OK I did some scanning and couldn't find anything in the forums about this, nor could I find a search box.. So apologies if this has already been covered.
So - character animations and spell effects. I recall FFXI being a little meh, EQII being amazing (the ice shackles on wizard I particularly loved, with the flying chains and the stacking blocks of ice), WoW being a big disappointment, AOC being quite fun especially with the fatality animations, Rift being mostly rubbish and FFXIV being beautiful. Oh Blade and Soul wasn't too bad.
I would love to see agile, fluid, lifelike and creative movements a-la FFXIV, with lots of pretty particle effects. I have visions of clerics' books open and pages fluttering while casting, casters surrounded by an aura of increasingly bright light, roundhouse style sword swings from the melee...
With the vast improvement of graphics cards since the old EQII days, and especially with the recent 1080 step change, I wonder what the plans are for PRF - more FFXIV or more EQII / FFXIV? Are there any from other games that you particularly liked?
I know they can sometimes be annoying in raids - for some bosses in FFXIV and B&S it was better to turn effects off so you could acutally see what was going on, but I'm hoping for animations and effects in PRF to be as beautfully done as the world..
If you search for animations or particle, you will find several threads.
Such as:
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/2864/spell-effects-particle-graphics
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/2128/reserving-weapon-particle-effects-for-epics
Beefcake said:If you search for animations or particle, you will find several threads.
Such as:
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/2864/spell-effects-particle-graphics
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/2128/reserving-weapon-particle-effects-for-epics
As Beefcake kindly pointed out, we have several topics that are already active on this subject, you can find them by using the search function found in the top right corner of this page: https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums
I will now have to close this thread but please feel free to jump in and discuss this in the other topics linked above :)