PvP Visibility Issue

[Simple_Barghest]

Be me.
Can't see shit in PvP because of god and everybody's particle effects.
Turn down particle effects to where I can see people.
Also be me.
Can't see particle effects.
Die from air movements and random numbers as I struggle to comprehend the cosmos.


Shitposting aside. Is there ANYTHING I can do to improve my visibility and reactivity in this gamemode? It feels like both extremes are just lose-lose, where even if I stand at the back-line I find my healthbar disappearing, debuffs and CCs appearing from nowhere, random attack names floating up on-screen, but I'm fucked if I can see who or what's killing me until I see the 'time till respawn' screen.

[Towa-Musa]

Be me.
Can't see shit in PvP because of god and everybody's particle effects.
Turn down particle effects to where I can see people.
Also be me.
Can't see particle effects.
Die from air movements and random numbers as I struggle to comprehend the cosmos.


Shitposting aside. Is there ANYTHING I can do to improve my visibility and reactivity in this gamemode? It feels like both extremes are just lose-lose, where even if I stand at the back-line I find my healthbar disappearing, debuffs and CCs appearing from nowhere, random attack names floating up on-screen, but I'm fucked if I can see who or what's killing me until I see the 'time till respawn' screen.

sounds like this game needs to chill on the VFX

[MintnHoney]

Is there ANYTHING I can do to improve my visibility and reactivity in this gamemode?

As you say, you could reduce the spell effects that you see from non-party members, etc. That can be found in the system settings, etc. ...problem is, you'd be relying on seeing numbers or reacting immediately to your health bar, or just hoping for the best.
So pick your poison, I guess.

What sometimes works for me, if I have an issue seeing everything, is making sure that everything I need to see is within a small scope of vision. I have 1 monitor, so, for me, this means I would reduce the size of my window and try to reduce distractions from around the window. So, perhaps, minimizing distractions from things other than the game you're playing might help you even if you don't do what I sometimes do.

[Simple_Barghest]

As you say, you could reduce the spell effects that you see from non-party members, etc. That can be found in the system settings, etc. ...problem is, you'd be relying on seeing numbers or reacting immediately to your health bar, or just hoping for the best.
So pick your poison, I guess.

What sometimes works for me, if I have an issue seeing everything, is making sure that everything I need to see is within a small scope of vision. I have 1 monitor, so, for me, this means I would reduce the size of my window and try to reduce distractions from around the window. So, perhaps, minimizing distractions from things other than the game you're playing might help you even if you don't do what I sometimes do.

I play 14 full-screen, so unfortunately I can't do much else to minimize distractions.
I know a few abilities have audio cues, but usually by the time you hear something like NIN or SAM's LB, it's too late to do anything about it.

[drtasteyummy]

Game has way too much lag to play it by pure reaction, your biggest asset is prediction.
A lot of people don't understand that you predefine your actions based on the setup. E.g.

- Does the enemy have a morpher?
- How much melees can reach me?
- Am I high prio?
- Am I out of position?
- Can my healer countermorph?
- Do I have a PLD?
- Are early LBs about to come up?

and then you can focus on things like

- Who is prio?
- Can I split some arrogant melee?
- Do I have enough cooldowns to burst the next low target?
- How much ressources where burned?
- Are the total fight ressources of everybody so high that you should go potting?

But if ur assumption is that you lose games because you didn't react to the MCH LB in time then it's a no.
There is really just so much you visually need to analyze (outside of obvious lbs like drg or pld) like SAM chiten, NIN doton or
DRK salted earth in which case the FFXIV reduced effects do just fine.

[sugmacoganbols]

i play with only my own effects on, but thats obviously not optimal either
other day i ran into a gnb lb cause i didnt realize he was casting it

[Kowen]

One thing I'd like to see is more important effects being clearly a different color if they belong to an enemy, like how a friendly Sage LB is blue but an enemy's is red. Why not do that for everything?

[Elfidan]

I'm sitting here reading this thinking about how I can't turn off the aggressive static that is rain effects in large scale. LUL~