Sand and Blood stance visuals are ugly and distracting

These effects are massive and visually dominate the screen. They make it harder to focus on the things I actually need to see while adding no real value to my play experience. Optimally these unnecessary blights would be cut entirely. If you absolutely must leave these dumb rings in the game, please GREATLY reduce their visual effects so that they blend into the background instead of dominating the foreground. Make it so that we actually have to look for them to see them. Honestly, though, just get rid of the damn things.

Here's a screenshot that shows these ugly rings and the incredibly stupid way they climb walls. Gross. Note that in this non-animated image you're unfortunately missing out on the terrible wave effect, which is the worst part of the whole thing. It's incredibly distracting to have my character surrounded by a constantly moving series of circles.