WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand

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...