Combo Light Blinking

I play with the sound off most of the time as i listen to my own music, tv shows and ls on vent. I rely on the visual cues to complete a combo

Or, OR! Have a blinking light for abilities that meet certain requirements and keep the solid light for combos!

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Sold > Blinking, I agree.

solid lights for combos, blinking for reactive abilities

{yes, please}

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Originally Posted by Lux_Rayna

Lol not even true. Blinking lights/flashing colors are far more noticeable than solid lights.

Why do you think turn signals blink?
Why do you think ambulances/cop cars have blinking headlights/flashing lights?
Why do you think school buses have blinking lights when they stop to pick up kids?
Why do you think big semis with heavy loads have blinking lights?

I could go on...I mean the list of blinking lights over solid lights is enormous. You are much more likely to notice something blinking than you are to notice something thats not blinking. If this weren't the case, then derp none of the things above would blink. Why else do you think the blink is so annoying? Cuz its more noticeable..it distracts you.

Course it doesn't bother me so I'll conclude by saying:


Blink or solid it accomplishes the same goal. Get used to it.

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They got blinking lights, to make them distinguishable between the SOLID lights all over the street.

Your statement is "Lol not even true"...blinking lights are only more noticable when used AMONG solid lights.

It's about the context, in your example this does not apply to what is going on in FFXIV...

Why you think traffic lights are solid lights? Cause if they would blink it could cause confusion as to which colour is active right now and which is not? Which is what has happened here, blinking lights cause confusion as to wether your combo is active or not, if you happen to watch at them right when the blinking is "down"...

Think before posting...

I'll have to join the crown in the fast blinking also bothers me. I have severe motion sickness and anything in the UI that suddenly wants to pulsate at rapid speed (like the old treasure loot icon) tends to trigger it.

It would be nice if combos abilities lit up solid in one color (bright white/yellow I believe it is now?) and reactionary abilities lit up solid in a different color, such as hot pink or green. That way I could know that it is available to use but isn't part of the current combo succession I am carrying out.

Really glad they added the blinking for reactive skills, but I do agree with the others, the combo ones should stay solid =) I actually thought that was what they were going to go for initially...

I never wanted reactive abilities to blink at all. I wanted them greyed out if I can't use them, and colored in when I can. Keep the light up circles for combos. Anything that blinks, flashes, pops up, etc is annoying.

yeah solid ring was better. Keep the azure ring for abilities like heymaker, but keep all of them solid.

Would be nice to have color-coded highlights... something like solid, non-blinking blue for combos, and a green > yellow > red countdown for reaction skills so that you know how much time left to use it.