Quote Originally Posted by Nuru View Post
Exactly. One thing I am sick of seeing is glowing shit in any MMORPG. I'd rather depict what rank somone is by the badass "design" of a weapon, rather than say "oh lulz you must be high level cuz ur weapons iz glowing purplez."
Then I propose something, which of course I like a lot, instead of colored clouds floating about points on equipment (ala WoW), have brightly colored sections in the design of weapons. This game has plenty of dark areas. I can not count how many times I run into walls and rocks around Gridania at night when it rains.

Imagine walking into some ordinary cave, and while your eyes (the camera in this case) adjusts to the difference in illumination, you see this shadowy outline of a character running towards your direction. This outline has segments of red, green, purple, pink or any color really which is bright on the weapon and not affected by shadowing so they always standout. To use WoW again as a reference, one of my favorite effects that they did was on the helms. The helms would hide the face, which is fine, but the neat thing was that in place of where the eyes were (or even fake eyes) they would have small glowing bits that would always stand out and intimidate others.

I suppose this could go wrong too. We could be playing a TRON game, or give people flashbacks to Batman & Robin w/ those neon and black lights.