Guild Wars 2

Hi guys. First of all, I want to say that Anet’s art team is amazing. My number one favorite area in the game is the Living Season 2: Hidden Arcana, where the player explores Glint's lair, which is made of beautiful iridescent crystalline architecture. I turned off my HUD and took an ungodly number of screenshots to play through that mission.

The Herald’s ground icon showing upkeep facets is a good idea that is liked by many. However, I think the current art used for it looks like a cartoonish UI placeholder. The iridescence is lovely, but it looks like it came straight out of a flashplayer game. GW2 created a fantastic “painterly aesthetic” that has been stuck to consistently for three years, so it seems odd to have such a jarring departure from that artistic style used in a key feature of a new profession.

I propose updating the ground icon to make even more sense lorewise: base it on the crystal assets created for Hidden Arcana and increase the transparency.

The icon itself could be subtle and translucent, with the facet icons that toggle on/off glowing brightly for visibility. As it stands currently, the facet icons are not visible or useful enough to justify it as part of the UI and not painterly or lore-appropriate enough to justify it as an artistic touch (my opinion, which I’m sure many disagree with).

That’s my two cents!

While I agree with you on this, I think this might have been something that should have been brought up a bit sooner then… five days before the expansion. >,<

I do agree with you though, I love the colors and all that, but the overall look of the Facets just don’t fit much.

Sarif.1827:

While I agree with you on this, I think this might have been something that should have been brought up a bit sooner then… five days before the expansion. >,<

I do agree with you though, I love the colors and all that, but the overall look of the Facets just don’t fit much.

Oh, but we did bought it up: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Herald-s-horrifying-ground-effect

Sarif.1827:

While I agree with you on this, I think this might have been something that should have been brought up a bit sooner then… five days before the expansion. >,<

I do agree with you though, I love the colors and all that, but the overall look of the Facets just don’t fit much.

It has been. A number of people have asked to just keep the line art and remove the colored section in the middle.

Just wanted to chime in with my support. As said, this concern has been brought up quite a few times but strangely good ol Roy didn’t respond to it. Hes problably too much overtime.

The herald ground icon is indeed quite large and its color mass is so clear that it’s hard to not stare at it, stealing your attention away from whats truly important. The other outer icons doesnt resemble any known icons so i dont see their use either, theyre just further adding to the nuisance. All in all it would be great to just tone down the center/make it more transperant.

If this could be done many would surely have better days :-)

Don’t change it Roy. I like it exactly the way it is.

Hm..that thing never bothered me tbh.

Well, I stand corrected.

Never mind me then, carry on fellow mistwalkers.

My only trouble with it is the persistant blue background circle.
it should just be the glint symbol beneath you, there is no need for this permanent blue circle that just looks like a 2001-game-icon

I don’t mind the blue circle, it could just be made more transparent, like a faint glow rather than a solid blue circle

I personally like the idea behind the symbol, but definitely feel like the effect pulls attention away from the actual character the way it is now. And in a game where aesthetics is such a big thing that kinda sucks.

I could see taking the center circle out, but I’d want the outer segments left exactly as they are. Love them (and expect to love them more when I get used to reading which is which.