Templar skills too bright after Blackwood update

Drayza

Hello fellow adventurers,

It used to be OK before Blackwood came, but after some of the updates my templar healer is barely playable.
All main skills (shards, ritual, orb..) are insanely bright to the point I am not able to see anything during a fight and my eyes hurt.
Especially Cleansing titual is like turning lights on.
I tried to adjust settings, but there is not much options, even on the worst setting I just superbright pixels.
My PC should not be the issue - my GPU is NVIDIA GE Force RTX2080 SUPER and all runs on max quite smoothly.

Do you also have this or do you know what to do to fix this? I would appreciate any suggestions.

The picture from AA says it all

danno8

It's the buffs Templar deserves, not the ones it needs right now.

Firstmep

Drayza wrote: »

Hello fellow adventurers,

It used to be OK before Blackwood came, but after some of the updates my templar healer is barely playable.
All main skills (shards, ritual, orb..) are insanely bright to the point I am not able to see anything during a fight and my eyes hurt.
Especially Cleansing titual is like turning lights on.
I tried to adjust settings, but there is not much options, even on the worst setting I just superbright pixels.
My PC should not be the issue - my GPU is NVIDIA GE Force RTX2080 SUPER and all runs on max quite smoothly.

Do you also have this or do you know what to do to fix this? I would appreciate any suggestions.

The picture from AA says it all

I think this might be an issue on your end actually.

I see no change in the brightness of my templars skills.

Maybe have a look around in the video options see if anything helps.

woe

You took a screenshot from the brightest thing in the game -_-

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

I main a Templar and I never see anything like that. Might want to check your video settings.

ArchMikem

You're utilizing the power of Stendarr's divine might. Might want to bring some shades to the battle if your mortal eyes cannot handle it.

Drayza

Firstmep wrote: »

Drayza wrote: »

Hello fellow adventurers,

It used to be OK before Blackwood came, but after some of the updates my templar healer is barely playable.
All main skills (shards, ritual, orb..) are insanely bright to the point I am not able to see anything during a fight and my eyes hurt.
Especially Cleansing titual is like turning lights on.
I tried to adjust settings, but there is not much options, even on the worst setting I just superbright pixels.
My PC should not be the issue - my GPU is NVIDIA GE Force RTX2080 SUPER and all runs on max quite smoothly.

Do you also have this or do you know what to do to fix this? I would appreciate any suggestions.

The picture from AA says it all

I think this might be an issue on your end actually.

I see no change in the brightness of my templars skills.

Maybe have a look around in the video options see if anything helps.

The issue is the same on my husband's PC though. We tried all possible settings from lowest to max - nothing had any effect on the "shiny parts".

I also noticed that when the ritual is cast on people it goes nuts (more then when I am alone).

phairdon

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

I main a Templar and I never see anything like that.

^

khyrkat

Looks like no way to solve this because of "I don't have it so no problem exists" but I do have this issue too and it's annoying. I haven't changed anything in settings. What's more weird is that it happens randomly, sometimes in dungeon it's fine, other times it's way too bright. I just reloadui or relog completely. Guess I need to live with it, like with eternal amount of other bugs present in game.
Stendarr have mercy.

Kesstryl

khyrkat wrote: »

Looks like no way to solve this because of "I don't have it so no problem exists" but I do have this issue too and it's annoying. I haven't changed anything in settings. What's more weird is that it happens randomly, sometimes in dungeon it's fine, other times it's way too bright. I just reloadui or relog completely. Guess I need to live with it, like with eternal amount of other bugs present in game.
Stendarr have mercy.

Maybe try posting in the Bug Reports forum

FantasticFreddie

I've reported it as a bug. It seems to be specifically cleansing ritual and morphs, and gets progressively brighter the more people stand in it.

jrgray93

Blinding flashes got added back to the game and it didn't make the patch notes. This time, it affects the player, not the character.

It's 2014 again, boys.

PigofSteel

Its annoying yea.

vgabor

I also noticed this on trials, an example in vCR the extended ritual so bright that it's impossible to see the flare mechanics on the ground.

Edit: I can confirm the brightness seems to be dependent on how many character are in the ritual when it casted. I've tested it on Alik dolmens, when it's casted while lot's of people there it's really bright, when it's casted after people left for the next dolmen it's normal.

