What I'm all in favor of toning down are:
- permanent buffs and so on, which should all be less visual noisy and the visual effect DEACTIVATED OUT OF COMBAT (even in the old Baldur'r Gate Games I hated how out of combat your high level party started looking like a bunch of walking Christmas trees).
I almost started a new post for that, so I'll tag it here.
A spell like Mage Armor lasts until the next full rest at camp. It looks ridiculous for my party to be walking around with Gale not just outlined in gold, but with sparkly bits and a glowing animation while the rest of the party looks normal.
It's distracting to have one member of the party lit up like a Christmas tree out of combat like that. It should be enough to just show the little icon on the upper left of his character portrait to indicate that Mage Armor is active.
