Life Bar decal needs its own separate bar for ES, and status effect indicators

The title says it all.

There should be 3 different bars to indicate Life, Energy Shield and Mana.

The ES overlay makes it hard to see the life underneath; in the midst of gameplay.

Bleed is very punishing when you don't know you're bleeding.

I wouldn't mind if the heartbeat sound effect indicated that I was bleeding.
If you are bleeding, by the time you hear that heartbeat, its already too late.
Might as well start the heartbeat when bleeding starts or create a new sound.

I think there should be a better Audio and Visual indication for Bleed and Poison status effects. The health bar over the Character is extremely helpful, it still needs to be dialed in.

Maybe there could be a bleed and poison symbol added to the decal,

This way you don't have to worry about changing the color of the life bar to green if poison, since it's already green, etc. Just make a symbol attached to the Decal.

I'm not a fan of excessive animations being the lead indicator for status effects in other games.

This could apply to other status effects applied to your character, to make them easily visible directly on the life bar decal over the character.

Agreed for bleed and poison, especially bleed.

There are a lot of different status effects but something as simple as a blood drop symbol next to the life bar decal would be fine.

Curses have a status effect symbol of their own already.