✅ No more numbers floating up from units in the world.
I discovered this on a Fury Warrior. With numbers on, I missed the swirlie on the ground because I was admiring a 78k Rampage crit. I died. With numbers off, my eyes unlocked. I saw the boss lift his arm . I saw the spell particle change color . My reaction time improved by roughly half a second—not because I got faster, but because I stopped looking at a calculator.
Because Blizzard "pruned" many settings from the default UI, many players use the Advanced Interface Options addon.
: /console floatingCombatTextCombatDamage 0
While this sounds scary, it unlocks the CVars we need.
This lightweight AddOn (available on CurseForge) does exactly one thing. It intercepts the Blizzard API call for FloatingBattleText and returns nil (nothing).