Glowing weapons

Glowing weapons on the condition my armor is glowing as well, I wanna be like a moving ball of light.

Whats that!? UFO!?

Nah, thats just a Lalafell wearing glowing armor.

I'd support this under the conditions that it is used as an aura effect on the weapon that lingers after connecting with the enemy. I'd vote for enspells having this effect.

waaw glowing weapons! omg this is what i've wanted all along!!! omg!

Can we get shoulder pads with demon wings and lightning smoke as well?

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

Uh... no, they aren't. This is a fantasy game with magic. Glowing things couldn't be any more at home in such a setting.

Besides, a "glow" is nothing more than light, and there is no such thing as a game where light looks out of place.

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Just because it's fantasy doesn't mean glowing weapons automatically fit. These things have sub genres. That's like saying light sabres would be at home in Star Trek.

Glowing weapons are more fitting of fairytale fantasy. XIV is more of a high fantasy thing. If a sword does glow, it's because it's an ancient one of a kind deal that just would not do well in an MMO unless an NPC used it. Think sting in LotR.

Seeing 20 or so guys running around with Ifrit's Butter Knife kinda ruins its importance as an ancient weapon of great power.

If something is cool, it is cool, anything well executed in entertaining to me. While rainu wow pic looks kind of over the top, the aion scythe looks pretty well designed. soooo, yeah. Long as they have options, its all good. I honestly would love some burning fists on a monk type charachter.

dude dont u guys know that frodo glowed in the dark and Gandalf was a 100Watt lightbulb, seriously. If we cant have glowing weapons in a fantasy setting, what CAN we have? Next thing you'll be telling me my spiky shoulder pads and angel wings of doom are TACKY!

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Originally Posted by gifthorse

dude dont u guys know that frodo glowed in the dark and Gandalf was a 100Watt lightbulb, seriously. If we cant have glowing weapons in a fantasy setting, what CAN we have? Next thing you'll be telling me my spiky shoulder pads and angel wings of doom are TACKY!

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you know something about real settings, they have a bunch of crap that you find tacky in it. If you go to the store, not everything there is for you, you may find hawaian shirts tacky, but guess what some people wear em all the time. Its ridiculous that you think a game that is supposed to span at least 4 different cultures, is all going to have the same visual bias. I see glow in the dark crap all over black shroud, heck even trees glow, i dont think its that crazy that some gridanian might say, damn im gonna through some glowy magic shit on that sword, because we just like glowy magic shit.

think of the amount of different cultures that have used body paint or tattoos, and the variety between them, do you really think if dudes could make shit glow reliably, they wouldnt put that stuff on gear?
We got dudes in this game who put gemstones into their heads. why is luminescence the end of the world

I'm in the black shroud right now.

The only things I've seen glow are a few lanterns.

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Originally Posted by Physic

If something is cool, it is cool, anything well executed in entertaining to me. While rainu wow pic looks kind of over the top, the aion scythe looks pretty well designed. soooo, yeah. Long as they have options, its all good. I honestly would love some burning fists on a monk type charachter.

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The Aion weapon isnt that bad of a glow, but the way WoW does it is the way many other MMORPGs do it, and glowing weapons really just aren't as great as the bare metal weapons we currently have. I like the weapons in FFXIV the way they are just come up with some more designs. I can easily see a water-elemental Sword being introduced similar to Tidus's Brotherhood. Transparent, unique... It can easily be done without havng to resort to using the flametongue sword model and making it glow a blue color.

Glowing weapons will allow for a company to be dull and non-creative with their games. I think we are trying to direct FFXIV in the opposite direction, aren't we?