ArenaNet talk:Guild Wars 2 suggestions/More satisfying spells.

Not only too resources-intensive, but also too distracting, and eventually too repetitive. Consider the summoning animations in Final Fantasy VII - rather cool looking most of the time, but by the 100000° time people had to see them, they were more an annoyiance than anything else. Although personally I would like flashier effects (Planescape: Torment had really great spell animations, and the summons in the Final Fantasy games are great over-the-top spell effects), I don't think they would work on GW. Erasculio 18:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Wrong. Welcome to 2009, where computer technology has moved on enough to handle this. Napalm Flame 13:25, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I think they could. At least in using the instanced-world approach. But now that I think about it, if GW2 uses the "wide open spaces" approach to adventuring, if twelve people get together to take on a mob of twenty bad guys, it might get pretty insane. There should definitely be some kind of over-the-top effects, though. To combat serious performance issues through heavy spam, instead of making the elite skills way over-the-top, they could instead take a Rez Sig approach: Super Awesome Skill Effect (this skill only recharges after you gain a morale boost). And you could only have one of those skills equipped at a time. Maybe even not link it to the skillbar and instead have it be a separate entity like a racial ability or something.

As for getting tired of seeing the same effects, all I have to say is this: No matter how many times I see it, I never get tired of seeing someone drop a Fire Storm or summon a Balor or drop a Divine Hammer on someone in Neverwinter Nights. So I don't think that'll be a real issue...at least not for me. (ooh pretty colors) Painted Bird 15:50, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I just removed personal opinion so your suggestion gets to the point. Also moved one part of the suggestion to the section of why it wouldn't work, since... its a reason why the suggestion might not work. And other minor spellings and tenses :) (Terra Xin 20:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC))

No complaints on your edit Xin. At least you left the important stuff intact. (ooh pretty colors) -Painted Bird