Turn Off Banner Visual??

AnnieK · April 10

Makes it really hard to concentrate on fighting with the banner skill visuals in my face all the time.

DenverRalphy · April 10

AnnieK wrote: »

Makes it really hard to concentrate on fighting with the banner skill visuals in my face all the time.

Yeah, I hear ya.

I get why it's there, because your groupmates need to know where the area of effect is. But I'd rather it was just a flat effect that doesn't leave the ground. Especially lately with everyone and all their siblings always seem to be using it even when it's not the best skill choice/option at the time. They just want the glowie.

AnnieK · April 10

Yep, I'm going to have to get rid of it as the negatives outweigh the positives even though it does increase my DPS on this spec. Only works for me on trial dummy as it's too disruptive in fighting...same issue with flying sorc pet and Arcanist beams. Those visuals are disruptive and kind of ruin the game.

NeoniKa · April 10

AnnieK wrote: »

Makes it really hard to concentrate on fighting with the banner skill visuals in my face all the time.

I have a perfect solution. I always leave the group when there's a player with the banner skill. The good thing is that it is easy to spot right in the beginning, so I can immediately leave without ruining the game to anyone. For a time, I tried to stay away from it, because that permanent useless circle of effects causes me a lot of confusion, but in the end it's worse than just leave and let them have fun with it.

Anyway... It would be amazing if we could just disable other players visual effects at least in PVE.

Stx · April 10

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

NeoniKa · April 11

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

The flag looks bad, yeah. But the moving circle is way worse and more problematic for the other players, and because of that the flag is really useful, so we can know quickly when there's a player with that in the group.

CalamityCat · April 11

I started using banner on my arcanist recently and the visuals are really not working well with my eyes. I think it's the combination of having the banner moving around me and it being animated, with all the other stuff going on around me. It's not like motion sickness but it feels really disorientating, so I wish I could hide it.

I get it less when banner is on someone else, but it's certainly there and causing issues for me. I was hoping there was an add-on that could hide it or we could get settings to tone down visuals. I'd like a more basic visuals setting generally tbh, but the banner is really unusable for me as it looks now.

I don't understand why we're getting such over-the-top skill visuals now, when they obviously make it difficult to see what's happening and are really tiring to look at. I could like my arcanist if her visuals weren't all obnoxious, and so similar that I genuinely struggle to identify skills by icon or how they look when used. My warden in contrast has lovely varied effects and my favourite icons in terms of them being easy to identify and know what they're going to do.

Wuduwasa13 · April 11

My 5 year old nephew just saw me use banner and said: “get that flag off you, it looks terrible” 😂

Ragnarok0130 · April 11

NeoniKa wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

The flag looks bad, yeah. But the moving circle is way worse and more problematic for the other players, and because of that the flag is really useful, so we can know quickly when there's a player with that in the group.

How is it problematic for other players? The aura is specifically there for other players to know where to stand to get the buff.

DenverRalphy · April 11

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

NeoniKa wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

The flag looks bad, yeah. But the moving circle is way worse and more problematic for the other players, and because of that the flag is really useful, so we can know quickly when there's a player with that in the group.

How is it problematic for other players? The aura is specifically there for other players to know where to stand to get the buff.

Because it interferes with visibility through distraction and overlay. When a banner bearer is behind me and I keep getting that damn gowing wall bouncing up and down across my field of vision, it's friggin horrible!

It should be a flat ground coloring like every other AOE in the game.

CalamityCat · April 11

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

How is it problematic for other players? The aura is specifically there for other players to know where to stand to get the buff.

Because it's horrible on the eyes and for me at least it's disorientating and horrible to be around. Even if it doesn't disorientate everyone, it does add extra visual "clutter" on top of what we already have.

It could be turned down a lot and people would still see where to stand. Honestly, the flag on the bearer is so obvious that the circle isn't necessary IMHO.

AnnieK · April 11

Yeah - I'm ready to stop doing trials as it's too distracting. It kind of ruins the game and causes a ton of wipes as no one can see the line in SE with 5 banners going.

Acetriad · April 11

Said it before, elsewhere. The fix to this, and all the other horribly annoying visual garbage is to give players an option in the settings menu to turn that crap off. Only downside would be the programming team having to program it in.... But, I'm pretty sure that's their job... Programming.

Islyn · July 23

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

I AM LAAAATE but I absolutely despise the FLAG

randconfig · July 23

Islyn wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

I AM LAAAATE but I absolutely despise the FLAG

Agreed, the flag is the worst part. Doesn't go with any theme, outfit style, motifs, costumes, polymorphs, etc.

Just looks out of place.

DenverRalphy · July 23

randconfig wrote: »

Islyn wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

I AM LAAAATE but I absolutely despise the FLAG

Agreed, the flag is the worst part. Doesn't go with any theme, outfit style, motifs, costumes, polymorphs, etc.

Just looks out of place.

Well, to be fair.. it does go with the whole "Banner Bearer" visual concept.

Desiato · July 23

I'm not a fan of the uniformity of 6-8 players wearing a banner, but that didn't bother me very much.

It's the large glowing circle that is extremely distracting and represents a real problem in some content because ESO suffers from visual spam from over the top effects, so it can make it difficult to see something important -- especially when 6-8 players are using it. It's just completely unnecessary.

I think the banner aesthetic fits in quite well with the game because banners are commonly used by elite mobs. Why? Because there is a historical precedence:

Sashimono poles were attached to the backs of the dō "cuirass" by special fittings. Sashimono were worn both by foot soldiers, including the common soldiers known as ashigaru,[3] as well as by the elite samurai and members of the shogunate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashimono

TES draws inspiration from historical cultures from around the world including asian nations.

Banners were also used in European medieval battlefields:

https://www.battlemerchant.com/en/blog/the-significance-and-use-of-banners-on-medieval-battlefields

The idea is that the banner is inspirational to teammates and thus provides buffs.

I think the concept is solid enough, it's just the over the top visual effect that causes practical issues I have a problem with.

twisttop138 · July 23

DenverRalphy wrote: »

randconfig wrote: »

Islyn wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

I AM LAAAATE but I absolutely despise the FLAG

Agreed, the flag is the worst part. Doesn't go with any theme, outfit style, motifs, costumes, polymorphs, etc.

Just looks out of place.

Well, to be fair.. it does go with the whole "Banner Bearer" visual concept.

I genuinely lol'd. I appreciated putting my ratchet down and stepping away from my work to read this.

randconfig · July 23

DenverRalphy wrote: »

randconfig wrote: »

Islyn wrote: »

Stx wrote: »

The visual is literally why I don’t use this skill. I want to really bad and I don’t mind the aura on the ground. But man that flag is absolutely horrendous to have to look at.

I AM LAAAATE but I absolutely despise the FLAG

Agreed, the flag is the worst part. Doesn't go with any theme, outfit style, motifs, costumes, polymorphs, etc.

Just looks out of place.

Well, to be fair.. it does go with the whole "Banner Bearer" visual concept.

Oh well you got me there lol.