Graphics option: turn off flashy visual effects

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I started Swtor again last time I played all 55 was endgame and I did a lot of that stuff back in the days.
Was playing the last year's all kind of mmorpg and got everywhere a little look inside the endgame. Games like Gw2, Tera, Black Desert, Wow, Classis Wow, Rift and even Teso. Most of the Time was Wow but not 1 of the games I listed ****ed me up so hard with effects. Today I got in my first Operation and I am not a Raiding Noob even 40 man WoW Raids didn't trigger me like that. In my Group 2 Kommandos and the first try on The boss with the 2 Striders gave me reason to Google for an solution. I NEED A SETTING TO LOWER DOWN PARTY SPELL EFFECTS! Most of the time I was staring on the ground and tryed to filter all that flashy stuff and the green cloud for the important red rings -.-. If that is supposed to be the hardest mechanic for some encounters Jesus... Apart of the massiv fps los and lagy performance and I got a pretty good system. Even battlefield 5 I play on high in WQHD and 144 fps fixed. Games like that need that option guild wars 2 and wow would be unplayable in some situations without any option to reduce the cluster ****

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I turned off bloom for this reason, because when in PvP all the players firing up their pretty flashy abilities, it is almost blinding and you cannot see properly, which impacts my PvP obviously, so yes, make that happen.

An option in Preferences, not standard for all.

Standard preset will still have the MMO-effects.

Just like you can turn on/off Bloom.

Could be settings like, show only Detrimental effects (for Operations) as well.

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Especially with the new healing animations from comps .. man that lightshow is annoying

The swirly effects around my Jedi Shadow actually give me eye strain. I hate it.

This is a worthy revival of a thread... I cant stand the hand glow effect on my Shadow when the Breaching Shadows buff triggers.... I literally stopped playing Infiltration for awhile because I hate that visual effect so much. Give us the ability to disable the buff/debuff effects Please!

Oh and lets not forget the floating "Dirt Clod" shield AKA Kinetic Ward...love that one... Please let me turn these off!

I would love to be able to watch my Guardian fight without them glowing blue and having glowy eyes to the point I can't even make out more than their silhouette.

I don't mind these effects exist, but let us turn them off as an option. They don't do their job of communicating what is going on.

Some effects have become way over the top... can’t even see the boss sometimes, especially on 16m content. Although my computer can handle ultra settings I now set the graphics to low whenever I run an operation because it is just visually too tiring/annoying.

I have a pretty high end PC and SWToR boosts the heat levels with a fluid cooling system... If anything allow us to disable particle effects for buffs/debuffs as a performance measure. This game runs terrible.

This has bugged me for a long time, but I just wrote it off as "it's a game." However, it wasn't like this when I started playing, and I do think it's unfair to players that value immersion. So I'm going to comment on this now.

The immersion players are always forced to make sacrifices for the sake of the other types of players. This is not right. Many of the things that add to the game's immersion that have been changed or cut were not harming the other players' ability to play the game, but those things when changed or removed directly impacted immersion. I've got a laundry list of immersive aspects that have been changed or outright removed since I started playing...and I'll bet there are even more that were removed before I started.

Did players have problems understanding what was going on before all these flashy and many times, superfluous effects were introduced? And none of this stuff was in the patch notes. I noticed at some point an interrupt had an impact explosion bubble effect added, not unlike a comic book. This was entirely unnecessary. It's not unlike how the icons identifying vendors were added (although there was on the PTS and there was negative feedback on the PTS forum concerning it). Now I'm starting to wondering how much these needless effects degrade hardware performance, particularly in warzones and ops.

These effects are really a dumbing down of the game and another example of how players that value immersion are forced to take a backseat to everyone else. It's time this stops. Immersion players are just as important to the game as every other type of player, and they deserve to be treated better than this by having options and not just having the will of other players' preferences imposed upon them.