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

[Ryan77k]

So, it's now been over 2 years since DRK's inception, and the general feeling among the community that the Darkside animation is severely underwhelming for what it is, especially compared to other "aura" effects for other jobs (such as DRG's BotD and WAR's Inner Release). And don't even get me started on how WAR gets glowing red eyes, while DRK doesn't get glowy orange eyes.

So I'm just wondering, can we please, please revisit the idea of getting an updated effect that isn't just little red streaks floating about your character?

[Frost_Trunks]

TIL my eyes glow red as WAR on IR. Because I pay that much attention. (sarcasm)

[Kumori_Kumo]

TIL my eyes glow red as WAR on IR. Because I pay that much attention. (sarcasm)

Dude that was legitimately one of my favorite additions of this expansion. It looks awesome.

[Valenth]

I would love the black flames that was in the initial reveal, but unless they completely reprogram how said effects are displayed on, amongst other things, mounts I'm afraid we won't be getting it. And you know how things go in reprogramming. Change one thing, affect ten others. With the time-constraints the FFXIV team most likely has, they're having to make choices. I can understand them putting this on the long-burner, if even that.

[Reynhart]

I would love the black flames that was in the initial reveal, but unless they completely reprogram how said effects are displayed on, amongst other things, mounts I'm afraid we won't be getting it.

They could make all effect disappear while mounted. Or Darkside only displays when the weapon is unsheathed, like the weapon glowing effects.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Wait, WAR eyes glow red in IR? I never noticed, was distracted by the giant red glowing aura that screams, "Come and die!" If WAR eyes do glow red that's cool.

[Awful]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ui...ature=youtu.be

You can even do this in Delta 3 which is awesome.

[BluexBird]

OK but... Inner Release lasts for 20 seconds...

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ui...ature=youtu.be

You can even do this in Delta 3 which is awesome.

Basically what happens to me whenever I do V3 normal and forget it's the very first thing she does. -_-

[Xenosan]

OK but... Inner Release lasts for 20 seconds... Doesn't Darkside last forever?

Yep. this.

Would be nice to have visual effects for other CDs though, that add the blue/black flames, or whatever, that blend into with Darkside's translucent canvas.

Like if DRK got a UI widget for stacks of Dark Arts - hence blue flames added while DA(s) is up, other flames or whatever during Blood Weapon / Price, Delirium (if it left a buff). Somewhat illustrates an issue facing DRK, where there isn't a whole lot stacking of multiple buffs compared to other jobs.

[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.