Dark Knight Black Flame-like Aura?

[NocX7]

so why does Egi-Ifrit's fire trail not cause problems?

Now that you mention the egi it reminds me how summoners have tried for so long to get SE to change how the egi look yet it seems that will never happen.

My hope is that they'll change how the darkside aura looks due to all the ppl complaining how it looks and there being other auras in game that could could just copy paste on us.

[Allyrion]

That's unfortunate.

I'm sure they could've made it look it. They probably just couldn't afford the development time to do the physics.
They should still be able to work on it, but it's probably scrapped.

[Ditto]

Warriors with Wrath, even when mounted and moving, looks completely fine.

I'm sure they can make the black flames look fine too. Of all reasons for why it was removed... This one just doesn't make any sense at all.

[dragoelete]

if they cant give us the black flames then why not give us the hazy blackish purple flames that the ascians have when they use there spells...

[Captain_Flavor]

The only reason I can think of why the effect is the way it is now is that something happened during testing, and they had to downgrade it to something that didn't crash/slow down certain versions of the game (PS3 perhaps?).

[Ditto]

The only reason I can think of why the effect is the way it is now is that something happened during testing, and they had to downgrade it to something that didn't crash/slow down certain versions of the game (PS3 perhaps?).

PS3 is beyond help at this point, I think SE is even starting to feel that way.

I mean it's been 2 years since PS4 came out.

[OliviaBadger]

"Greetings,

We've been getting a lot of questions regarding the black flame aspect of the Darkside effect that was shown off in the job actions video and how it changed for release. The first thing to note is that the video showcased graphics and animations that were still under development. While the black flame animation looked great while standing still, it began to look very unnatural in many other instances, such as moving or while mounted, and so on. As such the dev. team decided to remove this aspect of the effect."

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3172110

From a Dev from the other thread about this. It's not happening

[TouchandFeel]

That dev reponse has already been posted in this thread.

Also keep in mind, that post is simply an explanation as to why the black flame aspect of the effect was removed for launch and why that specific effect would not be brought back.

The Darkside fx being looked at and possibly reworked is still on the table. Iirc the last that was said about it being changed was that it would be brought up with the VFX lead.

[OliviaBadger]

Well, i can live with no black flames, but the giant red aura is a massive eye sore. I can't stand having it on any time im not in battle

[dragoelete]

i personally rather like the red aura... i just wish it was more intense and visable... and more tight to the character and not a giant cloud of doom and gloom hanging around me...