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

[Nico_Of_Awesome]

The dev. team is currently looking into an option to hide the visual effects of Darkside.

Why not just change it? Turning it off doesn't make the aura look like it's half finished. At the very least just make it not expand as far as it does. That said though I agree with everyone else. Please just give us the aura from 50 job quest.

[SpookRooster]

After dealing with the issue of dark knights standing around in places like Foundation and Idyllshire with their auras on, even running around and likely causing people to gag as they run by, I've come to the conclusion that simply hiding it isn't a solution anymore. Then that would mean hiding every other effect from my own character just to get rid of it.

On top of that, I'd still have to dance between aura and no aura during some battles and out in the field somewhere so I don't annoy someone who might not know you can turn it off/hasn't set the option to hide player effects.

So the easiest solution would be to just give us the 50 aura. If there's some story related reason we don't have that one, whatever. There's no story related reason our aura is a massive cloud that literally causes your eyes to hurt. Fray didn't have it, Esteem didn't have it, Sidurgu doesn't have it (unless he decides it's cool in two levels. So tell me if Sidurge succumbs to that level of edginess), so what's causing the adventurer to have it?

[Prestige]

On top of that, I'd still have to dance between aura and no aura during some battles and out in the field somewhere so I don't annoy someone who might not know you can turn it off/hasn't set the option to hide player effects.

Well, mainly it shouldn't be on you whether or not it annoys someone. It's an in-game effect so the burden falls on SE.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Did you not see how amazing the other effect is compared? I would love to hide it.. YES.. but I would rather have it fixed to be something unique and actually cool like what I displayed in the original Post.

[SpookRooster]

Well, mainly it shouldn't be on you whether or not it annoys someone. It's an in-game effect so the burden falls on SE.

Then there are people standing in one place, whether it be an aetheryte, a market board, and npc, or the side of a road with it on. It's certainly SE's fault for making it so large and obvious with no way to turn it off without losing the benefits, but there are still DRKs completely oblivious to the people around them. And if they're not oblivious and just doing it because they know it's annoying, they need to stop playing that class.

[Khalithar]

How about making the aura a fainter red glow around the sword and only when the weapon is drawn?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

How about making the aura a fainter red glow around the sword and only when the weapon is drawn?

I would like some black in it too. I mean is DOES improve your damage.

[Jekyll]

The dev. team is currently looking into an option to hide the visual effects of Darkside.

For nothing more than emphasis as it's been stated already:

We don't want to hide Darkside... we want for it to either be appropriately proportionate or changed to something else.

[Deathshiro]

The dev. team is currently looking into an option to hide the visual effects of Darkside.

41 pages of players giving feedback on how to change the visual effects of Darkside, SE thinks we just want to hide it.

Now that's embarrasing.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

For nothing more than emphasis as it's been stated already:

We don't want to hide Darkside... we want for it to either be appropriately proportionate or changed to something else.

I would like to hide others darkside however. I should not be seeing it if my options are turned off and it would be nice to be able to turn it off on yourself as well.