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

[Ditto]

Warriors with Wrath look perfectly fine. Moving, mounted, whatever.

I'm sure they could have made the black flames look fine too if it were really a problem. Shouldn't have outright removed it when it was one of the biggest attractive visual features Drk had when they promoted it.

[jyooruje]

SE doing maintenance every week so do one and fix the aura. is the least you can make after the bad promotion you made on the job.

[BannedatRegistration]

This is my first ever post in the official forums, I read all the time but can't really be bothered to post. I feel so strongly about this that I felt like I needed to set up my forum account to let the devs know, this change is absolutely, 100% mandatory. The current Darkside Aura sucks, plain and simple. I'm actually shocked to see this post,to see that others are complaining because I feel the same way! When I saw the lvl 50 drk Aura in the job quest, the first thing that came to my mind was why don't we have that aura? It looks amazing. It doesn't need to be the same exact aura but the current Darkside Aura needs to change, please relay this information to the Japanese Devs.


As paying customers our voices deserve to heard, hopefully we'll hear more about this in an upcoming announcement.

+1

I just want to add that Ifrit-Egi has no problems with it's flame trail when it is moving.

[NocX7]

Don't let this thread die guys.We need to get them to change the aura.

[IveraIvalice]

+1

I just want to add that Ifrit-Egi has no problems with it's flame trail when it is moving.

Not to oppose what you say because I absolutely agree that this needs to change and the flames could have stayed but I think the drk flames don't work when the egi flames do, is because the egi flies and is a particle emitter constraint to most likely the root joint on the model. But the DRK flames were most likely a particle emitter constraint to his feet and when he moves, his legs move and cross each other with every step and imagining particles emitting from his feet as they quickly cross each other would look weird.

It makes sense BUT there are things they could have done to fix it so it's not as bad such as what I suggested a few pages back. Or at least have made the current effect not as bad

[jyooruje]

Don't let this thread die guys.We need to get them to change the aura.

i will not!

[Rannie]

So I myself do not have an issue with how dark side looks. However I don't think that it should ignore the settings if people want to turn off that visual affect on their end then please let them. It doesn't hurt people in the end and will still allow people the choice like the profanity filter.

[Deathshiro]

This is 100% outrageous, to be honest I'm pretty sure you could give a poll to dark knight players and I bet you 90%+ would say the current Darkside aura is horrendous, it hurts people's eyes, it's EXTREMELY BIG, and it just looks unappealing! On almost everything in Heavensward you knocked visuals out of the park, beautiful. However THIS IS AWFUL compared to every other aura in this game, really a shame. If the dev team doesn't think it would be appealing FINE, give the players something like the aura in the level 50 DRK job quest, it looks amazing! I'm going to be completely honest if SE doesn't even want to do that, take this disgraceful visual away forever, it's hideous, it's lazy, and it's obnoxious.

Signed, a really pissed off DRK main.

[Lengue]

Signed too, give us our black flames

[SuzakuCMX]

I don't mind if the new aura isn't the one from the job video as long as it's not as eye-bleedingly horribad as the current one. It looks exactly like a toned-down version of the 1.0 spell effects but colored red; IE a lazy little blob of color with no clear indication of what it actually is. It's also way too spread out from the player so if 2 players are standing remotely close together and one has the aura on, I don't even know who has the aura.

Basically it's just a really ugly, really lazy spell effect and it reflects badly on FFXIV to have it in the game.