Guild Wars 2

Can we be allowed to change SOME of the spell effect colors? You can apply this to most any class, but in particular I want to address the guardian. I want to play more of an evil-looking guardian with some dark looking armor. What I find is the immersion is broken when I do any kind of attack and every spell effect is bright blue (in my mind implying a “good” alignment). I would like it possible to change the color of the spell effects into some neutral or evil “looking” colors. For example, maybe having a choice to change your default spell color to just white, black, red, or blue. Same goes with some of the same necromancer and mesmer spells. I would love for my mesmer to have white or green combo fields or butterflies.

Not saying allow a full spectrum, but just allow a few extra colors of color so we can coordinate some cosmetics…thnx!

While i agree this would be awesome (my main is also a guard) , i understand there will be implications to SPvP and thus i hardly believe we will see this implemented.

But who knows , if Anet thinks there is money to be had , they might go for it.

Wow, I am truly interested in what implications this would have to sPVP.
Would people be confused by what class you are based on the spell effect you have?

Brazensage.1328:

Wow, I am truly interested in what implications this would have to sPVP.
Would people be confused by what class you are based on the spell effect you have?

Heh im tired so i will give a quick idea only.

What you should focus is not on the class , which is easy to see , but the skill they use.

For example lets say there is many players fighting + a guard and a mesmer , now lets assume Anet allows guard to make his skill pink.

His fields and such can confuse players , we know it is hard to see much already with all the effects this game got. Imagine now , if those effects were similar to the eye.

Like 2 pink combos fields , but one is mesmer , one is guard. This is an example with mesmer/guard you can fit other classes doing stuff like this.

This is just an idea that came to my mind , there are counter? yes there are , but they would again bring discussion , for example:

Lets say Anet gives each class 1 other color they can pick , then people will ask why class X got the color they wanted , lets say guard skill can become white and mesmer is the one that takes the red color.

Edit: On a side note you can add that you dont want it to be added to SPvP , guess that covers for any problem , leaving only the cost to create this having to be greatly payed by the people that will buy it.

either leaving it out of PVP or only allowing a max of 2 or 3 color variations that don’t conflict with other classes might solve it. For example:
-Guardian: Blue or Red
-Mesmer: Purple or Orange
-Necro: Black or Green
etc.

This would be brilliant for people who are motivated by desires to be immersed in the world, customise their characters, and role play by participation or chat. Once again this would new ground for the MMORPG genre.

My hope would be that this would not be a Gem-expensive thing to adjust and re-adjust. At most I’d accept an item that has multiple charges, each charge allowing a complete overhaul in one use, with the charge only being consumed x amount of time after it is used or the option to reset and therefore refund the charge (so the customisation can be trialled before committed to).

While I like this idea (I’d like my necro to have red effects), someone has already stated the obvious reason why it won’t happen…

Combo Fields

We don’t have profession specific armor like we did in GW1 which means unless you are clicking on every player or paying close attention to the weapon sets, you need those colors to do your combos right.