Quote Originally Posted by Recon1o6 View Post
Generally no. Though there's a couple of spots where she does indeed become hard to spot with eulmore during fog and inside certain spots in gyr abania. But it does work well for the effect I go for her (namely intimidating dragon girl who learnt combat so she could explore dangerous ruins in search of history rather than save the damn world)

The lodestone/aetherial sea lighting is very dark and the character creator doesnt help with that blasted blue filter. However ff14's graphics arent so much dark as unsaturated and lacking in vibrancy. My ps4's tv is mounted high on a wall bracket so I got to use a backlight and on the laptop, I have my nvidia graphics filter to make the game much prettier. Between those two I probably don't see the same picture you do
A friend did send me a couple of screenshots of my character, and at times she's dark, but other times she lights up fairly well actually.
In the past before one of the updates I recall some character selections producing an option of literally jet black skin (think Mr. Popo from the Dragonball series that wasn't butcher edited by some company to show in the US) as a skin tone option.

The crystal thing is annoying at times when I run out of a specific element. Given the way crafting works in this game from an aesthetic stance they could probably go away since it's not item synthesis crafting like we had in FFXI where we created the item by channeling materials through a crystal which exploded if you failed. (still think you should have gotten some juice when failing a juice synth and had it blow up in your face)