Third boss of Windurst

[rebelsong42]

The completely transparent floor, mixed with the weird parallax effect you get from having the planet down below being the only "background," is absolutely awful for anyone with motion sickness. I've done the raid once, 30 minutes after server up, and normally would have been grinding it for the minion, emote, and music rolls. I haven't queued up since, because by the end I was absolutely nauseous and sick.

I've seen other feedback on reddit that this boss and the final bosses were nightmares for anyone with colorblindness or vision impairment in general. I know the Tower at Paradigm's Breach was modified after the fact for the flashing visuals. I am hoping this could get looked at as well. Even just lowering the transparency on the floor would probably help with the motion/parallax effect.

[Alicat]

Completely agree. Didn’t have issues with the last boss but the one before awful. Spent more time on the floor. Which was definitely nicer as it did help a little with the nausea I was feeling. Hopefully they do something about it.

I really don’t wanna have to do it for the coin to upgrade my gear. Static fell apart before clearing the bros and couldn’t be arsed after that to try pf.

[KuraiScalebane]

I'm just terrified of heights and have to deal with anxiety for a few hours after running the raid, I hope they fix your problem, they seem to think I enjoy mine.

[specterthief]

I also suffer from pretty severe motion sickness and could only even get through the fight if I angled my camera to not look at the floor at all. Any kind of adjustment to reduce the parallax effect would be extremely appreciated, I want to grind it out for gear but am pretty much useless in that entire boss fight and it feels unfair to the others in the raid.

[Iscah]

I'm not generally affected by motion sickness but that floor had me feeling it a bit. A lot of it, as you say, is the parallax of the planet below making it quite hard to get a sense of where the arena actually is beneath your feet.

[Ezlin]

While I don't experience motion sickness, I do find the design to be pretty awful to look at. And I see no reason why it couldn't be updated in some way to avoid the motion sickness issue.

Hopefully they do something about it.

[Katsutsu]

I feel like a lot of issues could be fixed if they made the platform more opaque or added some sort of texture to break up the visuals. Not only am I getting motion sick from the parallax effect, but I find myself almost walking off the platform entirely due to confusion caused by ground effects like asylum and sacred soil, which obfuscates the edge a lot of the times.

[KateHarthing]

Whilst I'm normally okay with stuff like motion sickness (no issues with VR either)
this does make me feel a bit queasy too. So I cannot imagine how bad it is for those who DO struggle.


Update: after doing the raid a couple more times 3rd boss - if you put a marker on Alxaal and FOLLOW him. Not only does he generally go where you need to go with the puddles but focusing a little more on him does help the dizziness for me.

[coffeelizard]

The last boss can be a little bit headache inducing for me with the amount of effects, but is overall tolerable. The third boss is a complete nightmare with extreme sensations of vertigo and nausea throughout. I've had other milder issues in the past when dungeons have moving platform fights, but have found reliable ways to work around it with camera angles while still being able to do the mechanics. The only thing that has helped in Windurst is tilting my camera to not be able to see through the floor, but that obviously makes mechanics more difficult to see. A toggle to make the floor more opaque or potentially have a pattern like the platform for the last boss to break up the parallax effect with the planet would be really nice to have as an accessibility setting for this.

[Spiffleh]

I came here to add my experience. I experienced intense vertigo, nausea and dizziness the moment I hit this boss. I have never been made motion sick from a video game before so it was very unexpected. Please please pleaaase give us an option to make the floor more opaque or something. It's literally unplayable for me and I struggled on the final boss because I still felt unwell (the final boss did not make me feel motion sick as far as I could tell).