Can we get an update on the subject of AoE indicator colors?

[Surian]

A while back you changed the AoE indicators from a wonderful Red that made everyone afraid and want to run away from it, to a shade of orange/yellow that cannot be seen even half as well in most area's than the red one due to roads, sand or shining orange crystals or even tall grass.

I believe you were going to see about giving us uptions to set the color ourselves or atleast change between a few modes.

Back to red? No shooting out waves? things like that.

What's the status on those changes?

[Poringing]

I prefer if they changed the AoE markers to represent how dangerous it is, like:

very feint yellow : estimated <20% HP damage
(current) orange: estimated 20-50% HP damage and/ or mild DoT
(slightly darker than previous) red: estimated 50-99% HP damage and/ or disabling debuff or severe DoT
dark purple: estimated >100% HP damage and/ or lethal debuff

[WellFooled]

I'm all for options, that would be awesome but, if not that, I much prefer the new indicators to the old. Particularly the waves. For me it makes the danger more noticeable when there are moving parts to the indicator.

[Phyllo]

I'm all for options, that would be awesome but, if not that, I much prefer the new indicators to the old. Particularly the waves. For me it makes the danger more noticeable when there are moving parts to the indicator.

There is a small problem tho, color blind people have one heck of a hard time to notice them, we asked them to let us change the color for more visibility, they said they'd do something and months later, still nothing..

[ZephyrAM]

There is a small problem tho, color blind people have one heck of a hard time to notice them, we asked them to let us change the color for more visibility, they said they'd do something and months later, still nothing..

I believe they actually changed the color in large part due to color blind people. There's so many variations to that though, it's hard to hit it with just one color.

That said, I can see the new one crazy better then I could the old red. To me, it blended in far too much and was hard to notice. I'm one of those that doesn't 'feel' like I'm colorblind, but I'll fail the tests for color blindness every time.

[Phyllo]

I believe they actually changed the color in large part due to color blind people. There's so many variations to that though, it's hard to hit it with just one color.

That said, I can see the new one crazy better then I could the old red. To me, it blended in far too much and was hard to notice. I'm one of those that doesn't 'feel' like I'm colorblind, but I'll fail the tests for color blindness every time.

Well as a color blind I can tell you, nothing changed, or at least it's still far from enough :/

[Leowilde]

I prefer if they changed the AoE markers to represent how dangerous it is, like:

very feint yellow : estimated <20% HP damage
(current) orange: estimated 20-50% HP damage and/ or mild DoT
(slightly darker than previous) red: estimated 50-99% HP damage and/ or disabling debuff or severe DoT
dark purple: estimated >100% HP damage and/ or lethal debuff

I love that idea.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

I prefer if they changed the AoE markers to represent how dangerous it is, like:

very feint yellow : estimated <20% HP damage
(current) orange: estimated 20-50% HP damage and/ or mild DoT
(slightly darker than previous) red: estimated 50-99% HP damage and/ or disabling debuff or severe DoT
dark purple: estimated >100% HP damage and/ or lethal debuff

Uh...no. You are supposed to know the attacks and mechanics of the boss you are facing. There is no need for the game to tell you "Here, have an AoE damage, but don't worry it does not hurt much so you can stay still, who cares".

[Velox]

I prefer if they changed the AoE markers to represent how dangerous it is, like:

very feint yellow : estimated <20% HP damage
(current) orange: estimated 20-50% HP damage and/ or mild DoT
(slightly darker than previous) red: estimated 50-99% HP damage and/ or disabling debuff or severe DoT
dark purple: estimated >100% HP damage and/ or lethal debuff

As someone who plays a healer semi-regularly, I'm a 100% against this idea. We don't need to give DPS justification for eating AoEs. They eat enough of them as it is and it's infuriating.

[givemeraptors]

I prefer if they changed the AoE markers to represent how dangerous it is, like:

very feint yellow : estimated <20% HP damage
(current) orange: estimated 20-50% HP damage and/ or mild DoT
(slightly darker than previous) red: estimated 50-99% HP damage and/ or disabling debuff or severe DoT
dark purple: estimated >100% HP damage and/ or lethal debuff

This would be terrible... when I play as healer I don't want people prioritizing when to move out of incoming damage or not and that's basically what this system would encourage: "Oh, I'll just take it, it's only yellow." Yikes. People are already bad at dodging as it is... Also all those extra colors when there are multiples attacks happening at once, blegh.