Would you like to see the abilty to change the color of your in game abilties?

Thevampirenight · August 2016

Basically wanting to know what the community thinks about adding the ability to change ability visuals allowing us to change their coloring or maybe have they work animation wise possibly. For example making your templar abilties look like ice magic. Or changing some of the animations of some abilties to their old version or vice versa for those that liked old visuals for abilties they have changed.
Well, I think it would be nice to see this added, but mainly the changing of color on power visuals. I don't care about the animation as much but it could be an option they could explore.

wayfarerx · August 2016

No don't do this.

Rainbow ponies online no thank you.

danno8 · August 2016

Do you mean the icons or the actual visual effects?

Thevampirenight · August 2016

danno8 wrote: »

Do you mean the icons or the actual visual effects?

Visual effects

bebynnag · August 2016

No don't do this.

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

Stovahkiin · August 2016

No don't do this.

Yeah... No thanks lol. In big battles, particularly in PvP, it would just look like rainbow vomit all over the place.

Totalitarian · August 2016

No don't do this.

Trust me, I'd love it, but there are more important things for the art team to work on ATM.

Twilix01 · August 2016

No to it requiring sub but add it for everyone the abilty to change the color of class abilties.

puffytheslayer wrote: »

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

Well the animations I would assume are unique enough to be able to still tell what the ability is even with a color change, so I don't see the real problem.

SanSan · August 2016

No to it requiring sub but add it for everyone the abilty to change the color of class abilties.

I would like this becuz...RED LIGHTNING!
but also no becuz ....trolls would just misuse it

Skinzz · August 2016

No don't do this.

Omg here we go with these threads again. Definitely a no. The abilities have to stay recognizable to friendlies and enemies.

TheShadowScout · August 2016

Weeeelllll...
...as a standalone thing, I would not want to see it.
But...
...as part of some class expansion system? Uooh, yeah! Just like I was once posting about... ;-)
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/240186/class-morph-idea/p1

bebynnag · August 2016

No don't do this.

Twilix01 wrote: »

puffytheslayer wrote: »

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

Well the animations I would assume are unique enough to be able to still tell what the ability is even with a color change, so I don't see the real problem.

not always unfortunatley, the NB mark is VERY similar if not identical to pierced armour (sword & board taunt)/ undaunted taunt and its already tricky enough when a NB uses it when you are trying to taunt a group, ie on the bridge in sanctum, luckily most NB i play with will switch skills once i explain why, and the others will switch once they get 1 shotted a few times cause i think that mob is taunted when in fact they are marked!

Stovahkiin · August 2016

No don't do this.

New title of game if this gets implemented: "The Elder Scrolls: Rainbow Wars over Alessia Bridge"

Lucius_Aelius · August 2016

No to it requiring sub but add it for everyone the abilty to change the color of class abilties.

I basically think it'd be cool to make all my abilities red, but I agree that they still need to be distinct and recognizable so that other people can tell what you're doing. It's just like the dye issue, sure there's that random few people that will go all hot pink just for the lulz, but the vast majority of people just want some cool colors that match their preferences. I don't ever refrain from using an ability over color so this is hardly needed, but I think it'd be cool.

And as for the sub question, having every little thing that's cool get locked behind the subscription is an absolutely terrible idea, they've already been given all the perks needed to make it worthwhile in my opinion and adding more stuff as sub-only only serves to alienate everyone who isn't interested in subscribing. We deserve nice things too, and denying us too many such things will just push people away more than encourage them to subscribe.

NewBlacksmurf · August 2016

No don't do this.

No

Recremen · August 2016

Yes add the abilty to change the color of your characters class abilties if you Sub

They already changed my glorious orange fire to a silly green color, I would LOVE for the ability to change it back.

KICHZY · August 2016

No don't do this.

I think we have a clear winner for this poll.

baratron · August 2016

No don't do this.

Thevampirenight wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

Do you mean the icons or the actual visual effects?

Visual effects

Shame. I would have totally been in favour of changing the colours of the icons. It took me an inordinately long time to learn to distinguish my Templar abilities because of every single one being yellow, and most being yellow and white.

elantaura · August 2016

No for rainbow, but I would like the nbs colours to be changed from red, it's annoying as sometimes I think there is a red, because a NB is glowing nearby or that I may be standing in red.why make things to be avoided red then make class stuff red?

Twilix01 · August 2016

No to it requiring sub but add it for everyone the abilty to change the color of class abilties.

puffytheslayer wrote: »

Twilix01 wrote: »

puffytheslayer wrote: »

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

Well the animations I would assume are unique enough to be able to still tell what the ability is even with a color change, so I don't see the real problem.

not always unfortunatley, the NB mark is VERY similar if not identical to pierced armour (sword & board taunt)/ undaunted taunt and its already tricky enough when a NB uses it when you are trying to taunt a group, ie on the bridge in sanctum, luckily most NB i play with will switch skills once i explain why, and the others will switch once they get 1 shotted a few times cause i think that mob is taunted when in fact they are marked!

Um... isn't mark target a giant red pillar that's painfully obvious to see? I use pierce armor and inner fire (undaunted taunt) often enough and I don't see how they look anything like mark target.

Gulkrim-mur · August 2016

No don't do this.

No its flashy enough making all this crap custom color mines well play a japanese future rpg

bebynnag · August 2016

No don't do this.

Twilix01 wrote: »

puffytheslayer wrote: »

Twilix01 wrote: »

puffytheslayer wrote: »

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

Well the animations I would assume are unique enough to be able to still tell what the ability is even with a color change, so I don't see the real problem.

not always unfortunatley, the NB mark is VERY similar if not identical to pierced armour (sword & board taunt)/ undaunted taunt and its already tricky enough when a NB uses it when you are trying to taunt a group, ie on the bridge in sanctum, luckily most NB i play with will switch skills once i explain why, and the others will switch once they get 1 shotted a few times cause i think that mob is taunted when in fact they are marked!

Um... isn't mark target a giant red pillar that's painfully obvious to see? I use pierce armor and inner fire (undaunted taunt) often enough and I don't see how they look anything like mark target.

maybe its reapers mark then, the debuff is the same reduce armour by x amount, so the debuff status and visual effect on the mob is the same

idk · August 2016

No don't do this.

ABSOLUTLY NEVER.

Zos requires us to get information from the environment to know what is occurring. Even with add-ons on PC we do not see everything. Having different colors and appearances of some skills would make this more confusing.

For this reason it will never happen, never get a second thought from Zos.

CapnPhoton · August 2016

puffytheslayer wrote: »

sorry, its just that in game abilities work as a visual que as to what you opponent is about to do in PvP, giving you that split second to react accordingly

and in PvE for group instances (trials more so than most dungeons) if you are playing a support role, you need to know what buffs/debuffs are up working off visual ques prevents chat being too hectic

This. I honestly think it would be cool to have things more purple

But it would be a nightmare in groups.

Valen_Byte · August 2016

No don't do this.

The animation for each ability needs to be uniform. All visual effects have been designed to tell you what ability is active just by the way it looks.

waterfairy · August 2016

No don't do this.

Lets just stay focused on pushing them to make weapon dyes...we can dye shields and costumes now but still not weapons.

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