Petition to reduce effects

I know you itch to move this to suggestions, but there it gets only 1% of views.
Let this stay here a few days thanks.

So we all been asking for a mtx disable option for towns,
since so many guys run around with 1000 million fidelity fizzling sparkly effects absolutely destroying the hardware of most poor casual gamers.
I understand that the ability to flex their mtx in other peoples faces is one of the main selling points, so I'm not pushing this too much.
Do it if you can, would be nice, so many of us want it.

The big one however is combat skill effects.
THIS NEEDS OPTIONS!!

I used to play RF but the high particle color mix is just really draining on the eye, in a fast pace game with a million mobs and effects coming and going non stop. It's extremely irritating.

The latest one I discovered was frost trap.
Throw a massive cluster and the entire screen just blows up in a literal flashbang. I love to play it, speed, dmg is nice, but by god is it DRAINING on the eyes and my brain having the screen just flicker from dark to super bright!

These two for starters need a option to have their brightness, effect strength and opacity tuned down by 50% if not 80% so they are easier and less draining on the human eye. It's not about what it looks like, spell MTX won't help, they are all equally annoying and draining and too strong.
You can't see shit, and get flash bang blinded and irritated, extreme psychological fatigue hits anyone after just one map.

For the love of god people drop a +1 vote here so we get a OPTION
to tune these combat spells down!
I'm not even far on the photosensitive spectrum, but this shit gets even on my nerves in minutes. It's absolutely disgusting and there's no reason not to allow us to lower their effect strength or opacity since 99% of us just play solo and there's no loss in mtx sales if you do this.

Thanks.

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I'll play with people and they'll get disconnected the instant someone else in the party uses molten strike, CoC, etc. Then they miss out on the content because all 6 portals to the Simu have been used. Very specific example, but it's not a sometimes, it's a law: if someone uses particle heavy skills, these people instantly disconnect.

Now imagine you're the host of a simu and you just gave it away effectively.

It's a shame because it's way more fun playing with people.

First off, I do agree that there should be a graphics setting that just reduces or dulls flash/strobe Fx. This wouldn't apply to specific skills, but all renders.


For specific skills, you can buy skill gem MTX that often fix this issue. (Example, shaper/black hole MTX for Frostbolt)

I think they should add a low-FX MTX option to all skill gems though.


For the town, I don't think they should let you turn it off, that would definitely cut into MTX sales. During campaign, your best bet it to swap servers if a town is particularly bad at any given time. And after campaign, stick to your hideout.

They really need to add a way to make hideout the default log-in location.