The new mechanic indicator text is more distracting than helpful

I hope it's not just me but the new text in the middle of the screen that's supposed to be helpful in telling me about a mechanic is more distracting than helpful to me.
Every time it happens it pulls my attention towards the text itself instead of the mechanic I am supposed to dodge.

I remember one time being tank in a dungeon and fighting a mini-boss. There was a mechanic that was not even new or anything coming from within the boss itself. As soon as the mechanic started the text also appeared with that sound effect. So I automatically looked at the text to read it which takes a second and got hit by the mechanic since I stood right in front of the boss. Without the text I would have probably dodged it.

I wish there was a way to at least turn it off. I don't need that text, the mechanics are obvious enough. Show, don't tell. Don't make me read about a mechanic, the indicators about what is about to happen are obvious enough. And if the mechanic is new, I just get hit, understand what I did wrong and learn. But the text with that sound every time the mechanic happens for the first time at every boss is rather annoying.

Same... The more clutter they shove into the center of the screen the harder it is to see what's actually going on.

I actually agree with this. It would be a different story entirely if we could move it, adjust the size, turn it off or otherwise modify it in HUD settings, but as it stands it's more distracting than helpful. Especially because underneath it there's a very thin, difficult to see 'timeline' that can easily be mistaken for when the mechanic is actually going to happen and in reality is just the time before the popup disappears. It's a good concept, it's just horribly implemented.

I love it..I need an "idiot alert" to suit my playstyle, but optiins are the spice of life, and if you want to turn it off, you should be able to

Middle of the screen warning text has always been around (think the Chimera in Cutter's Cry, which had eye color notices), but I do kinda wish there was an option to like, change the new style back to the old more subdued style.

Yeah I'm also one of the people who find it to be more of a hazard than a helper.

Took me forever to realize the actual tells of valigarmanda 'cause the text was in the way of me actually seeing the position of his body.

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Originally Posted by Roda

Yeah I'm also one of the people who find it to be more of a hazard than a helper.

Took me forever to realize the actual tells of valigarmanda 'cause the text was in the way of me actually seeing the position of his body.

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I'm in this boat as well. I think I wouldn't mind if the notification were more centered on the screen like previously captioned tells have been. Having the notification in the upper half of the screen almost always means it's also overlapping the boss model.

I don't mind it, but mostly because it has worked on me as the idiot alert sometimes

Big agree, I understand that while they have been around since ARR, they have always been very easy to miss until DT and I think it is something that should be a toggle option. Either make them all look like the old ones, or make them all look like the new ones and give me the choice of which I prefer. I don't necessarily need and giant red box telling me what the boss is doing when I can see it for myself. But, on the other hand, it's nice to have that little notice pop up on screen if the tells are kinda similar, or if the boss is smaller and thereby more difficult to see because of that.

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Originally Posted by Akonyl

Middle of the screen warning text has always been around (think the Chimera in Cutter's Cry, which had eye color notices), but I do kinda wish there was an option to like, change the new style back to the old more subdued style.

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If I remember right it only does it for the first couple after that its only in the text channel?

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

If I remember right it only does it for the first couple after that its only in the text channel?

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Not quite, using Valigarmanda EX as an example, for the donut/cone/out tell, it only shows up the first time it's done in the fight, and then doesn't even show up in the text channel afterwards. But that's not a universal thing, because both volcanic eruptions + all three avalanches get the DBM-alert text onscreen(+in chat) each time they show up.

But even if that was the case, a lot of these mechs they use the text for only show up once or twice in a fight anyway, so it'd still be happening like half the time. Maybe if they turned them off if you'd already cleared a fight or something, it'd be a bit better/less intrusive, but then I could see people complaining about fights getting harder after they'd cleared it once (which I would be okay with, tbh).

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Originally Posted by Akonyl

Not quite, using Valigarmanda EX as an example, for the donut/cone/out tell, it only shows up the first time it's done in the fight, and then doesn't even show up in the text channel afterwards. But that's not a universal thing, because both volcanic eruptions + all three avalanches get the DBM-alert text onscreen(+in chat) each time they show up.

But even if that was the case, a lot of these mechs they use the text for only show up once or twice in a fight anyway, so it'd still be happening like half the time. Maybe if they turned them off if you'd already cleared a fight or something, it'd be a bit better/less intrusive, but then I could see people complaining about fights getting harder after they'd cleared it once (which I would be okay with, tbh).

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I was replying to your example of cutters cry i'm not sure why you pulled up a different example. But either way checking videos I was wrong anyway.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

I was replying to your example of cutters cry i'm not sure why you pulled up a different example. But either way checking videos I was wrong anyway.

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Oh whoops, for whatever reason I assumed you were talking about the new flashy version of the text and responding to the second half of what you quoted there (my suggestion of a more subdued option for the new text), essentially as a way of saying "the new text doesn't really need a more subdued style option, because after you see it the first time it just hides itself anyway (except the chat box)". But I get you now.

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Originally Posted by Jaxtaro

I love it..I need an "idiot alert" to suit my playstyle, but optiins are the spice of life, and if you want to turn it off, you should be able to

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No spice. Only wuk lamat. Bloom is mandatory now too.

Yes, it's at worst possible place to have that red stripe. If I could move it on the bottom of the screen it could actually be helpful. Might even enlarge it a bit. It really should be made HUD element and enjoy the usual HUD element adjustment options.

I legitimately did not know this was a warning, I just thought it was some kind of fluff and have just been ignoring it and paying attention to the mechanics as I see them come down the pipeline LOL.

Learn something new every day!

I don't mind "MECHANICS HAPPENING" warnings, but I find this one so hard to read for some reason. The text all kinda just blurs together. It's also placed somewhere away from where my eyes normally are on my screen.

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Originally Posted by Jaxtaro

I love it..I need an "idiot alert" to suit my playstyle, but optiins are the spice of life, and if you want to turn it off, you should be able to

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Thats funny because you can not rely on it, when you do valigarmanda EX, on the frist time it shows the text, but the second time it doesnt anymore.

Haven't had a problem with them outside my first Tender Valley run where it made me laugh so hard I couldn't play effectively for a full minute in the last boss. Honestly, I'm fine with it being there as babyproofing.