[suggestion] visual status effects. e.g sleep bubble for sleep!

i do not know if this has been asked and i have looked around but, i would like to post a suggestion onto having more visual effects for status debuffs, so far we have a purple haze for heavy/desese.

a few ideas i have is like,

a sleeping bubble when someone is asleep ( -w-)<()
the old final fantasy effect of poison the green popping bubble by the head,
blind, the black haze infront of the face,
paralized: small lightning sparks going over the body,
and doom a ticking number above the characters head

the reasons i bring this up is i do use the debuff bar and i do notice the debuffs, but more often then naught in the heat of battle i do not notice nor do my healers notice the debuffs, on players, plus this could also make fighting seem more like the classic final fantasies with the old school visual effects so players running past can see if the monster or the player needs help.

tell me your thoughts
thanks for reading :D

¬draco ixtar :D


EDIT1: I found out in 1.0 some monsters would fall asleep randomly and have the sleep bubble infant of them

I think it'll be better if the party member name changed purple, red or some other color than blue in the party list to let us know they have a debuff that can be cured with esuna.

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

EDIT1: I found out in 1.0 some monsters would fall asleep randomly and have the sleep bubble infant of them

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Only the Karakul, if i remember it right
http://fr.xfire.com/video/3a1128/

Oh, and Snails started their AoE out of the blue without going aggro at you, if you ran other them

Not in game atm but I'm fairly certain sleep already has a visual effect. I agree all debuffs should have an effect though :), party names changing color when debuffed is an interesting idea too.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Not in game atm but I'm fairly certain sleep already has a visual effect. I agree all debuffs should have an effect though :), party names changing color when debuffed is an interesting idea too.

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All sleep does snore bubbles at the time of infliction, and your character just holds their head down with little to no movement.

It seems pretty weird that stun has absolutely no visual/animated indicator since you literally just stand there, or when my character is running uncontrollably due to hysteria or frozen with fear....they do it with a straight face and in their usual jogging (strutting if you're a female midlander...) animation.

Iirc, sleep does have a very slight visual effect, something like little bubbles coming off the mobs head or something like that, not very noticeable at all in battle.

Anyways, more feedback for status effects would be awesome as it would make it much easier to quickly spot and register the state of party members and enemies while keeping your eyes on the action and not on tiny little icons.

Bind puts a yellow circle around the legs of those who have it.

About the sleeping sheep: it wasn't something they randomly did or some animation for putting them to sleep with spells/items, it was a move that they used. It would go to sleep and have the sleep bubble pop up which would put players to sleep and you would have to hit them to wake them up before the sleep bubble popped and would do AOE damage.

i'd love visual effects.. but i imagine the response from devs would be server load