Vaal Lightning Strike: Can't see ground degen with default, MTX versions make it even worse

Problem:
I appreciate a good lazer show as much as the next person, but enough is enough. With Lightning Strike / Vaal Lightning Strike I've been having a frustratingly-impossible time seeing ground degen. I've played with graphical settings and no tweaking really makes the visibility any better.

Suggestion:
I'd like if maybe the default LS attack visual was toned down even more to make seeing all of the new and "totally wonderful" 3.18 ground degens better. I bought both VLS MTX and both of them are certainly flashy, but make seeing what the hell is going on even worse than the default. MTX shouldn't make the game play experience worse, and yet, here we are (again).


Additionally, several of the degens are totally invisible. So, maybe the real fix here is to make ground degen significantly more visible *or maybe even tone down the ground degen hassle?). For example, there's consecrate which barely even shows up. I can't see it 99% of the time. There's something I've seen in the Distant Memory maps that sparkles (barely) if there's no mobs or attack animations on top of it that seems to instantly kill people with 6k+ life/full resistances standing on it. There's some green goo that doesn't show up at all on outside/brown-ground based maps (desecrate?. I get that you want people to deal with degens but maybe make it a bit more obvious VISUALLY that something bad is about to happen or is happening to the player.

Food for thought: Had I known the league mechanics would be even less visible, I would have never purchased the two MTX options in the first place.
Yet another unpaid Path of Exile 2 Alpha Tester.
Last bumped on May 26, 2022, 1:47:24 AM
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Sadly, it is not just lightning strike, I tried several different skills this patch.
Ground degens became way more often used, have more coverage and of course damage.
Which would not be the biggest problem, if they would not be also close to invisible most of the times.
All-time non-streamer luckless dropless rewardless tons-of-time-playing non-TFT-er 100% solo player.
So, it just turns out, we were lied to for years with the promises of a two-storied one PoE 4.0.
All these worse and worse beta leagues, all these braindead changes, all lead to this.

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