It could be kinda fun.

Radiance wrote: »

Yes although PVPeeps will give you a whole slew of reasons why not...

In Cyro they really need to be able to identify effects so i can understand why pvpers (myself included) would be against something like this. But they could just treat the custom visuals like momentos. They would just be disabled and the vanilla effects would fire.

SshadowSscale wrote: »

Another option is to change the visuel effect only for the person using it... So for example lets say the warden besr gets a wolf skin... For the person using it it will apear as a wolf but for other people it will still be a bear

Exactly what I was going to say. Could make it client-side even, to reduce server load.

Would be a neat option since I like to "theme" my characters around elements or color schemes etc.

In PvP it would create issues sadly. As much as I'd like to see more diversity, a lot of PvP is about counterplay and strategic use of skills and resources, and anything that interferes with that, or makes skills/dangers harder to see or identify would be a problem. There have already been issues in the past where certain costumes interfered with animations playing properly and such, giving unfair advantage since their opponent couldn't see things like heavy attacks or Dizzy Swing ramping up, or a potentially bashable cast-time skill being used, etc.
I could easily see those similarly inclined choosing black, or whatever color made their ground-placed effects hardest to see, or toning skills to look like another class's colors just to gain that split-second edge of confusion in their opponent's brain