firstdecan wrote: »

MrBeatDown wrote: »

It was so that guy that showed up to work, raised his hand, and said here during roll call would be able to justify pulling a paycheck for showing up to work.

That's not fair, I'm sure they had a very long and heated debate about the icons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality

Great post and link.

This reminds me when they added chat bubbles and we still had (have) the bank bug wherein you open close the bank a bunch of times to get access, among other bugs still here today. I wish "that guy" would be re-assigned to Quality Control.

danno8 wrote: »

Many would say that the icons for many of the different morphs were nearly indistinguishable from each other. So I don't think it was arbitrary. Clearly the were changing them so that they were more distinct from each other.

Clearly
One's like this: Visually different, using different color contrast while keeping some indication as to what the skill might be.

But then you have ones like this: The base skill heals you (kind of resembles a healing staff, wouldn't you say?)

• Morph #2 is
  • A Jacob's Ladder with a clock face
  • A speedometer with no indicator
  • A smiley face with no eyes
  • Perhaps a divining rod of some sort?
• Morph #1 is clearly a neon light or something that pulses green waves!?

Much better.

Finally, you have icons like these which are readily different from the base skill icon and each morph. These can be identified with merely a glance.
Really gotta hand it to Bob.

danno8 wrote: »

It's artwork. It's also important. And like the guy below you said, the art team isn't exactly working on bug fixes. This is what they do - polish the game so it looks nicer.

And let's be real. A toggle setting for "old" or "new" icons is frankly...I'm trying to think of a nice way to say stupid.

I disagree with you.

Again, there are plenty of things that could be worked on and improved relative to artwork.

And, it's not about polishing in this case, so much as continued (justification for) employment. Where was the community request for changing icons that were already distinct? There's complaint about the difference, so where are the mass complaints about the similarities and relevance?

I never said artwork was unimportant. The toggle option (with the framework already in place for settings, etc) would be a much simpler addition than the overhaul of the graphics were on these, guarantee it.

It's kind of like building maintenance. That's important too, but when the maintenance guys don't have a project at a given point, they don't arbitrarily relocate the front door, just to give the building a 'new look.'

At least, if they add another door, they often give you the option to use the entrance of choice.

But why would you want to give people choices? What''s the "nice" way you said that again?

Change just for the purpose of change is wasting resources.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Where was the community request for changing icons that were already distinct? There's complaint about the difference, so where are the mass complaints about the similarities and relevance?

People haven't mentioned it for the past year, because they got used to them.

Same thing will happen here.

And look at the responses to your own thread. Your OP has one "agree", the post 2 below you that says they like the new icons has 9 "agrees". That should tell you something.

Happy gaming.

baratron wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Anyone have a screenshot of these changes?

I took some screenshots but I haven't uploaded all of them yet. Here are my personal choices for Destruction Staff and Restoration Staff morphs though.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Finally, you have icons like these which are readily different from the base skill icon and each morph. These can be identified with merely a glance.

Really gotta hand it to Bob.

Heh. I actually hate playing my Templar because all of the class icons are yellow. A lot of them are white on yellow too, which is horrendously confusing for me.

And I can't see any difference at all between Restoring Aura's icon and its first morph.

Those Templar morphs are the new ones?

They all look horribly similar at a glance, even after investigation. No idea how that got passed.

rb2001 wrote: »

baratron wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Anyone have a screenshot of these changes?

I took some screenshots but I haven't uploaded all of them yet. Here are my personal choices for Destruction Staff and Restoration Staff morphs though.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Finally, you have icons like these which are readily different from the base skill icon and each morph. These can be identified with merely a glance.

Really gotta hand it to Bob.

Heh. I actually hate playing my Templar because all of the class icons are yellow. A lot of them are white on yellow too, which is horrendously confusing for me.

And I can't see any difference at all between Restoring Aura's icon and its first morph.

Those Templar morphs are the new ones?

They all look horribly similar at a glance, even after investigation. No idea how that got passed.

@rb2001, that was pretty much my point.

They changed icons that already had distinctly different visual versions and then they left ones like this completely alone.