Is combat too flashy?Follow

Is it just me that finds combat too flashy? I haven't seen a lot of feedback on this online.

Spell and action effects are well done but I think they're a bit too much. Every little thing is a light show of epic proportions to the point where I feel that later on your truly awesome spells will just look the same as the one you got at level 1. I haven't made it far enough into beta to try dungeons and other group content but FATEs felt confusing. I can tell the fighting happens somewhere in the middle of the small sun burning bright in front of me but other than the random spell effect, I can't tell what's going on.

I have seen someone mention a setting to lower spell effects but didn't find anything of the sort (on PS3).

What do you all think? Time to tone it down a bit?

I don't know.. i liked this flashy battles. If there is an option to lower it i don't think i will ever do it except if i have problems with my pc.

I felt it was way to flashy to the point it was distracting from watching signs that mobs where gonna do something you want to dodge.

FATEs get crazy. They themselves should be toned down a bit. I liked the ones where there was one big mob that everybody was bashing on, instead of the 15 mobs appeared and who the hell knows what anybody is doing.

I guess I am in the opposite camp on this one.

In 1.0, I played four different jobs. Honestly, if you made my character invisible, and just showed me the skills, there was nothing to differentiate one skill from another or just the stupid base attack. I liked the flash and feel of combat, even in FATEs (FATEs felt like a mess to me but I had thought that was just my inexperience at being in one lol).

I liked the flash most of the time, but really in FATEs, it was a little much. An auto tuner would be great!

I agree that there is too much flash during FATEs, especially given the improvements that could be made to targeting. I played THM this weekend, though, and I really enjoyed the effects of the spells; they were interesting, appropriate, and not distracting in the least.

Yes and No! I have no problem with it being flashy, but in dungeons and FATES it can get a bit overwhelming, every little thing, is like a LIMIT BREAK in terms of flashiness... They can tone it down, and make it scale as you level up etc etc.

Yeah, when you get more than a few characters together fighting the same thing it kinda looks like a rave.

I am loving the mage casting animations <3

I personally like the flashy stuff, but I can see the RP crowd turning it down to make things look a bit more realistic. Both look cool in their own way I think. I'm fairly easily entertained by shinies though so I'll be leaving the effects on.

When we were doing my first Sastasha run our MRD did the 2-level limit break (when both limit meters are full) and it was pretty much the sweetest thing ever, I wish we could post video of that kind of stuff. I didn't manage to get a SS of it when he was doing it.

The flash has been toned down a bit too, there was a FATE outside of Quarrymill that had 30 goblins all doing bomb toss that would make epileptics go into seizure if they watched it in phase 2.

hahahah! I cant wait for the flash option i will lower it abit i found it hard to see where people and thing were at. Also they need to add a filter so i dont have to see everyone elses dmg and buffs its jsut cluttering up my screen.