[Description of the issue]

A lot of spells currently have overwhelmingly explosive or "shiny" visual effects. Taken individually, they are already quite massive but taken together in combat, they obscure everything (and, since this is a bug report, completely bog down your computer, see picture below)


[DETAILED list of steps to reproduce the issue AND what to look for]

Use any combination of spells/auras. The entire screen soon becomes a chaotic mess of "things" of all colors.


[Expected behaviour]

Spell effects should be subtle when they need to be (auras, chanter effects, etc) and very, very brief when they are explosives (fireball, etc)
 

[Notes]

When this happened, not only I could not see ANYTHING, but my framerate dropped to 3FPS and this lasted for the entire duration of the spell (which was quite long, as a note).

This is typically what should never happen and a good example of a spell effect that should be 1) explosive for a second and 2) very subtle afterwards.

 

Buffs don't even really need an AoE effect, just a per-unit one.

While I agree, this isn't a bug. Won't do any good in this forum - should he posted on the other one.

This is a bug. Please keep reporting over the top visual effects that hinder visibility of the combat area. Visual effects that adversely effect frame rate should also be reported as a bug. 

Cean Gŵla crush is another major offender surrounding all targets afflicted in stone finger things: