Dark Knight Black Flame-like Aura?

[Kotemon]

Right now if its an accepted bug then odds are it could take as long as it took to put weapons in the hands of Gigas back in FFXI. If It doesn't negatively affect game play so there's no rush. It could be either a layering issue or a rendering glitch to be stable between platforms. Right now I'm hoping the black flame aura would be better to look at than that red swirly things the Darks are running around with.

[R-Kine]

I'd be super surprised if this gets fixed at all.

[NocX7]

Right now if its an accepted bug then odds are it could take as long as it took to put weapons in the hands of Gigas back in FFXI. If It doesn't negatively affect game play so there's no rush. It could be either a layering issue or a rendering glitch to be stable between platforms. Right now I'm hoping the black flame aura would be better to look at than that red swirly things the Darks are running around with.

At this point I'm not even asking when they'll fix it.I'm just asking for confirmation that this is being worked on at all.

[NocX7]

Another thing that enforces the theory that this is a bug to be fixed and not just a removed effect is the fact that both reports were moved to accepted bug forums and not to working as intended even a month later.

[NocX7]

I got some semi-good news.I happened to find a japanese article from one of the reporters that played a demo of Heavensward inside that castle in Europe they were gonna do a live letter from last May.In it,he mentions his experience playing the demo and trying some classes including dark knight.

In the dark knight section,he mentions how the Darkside aura does in fact give you the black flames and he even took some pictures.The pictures clearly show the Dark Knight with the black flames but NOT wearing the AF2 armor.Instead the dark knight was wearing a full set of law tome gear.

This means a few things:

1.The black flames are NOT part of the AF2 armor (for those who were worried about that possibility)
2.The black flames are indeed part of the Darkside aura.
3.This is 100% a bug since both bug reports on the missing black flames were moved to the "accepted bugs" forum and not to the "working as intended" section even a month later.

I'll try to post the pictures and link to the article if I can later.

[Ditto]

I got some semi-good news.I happened to find a japanese article from one of the reporters that played a demo of Heavensward inside that castle in Europe they were gonna do a live letter from last May.In it,he mentions his experience playing the demo and trying some classes including dark knight.

In the dark knight section,he mentions how the Darkside aura does in fact give you the black flames and he even took some pictures.The pictures clearly show the Dark Knight with the black flames but NOT wearing the AF2 armor.Instead the dark knight was wearing a full set of law tome gear.

This means a few things:

1.The black flames are NOT part of the AF2 armor (for those who were worried about that possibility)
2.The black flames are indeed part of the Darkside aura.
3.This is 100% a bug since both bug reports on the missing black flames were moved to the "accepted bugs" forum and not to the "working as intended" section even a month later.

I'll try to post the pictures and link to the article if I can later.

I just really hope it wasn't something that they decided to scrap at some point between the Europe demo, and the demo given at E3.

Because that is where it seemed to have gone missing, and it doesn't seem right that they would just let a bug like that stay on one of the new, popular classes. Especially one that people are going to try out during the E3 demo.

And especially not for as long as it's been right now. That'd be like advertising an iPhone in white and black, but when it comes out and you get there to buy it, it only comes in pink and green.

[R-Kine]

I honestly think that it's been scrapped. There has been a number of hotfixes and patches, this thread has been going on for a while and this has not been addressed. SE seems to ignore threads that they don't plan on doing something about.

If it doesn't get fixed on the next patch, I doubt it ever will.

[NocX7]

If it was scrapped and it's supposed to stay like it is right now,those 2 reports would be in the "working as intended" forum.I think there's just a lot of other bugs to fix because of the new expansion and this isn't a priority thus it might take some time until they find time to fix it.

All I'm asking for is confirmation that is being worked on.Otherwise it would mean their bug forum system is useless and doesn't represent what they really think/will do about the reports.I doubt they would be that unprofessional.

[dark494]

If it was scrapped and it's supposed to stay like it is right now,those 2 reports would be in the "working as intended" forum.I think there's just a lot of other bugs to fix because of the new expansion and this isn't a priority thus it might take some time until they find time to fix it.

All I'm asking for is confirmation that is being worked on.Otherwise it would mean their bug forum system is useless and doesn't represent what they really think/will do about the reports.I doubt they would be that unprofessional.

There are hundreds of reports in accepted bugs forums that never see the light of day. It's really just a repository of reports that have the correct template, pretty much the only step in their process flow they adhere to, to keep up appearances. SE does not consistently utilize their system as intended, as the forum is filled with reports from up to 2+ years ago, many of which are actual bugs that eventually got fixed but the report was ignored, others staled until today and are never addressed. They don't follow their own process laid out in their flow sticky, so nobody really knows just what they're actually addressing.

[TouchandFeel]

I truly hope it gets fixed.
It's visually intrusive when it shouldn't be, out of combat, and completely disappears when it should be noticeable, in combat, due to being lost in all the other effects going off. Just use Salted Earth and stand in it with Darkside on, its very difficult to see the effect even if you are looking for it. I find this especially irritating since Darkside can turn itself off. The effect should not only be there to look cool, but needs to function as quick and easy visual feedback that Darkside is up.