Eye graphics settings

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I don’t know if this is the right section, if so please move it :+1:t2:

I’ve been looking into this for a while now and haven’t found any solutions to this problem.
When I’m in K’aresh or the Eco-Dome dungeon, I’m starting to have vision problems. The problem is that blinding white in the area.
I’ve enabled eye protection on my monitor and lowered the in-game brightness to 50%, but it didn’t help.
Has anyone else had the same problems? How do I fix it?
I was thinking about playing in those areas using black and white mode on my monitor, but then I don’t know if I’ll be able to see the magical densities.
Can you help me?
Thanks.

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Set contrast to less than default 50. That will crush highs and bump lows.

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I’d also suggest reaching out to BLizzard’s Accessibility Team ( https://eu.support.blizzard.com/en/article/244753?flowTrackingId) to share your experience as this might influence the wow devs to introduce additional options to better manage issues like this - or even better to (Please Please Please) STOP FLASH BANGING YOUR PLAYERS during game startup and cinematic transitions.

In the meantime there is an item that can be purchased in the Dramoon Faire called the Inky Black Potion which greatly reduces the brightness of the game environment and is used by many players to address issues like this.

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As a bandaid fix, maybe try using Inky Black Potion?

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+1
This helped me with migraines etc because the sand looked ridiculously white but if it’s purely a graphical issue I don’t know.

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To better illustrate what i meant with lower the contrast, I’ve made examples in photo editing software.

Printscreen with default settings inside editor:

https://i.imgur.com/Yw8VhXl.png

Original print set to high contrast inside the editor:

https://i.imgur.com/HkOraDY.png

As you can see, dark ones are even darker which leads to details loss, and bright ones are even brighter which leads to discomfort while looking at it(and details loss)

Original print set to low contrast inside editor:

https://i.imgur.com/5lstV9u.png

As you can see, luminosity of dark pixels has been increased which helps in caves and scenes like that, while bright pixels are less bright which leads to less eye strain.

I’ve used ‘extreme’ examples for the sake of illustrating better.
By lowering the contrast a little bit image will not become “washed-out”.
Also, you can bring back mid range luminosity by increasing the gamma slightly.

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At this point they should just make permanent versions of the potions like this as in game settings.

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I set the contrast to 40%. It’s changed slightly, and I think I’ll lower it to 30%.

This is how I see the game now, after activating the eye protection on the monitor.

I didn’t think there was a “solution” like this in-game. I’m going to look up the name of the NPC who sells it on wowhead right now. Thank you :folded_hands:t2:

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