually wipe the party.

I'm playing with all effects on, but I also only play ranged classes, so not actually seeing the boss because 5000 explosions are hitting him at once is not a problem.
Well, although, tbh, the main reason I don't play melee IS because of blinding effects :rolleyes:
I just hate it even more to not see all effects in the overworld and the like, and having to constantly turn them on and off between instance and overworld would be even more annoying .-.