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

[Awful]

Been following this post for awhile now and now I feel the need to comment. I bought this game intrigued with all the classes (specially Drk or I wouldn't of bother commenting on this) knowing full well that Drks had this "Badass black aura with flames" and I thought to myself that it was really amazing! After seeing this bleeding eyesore of an aura and knowing it's not gonna be fixed is a betrayal to the class. And now with Esoteric gear that's basically AF2 gear it's basically giving us a carrot on a stick, we're not fully Dark knights. I don't feel like the Dark counterpart to a shining knight, I just feel like a knight with wonky auras that hurt my eyes after an hour of playing. I'm sorry SE but you really let me down, I paid for an expansion with a class that I really loved since the old FF days. Really dissapointed.

[Cynric]

I'd rather have no aura than have the one we do now. Isn't that sad?

[Deathshiro]

I'd rather have no aura than have the one we do now. Isn't that sad?

To be honest so would I, if we cant get either the lvl 50 one or the original, i would rather have none

[Drakanous]

but how does the current one even make sense?

[Deathshiro]

but how does the current one even make sense?

It doesn't to me atm, wasn't the point of it switch to you're dark side from the lvl 50 quest? This isn't that same aura that the other me had, and i know for a fact he wasn't a sayian from DBZ with this kaioken nonsense.

[Taciturn_Dragon]

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...the current Darkside effect doesn't scream "Dark Knight" at all and it's definitely annoying to look at.

[Inosaska]

I stopped playing my DRK because of this effect. It's an eye sore and should be corrected.

[GrumpyPirate]

Just to add in what I've posted to another thread:

I'd like to add my vote in favour of changing the effect.

It's a massive eyesore, very disruptive - both in battle and in towns, especially - and actually fatigues me after a while of looking at the screen with it active. It's such a huge, ephemeral effect that my eyes have trouble focussing on the immediate area around my character on the screen, giving me a headache after few dungeons.

That, and it also seems to be such a low-quality visual effect when compared with the usual Square Enix standard across the other jobs (and the game's battle effects in general). It simply looks rushed, and could do with some serious looking-at considering it was intended to be a persistent effect.

I also agree that the level 50 job quest NPC's effect looks 5000x better, and would love that to be its replacement - but again, anything would be better than the current effect, if only to prevent having to take some ibuprofen after every play session.

[Ceris]

Been following this thread myself for awhile. Like others I'd rather the current darkside aura be removed completely. In terms of having either the black flames/aura from the level 50 quest, while it'd be cool to have it always on when darkside is up, even just during the duration of dark arts similar to blood of the dragon would be sufficient for me.

[Borascythe]

I would honestly rather have no aura than what we have now. I turn it off as soon as I can. Despite the rough road with bugs and whantot, I still love DRK as a class. It's just the horrible aura! I would, as others have suggested, love the one from the level 50 DRK quest.

The current aura gives me a headache =/.