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The final attack shown in this footage, is that black rectangle(the book) around our hands when we fire that beam supposed to happen? Because it looks like a major graphical glitch, I actually thought it was at first. This attack would probably look much better without the book, or with making it much more obvious that it is a book(arcane writing on the cover or something).

Not really fond of yet another resource, but other than that I can't wait to play the new class.

Yeah, I was puzzled by the black box too and thought the beam would look better without. Maybe it was the lighting or angle of the shots or it works better in context of the full cast animation?

I think the crux will be cool, and in some ways not so different than abilities that proc or gain charges, accept it sounds like we’ll have more choice in how to spend those charges.

I love big laser beams!

Since others are giving a little feedback, with which I agree.

I think if they give the book a slight floaty movement, it will add to the animation economy of the class skills.
I adore the pages flipping, but I think it being so stationary while everything else is moving is what adds to its uncanniness.

• Maybe some green glowing runes or magical lines on the pages/cover.
• Maybe even making the book have a low render halo highlight outline glow during activation might add emphasis to its form and its textures.
• The global illumination is making it very dark, it needs to react to light better.
• The player needs to see its THE magical book, it has some really cool features!

Otherwise it gets lost in the whole animation or even obscures the satisfying "big impact moment" of the ability animation (or VFX that gives it that visceral feedback oomph). And I'm positive that is not the intention and it is still in development I would figure. But I hope they keep in mind: The class abilities needs to look and feel fun, not just cool.

I am extremely excited to play this class myself! I gobble up any information I can find, thank you for sharing @ZOS_Kevin!
(I hope my lack of correct glossary terms didn't hinder my meaning.)

Really excited to play this class. I'm hoping a good amount of their spells and toolkit have a eldritch horror vibe with the tentacles and strange green & black color scheme because I'm a big fan of that type of aesthetic.