Dark Knight "glow"

Some dark knight friends of mine asked me to ask why the dark knight "glow" was removed and that they wanted it back. From what they showed me in a video the glow is a black and red fire at the base of their feet as well as the opaque red light flickering around the body, but now all they have is the opaque red light. Why was this changed?

If you're wondering what I mean this is the effect from the official video:

http://www.geekgirl101.org/ffxivstuff/dkglow2.png

they couldnt get it to work on the mounts so they removed the darkness.

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Originally Posted by nanashinana

they couldnt get it to work on the mounts so they removed the darkness.

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Right on the mark. They also toned down Darkside's effect DRAMATICALLY since Heavensward.

The 3.0 beta Darkside effect not looking good on mounts is kind of a weak argument since WAR's wrath aura also looks weird on mounts.

they should just change the color from red to purple :O

purple is the appropriate color to depict black, so why is it red?

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Originally Posted by Tint

they should just change the color from red to purple :O

purple is the appropriate color to depict black, so why is it red?

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Why not both? (see Caladbolg Anemos weapon glow)

bcs the glow or more precisly the flames are not a temporaly effect like WARs ones and this upset the devs have DRK around with it all the time, apart of the mount isues as they claim they will need to adjust the flames on every mount and thats extra work i guess.

they reduce the glow of the 3.0 bcs it was annoying for some players and was something you cant hide except the DRK turn it off, and from my personal opinion the 3.0 and the actual effect its just ugly no matter how you look at it, its not make you more edgy like the dark flames but i doubt they want to change it.

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Originally Posted by Tint

they should just change the color from red to purple :O

purple is the appropriate color to depict black, so why is it red?

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This. I'd love a dark purple aura over the red. Both like the Anemos looks weird, especially on the AF3 which has no red.

Tbh this is one of my major arguments. They toned down Darkside's effect SO MANY TIMES. and Warrior's obnoxious swirling orange crap is unchanged since 2.0.

Revert the Darkside visual. Thanks

I'd love to have this Black flame yes.

The argument is that DRK can have his Aura whenever he wants and permanently in Cities. But It's very unfortunate to have this little Aura when you see others from jobs like Warrior's Wrath and Inner Release, Big Blue Aura from DRG Dragon Blood an so on.

Darkside feels very weak.

If they have so much of an issue with the flames looking weird, or whatever their argument is, on mounts, just make it so it deactivates while on them. End of the story, no Darkside effect while mounting.

Tbh I wished they removed the orange swirlies on the warrior and just keep the lightning. I don't like how the swirlies look like paper wrapped around the warrior. And when u jump it's as if you can see the straight edge of the bottom of the orange paper swirly. It's so ugly. Of they could make it an option to turn off the orange swirl and keep just the lightning I'd be so happy.

For being the Dark Knight, it really doesn't have any doom/gloom feel coming from it for any of its skills currently. Darkside is kinda neat but its a once and done. The aura is a joke, I don't really remember what it used to look like anymore.

Why does it have to look all 'doom and gloom'?
It already has black spiky armour and all of its skills have red/black spikes.

What if someone doesn't want to look like some supersaiyan demonspawn ALL the time?

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Why does it have to look all 'doom and gloom'?
It already has black spiky armour and all of its skills have red/black spikes.

What if someone doesn't want to look like some supersaiyan demonspawn ALL the time?

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... Change class? Glam? ... All the above?

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Originally Posted by Mycow8me

... Change class? Glam? ... All the above?

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Yes, Glam works. Which is what what we have now works.
Being constantly covered in black flames would prevent that though.

Can't ya turn off players effects? That way if you think it's obnoxious, turn it down/off, but if you like it, keep it on.

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Can't ya turn off players effects? That way if you think it's obnoxious, turn it down/off, but if you like it, keep it on.

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Sure, if you can turn off only individual effects and not all of them or nothing...

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Can't ya turn off players effects? That way if you think it's obnoxious, turn it down/off, but if you like it, keep it on.

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That was not an option at 3.0; DRK's effect was not considered other players' effects. The effect looked like a bloody Pig Pen from Charlie Brown, and you couldn't use a summoning bell in a city or MSQ NPCs without having it in your face. It was the visual equivalent of the sound of someone playing with Styrofoam.

Could be nice to have the glowing eyes effect from the lv50 class quest too, perhaps while Darkside is up.

Yea, I find it odd that the reason they gave is that it wouldn't look good on mounts..

Yet WAR has their aura on 24/7 now, and looks just as ugly on mounts...and it was just fine to give it a second aura and eye glowing effect?