to make them more SPECIAL (Elite Skills - please read)

hi there to all of you whom were kind enough to offer me a min or so of your precious time. (no sarcasm )

for an update, i would highly suggest that there be an improvement on the animations of elite skills, make them stand out better, give them some sort of extra special glow or brighter animation than the usual skills.

with the skills as they are now, all of them have a decent animation, as do the elite skills, but perhaps maybe exaggerate the animations of the elite skills to make the game better from a eye candy point of view.

for example maybe when a warrior uses a hundred blades maybe make his weapon go a really bright colour and leave sparkling animation effects on whoever took damage (just to give u an idea of what i mean)

when a monk uses word of healing, maybe the healing rune appears around the person who it has been used upon in a light blue colour in a cyclinder type animation around that character

do u know what i mean? just maybe make them stand out better, give ELITE its worth in words in terms of visual animation, not just stats.

please tell me what you think, all comments are welcome.
thank you for your time

By "Elite", they mean an upgraded version of an other spell. If you havnt noticed, almost all elites are just better versions of spells (word of healing is orison, cleave is executioners, shield of regen is healing breeze, ect..) Elite skills arnt mean to be "godly" or noticable, just a better version of another skill (or a good skill, like having both healing breeze AND shield of rege because its such a good spell). I think the word "Elite" is misplaced in the purpose of the skill. Or maybe instead of being shield of regen, it would be {E}Healing Breeze, as in an elite version of healing breeze.

thanx for your post and good point. it is true they are either an upgrade of a normal skill or two normals put together

e.g. eviscerate = dismember + executioners strike

but would it really hurt to make them stand out more? surely this would make the game more fun in terms of visual satisfaction. (not that it already isnt )

It wouldnt hurt, but i think the current elite skill system is doing its job of making the game more versitle with different types of chars (smiting monks, healing monks, prot monks, bond monks, ect). Making "super skills" would make them just that, "super". Increasing any of the stats of skills would easily shift one side to the other of picking what classes you want. And visual satisfaction is probably one of the minor problems, I find myself playing PVP not looking at the screen at all. (with monk playing red bar game, air ele only skills, spikeing ect). I think ELITE skills in genereal shouldnt be visually enhanced, but there are some skills that need to be enhanced, not just elite skills.

well said. i do agree that there are some normal skills which could do with enhancing in animation too. and yes its true that when u play as a monk all u ever look at is either, ur own healthbar and skill bar, and your party's health levels.
maybe in the future updates this could be an element of the game they could bring in, i dont see the negative effects of this out weighing the gains from having better skill animations for elites

The elite system was a way of fixing unbalanced skills in the laziest way possible short of removing them. That's all they really are; not really anything else is needed to be done with them like what you're suggesting.

im not saying that they dont fix unbalanced skills, im not complaining that they arnt good enough as they are.
im just pointing out that,
we are only limited to one elite skill in our 8 slots correct?
that makes them quite important when it comes to pvp because it allows us to introduce another skill into our slot because the elite skill can make up for two other skills.

they are singled out as gold on ur skill lists, they have a gold outline on your skill slot bar when selected, perhaps further making them 'special' hence "elite" skills.

im just suggesting, that why not make their animations better? and that is all im arguing for, not that they should be godly, doesnt have to be a MAJOR godly type animation with lots of power surging around the character or anything, but make them stand out more, so when ur doing pve or pvp, and someone uses an elite skill, its noticable, makes u feel better about your character, perhaps even allow you to show off, give you something nice to look at and loads of other reasons.

ofcourse it isnt a MUST, but i dont see how it would harm the game to be honest

You really dont need to troll forums like that. And obviously your short sighted perception of Arenanet is completely incorrect. Anyone with half a brain could figure out that the elite skill system was planned out and had patterns according to the professions and previous skills. If you honestly thought that that was a way to make skills balanced, then you really need to take a better look at the game. If you hate the game so much that you have to insult the games core skill functions in someone elses thread then go find another game. If your not going to take the time and effort to make this a better game then we don't want you.

I don't want bells and whistles and fireworks going off when I'm using my elite. Might as well put a big sign over your head saying "Please interrupt me now, I'm using my Elite skill".

bells, whistles and fireworks? the animation of the effect of the elite doesnt begin until skill is actually used, i.e the cast time has passed... with the majority of elite skill casting times being 2 seconds or below, ur point is meaningless because im talking about improving the visual effects of the spell, not the animation of the character as he/she casts an elite.