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    Velox's Avatar
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    Velo'a Nharoz
    World
    Mateus
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    Scholar Lv 90
    Color blindness is most common amongst men at 8% of the total world population (and as high as 13% in countries with a predominately white population). Adversely, only 0.5% of the total female world population has some form of color blindness. Color deficiencies generally have the greatest concentration in white males, and the most common form of color vision deficiency in the world is red/green. Since a large number of gamers are both white and male (largest of all groups/subgroups), any changes made would be with these people in mind. This is why the red AoE indicator was scrapped for an orange one.

    Other forms of color blindness are much, much rarer, and usually not worth the time-cost investment.
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    Surian's Avatar
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    Limsa
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    Surian Bedivere
    World
    Behemoth
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 90
    *bump*

    Still want to know if this is going to happen anytime soon or is atleast being worked on.

    Extremely anoying in some areas. Being able to set the color to a few additional options would quickly fix that :/
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    Ayukawa Madoka
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    Excalibur
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 90
    The change from red to orange was to have a color that's a blend for less colorblind people to be unable to notice. The pulsing was added on top of that for even the most severe colorblind people to be able to notice.
    I'm not colorblind at all but the orange can be hard to see in some maps, but the pulsing still lets me know there's something on the ground and I should get out of it.

    Short of a slider for AoE colors (which would only work for generic ones) they've done many things to accommodate colorblind people without making aoes too blatantly obvious. Things like the lines on Chirada/suparna in garuda for instance
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