Eyes on fire

Why you can't descrease special effects and minion packs without descrease loot quantity and game speed? This acid effects make eyes leak. And this is that thing that make frustrating, I can't see battle area and strong mobes, CPU is overheating, FPS lay down to zero. Are you really think epilepsy is great idea? When I was young i've played Ragnarok Online and one dude made special utility to delete sprites from game files. It was only one decision to solve problem with F-ING lot of effects. I hope some dude make this with Path Of Exile one time, if you can't this. The number of special effects should be moderate IMHO.

Part of their marketing for poe2 was that they would try and mitigate/minimize the number of screen cluttering effects, due to feedback from players of poe1.

100% agree with the OP. Screen cluttering effects are actually so much worse in poe2 than in poe1 and less optimized. It creates this really rough experience where the deli effects + abyss + anything else is just really miserable and nearly unplayable.

If gloom shrine, herald of ash, herald of blood, herald of thunder, and herald of ice didnt exist as well....

The ability for us to at least have access to explosions (popz) to kill monsters is what makes this actually playable. Being able to pop the whole screen actually improves performance.

On my shield wall titan I have the ability to either use Herald of Ash or Tame beast for a haste aura. I actually use herald of ash instead of haste aura tame beast because herald of ash pops improve pc FPS from popping monster packs especially around abyss.

After spawn 2x Abyss holes with Green Ray at the Double-Boss Area I died because I didnt see anymore. From chair to stratosphere less that 2 seconds =\