Suggestion: Dark Arts doing more than potency increase.

With the information on DRK's skillset in 4.0, the class is looking to become very visually plain. Essentially WAR 3.0 levels of plain.

How to combat this? What if... Stay with me here, What if:

Dark Arts changed the animation of certain skills. Specifically to recycle our lost Scourge and Delirium.

So for example, Dark Arts Syphon Strike would utilize the beloved Scourge animation and Dark Arts Soul Eater would use it's current animation(with base Soul Eater being Delirium visually).

The two skills in their non DA'ed form would have the blue particles and when Dark Arts would both be red, possibly to indicate the skill had been buffed in output. Cuz y'know Red = Angry and Angry = Damage.

We could take this further with other Dark Arts-able skills such as Dark Mind. The weaker version has the soft shroud and the upgraded version could recycle the lost Shadowskin animation with the hard looking barrier to indicate an upgrade in defense bonus!

Something something stealth bring back scourge or riot something something didn't want to play Darkrrior co-staring Fell Spiller something something.

Am I the only one that hates the Souleater animation? Why can't we have Cecil's SE from Dissidia, that actually looked badass.

I am not interested in DA bringing animation changes. Additional effects to skills besides potency increases are more important to me then looking flashy. I'd rather get more points of blood on DA'd shit. Besides you want red hit sparks when DA draws blue flame into you? Pffft.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Am I the only one that hates the Souleater animation? Why can't we have Cecil's SE from Dissidia, that actually looked badass.

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I always felt that power slash was the comparison to dissidia Cecil using soul eater

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Am I the only one that hates the Souleater animation? Why can't we have Cecil's SE from Dissidia, that actually looked badass.

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It's dumb.

getting Cecil's SE would have been great, but just having delirium animation + soul eater graphics would have been nice.

No what we ne needed was a skill that prevents DA from ending after one use. That's something worthy of a Lv.70 skill.

It was my fault for not making my thread title more clear.

But if any of you bothered to read the OP, you'd see this was more about visuals and aesthetics.

If you wanted to cry about gameplay and numbers, there are like 6 other DRK threads for that.

Meanwhile there are 20 other glamour topics going into pedantic visuals. DA doing more then potency increase implies additional effects. Effects of a mechanical nature.

What next? Can I glamour my Black Mage's Fire 4 purple too? Yoshi pls.

Your title is misleading and deceptive, likewise many Dark Knights are champing at the bit to raise hell because quite a few are not too happy about the perceived changes to the job being all but stripped of any identity it had.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Meanwhile there are 20 other glamour topics going into pedantic visuals. DA doing more then potency increase implies additional effects. Effects of a mechanical nature.

What next? Can I glamour my Black Mage's Fire 4 purple too? Yoshi pls.

Your title is misleading and deceptive, likewise many Dark Knights are champing at the bit to raise hell because quite a few are not too happy about the perceived changes to the job being all but stripped of any identity it had.

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Atleast there is a gameplay step required for the animation change in DRK from the use of a certain skill. Y'know, a logical change rather than purely for the sake of glamour since as I suggested, it can be used to indicate to the player the skill was upgraded.

Again in hindsight I didn't name my thread title correctly, regardless, staying on topic would be ideal because again, b%#&ing and moaning about the loss of identity is frankly not my concern at all.

Am I also hating the changes? Sure. But that's not what I'm here to talk about.