Darkside Aura .. hurts my eyes. Can't turn it off.

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Originally Posted by Edellis

The Darkside aura is literally the only visual effect in this game i have ever actually called ugly.

FFXIV's aura effects are usually so pretty and wispy and fluid. The weapon glows look amazing. Darkside is just huge and looks very F2P MMOish, feels out of place in this game.

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my thought exactly. the glow is just so out of place and whats worse is its all over the place in towns because nobody bothers to turn it off. you can spot it from a mile away even without trying to look for it at night in game.

Gods yes - please tone it down or give us the ability to not see it. It's obnoxious and jarring to the eyes in town - it looks so out of place.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

Whats the point of having animations when i'm always covered in darkness?

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

i'm always covered in darkness

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

darkness

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Oh no. Time to flee!

The aura is bugged anyways most likely they are going to fix the animation and make it obey the the graphic options as it should be.

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Originally Posted by shinros

The aura is bugged anyways most likely they are going to fix the animation and make it obey the the graphic options as it should be.

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for the love of all that is easy on the eyes i hope so.

Prolly been mentioned already but a buff called 'darkside' could do with being less bright.

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Originally Posted by o3o

for the love of all that is easy on the eyes i hope so.

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Oh god tell me who did your signature art. Please!

I alway turn it off when I am not using darkside because it hurts my eyes too x,x I actually suffering when I turn on darkside is like Yoshida said well if you going to turn to the darkside you going to have to suffer for power comes with a price...... Yours eyes

Lately I've had lots of friends run up to me and do some combination of new moves they've unlocked, at which point I have to say "I have effects for non-party members turned off.. you look like you're just waving your hands around on my screen. Sorry. :/".

Meanwhile, complete strangers can clog up my display with this red mess called "Darkside", regardless of my settings. Why?

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Originally Posted by Unaki

Oh god tell me who did your signature art. Please!

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lol thanks, it was commissioned by someone on my server whos first name is Lenti. they did really good work though id have to check back with him to get the rest of his info. its been a while.

ALSO DEATH TO THE DORK KNIGHT AURA....... so we stay on topic

I hate the Darkside animation as well. It literally gives me a headache when I am trying to do stuff in town. I try to turn it off whenever I can, but it's so necessary in combat I can't just turn it off.

Yeah me tooo xD:
Its annoying when I discover the map, or walking in towns. SE could make the Aura more closer to the charackter.
(Also, the Aura remembers me of a Berserker! Dark Knights should have something purple o_O Like the Darkness is)

The Aura needs to be more visible. I can barely see it sometimes!

The aura is also bugged, it should have been black flames around the feet of the Dark Knight + the red glowish aura.

On PS4... effect is subtle and don't really notice it unless in town.
Don't see how it pains the eyes...?

But again, on PS4.

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Originally Posted by Koldhara

I don't know what kind of graphic settings you guys have but I have not found that aura to be as obnoxious as some of you seem to think. I found it to be lacking and slightly excessive; it takes up twice as much space as the character. having it around the weapon seems like an appropriate alternative or maybe on the glove since some weapons have their own effects.

in the mean time, if it is rally that terrible, you might have to resort turning off effects, but i doubt many want to do that.

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To be clear, on the list of the things I'd like changed, its pretty low. But if you're asking my opinion then I say turn it off.

why u no get rid of dorkside aura SE Q_Q was hoping they would have durring the hot fix. :c

Why didn't they remove this yet... >~<

Because the bug report stating that it doesn't obey the graphics settings was moved to "Working as Intended".

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Battle-Effects

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Because the bug report stating that it doesn't obey the graphics settings was moved to "Working as Intended".

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Battle-Effects

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The bug report regarding the achievement you get after completing "I Believe I Can Fly" has also been moved to "Working as Intended" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was so certain that this effect was glitched and was going to get patched that I wasn't going to respond to this thread. Now, several hotfixes later, with no response and a "working as intended" I gotta chime in. This is without a doubt the most annoying animation in the game for me to date. Holy spam? Taken care of with filters. MNK/WAR auras? Nowhere near as invasive or persistent. Darkside aura just looks broken and terrible to me, and I really hate that I have no way of getting rid of it.

