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princess0fdiabl0
11-13-2003, 05:28 PM
http://eq.crgaming.com/screenshots2/default.asp?category=21

:D

Ariene Everlost
11-13-2003, 06:26 PM
If you go... the best one I found was Pacify/Harmony which seems to share a graphic.

Will try to get a screenshot to post. It looks like the target is surrounded by a swarm of butterflies.

DemonMage
11-13-2003, 07:02 PM
Hehe, think I'll be there for a few days myself =-p Man Invoke Lightning looks great.

Teaenea
11-13-2003, 07:29 PM
They look Sweet! Druid spells look awesome. Can't wait for them to go live!

DemonMage
11-13-2003, 07:39 PM
Ooohh another neat change. They are showing focus effect details on right click now. No more answering what they do to people when loot drops =-p Though it's not tottaly done yet, as it's bitching about a missing string, but still =-p

Enchantment Haste I
Focus Effect: ERROR: String not found. (42357)

Mmm.. that's a badass effect right there.

Raloda
11-13-2003, 08:16 PM
On raids I have all graphics off.. but playing around I tend to turn them back on. some of the newer ones are quite nice but these new ones are awesome!!

Iilane SalAlur
11-13-2003, 10:07 PM
Just created a test druid :p

I like how the spell effect for root now has roots springing up from the ground. Snare has the same effect too, but it looks kind of wierd when the mob starts moving towards me but the spell effect roots stay put.

Kerech
11-13-2003, 10:16 PM
Holy Might and Invoke Lightning look awesome. It's nice to actually see lightning now after all these years :)

Panamah
11-13-2003, 10:57 PM
I like the root one!
They are showing focus effect details on right click now
Why on earth don't they put haste values on things?

Noliniel
11-14-2003, 12:13 AM
Awesome spell graphics !

B_Delacroix
11-14-2003, 10:49 AM
What a concept, lightning that looks like lightning.

cprender
11-14-2003, 10:49 AM
Please tell me there is a Cabbage one?

Chenier
11-14-2003, 10:55 AM
/drool

yeah, cabbage me baby!

Romidar
11-14-2003, 10:57 AM
A few of these are taken almost directly from DAoC (check out the Spirit Armor one with the breastplate image - that was the paladin self-buff armor graphic in DAoC).

Not that I'm complaining, mind you - DAoC had most excellent eye candy and I'd love to see EQ adopt some more of it (cloaks! hoods! spell effects that give you an idea of what they are doing!).

Murias
11-14-2003, 01:00 PM
I testbuffed a druid and shaman last night, and I was impressed. I was surprised by the sheer number of spells that had different effects, almost every one I tried had a new effect.

Kineada
11-14-2003, 01:55 PM
"You will not evade me Kineada!"

I suspect I will be seeing that more often. While the Winter's Frost and Summer's Flame graphics are nice, our magic based nukes (wind and storm nukes which have stun components) use the lightning graphics.

I suspect I will be using our magic nukes more often. So I will be getting summoned more often for doing less damage.

But nothing says Storm Warden like a bolt of lightning.

Geddine
11-15-2003, 03:36 AM
Wow they do look nice, I think they'd be even better once in game. Took them quite some time to get these off the ground, I guess pressure from games like Horizons is now mounting. The spell effects in Horizons are cool, go check out the mage trailer on Gamespot.com

Just think its funny that these type of changes seem to come just before a new game comes out.

DemonMage
11-15-2003, 07:09 AM
Why funny? It makes the most sense then =-p

Kerech
11-15-2003, 07:51 AM
It could be that they are testing them for EQ2 also... either way, EQ benefits :)

Kerech
11-16-2003, 07:25 AM
Well, I spent some time on test Saturday... WOW, those are some nice effects. Hope they get put in a patch, and not part of the next expansion :)

DemonMage
11-16-2003, 07:42 AM
Eh... highly likely it would be a patch. They put all the rest of them in a patch.

Dennis
11-16-2003, 11:17 PM
Hello graphics from last Summer that were never implemented from the Test server.

Don't get your hopes up.

DemonMage
11-16-2003, 11:45 PM
You mean the ones everyone bitched about so they pulled? =-p

Teaenea
11-17-2003, 09:05 AM
Originally posted by Dennis
Hello graphics from last Summer that were never implemented from the Test server.

Don't get your hopes up.

Not the effects that everyone loudly complained about being poorly done and not worthy, no. But, they did change the Spell effects for our High Level cold nukes and our Magic DoTs.:D

Claeopha
11-17-2003, 02:53 PM
I love the new effects... for the most part. =)

The one I dislike is for the Dispell line; since I solo casters a lot and hate having my DC pet dispelled, I watch for it's particular particle effect to know when to stun.

The new effect isn't as immediately obvious as the old, which will make timing that stun all the more critical - for the first second or so of the cast, there is what appears to be no effect at all.

Perhaps that will be clue enough; but in any event, learning to react to the new effects will take me a little while.

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Clae