Glowing weapons

[Sephr]

If it's on EVERY weapon in the entire freaking game, then yeah, it would lose a bit of its luster, since it would no longer be special. But as I pointed out earlier, even in WoW most of the equipment doesn't glow at all. Glowing effects are generally reserved for only a few weapons here and there, so that it remains special and unique.

Have you even played recently? Every weapon glows at 85. Those that dont naturally are guaranteed to be equipped with one of the blinding new level 85 enchants. Seriously, ever sword looks like a freaking lightning rod.

By the way, a lot of you guys must really hate the Fourth of July. All those vibrant colors, bright bursting lights, and blazing fireworks must all look so tacky to you. </sarcasm>

I have absolutely no idea why you said this, do you want a firework display in your pocket? If it's sarcasm it pretty much goes against what you said before because.. you're agreeing that these overdone effects look stupid?

God I don't know. The bottom line is, a very subtle aura on some of the top equipment occasionally would be kinda cool, but NO to putting it on anything else and it being anything less than the best stuff.

Sorry, but using ridiculous exaggerations doesn't help your side of the argument. At all.

I believe that was pretty much the point of the comment, suggesting that something should be possible because the lore doesnt say it's impossible is a totally stupid point to make.

Eorzea is a fucking fantasy world! We don't have to limit the items in the game so they only resemble real-life weapons when the game's world was never even intended to mimic real-life in the first place

Nack before the game was released (Cant find the interview now, if i can i'll link it) i remember Tanaka and Yoshida (the art designer one, not the new one) saying that their intention behind FFXIV's design was that, on the surface, most things would appear to be physically possible and thus grounded. That said, we also have magic so the point doesn't apply that much, but we're never likely to see them to deter wildly from this style choice.

I don't really know why you're so intent on trying desperately to shoot down other people's OPINIONS, ones that personally I agree with more than yours. Are you scared that a less-than-unanimous decision in the thread won't result in it happening? If that's the case I wouldn't worry, even if it was a whole thread of people wanting swords that shoot rainbows, if the art team says no it's a no.

OK. You win. I'm done.
Trying to explain my opinion is a wasted effort it seems. Please have a good day regardless of our differences.

S/he absolutely doesn't win anything, and if s/he thinks that an overzealous and aggressive way of dealing with others on a subject s/he cares about is going to get the attention of devs, s/he's pretty much lost anyway.

[Rhianu]

Have you even played recently? Every weapon glows at 85. Those that dont naturally are guaranteed to be equipped with one of the blinding new level 85 enchants. Seriously, ever sword looks like a freaking lightning rod.

I was talking about all the equipment in the game overall, at every level, not just at the level cap. If you look at all the levels as a whole, instead of just focusing on the maximum level, you realize that yes, overall glowing equipment in WoW is really more the exception than the rule.

I have absolutely no idea why you said this, do you want a firework display in your pocket? If it's sarcasm it pretty much goes against what you said before because.. you're agreeing that these overdone effects look stupid?

<Reading comprehension.> <Do you have it?>

I was trying to point out that fireworks look cool. Are you saying you hate fireworks?

I believe that was pretty much the point of the comment, suggesting that something should be possible because the lore doesnt say it's impossible is a totally stupid point to make.

There's a huge difference between something as common and versatile as light, and something incredibly specific like a flying hippopotamus wearing a tophat and barfing rainbows. The first has a wide diversification and can be applied in an infinite number of ways to ensure that its in keeping with whatever art style and theme you've chosen for your work, while the second is really not very flexible at all due to how specific it is, and thus only has a very limited application, and wouldn't necessarily fit in with every setting.

To suggest that something specific and something general are equatable to one another is absurd.

Nack before the game was released (Cant find the interview now, if i can i'll link it) i remember Tanaka and Yoshida (the art designer one, not the new one) saying that their intention behind FFXIV's design was that, on the surface, most things would appear to be physically possible and thus grounded. That said, we also have magic so the point doesn't apply that much, but we're never likely to see them to deter wildly from this style choice.

Except it doesn't matter what the old team said, because they're not in charge of the game anymore, mostly because they made bad decisions. Plus, in case you've forgotten, we've already gotten a response from a community representative saying the current dev team plans to eventually add glowing weapons sometime in the future.

We spoke with the development team about the possibility of more glowing equipment or weapons, and they said that there are some nice ideas being presented in the thread and that they would like to do it! Though it might be sometime far in the future, they hope that everyone will look forward to 'em!

(P.S. I agree, the Lantern Shield looks awesome)