Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
Praising visual clutter for making these fights hard is like me saying, "Let's add an innate 600ms packet delay to processing and then design fights that require low latency and/or high reaction times.", it's utterly ridiculous that people out there are adhering to this level of logic. Like for both of these points, neither of them are innate difficulties, but are extrinsic difficulty factors that in a significant amount of cases will just serve to hamper or annoy the player rather than actually present a skill-oriented challenge. They have managed perfectly reasonably difficult fights in the past without completely doing a massacre on accessibility.

There is no circumstance where it is appropriate, frankly... If you want to add reasonable visual cues which conform to even the most rudimentary accessibility practice then go ahead. If you want to add some flare then go ahead, but keep it at a reasonable level. No need to try and flashbang the screen with unnecessary information... It's so bizarre that they managed to do memorable moments and challenging moments in the past without needing to do half the nonsense they do now.

Honestly... This situation has made me not even bother or have faith in the design processes, really.. I haven't raided since Eden's Verse, due to some of these abysmal design decisions, so it's utterly disappointing to see they are trying to double down on this design aspect after 4 years.
Honestly, fair on this re clutter. I wasn't necessarily praising per se, more so pointing out where I felt an upper ceiling was alright in my case. Though I do suppose that text is harder to parse out than a verbal conversation, where words can be put together a bit better, so my apologies on that there! Words are hard @_@

I do agree with you though, I hadn't even taken ping into account either so good call on that one quite honestly. I'm already seeing issues with my prog of M5S with the flashbang, it's causing a bsod effect on me making it hard to process information.

I'm okay, on my end, with some visual clutter, but it being an end-all-be-all is not great, no. That I agree on