I noticed this yesterday while zerging the instigators, some people have this kind of multi-coloured aura coming from their chestpieces while others don’t. It’s more visible on the slender-built (human, sylvari) characters. This is while they’re standing still. Moreover, while running, approximately every second, there seems to be puffs of blue smoke from the affected characters.
I haven’t narrowed down a single commonality that would attribute to this; it’s not a boon or a condition, it’s not errant weapon or backpiece particle effects, etc. so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas, or if they’d noticed it as well… perhaps someone from Anet can chime in and tell us what it’s all about.
The old-school Arrow-Key warrior.
“Obtaining a legendary should be done through legendary feats…
Not luck and credit cards.”
Pic #1: As my character is moving, a blue puff of (smoke?) emerges. This has nothing to do with the armour, weapon or backpiece.
Pic #2: The same blue smoke puff further away (hard to get a good shot of it)
Pic #3: I’ve outlined in red the types of effects I’m seeing, some others have seen it as well, but not the majority of people yet. “Pink Cotton Candy” for instance, has this same glow when not moving as I do, but due to the small character it’s more visible on that character than it is on me, where you can only just see it under the arms.
Pic #4: A closer look at the same effect on the character next to me shows a multi-coloured glow emitting from the chest.
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The old-school Arrow-Key warrior.
“Obtaining a legendary should be done through legendary feats…
Not luck and credit cards.”
Hmm, definitely plausible. I tried this a number of times, both not going closer than I had to to get the chest open, and going right up to the chest. It seems the effect comes from being close to the chest.
I can’t find any other reason why it would happen, other than this supposed glitch.
The old-school Arrow-Key warrior.
“Obtaining a legendary should be done through legendary feats…
Not luck and credit cards.”
I noticed this as well today in Southsun. I actually redid my equipment several times trying to track down what was the cause, as I figured it might be one of the new back pieces or something.
I tried changing my graphics settings, to see if it would change things, but it was still visible.
I thought perhaps it was a visual effect for the Gold or MF buffs from the negotiators, but I ran out of time to test this theory. (Unlikely I know.)
Just a strange pinkish purple cloud that emits from my character.
Tarnished Coast Engineer and… general alt-o-holic.
Well on Friday night I did the same thing as I was doing last night except with none of the negotiator’s buffs and that’s when I noticed it the first time. So it isn’t related to any other boon or condition. I saw the zerg running from one event to another and we were all emitting these puffs of blue smoke from behind us about once a second so it appears we were all very close to the chest.
The old-school Arrow-Key warrior.
“Obtaining a legendary should be done through legendary feats…
Not luck and credit cards.”
Speaking of effects. My character tends to have an aura which can be described as tiny orange bubbles drifting upwards. Anyone know what this means? My toon is a female warrior with a GWAMM title. I remember it being mentioned in a you tube video by the first guy wielding a dusk but he did not know what it was either.
I thought it was my backpiece because it only showed up for me when I had my tentacle backpack equiped but now that I ascended it I don’t see it anymore so I guess I was being to presumptuous.
I do only see this if I’m near or have recently done the instigator events, so I suppose it’s related. Perhaps it’s a buff/debuff specific to the events that they felt like giving a graphic for whatever reason (maybe loot related?) or it could be a glitch with something applied to us like that ‘pitch’ fire stuff (which totally should have had a separate icon to regular fire. So annoying when you first blow a bunch of condition removals on it, then are like ‘the hell is this?’ and mouse over it only to see it’s not what it looks like).
Yeah I get the purple aura when I get the Consortium gold buff. Can’t recall if the other buff gives a color effect though.
Not sure why you would have it without the buff though. I think it might just radiate a bit off people. The effect could of just gotten stuck too when your buff wore off.
