Request for Arcanist Skill Style: Changing the Color of Crux

Sallymen · April 5

Hello! With the new class colors of blue and orange for Arcanist. Are there any word from the devs of implementing a way to also change crux colors? I really want to use the purple beam and even the blue runeblades and tentacle but the crux staying green is making the mix of colors look unpleasant to look at.

Jestir · April 5

Blue, orange, purple ect ect ect

It defeats the whole purpose of the skill styles if the most constantly visible part is still green

Ardriel · April 5

Absolutely right. The really cool skill styles and then that ugly green crux. Don’t any of the developers notice this? They probably do, and there’s probably no solution… which is a real shame.

And what about Tome Bearers’ Inspiration? That’s an ugly green colour too. Since it’s an active skill, surely it should be customisable?

ADarklore · April 5

Honestly, I hadn't even thought of that... glad you mentioned it BEFORE I purchased those styles. I guess it would be difficult various skills generate crux, that without it being an 'all or nothing' it would be tough to say, "You changed one skill style color, so all crux generation is now the new color".

I just think they should come out with a complete class style color, that swaps all the class abilities to the new color.

heaven13 · April 5

It'd be really nice if skill colors came in sets instead of only a handful at a time.

LunaFlora · April 5

i want Pink, Purple, Teal

Erickson9610 · April 5

Crux isn't tied to a single ability. Recolored Crux would have to be implemented as a Customized Action rather than as a Skill Style, because the game doesn't keep track of which ability generated Crux — i.e., you can't have multiple colors of Crux at the same time depending on which Skill Styles you use for the separate abilities which generate it.

Hamish999 · April 5

Being red/green colourblind I'd like to be able to make crux white (or any other colour for that matter), I can't always easily tell how many of those floating green triangles I have with all the other effects that can be going off at the same time.

NoticeMeArkay · April 5

I think the recolored arcanist skill should add it's new color to each crux it generates.
This way people can freely decide on which colors they actually want to display, can mix match to their heart's content and players can even use the new colored crux for ability testing as the colorful feedback in form of crux makes for a well-visible indicator.

noblecron · April 5

It'd be really nice if crux could match the color of the skill change. Although personally I wouldn't mind if we had a different visual for crux in general like a little token at the bottom of the screen that charges up with a 1,2,3 like some class skills

Emeratis · April 5

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Crux isn't tied to a single ability. Recolored Crux would have to be implemented as a Customized Action rather than as a Skill Style, because the game doesn't keep track of which ability generated Crux — i.e., you can't have multiple colors of Crux at the same time depending on which Skill Styles you use for the separate abilities which generate it.

I agree logistically this is the best way to do it but I just want to see it done in general. I like class based custom actions that chaged like the nightblade grim focus glow, necromancer corpses, and other class based auras. Also fishing and other custom actions. I'd really like them to embrace character customization because there are so many cool things they can do with it.

Faltasë · April 6

Have they even said anything about this yet? Seems like they've consistently ignored it.

Radiate77 · April 6

Dorito Crux when?

Sallymen · April 6

Faltasë wrote: »

Have they even said anything about this yet? Seems like they've consistently ignored it.

Nothing yet, hoping they at least say something. Even if they confirmed that it isn't possible would satisfy me I guess.

SilverIce58 · April 6

I think itd be cool if each skill that generated Crux, did so in that skill's color. Since a couple of skills do, you could have 2 or 3 different colors encircling you. Green, blue, and whatever else they add in eventually (probably purple tbh they love their purples).

Erickson9610 · April 6

SilverIce58 wrote: »

I think itd be cool if each skill that generated Crux, did so in that skill's color. Since a couple of skills do, you could have 2 or 3 different colors encircling you. Green, blue, and whatever else they add in eventually (probably purple tbh they love their purples).

In order to do this, they'd have to change the data structure from an integer (a number which in this case can only be 0, 1, 2, or 3) to a queue or stack, which would allow you to keep track of each individual Crux (and its associated color determined by the Skill Style of the ability which generated it) but at the cost of increased complexity. This would add more computation to the server (you now have to pop/push to a queue or stack rather than subtract/add to an integer) and to the client (you now have to render several colors of Crux which need to be stored in memory).

SilverIce58 · April 6

Erickson9610 wrote: »

SilverIce58 wrote: »

I think itd be cool if each skill that generated Crux, did so in that skill's color. Since a couple of skills do, you could have 2 or 3 different colors encircling you. Green, blue, and whatever else they add in eventually (probably purple tbh they love their purples).

In order to do this, they'd have to change the data structure from an integer (a number which in this case can only be 0, 1, 2, or 3) to a queue or stack, which would allow you to keep track of each individual Crux (and its associated color determined by the Skill Style of the ability which generated it) but at the cost of increased complexity. This would add more computation to the server (you now have to pop/push to a queue or stack rather than subtract/add to an integer) and to the client (you now have to render several colors of Crux which need to be stored in memory).

Okay, even tho that sounds like a lot, I still think it'd be cool to have.

Faltasë · April 7

Sallymen wrote: »

Faltasë wrote: »

Have they even said anything about this yet? Seems like they've consistently ignored it.

Nothing yet, hoping they at least say something. Even if they confirmed that it isn't possible would satisfy me I guess.

Yeah at this point my hope that they will respond to this seems extremely bleak.

LittlePinkDot · April 7

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

SilverIce58 wrote: »

I think itd be cool if each skill that generated Crux, did so in that skill's color. Since a couple of skills do, you could have 2 or 3 different colors encircling you. Green, blue, and whatever else they add in eventually (probably purple tbh they love their purples).

In order to do this, they'd have to change the data structure from an integer (a number which in this case can only be 0, 1, 2, or 3) to a queue or stack, which would allow you to keep track of each individual Crux (and its associated color determined by the Skill Style of the ability which generated it) but at the cost of increased complexity. This would add more computation to the server (you now have to pop/push to a queue or stack rather than subtract/add to an integer) and to the client (you now have to render several colors of Crux which need to be stored in memory).

Okay, even tho that sounds like a lot, I still think it'd be cool to have.

At least if they could have the option to make the crux not visible at all except as a number on your buff bar.

In regard to subclassing as soon as you slot an arcanist skill line the whole character just screams arcanist. Even if you wanted to look more like a necromancer you can't.

The lack of visible crux shouldn't overload the server. And it's actually good for PvP if others can't see if you have 3 crux or not