Glowing weapons

[Eldaena]

Ew, no thank you. Glowing weapons are not interesting to me. Lantern shield is nice, but glowing weapons that I've seen in other games are just tacky as all get out. I don't want the gimmick.

[DeadRiser]

Ew, no thank you.Glowing weapons are not interesting to me. Lantern shield is nice, but glowing weapons that I've seen in other games are just tacky as all get out. I don't want the gimmick.

So you don't think they would make the effect their own?

[Eldaena]

why not? give some reason to why you wouldn't like that

Updated post.

[Xenor]

Dancer class with a glow stick as a weapon? Sounds awesome!

[Shampooo]

Dancer class with a glow stick as a weapon? Sounds awesome!

haha, 2hour ability RAVE!

[Jynx]

It's not like it was impossible to get the effects with FFXI, if you followed the .dat moding community on it's highest note it discovered how to not only make armour more detailed by changing the resolution size of .dat files they also could add effects such as.

This

If your really craving those super duper glowy weapons it's only a matter of time before the .dat community gives them too you, as for the rest of us having a modist glow/aura will suffice. Man I wonder if Mooshy plays XIV...

[DeadRiser]

It's not like it was impossible to get the effects with FFXI, if you followed the .dat moding community on it's highest note it discovered how to not only make armour more detailed by changing the resolution size of .dat files they also could add effects such as.

This

If your really craving those super duper glowy weapons it's only a matter of time before the .dat community gives them too you, as for the rest of us having a modist glow/aura will suffice. Man I wonder if Mooshy plays XIV...

That looks pretty cool.

[Gracious]

I would love glowing weapons! Great idea.

[Xatsh]

I think elemental weapons would be alot better looking if say a sword with increased fire dmg has some fire on it and a weapon with wind has some kind of faint wind aura on it.

If they remake classes spells like enfire,enaero,enbliz could set a weapon a blaze, have frost particles or have a wind effect on it, honestly I feel they could use it to enhance the effects alot. Honestly that is what they where doing in XI just didn't have the animation for it.

They just need to make it minimal, I think everyone reading this is directly thinking of WoW and Aion which was tacky as all get out with every peice of rare gear making you look like a Christmas tree. I think if they done it and kept with the current feel of the game and stuff it would work out fairly well.

[Belial]

With the proposed "materia" system in place, I think it would be neat if they added slight aesthetic differences when inserting different types of materia, which would also help differentiate your appearance by giving two of the same types of gear a different look with different materia infused.

Ex. (thought not necessary, there are better ways to implement) armor/weapon with red/attack-type materia would give a feint red glow or something equivalent, whereas an armor/weapon with a blue/magic-type materia would cause a blue effect instead.

I do however agree that I don't want these to be huge flashy shows of sparkles. I prefer the subtle method of having auras/feint glows about certain points on the item, and generally have it more noticeable for darker scenes and less noticeable during lighter scenes (non-existant during sunlight would be a must).