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

[jyooruje]

lets not give up on the dream

[NocX7]

An option to hide the aura is only half of what we needed to fix this. The aura needs to be changed.

[IveraIvalice]

I'm fine with one sentence responses. I'm happy to have any response at all with how little we get. The problem is it's not what most of us wanted. People want it fixed to be better, I'm sure the only people who want to hide it are people who don't use dark knight and are just annoyed at them in the area. And the dark knights who do want to turn it off is as a last resort.
And people are talking about how easy it is to hide it and this is the first logical thing to do but then they go ahead and say "oh right but I only want to turn off the drk effect not any of the other effects" then no it's not super easy to do.
Also I'm sure it's not causing anyone any health issues or literally hurting their eyes. I call bs on that

[Odstarva]

I want to turn the Darkside effect off, and play the Dark Knight. But I really hope it doesn't erase ALL of the other effects! I only have issues with this specific one!

[Inzoum]

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

This is an unusual way of dealing with the issue... Rather than make a menu option somewhere to hide visual effects for one specific ability (something you may have to deal with again in the future as new jobs/skills are added and simiar issues happen again), why not do things properly and adjust the visual effects for that skill? It's not like you've never adjusted visual effects or sound effects for other skills in the past, why hack your way out of this one?

Something needs to be done about that animation, though, it is physically straining for the eyes. It causes headaches, nausea and eye fatigue in a number of people, myself included. It's not "just ugly", it's a health hazard.

[EZ5902]

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

Would that include hiding it on ourselves too? I do hope so.

[EZ5902]

Also I'm sure it's not causing anyone any health issues or literally hurting their eyes. I call bs on that

Right, because you know everything about every health issue and everyone's life issue....

[Grymmjow]

Right, because you know everything about every health issue and everyone's life issue....

If the little red wavy lines are giving people health issues.... then they shouldn't be playing video games...If darkside is giving people issues but all the other crazy huge bright fast movement things in this game aren't....I would have to agree, I call bs.

Anyways, I want a better aura. The black flames were way better. The giant red poof isn't evil, just an eye sore. I thought it was amazing at first...It's just to big..and red... When I think of dark knight, I see batman...ermmm, darkness. The black flames were looking perfect... The community clearly feels that it was better. Just change it back =P

[SpookRooster]

I'm fine with one sentence responses. I'm happy to have any response at all with how little we get. The problem is it's not what most of us wanted. People want it fixed to be better, I'm sure the only people who want to hide it are people who don't use dark knight and are just annoyed at them in the area. And the dark knights who do want to turn it off is as a last resort.
And people are talking about how easy it is to hide it and this is the first logical thing to do but then they go ahead and say "oh right but I only want to turn off the drk effect not any of the other effects" then no it's not super easy to do.
Also I'm sure it's not causing anyone any health issues or literally hurting their eyes. I call bs on that

Also I'm sure it's not causing anyone any health issues or literally hurting their eyes. I call bs on that

Yeeaaaah...why's that? It's large, stands out the most against the rest of the world unless you're in combat, it flickers everywhere, you can see it from far away...why wouldn't it hurt our eyes? To be fair, I'm looking at monitors most of the time which is why I decided on tinted glasses. Even so, it gets uncomfortable looking at unnatural light all the time. Final Fantasy XIV, however, with it's ridiculous amount of fancy effects, pretty much ruins the point of the tint. You can turn all those off except Darkside which is the worst effect for that reason, and others. The red looks completely out of place, so you're going to be drawn to it when people decide to stand around with it on and probably, your enjoyment will decrease at that moment until you've not seen it for at least 10 seconds.

If the little red wavy lines are giving people health issues.... then they shouldn't be playing video games...If darkside is giving people issues but all the other crazy huge bright fast movement things in this game aren't....I would have to agree, I call bs.

Anyways, I want a better aura. The black flames were way better. The giant red poof isn't evil, just an eye sore. I thought it was amazing at first...It's just to big..and red... When I think of dark knight, I see batman...ermmm, darkness. The black flames were looking perfect... The community clearly feels that it was better. Just change it back =P

I'd like to know how those wavy lines are little. Secondly, don't say we shouldn't be playing games if an effect begins to physically hurt having to look at. That's entirely the developer's fault and, in this case, also the player being inconsiderate with the skill. If it hurts to look at the other, more prominent flashing from combat, we turn it off. That's not the case with darkside so it's more of an issue.

[FallenArisen0990]

Watch, all this is gonna backfired and both sides are gonna lose this pointless war.