Same with Vivec City bank ritual with only me in it vs ritual with lots of people in it:

PigofSteel

This can give you seizure. Not good. Must be fixed.
@ZOS_GinaBruno

BalticBlues

Agreed, ZOS please set the lights back to pre-Blackwood.
Nobody had a problem in this area before, now we do.

Drayza

vgabor wrote: »

I also noticed this on trials, an example in vCR the extended ritual so bright that it's impossible to see the flare mechanics on the ground.

Edit: I can confirm the brightness seems to be dependent on how many character are in the ritual when it casted. I've tested it on Alik dolmens, when it's casted while lot's of people there it's really bright, when it's casted after people left for the next dolmen it's normal.

Same with Vivec City bank ritual with only me in it vs ritual with lots of people in it:

Omg I am so glad I am not the only one I thought I was going insane. I do not wish this upon anyone though as in trials this is a blinding hell (especially with two templar healers).

CrimsonGTX

I noticed this as-well when I got on my Templar, the ritual skill was definitely brighter than I remember.

Yuffie91

Oh wow. Best put on sunglasses while playing lol!

Saieden

You need a Nightblade with Consuming Darkness slotted and stacked ult gen sets, traits and skills.


In all serious though, it looks like what's happening is that the light sources and/or screenspace reflections are getting stacked with more models, resulting in an additive effective on the overall brightness. It might be useful to do test with the gamma at 25% or lower and see how much brighter multiple characters make the screen.

Ryath_Waylander

Drayza wrote: »

Firstmep wrote: »

Drayza wrote: »

Hello fellow adventurers,

It used to be OK before Blackwood came, but after some of the updates my templar healer is barely playable.
All main skills (shards, ritual, orb..) are insanely bright to the point I am not able to see anything during a fight and my eyes hurt.
Especially Cleansing titual is like turning lights on.
I tried to adjust settings, but there is not much options, even on the worst setting I just superbright pixels.
My PC should not be the issue - my GPU is NVIDIA GE Force RTX2080 SUPER and all runs on max quite smoothly.

Do you also have this or do you know what to do to fix this? I would appreciate any suggestions.

The picture from AA says it all

I think this might be an issue on your end actually.

I see no change in the brightness of my templars skills.

Maybe have a look around in the video options see if anything helps.

The issue is the same on my husband's PC though. We tried all possible settings from lowest to max - nothing had any effect on the "shiny parts".

I also noticed that when the ritual is cast on people it goes nuts (more then when I am alone).

Ah! THAT'S what it is! I played an Asylum sanctorium trial last week with my guild. First time I hit my rituial I was like "Aargh my eyes!" The others didn't have a problem and neither did the other healer, a warden.

The rest of the week it was almost normal, only slightly brighter than usual. We did AS again this week and it was arc-eyes again. This time the other healer was a templar, and they were also complaining. We thought it was the trial but Cloud rest was just as bad.

Reading your comment though, I wonder if it is brighter when being cast with grouped members and gets worse, the bigger the group. Although it is a bit brighter in dungeons, the trials are the only time it's that overwhelmingly bright.

coonie20

I have the same issue after blackwood patch! And yes it really hurts my eyes too sometimes, don‘t think that this is fun at all.

gariondavey

I main stamplar and also have a magplar...I don't have this issue. What I can say is that I'm glad I do not, because it looks very bright. I am also laughing pretty hard about this

Sookmagook

It feels like your standing on the surface of sun when casting ritual. It's horrible...you can see nothing else so rip if there is any incoming avoidable damage.

jbjondeaueb17_ESO

Same here, it's so bright I'm considering removing it from my bar in trials, stack some other skills on top and I almost only see a white screen.

xeNNNNN

The light is quite litterally, blinding.

LoneStar2911

Is it the “Screen Space GI” ambient occlusion, maybe?

phairdon

Used extended ritual at one of the dolmens in Alik'r today and the above happened.

Drayza

At this point I sent a bug report in hopes this gets acknowledged. It is all we can do I guess. For now I will have to swap it out for trials as it does more wrong than good .

OhDios

Please let us know, because im also having the same issue with my magplar.

Dagre2

you've all updated your gpu drivers lately?

i don't get this issue, only setting i see that's different is screen space GI. doesn't mean anything, just the only thing different.