BLM Simple Job Gauge: Colorblind Issue with Astral Fire/Umbral Ice

[Punchatrain]

The color difference between Astral Fire and Umbral Ice for the simple job gauge on BLM are really hard to tell apart for someone like me who has colorblindness. The devs tend to be pretty good on recognizing colorblindness accessibility issues in the past, so I'm hoping to raise awareness of this to the devs in hope that they can address this.

[Kabooa]

shifting the ice squares 45 degrees would be a pretty easy fix, otherwise just giving them shapes

[Frizze]

Little flames or little snowflakes. Thats a pretty good idea. Simple drawing, could easily be implemented by 4.15.

[Shiroe]

I'd like a second timer for foul, .. to see exactly how many more sec till the next foul is ready... (in end raids every sec counts)

[Hasrat]

Shapes would defeat the purpose of simplified gauges. I mean, I get it, it would still be pretty simple. But on the backend, there's a bunch of jobs that use the same graphic, don't imagine they have any desire to complicate that.

Personally, I still don't really see the need for the gauge anyway, what with the orbs floating around the character to begin with.

But more on point, yeah, colors could be distinguished better.

[Sylvain]

I can't use the basic one because of that

[Shiroe]

shifting the ice squares 45 degrees would be a pretty easy fix, otherwise just giving them shapes

that would be a fast fix (and for umbra hearts, maybe just over lap the square (fire) with the diamond (ice) shapes to get a "star" (umbra) shape)

but little fires or suns and snowflakes or ice drops (besides hearts) would be cute too...

[MagiusNecros]

Didn't they say we would have the option of having it the old way without the gauge? Just having the buffs or icons up at the top of the screeen again? Or was that a lie?

[Ashbury]

Little flames or little snowflakes. Thats a pretty good idea. Simple drawing, could easily be implemented by 4.15.

The little snowflake already exist on the SAM simplified gauge too.

[Luxpheras]

Greetings, black mages!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts regarding the color blind user experience with the simplified BLM job gauge. We've passed this information along to the dev. team, and they're planning on adjusting the simple gauge in the future so that color blind users can better differentiate between Astral Fire and Umbral Ice.

We appreciate the feedback!