This is on OP'd players and I have tried adding it to a common group and the individual player using pex regardless it will not toggle these effects off.

- -vanish.effects.smoke
- -vanish.effects.explode
- -vanish.effects.lightning
- -vanish.effects.flames
- -vanish.effects.bats
- vanish.*

Have you tried not granting vanish.*? (Which is such a terrible idea to grant. Grant vanish.standard and vanish.toggle.all and go from there).

Happy to try helping :)

It was only in the admin group so i wasnt too concerned. It appears for some reason it wasnt applying in a permission reload but worked fine after reboot thank you very much for responding.