Warlocks: What are your dream spell graphics?

[Vanra]

Okay, this could be a fun thread. I love warlocks, but I know I am, and perhaps many of you are sick of seeing the green gas/green ball/purple ball all the time. Here's a chance to use your imagination and come up with some hypothetical <b>dream </b>graphics for the spells of the class that holds mastery over poison, disease and darkness. Just for fun. No push to get them implemented or anything, they can be whatever you want, but if you were designing the spell graphics, what would you want to see happen when you cast your favorite spells? Maybe make the spells appear more in line with their names. Or just Mix n' Match favorite spells with graphics, etc.. Here are some of my (simple) ideas: <b>Dark/Nil Distortion</b> - Instead of the green gas cloud, maybe the purple shaky effect when you cast Nihilism, only intensified or longer lasting on you and the mob. The effect is more intense with Nil than Dark Distortion, making it seem more powerful and implying that there's "distortion" of some kind involved. <b>Steal Breath</b> - Keep the green pustule effect, but maybe put the purple skull over the head of the mob that you see when you get a Nil Crystal. Instead of blowing out air like it usually does, it could be sucking it in. I think that would be awesome. <b>Noxious Bolt</b> - I love the graphics for the spell Ice Flame. I can imagine seeing the bolts of ice (or poison, however you want to see it)  being a shade of green and the white flame that you see with ice flame being a shade of green as well. <b>Dark Pillaging</b> - Yeah, this idea might be a little out of whack. I still like it. When you cast it, it would send a ghost model with a miners pick after thte target mob. It would "pick away" at it for a second or two (they already have the animations, so you could probably imagine) and then return to you. <b>Torment of Shadows</b> - Put the purple circling cloud that we have for Boon of the Void around the target. Have the effect remain until the spell wears off. (also a good way for us to tell when the spell actually expires, hehe) <b>Soul Flay</b> - I think this should have a unique graphic, because I think it's the coolest name for a spell we have <span>:smileywink:</span>. Maybe have one of the purple energy balls fire and turn the target into a ghost form of itself for about 2 seconds: long enough to do the animation where it drops to its knees (assuming it's humanoid). <b>Dark Nebula</b> - Have one of the portals open up in the sky like some of the summoner dots do, but instead of having rocks fall, maybe a larger version of our purple lightning balls drops on the mobs heads. (Don't have the spell just yet to see what it really looks like, but I think this would look cool). <b>Devastation</b> - Again, don't have the spell yet to judge, but I like the tunnel of lightning you see with the early spell Storm of Lightning. Maybe change the color to purple and put those sweet purple skulls over each target's head. Love those skulls. <b>Bony Grasp</b> - Don't touch it, hehe. This is my favorite graphic by far. Perfection. Maybe it could be a self targeted animation for the spell <b>Toxic Grasp</b> though, hehe. Anyway, these are just some ideas that were going through my head. Just looking to make some warlock conversation here, hehe. Most of them are using animations and such already in the game, but if you want to go out on a limb and do something ridiculously complex with an idea, be my guest, it's all in good fun. My imagination could produce graphics that would literally make my computer melt into a pile of goo if they were in the game and I tried to run them, so ideas like that are cool too. So warlocks, what would your dream spell graphics look like? P.S. I must be extremely bored. <div></div>

[chaos overlo]

<P>Just great, I love your ideas!! 5 stars! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>What about the cool red - orange lifetap tunnel some HOs provide (can't remember which one it was). Would be great for any spell that drains health or power (both distortion nukes and some self cast procs which reg mana overtime when hit by a mob).</P> <P>I would really love to see some of those ideas IG <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P><p>Message Edited by chaos overload on <span class=date_text>06-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>01:12 AM</span>

[Panad]

<div></div>Got no specific ideas but I likes yours, just the Dark Pillaging one sounds really weird. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Feedback them ingame, might help. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div><p>Message Edited by Panador on <span class=date_text>06-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>11:33 AM</span>

[Dae]

I don't mind our spell graphics. I'd be better if they did something a little more dramatic than puffs of gas though. Abhorrent Gift for example increases your groups power pool by <i>gasing</i> them. I'd also like to see the Distortion line actually distort something. I'm not a big fan of the floating skulls at all. <div></div>

