World of Warcraft's patch 11.1, which is currently available on the public test realm and will shortly be rolled-out to all players, looks like it's fixed one of the game's most enduring issues: swirlies. These are ground markers that telegraph incoming damage to players, such as an AoE boss attack, and basically they've always been a bit of a pain to make out when amidst the cavalcade of other effects the game's typically throwing up during such encounters.
There are a number of UI mods to counteract the issue but Blizzard's decided to fix the problem at source, with the new patch giving swirlies a much clearer and more defined outline. The difference between old and new is immediately obvious, which is a tremendously good thing given that the whole point of these things is to tell you where not to stand if you want to live.
