I've been thinking about this today. Besides losing something nice to look at, being unable to see ground effects is making it harder for my partner and I to coordinate certain moves. The animations were useful visual cues.
Going to hurt tanks a bit to. Are synergy skills still able to be seen? Console pleb here.
Synergy skills are visible.
It's persistent damaging moves that are hidden. For example my Warden's got that Winter's Embrace move that uses ice spikes to immobilize things; my partner can't tell when I use it unless I call it in voice chat when I cast. Meanwhile I can't see their Wall of Flames, so I can't tell if I'm keeping enemies on top of their persistent ground AoEs or leading them away. And so on.
Edited by FluffyReachWitch on August 21, 2017 2:47AM