Glowing weapons

[Gracious]

Can a little glow really hurt that much ; ;? Just a little. Not too much. Why is everyone so scared of the glow <.>; It's like a NM or something reading some of these posts. Future NM "The Glow Monster!"

[Elexia]

Can a little glow really hurt that much ; ;? Just a little. Not too much. Why is everyone so scared of the glow <.>; It's like a NM or something reading some of these posts. Future NM "The Glow Monster!"

No one is "scared of it", it looks painfully tacky seeing everyone running around like a lightshow. It's not cool, it's not epic in any way.

It's also one of the glitchest visual effects most engines suffer from MMO wise. Subtle glows are cool because it's not IN YOUR FACE. Becoming a beacon of light? Naaaaaaaah

[Renshi]

When I read High Fantasy I visioned a Merlin smoking weed. F'n A dood

[Sephr]

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.

And the vast majority of characters you'll see in the cities (where everyone congregates) are 85. You are correct that there are more levels in the game, but generally, that's where everyone is. Even then, many players pre-85 do enchant their weapons with lovely tones of radioactive green for your viewing pleasure. I think it's fair to say that glowing weapons 'lost their luster' in wow a hell of a long time ago.

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

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

My reading comprehension is really good, and thanks for the little FFXI auto-translate throwback there, cute. That said, what the hell do fireworks have to do with anything, unless you want your lantern shield to look like a pinwheel? Furthermore, how does the fourth of July fit into it? Are you saying a 1-day a year holiday somehow is relatable to the weapons of a fantasy game? If you'd care to explain, I'd absolutely love to know what you meant by it. I don't think it has anything to do with my grasp of the English language, however.

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.

That wasn't really the point of what he was saying, it was more of a general "Just because it doesn't say it shouldn't be there, doesn't mean it should" type of statement. I'm not sure why you're attacking my comprehension when that was a fairly simple concept. Also, I think saying that the 'application of light' is the same as adding a glowing effect to items is a bit of a stretch. I'd say the enchantment of items to give a glowing effect would be a fairly specific element in the FFXIV universe.

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.

True enough, however the art team has not changed (And I'd hope it doesn't, Yoshida's drawings and designs are fantastic! <3 Ivalice from FF12). I'd expect that if it is introduced it falls in line with their idea of how it should be.

I really can't be bothered to keep re quoting all the time, so if I reply I'll stop doing that. However I do think this still stands:

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.

You're still being overly aggressive and lashing out at people for having differing opinions from you. I've even said I'd like some glow effects in strict moderation, the only reason I'm replying is because of your aggressive approach at trying to beat Gramul's sensible and grounded argument into submission. I'm simply not going to agree with over-use of glow-effects, and your referencing of fireworks in your arguement for whatever reason (Still don't get it) suggests (I think) we're probably just at different ends of the spectrum on it.

[zoekwon]

this game is perfect right now!~

[Nuru]

this game is perfect right now!~

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[Warm]

No thanks for glowing weapons !!
I even hated FF XIV Squall's last weapon ever since I saw it(whatever lazer thinggy)
So no glowing weapons please

[Kallera]

There needs to be an auto lock feature where if a topic is not posted on within a certain amount of time it is to be locked...

[Reinheart]

I guess I didn't check this thread until it was bumped by Warm.

Overall I say NO to glowing weapons BUT like the opening movie of this game I would say OK on some situations like if your weapon has En-spell casted on and only while the En-spell lasts on it.

Also instead of having the effect on all the time, would be fine on some weapons say like classic FF weapon. Flame Tongue (that how you spell in English? JP is flametan - so dunno if its tongue...anyways) only when you hit the mob and the flame effect happens to show flame on the blade but go away after. (How you gonna put flaming weapon on your side? Even Luke Skywalker and those Jedi/Sith have to put the damn sabers away)

I'll just put that in here since the thread was dug up and wanted to comment on it lol.

[Kallera]

I guess I didn't check this thread until it was bumped by Warm.

Overall I say NO to glowing weapons BUT like the opening movie of this game I would say OK on some situations like if your weapon has En-spell casted on and only while the En-spell lasts on it.

Also instead of having the effect on all the time, would be fine on some weapons say like classic FF weapon. Flame Tongue (that how you spell in English? JP is flametan - so dunno if its tongue...anyways) only when you hit the mob and the flame effect happens to show flame on the blade but go away after. (How you gonna put flaming weapon on your side? Even Luke Skywalker and those Jedi/Sith have to put the damn sabers away)

I'll just put that in here since the thread was dug up and wanted to comment on it lol.

It is flametongue. A similar effect was in Dragon Age's "<Elemental> Weapons" Spells, except the effect seemed to stay on the blade after you put it away. (It was "magic" fire, after all.)