the Deadly Towers manual has some absolute gems for item descriptions

assuming u play on controller i actually don't know how you read debuffs there but i'm sure there is a way adhjkl

otherwise there's like cases where your debuff is one of two colors and it means you stand in the same or the opposite color of the attack, stuff like that

the game does get a lot better at telegraphing things as it goes fwiw. when it isn't being obtuse, usually if the name on the cast bar doesn't tell you anything, looking at the boss or the arena might do the trick. sometimes you can also hover over/look at your debuff and read that to get an idea

might be circumstantial evidence but most parties are absolutely doing that unless they have degraded since last week

tbh this tier isn't anything outrageous for pf so far at all, it feels exactly like pfing any other tier i pf'd early felt at the time