Wet effect is a joke!

[Shioban]

Superior OpenGL client when?

Implying that there's any real difference at this point and time between the two.

Pretty much both libraries offer the exact same thing now. However I REALLY can't wait for the DX11 client for dat' hardware Anti-Aliasing to return.

[Laf]

Implying that there's any real difference at this point and time between the two.
Pretty much both libraries offer the exact same thing now. However I REALLY can't wait for the DX11 client for dat' hardware Anti-Aliasing to return.

OpenGL can offers much higher number of drawcalls, aka better performance on lower end cpus.

[Shioban]

OpenGL can offers much higher number of drawcalls, aka better performance on lower end cpus.

I was pointing more to the features made available.

The performance difference would make it worth enough to jump ship, but good luck convincing Square Enix to do that.

I was expecting some water dripping off my clothes, at least a few drops, I put on my Myth gear and I saw no difference at all. I would think that plate armor would have those effects more noticeable.

The effects on low tier gear are great though, at least for DX9, can't wait when they implement dx11

Could do that quite easily with DX9, wouldn't be a problem. Implementing the particle effects and the procedural textures might be a little fiddly especially with the variety of armour shapes, sizes, lengths and types, where-as the 'wet' look shader they're currently using it quite easy to slap onto everything without it causing too much damage.

I got excited when I saw this having just finished Tomb Raider on PS4. I'm... not so much anymore

It's not a negative or anything, it's neat. It's FAR from next gen though. (My PC runs the game at max too)

A specular/shiny shader isn't really next-gen I don't think that was the aim, just something simple and easy to implement as an additional detail to the game.
Tiny details are nice, even if they're not ground-breaking.