Spell effect: Ice shield. You couldn't make it cheaper even if you tried.

[Nijia]

<p><span style="font-size: 11.6667px;">For the chains (root spell) at least you maintained some semblance, but for ice shield you have replaced the amazing ice crystal animation thing (admittedly quite expensive) with a ... damned CUBE (whatever the name is). Assuming the bottom of the box is not drawn, we're looking at 5 sides * 2 triangles = 10 triangles. Sigh, could you go even cheaper than this ?  >_<</span></p><p>Couldn't you use a simple crystal shape, you know with a pointy top and 6 vertical sides instead of this stupid square box?</p><p>The texturing is really bad too. Couldn't you use a glossy surface effect instead of this cheap white stripey texture?</p><p>And no, it's not going to be expensive. It would still be 10 times less expensive than the original animation. Going straight to a cube from the original Ice shield is just crazy....</p>

[Armawk]

<p>Critical Bug identified, report number 47634b, effect was discovered to be 'awesome', contrary to intended functioning of effects system. Escalate to next hotifx urgent release of new replacement, code fix id 47634b_lame_dated_effect</p>

[Transen]

<p><em><span >"Spell effect: Ice shield. You couldn't make it cheaper even if you tried"</span></em></p><p>Don't tempt them else you might end up with a goblin coming out of no where holding up a sign that simply says "Ice Shield" on it whenever you cast the spell. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /></p>