[SilentSam]

Great post!  I hope the graphics guys see this one!<BR><BR>I especially think your idea for Dark / Nil distortion is a good one.  The names of the 'distortion' line make it sound like its some sort of dimensional rift being opened up on the target...it would be easy for them to use the Nihlism graffic to get that effect.  What a great idea you got there!<BR><BR> <DIV>And I like the idea about a 'ghost' ripping the power out of a target for Dark Pillaging but I'm not so sure I like the miners <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />   Great imagination that you have though  :smileytongue:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>SOE give this guy a job!</DIV>

[SilentSam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Vanrael wrote:<BR><BR><B>Soul Flay</B> - I think this should have a unique graphic, because I think it's the coolest name for a spell we have <SPAN>:smileywink:</SPAN>. Maybe have one of the purple energy balls fire and turn the target into a ghost form of itself for about 2 seconds: long enough to do the animation where it drops to its knees (assuming it's humanoid). <BR><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>So true.  This is the coolest name unfortnately for one of the most broken spells that we have  :smileysad:<BR>

[Frozen]

<div></div><b>Devastation </b>shoud be as an eq1  rainspell, like a cloud of green fog raining acid down on the opponents <p>Message Edited by Frozen01 on <span class=date_text>06-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>08:39 PM</span>

[SalBlu]

<P>This is a GREAT thread!  I'd thought of starting one on the Wizard forums before, but I didnt go through with it.  I love to hear these kinds of ideas about everyone's class.</P> <P>Take me for example.  What do you expect to see when a Wizard casts Ice Comet?  Probably expect some huge ball of ice to come hurtling out of the sky and smash into the ground, right?  Well... as it is now, Ice Comet looks exactly like our Ball of Flames/Ball of Fire, only instead of chucking out a Flaming Orange/Yellow ball of fire, we chuck out an Icy ball of ice.  Same size, same graphic, only white.</P> <P>I was pretty disappointed in Ice Comet's graphic to tell you the truth.</P> <P>And you should even look at what our combat spam tells us about Ice Comet.  It says something to the affect of, "You call down a Comet of Ice upon your foe."  Well... it doesnt really look like I call anything down... It looks more like i'm chucking an ice ball at them lol.</P>

[SilentSam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> SalBluee wrote:<BR> <P>Take me for example.  What do you expect to see when a Wizard casts Ice Comet?  Probably expect some huge ball of ice to come hurtling out of the sky and smash into the ground, right?  Well... as it is now, Ice Comet looks exactly like our Ball of Flames/Ball of Fire, only instead of chucking out a Flaming Orange/Yellow ball of fire, we chuck out an Icy ball of ice.  Same size, same graphic, only white.</P> <P>I was pretty disappointed in Ice Comet's graphic to tell you the truth.</P> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>Totally agree.  I just saw an ice comet casted the other day when i grouped with a 50 wiz.  I saw a booming big number go by...something like 2900 damage...and our coversation then went like this:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>'hey was that ice comet?'....</DIV> <DIV>'yup'....</DIV> <DIV>'i must have missed the graphic, i didn't see the comet, i just saw like what looked like white flames'....</DIV> <DIV>'you didn't miss it...that was the whole graphic'....</DIV> <DIV>'wow..........that sux.'</DIV> <DIV>'yup'</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For the biggest single target nuke in the game, it was pretty un-impressive.  I haven't seen devastation yet but I hope its a little more 'devastating' in appearance than that ice comet was.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here's an idea for SOUL FLAY:</DIV> <DIV> - have your noxious bolt graffic idea (from the original poster) where a poison bolt hits the target....BUT when he gets hit have the force of the hit actually knock a ghost or "his soul" back out of his body a few feet for like a second and then come snapping back into his body (like a yo-yo kind of effect).  Oh, and the most important part: make the soul scream in agony as its ripped from his body for that second!   :smileysurprised: </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Rile]

