PLEASE re-work SNEAK.

Devs, please hear me out on this.

I suffered from a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) which left me missing 25% of my brain. I know of many other sufferers of TBI besides myself who get motion sick very easily when it comes to swirling/circling visual effects.

Gathering used to be my favorite thing to do - gathering and crafting. I just simply can't do it anymore because of the new animation for Sneak. Ever since it was changed, I become horribly motion sick watching it swirl around my character.

Proposed change:

Please just make sneak passive. Make it a passive buff that is automatically applied when you're set to any DoL job. Don't give it ANY visual whatsoever. There's no reason to have it off, everyone leaves it on: The only thing this would change? Is it would stop making us motion sick. Please consider turning Sneak into a passive buff with no visual effect. I would love to be able to gather and craft again without becoming so dizzy I have to stop after 20 minutes.

Thank you for hearing me out :)

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Originally Posted by Angellos

Please just make sneak passive. Make it a passive buff that is automatically applied when you're set to any DoL job. Don't give it ANY visual whatsoever. There's no reason to have it off, everyone leaves it on)

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Agreed. Now that it activates automatically and has no downsides, there's no reason for it not to just be a passive trait. The glowing swirls are pretty annoying and completely unnecessary.

Even without severe brain/sensory issues, I sometimes just can't deal with the spinning. Either making the effect passive or giving its animation less movement would really help.

I don't even pay attention to the swirly things... orbiting around my character like little planets... like a certain mechanic in a trial in Endwalker. 😳

Agreed. It would be great if the spinning could go--it's a minor change that would be a lot of difference to the people who are negatively affected by it.

I don't mind losing the spinny orbies if there are people being harmed by it. There's just no reason to unsneak anyways.

I actually use the rotating orbs as a timer for fishing. Not saying that I'd miss it if it goes, I'm more than happy to be rid of it, just making use of something that I'm having to stare at anyway :p

I got sick of the spins as well. I turn it off in Diadem whenever I can since nothing would attack me anyway.
Those balls are also rather annoying when you're trying to take screenshots...
So one time I turned it off elsewhere in EW regions to take screenshots, and I immediately regret it...

Dev, please just re-work this for us! Please allow us to have the sneak effect without seeing the spinning balls!

Even just the ability to toggle the spheres on and off would be a big help then people can decide which mode is best for them.

The only reason for the spinning effect is because in the lowest levels you had to activate it manualy. Which to me is quite a useless feature as its only going to be disruptive in 2 situations:
- You changed to a gathering class near enemies
- You have to press a button once when leaving certain regions

The 2nd one on that is a real useless things to have and can just be an anoyance. And the first one is very situational because even if you start using a gathering class, you very likely dont do that in high level regions anyway (so dont risk being attacked anyway). Making it a passive the moment it is unlocked is simply much better. The spinning effect on that can be kept as a visual effect you can toggle, but even then i think its obsolete.

To me the only reason turning off sneak would be a good thing, is if it grants extra benefits (faster GP regen - which also helps at gathering shards in low level areas where you wont get attacked anyway). And on that, its better if an effect is displayed if you are taking extra risks

Auto-activating Sneak on job change was an overcorrection for sure. Now I have to manually adjust it every time I want the job to simply look normal. It's not like you get attacked that often anyway, especially as max level... Works for many levels above your character's level too. At that point, the stealth mechanic might as well just not even exist out of how thoughtless it is.

First they put VIT on the gear so that you don't get one-shotted when you get hit by a monster while gathering. Then they placed monsters away from nodes so that you don't get attacked. Now with auto sneak and it not having any disadvantages for gathering it makes their previous made adjustments obsolete.

That makes the overworld even less dangerous. And when you are in a new expansion and level up a gatherer simultaneously you just switch to the gatherer when you have to walk through monsters before you can fly.

Whether the orbs are visible should at least be some kind of a toggleable option, and you also already have an indicator of Sneak being active because of its associated buff. Whether other players can see them or not doesn’t affect their own gameplay either.

I agree with wanting the spinny lights removed, and now have the same issue with RDM's new PVP spinny lights (White/Black Shift circle). It's fine while we're in battle, but not at the Wolves' Den trying to browse glamours. It's very unpleasant, particularly off to the side of whatever I'm focused on, and I have to switch jobs to get it off my screen and move away from anyone else with it active.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I agree with wanting the spinny lights removed, and now have the same issue with RDM's new PVP spinny lights (White/Black Shift circle). It's fine while we're in battle, but not at the Wolves' Den trying to browse glamours. It's very unpleasant, particularly off to the side of whatever I'm focused on, and I have to switch jobs to get it off my screen and move away from anyone else with it active.

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Right? I get having it being visible all the time while in combat, but come on. At least let us turn it off in the Wolves' Den.

I agree, the spinning orbs are annoying and I'd much rather not see them. I'd prefer it if our character faded out like we did with the old sneak.
You could leave it so the orbs show up if you have all your own effects showing but not on limited or none, the way the exclamation marks for fishing work at the moment.