Artillery Ballista FPS Issues

Not sure really what else to say about it. When they fire and land, I go from a stable 60 fps down to 15 fps in some dense packs. I turned all the graphics settings as low as they can go, changed between dx12 and vulkan, nothing works.

Idk if it's the fire ground effects or what but it is very difficult to play in maps. Should mention I'm tactician ascendancy with Cannons, Ready! and Suppressing Fire ascendancy points allocated.

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.59 GHz
Ram: 16.0 GB (maybe the issue? please let me know)
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super
Game is installed on an SSD

This is regular game play, not attacking (network is behaving today!)



This is after some ballista fire



Any feedback is appreciated, game is tough as it is without frames dropping

Stay sane exiles