I agree! I like this thread a lot and I would love if some how we could get this noticed by the development teams.  I am big on the immersion factor of a MMO.  So far, I believe EQ2 is the most immersive game and that is why I play it.  As much as we hate some of the spell graphics here I have seen a LOT worse. Remember the spells in EQ1?! In the beginning they were simply different colors of puffs in the air.  Red I believe for most DD spells, Blue for Healing spells or green I can't remember.  The point is it sucked and it really ruined my experience.  I use to play a game that was all text based as a MMO (Dragonrealms) still simply because the reading captured my imagination better.  Now we are fortunate enough to have these powerful graphics and they are better than anything out there (Check out awful spell graphics in WoW).  I am still dissappointed.  The Green GAS graphics was just a lazy cop out.  Part of the allure of leveling for mages should be for that "WOW" effect.  You don't call a spell Ice Comet or Devastation if you do not plan on making it LOOK LIKE IT SOUNDS! Nothing is more annoying.  I don't normally post alot but I would love to drive this to the Developers to think about.  Maybe things will change with the expansion coming out?

[yzyh]

<DIV>That would be nice if one of our poisoning spell go liek that. We do summon a few snakes that bite the target and dish it domage over time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Snakes would just be the animation not some kind of pets.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Their is a spell like that in EQ1. It wa san ubba cool proc on my monk hand to hand weapons. a green snake that came from green smoke that is bitting the target liek if its life were relying on this.</DIV>

[Ravenmi]

<P>Some awesome Ideas.. I play a Warlock as an alt, lots of fun but definately notice a lack of fun spell graphics.  Enjoyed the 1-20 graphcis a lot.. seems like it sort of went down hill after that.</P> <P>Great Post, hope somebody see's it.</P>

[MallocFailure]

Devastation (somewhat surprisingly) has a different graphic than any of our other spells -- small ghostly skulls fly towards each mob in the encounter, and at the end of the DOT, big golden hammers smack into the mobs.   I'll see if I can get a screenshot.  It's kind of neat just for being different. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  It could always be more impressive, though! I always loved the green snake effect on our debuffs, but it's used by too many different spells it seems. Bony Grasp has the coolest spell effects in the entire game, imo.  I'm glad it's ours! Great thread! <div></div>

[SilentSam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MallocFailure wrote:<BR><BR>Bony Grasp has the coolest spell effects in the entire game, imo.  I'm glad it's ours!<BR><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Totally!  Whichever programmer did Bony Grasp should be patting himself on the back.</P> <P>Just yesterday I used it in the Peon/Laborer's area of Lavastorm and I used it on one of the Molten Lava creatures...so because it was a big mob it used the big graffic...and a 42 guardian walking by stopped just to tell me how cool that spell effect was!  Gotta love it when that happens.</P> <P>I guess it says something about how much rarer the warlocks are as well if he's never seen it.<BR></P>

[TheWhiteRaid]

<P>I would like to see some brand new graphics not just rehashes of the old ones.   I mean BoF,  Dis,  Ice Comet, SB,  ect look alike.   Everything so far is just a repeat of spell graphics.   </P>

[LukeFlyswatt]

<DIV>Devastation should have a smaller version of the Trakanon dragon form behind you and breath a green spray on the mobs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Sokolov]

<DIV>DarkD and NilD always make me think of black holes and inversion/implosions...</DIV>

[Swoonb]

<P>i would like to see cower / paralizing fear a: work right</P> <P>              b: have a large wraith / litch form spring out of my shape for a couple of secs  and  have  the mob shake with fear for the durration</P>

[SilentSam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Swoonboy wrote: <P>              b: have a large wraith / litch form spring out of my shape for a couple of secs  and  have  the mob shake with fear for the durration</P> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>That'd be cool.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm pretty bored with the whole 'chains' root thing.</DIV>

[Kven]

<DIV>I really like Ice Flame</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://chicago054.server4free.de/jeff/pics/EQ2/EQ2_000192.jpg" target=_blank>Picture 1</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://chicago054.server4free.de/jeff/pics/EQ2/EQ2_000194.jpg" target=_blank>Picture 2</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Next time I do him [ he's just [Removed for Content] huge ] I'll back up a bit more with the angle and try to get a better shot.</DIV>