Could we get darker nights like the ones with inky black potion as an option?

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So just in case you don’t know,inky black potion is something you can buy from darkmoon faire and it darkens the world around you,making nights actually look somewhat like nights should look like. The fact that it never gets even tiny bit dark in wow has been a personal pet peeve of mine basically since the game came out and this potion fixes that issue.

However in my honest opinion it’s a bit stupid to make us buy a potion from somewhat hidden vendor in order to basically fix a graphical issue. Why can’t this potion’s effect simply be an option in graphics settings? One good example where the game just looks dumb without this potion is the darkshore warfront. Everyone is walking around with torches even though the area is more bright than a clear summer afternoon.

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I’d make it an option to be toggled on or off, so people who don’t want to be bothered by the less visibility could simply set it to off

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I don’t know if i have seen wrong but nights seem darker in BFA zones than older ones. Last week hopped from SW to Boralus late on evening and was like “who turned off the lights?”. Anyone else noticed this?

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I mean yeah,that’s what option means.

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Yea my bad, sorry, I was thinking about the same reply a gave in another thread. I’m all for it!

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Yeah well, NO.

Lighting is an intensely personal thing.

For me, the game, particularly BfA zones, are too dark as they are. I seldom can play during the day, and with darkness both in the RW outside and in game, it’s just gritting on my nerves and driving winter depression levels.

However, the potion you have mentioned brings up an interesting issue - it proves that lighting intensity seems to be decided on the client-side. It is mindboggling why the mechanic isn’t already graded, and implemented for everyone as a configurable, permanent choice.

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Completely agree with OP. Current nights are nowhere near dark enough.
They were though during the early days like Vanilla, and from what I can tell the Inky Black Potion reproduces that, so at least we have a way of having that darkness back.
But yeah should be the default.

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i have 3000 in my bank…seriously, just go buy a bunch and use when you want to

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I would love for them to give us more options regarding night/day and weather effects.

I love the Inky potion and any of those quests that have put us into a proper black night.

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Really dark nights and also flashlights. And other lights you could use, like lanterns and headlights on your mounts, torches, street lights (like in dalaran) that get lighted up on evening. In WM trying to guess if the light coming closer to you from the distance is from enemy or friend. Special night time monsters in woods. Northen lights in the sky. Worgen howling at the moon. :waxing_crescent_moon:

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This is a really cool idea. Not sure about headlights though, on the vehicles like the goblin trike yes but… headlights on a drake? Or a horse? That’s just nuts! :stuck_out_tongue:

Love the idea about actual nights with streetlights though. Some better weather as well - I mean how about some actual snow in the snowy areas?

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Transmog a torch and it seems to be a light source already :slight_smile:

If we get dark dark nights, I would really like the game day to shorten to maybe 17-19 hours.

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I agree that dark nights would be awesome, that feeling in dark jungle in zuldazar, also some players could make use of their offhands which are glowing lamps etc. ^^

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More customisation would be awesome. Darker nights, brighter days, intense weather (remember when they introduced that in vanilla).

Sigh.

Yet they are spending their time removing portals. And metrics. Yea, that’s what’s important.

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And when it’s snowing you would see white elwynn forrest instead of green.

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Yeah no headlights for horses and such (except what engineers would build), animal mounts could have glowing eyes, lanterns, dragonfire and so on depending of type of the mount.

Would love to have real good weather effects too! Even ones that would physically affect your character a little bit (think of heavy winds, rain, how light would change when there is storm versus sunny day etc.).

And i would especially like if world would cahnge a little bit at night. Maybe humanoids would go in and ghosts would come out (ofc depending of the area and its habitants), special mobs spawning daytime and nightime, special nighttime quests popping up at night and so on.

Yeah it could be even shorter. There would have to be way it does not distrupt heavily people who can only play certain time of the day. Some would not like to be always at dark and some would feel bad they are already sleeping when cool nighty stuff starts to happen.

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Well that’s the thinking behind a 19 hour day. It’s still pretty slow, but it’s utterly out of sync with the actual day.

Let’s imagine you play 8pm your time. One day it happens to be dawn in-game. The next day, 8pm your time, it is late morning. The next day, it is late afternoon. You would tend to get a few days where you play a lot of night, and a few days where you play a lot of day, but the repeating pattern would be 456 hours long, and as such it might as well be “random” as to what in-game time it is when you play :slight_smile:

But yes, night time can’t be a massive disadvantage. This is exactly WHY it is now mostly about colour of light rather than amount; because when night is proper night, evening gamers have a much harder time of it and feel like the world is more claustrophobic than it really is. I would still like to see more daylight though :slight_smile:

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night is dark …if people want it lighter then they should be the ones buying the flipping potions…:stuck_out_tongue:

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I do like darker nights to but indeed for those only playing in the evening dark only can be bad . They should just go for a shorter day/night like ffxiv that it takes 2 hours for entire cycle so ppl see day /night even if they play late in the evening. Also cool effect you can see sun go up and down when you shorten the cycle .

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Good points Alewin! I think GW2 has day night cycle of 2 hours where you get bit over an hour of daylight, short times of dusk and dawn and bit less than hour of night. This seems also pretty working system, alltough darkness of the night varies a lot area by area there and some areas (some instances etc) have frozen time so it is always night or day (where required by athmosphere or story reasons).

I remember when wow had darker nights, i always loved them but my friend who could only play late on evenings was annoyed by having always to play in the dark. So while i personally would welcome permanent clock based dark nights i fully understand how annoying it would be for some.