Complexity/Sensory Overload

[Granyala]

Your eyes constantly darting around the screen to all these things which leaves very little time to actually visually enjoy even being there because your basically spending all your time juggling your focus and your sight between the icons, timers, bars, windows and boxes mostly.

Welcome to raiding in MMOs, where you play 80% according to UI and 20% according to what you see in the actual game world.

I agree with you that FF relies way too much on the visual channel. I dearly miss my Weak Auras from WoW, which made it possible to create audio ques for stuff like procs on classes.

The above is also why I never understood asian MMOs obsession with animations and animation locks.
As if I, as a player, ever had the time to actually WATCH the animations my character is doing.

Hint to the DEVs: I DON'T. Because you never give me time to do that. During a raid fight, my character could become a small pink box and I probably wouldn't notice it at all, because as a healer I stare at the raidframes.