It's Time for That Talk Again [Darkside Animation]

[Lyth]

Doesn't Darkside last forever? Like until you turn it off? It'd be unfair if Dark Knights got some cool animation for the entirety of the fight. It'd be like Warriors glowing red for the whole fight. Which would be cute, especially on my Lala.

Actually, both WAR and DRK have had permanent passive auras since their respective releases. WAR's aura becomes brighter as your gauge level increases, while DRK has a flickering red cloth effect to show that Darkside is active. Both are permanent. DRK's was originally brighter to make sure that the player knew that it was active, but was toned down because people felt that it was too intrusive. That being said, they've created a number of different in game auras for DRK which are NPC exclusive and are more visible without spanning most of the screen.

The community keeps asking about DRK's aura because the devs have consistently teased at it but not followed through. The original job actions reveal in HW showed a very different DRK aura that a lot of the playerbase liked:



Likewise, the job storyline for DRK features a different aura as well, also not available to the player, but available to NPCs.



It's worth noting that the glowing eye effect associated with Inner Release was historically a part of the original DRK questline, two years ago, but was simply ported over to WAR because it looks cool.



Likewise, if you've been following along with the Hildebrand storyline:

I wonder when they'll stop teasing with the lore and actually follow through with it. It's not like they actually need to create anything new, because several of these are already in game and have clearly been linked to DRK.