In combat, it's fine. No big deal at all. In town? With a half dozen other glowing DRK nearby? Ugh.

The worst is when I go to take a screenshot of a non CS npc saying something funny or I want a group shot with npc celebs out and about, only to have the entire scene distorted by the wavy red aura of idiocy emanating from a dark knight that isn't even on my screen. Working as intended? You gotta be kiddin' me.

Eh, I don't really mind it. Considering some games I've played before this, it's not as obnoxious as it could be thankfully.

I can see why people get annoyed that it doesn't go away when the settings say it should. I can also see why some would think it's an eyesore and I'd wager some of the DRK players themselves are sick of seeing it too.

And still no word about this... though I can understand there are bigger issues like getting jobs balenced before raids are released. I don't think it's difficult to remove a skill effect from the game. Pretty sure it's just going in and deleting a file but I wouldn't know.

Also sick of it...

Just disable it out of combat!!! (my last post here I swear)

Greetings,

Thanks for the feedback.

We have relayed your suggestions in regards to the visual effects for dark knight's action "Darkside" to the dev. team.

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Greetings,

Thanks for the feedback.

We have relayed your suggestions in regards to the visual effects for dark knight's action "Darkside" to the dev. team.

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Thank you very much.

I literally have not even noticed it... It's not that bad, Idk why you guys are complaining so much

Personally it doesn't annoy me as such, I simply can't see the need for it being there in all the time anyway. In battle perhaps, of when in a certain mode it might make sense. However to have it there all the time seems rather unnecessary.

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Originally Posted by Odstarva

Just disable it out of combat!!! (my last post here I swear)

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This. I don't think anyone walking by the 1000th DRK with red glowing around them thinks "dang they look edgy and badass, what a cool character!" It's just annoying and un-necessary. Switch it off :P

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Originally Posted by JonFarron

I literally have not even noticed it... It's not that bad, Idk why you guys are complaining so much

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It's pretty bad when you have a mass of DRKs around. as someone who pretty much just plays only this job (until i bother to level pld, brd, and drg to 60) it's pretty glaring too, and it ignores effect settings.

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Originally Posted by JonFarron

I literally have not even noticed it... It's not that bad, Idk why you guys are complaining so much

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Because it's basically a bunch of big red smears pointing to someone. It's busy, distracting, and it's not appealing to look at.
I and those like me would like to have as little of that as possible. If it can be removed or dialed back, I would like them to do so. This is why people complain about it. So word can get around that many do not like it and perhaps the devs can do something about it.

Warrior Wrath aura effect was perfect. Darkside is too vague and distributed that it doesn't feel like "an aura belonging to this character", but like flies swirling around the character. It doesn't feel like "one aura". It's like noise.

I say don't remove it all together give people a choice to turn it on/off. frankly it's never really bothered me myself.

main drk love to see the aura either on the left hand or smaller to mimic a dark flame around the weapon. current one even I find bit OTT and I'm when out of a duty, I'm happy just to turn it off.
Idea great with the aura, but the way it looks well I hate to say it but it look rather tacky in it current look, doesn't feel like aura either for a Drk. =/

Add the dark flames from the trailer, take out the current aura.

DRKs still get an aura, darker looking and more subtle, and people who hate the big swirly obnoxious one now are happy.

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Originally Posted by Adire

Add the dark flames from the trailer, take out the current aura.

DRKs still get an aura, darker looking and more subtle, and people who hate the big swirly obnoxious one now are happy.

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Agreed,give us the black flames and reduce/delete the red aura and everyone will be happy.

What happend to the dark flames, were they removed or is the aura just bugged?

People must be running on dinosaurs or something because that aura is hardly visible on my screen.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

What happend to the dark flames, were they removed or is the aura just bugged?

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I forgot where I saw it but someone mentioned something about the Aura being bugged.

I do not understand the complaints. All of my game settings are on the highest setting and the aura does not look bad on my screen. I wouldn't think different graphics cards would make that huge of a difference... For the people that are complaining, what are you playing on?