Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about you guys & gals, but I feel annoyed at seeing Pink Butterflies everywhere when I take Mesmer seriously! I’m not usually one to complain about default class styles, but seriously: I would much prefer a Consumable item in the Gem Store to be able to choose from a selection of colours within the Default Profession’s colour spectrum, to change the colour of their Spells/Skills so possibly a Purpley Colour or a nice Scarlet Red for Mesmer… I would pay Gems for that, I don’t know about you people, but it’s something I’d recommend to be put in seasonally for each professions colour Range!

… What I mean by colour range is basically the shades of each Profession’s default colour in relation to Seasons… So, a Guardian with their Icy-Blue Spells could have a Consumable Colour-Changer released in the Winter months, or on special occasions like Christmas.

I feel the Pros of this are money income for ANet in terms of serving more diverse play-styles, not just from builds, Gear stats, blahblahblah, but more of a Cosmetic Play Changer… Could well attract customers wanting a change like me
The only Con I can see from this is it being seen as useless, or even a waste of money (especially if it would cost about 1,000 Gems)-this is arguably down to preference though, as could be said about the Armour Skins. But I also feel some people would think it will tear away from the entire ‘you choose what you get’ concept, if you know what I mean-Guardian: expect Blue Flames, relation to Cleansing; Ranger: expect Green in relation to Nature… But the Colour Changers could be related to the original colours but just in different Shades… Just a thought I assumed would be good to mention I guess.

>Apologies if this Thread was already made!!!!!’<

I put this here as an example to what feedback can be given in relation to it affecting a Mesmer Profession and their Colour Scheme, in order to relate later to other Professions… FEEL FREE TO SHARE FROM BOTH SIDES!

I would totally make Goku and shoot a kamehameha out of my greatsword

Nyan cat greatsword beam!!!!!!!

Yeah, I think it would be good – give another option for players to give some uniqueness to their character.

Having said that I’d probably still stick with pink because I like pink!

I’d finally be able to take Charr Mesmer seriously!

There were requests a few months back…but the fanboys ridiculed everyone who said they wanted the option for new spells for God knows amounts of stupid reasons including them not being ‘man enough’ to handle pink and breaking immersion. That’s right….breaking immersion…with people with holographic dragon wings, tentacles, minis, quaggan back packs, everyone being the only commander of the only pact in Tyria and a complete sex change in the shop they’re talking about breaking immersion by having different coloured particle effects.

+1 for option to change colour effects (you know it won’t happen though right?).

Nothing is more humiliating than getting killed by glamorous pink glitter and butterflies.

Just sayin.

I’m all for more diversity, but I’d probably stick with pink/purple.
Don’t see this happening anytime soon though, since Anet wants the skill effects of every class visually distinct. Introducing a range of colors to each class would necesserarily “blur” those distinctions.

Hopefully it’s near the bottom of their ‘to-do list’ if anything then ;3

So long as all available colours are shades of pink and purple, that’d be ok with me.

Reason:
It’s part of how you identify a Mesmer. Our spell effects are quite distinct. I think this is an underdeveloped concept actually, it works for Necro, Mesmer and partially Thief and Guardian. It lacks development for the other four classes.

It is something carried over from GW1, where you could tell who’s casting what and if it’s worth interrupting just by looking at the spell effect(s). It worked really well but hasn’t carried over well into GW2 simply because so many spells are massively flashy and interrupting key skills is more niche than it was back then.

Easiest way to identify a Profession now is to select them. you can then see their buffs, which can often give away what type of build they’re running too, especially when you take a look at the weapon set they’re sporting. Observation on that scale makes a much larger impact than what colour the butterflies or fire trails are.
If anything, allowing more customisation of our UI layout and size would help much more with that, even if it is just something as simple as being able to move elements around and resizing them as we see fit, much like we had in GW1.

Colour changes to skill effects is something I can get behind for deeper character differentiation. It would be something to get used to, but in the end you’ll always know that a guardian can’t cast a feedback nor can an elementalist channel cleansing flame.

I allways wanted red necro spells and sometimes yellow for mesmer or guard. Oh my

Here we go again…..

My only concern, though, is that WvW would look like a rainbow unicorn barfing all over the field.

Personally, i wouldn’t want that. Would make it way too hard to keep an overview in a fight. If they should ever do this, than it should be for the person using it only.

Iavra.8510:

Personally, i wouldn’t want that. Would make it way too hard to keep an overview in a fight. If they should ever do this, than it should be for the person using it only.

Or an option to toggle on/off as with team colours.

Curunen.8729:

Iavra.8510:

Personally, i wouldn’t want that. Would make it way too hard to keep an overview in a fight. If they should ever do this, than it should be for the person using it only.

Or an option to toggle on/off as with team colours.

This is actually the better option as it would still allow someone to “boast” with their color.

As with team colors, i would like this to default to standard colors.

Iavra.8510:

Curunen.8729:

Iavra.8510:

Personally, i wouldn’t want that. Would make it way too hard to keep an overview in a fight. If they should ever do this, than it should be for the person using it only.

Or an option to toggle on/off as with team colours.

This is actually the better option as it would still allow someone to “boast” with their color.

As with team colors, i would like this to default to standard colors.

YES. YES. Makes sense for ANet to add this now. Thank you for the feedback!!!