As a mesmer, I have to disagree. Love my skill effects, though I wouldn’t be against making them even better.
as a warrior i would like to complain about my stale skill effects. Thank you for reading.
No offense, but you probably should of thought about that before you chose the most generic class in MMOs. How cool can hitting something with a club look?
no contact skills look like gw2. In contact theres added effects.
Its not hard to put blood or other various effects upon hit. Even the bow skills look lame. It may be generic but a lot of games have put effects in to every class. Instead of leaving one out because ‘’its so generic bro’’
This one has done it right too(turn off music unless you like overused songs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRh6Ai79lI0
The problem i see is that your trying to compare completely different art styles with your youtube videos. Such as :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRh6Ai79lI0 your trying to point out the use of lights on every attack. Those light effects take a lot especially to make them work well with the art design.
If you cared to notice the game shown has poor environmental detail and more on the players. GW2 has far more detail in the environment and in your character rendering than that game.
Those are unneeded effects that do not convey any information and would cause a lot more issues in this game compared to those games. That game is using a standard static combat where the dodging and block are up to probability. GW2 is a dynamic combat game and like other dynamic combat games do not have flashy graphics on every skill as it places unnecessary work on the servers/client. As well it would make combat harder to view as your closer to the battle.
If you noticed in the video the camera is all the way back and above the character. This allows less distraction from flashy skills, and you don’t need to be aware of when to dodge since it is tied to a probability. GW2 you need to know when to dodge but if all you can see if a big flashy skill that you cast than you are just killing yourself.
Skills are plain in this game to reduce system load and to make attacks obvious. As well spell effects on skills are limited to the weapons rather than the skills.
Skills are plain for only those classes made to be plane. Engis can light up the world along with guards. Gotta tell ppl to not use flashy attacks sometimes because you cant even see what you’re trying to hit.
Some classes have overly thrown effects where others have none.
As for that game its pretty old and it dosen’t share the same art style of gw2, but gw2 isnt full realistic. It’s half and half. Because of the effects on all the classes have flashy things.
Warrior has the least. Theif comes before war and so on. Even thief has attacks with effects. I mean if a warrior can throw a sword thats almost as big as him. You might want to put some effects on that or it looks silly. The trail effects on every warrior skill are the most lazily done.
Im not here to argue or anything but sure effects aren’t needed because they don’t fit gw2s art style. Which is why the other classes shouldn’t have over the top effects if not all classes can get em.
Keep it fair or leave it to no where.
) We thrive when it comes to Roaming and small group play. If you need someone to roam with, shoot me a whisper in WvW. There’s plenty of activity in our wvw, you just need to know where to be. (Don’t go to EB, that’s kind of hopeless right now). ALSO, do not “axe” t8 servers. That’s a terrible idea. I came to Kaineng from Yaks, which before I was in BG a long time ago. The lack of ques and small group roaming is great. We are low tier because we don’t have numbers, it’s not a lack of skilled players