Factions Skill Art = Yuck

ArTy

ArTy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Australia

Overclockers Australia [OCAU]

Besides the Rit skills, yeah they do look like god awful blobs of crap :S

Anet rectify this gross injustice and fire the artist who used paint to make the skill art! And stop using Dev faces on the icons

trecca

trecca

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Italy

Dark Evil Angels [DEA]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdul


Hi-res versions of the Factions icon art exists, it's a shame they are so damn blurry in the game.
nice pics

trialist

Core Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

What, no mention of the biggest anomaly of them all?



Word Of Censure

With that name and the graphic, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Necro spell of course right? Wrong, dead wrong, its a monk smite spell.

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stabber
Brief investigation shows that not all Factions skill icons are present at these locations. In fact, none besides the ones you linked to seem to exist. I'm curious: how did you find these?
Check the State of the Game articles, and the other PvP match articles written.

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

I think Gaile might get heart attack if she reads this....

Edit on my last message*

Ok, so at least they have high-res skills, they should at least give us an option to use which ones we want.

1st so it doesn't cost lag for peeps running this on low spec. PCs.

2nd so the peeps that have high spec. PCs can enjoy the game fully.

Evilsod

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by snikerz


buahahahahahh wtf
That picture has just made my day. No seriously.

When i was playing the FPE i thought the Ritualist spells looked pretty good art wise, every single Assassin skill looked either crap or the same as another 3.

Although saying that.
Power Block

Energy Tap

Very similar artwork (probably a devs hand ) but still look cool. The Assassin skills are very similar, and look very bad.

Viruzzz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

as far as the ritualist ashes. what the hell would you do if not make a bunch of faces..

also. they are definitely not screenshots from the game. just look at them. 50% of them don't even look like anything i've encountered ingame. the other half mostly have their head turned in an odd way that an NPC would never do.

trecca

trecca

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Italy

Dark Evil Angels [DEA]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kakumei
Check the State of the Game articles, and the other PvP match articles written.
thanks

That's it:


Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by snikerz

way of the empty face
I'm still laughing at this.

Demon crusifier

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

England

The Imperial Guards Of Vabbi

W/

B U M P

Alathys Tylderaan

Alathys Tylderaan

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Uk

Check Out My [Mark]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by trialist
What, no mention of the biggest anomaly of them all?



Word Of Censure

With that name and the graphic, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Necro spell of course right? Wrong, dead wrong, its a monk smite spell.
Sitting here and looking at that now, I can finally make out what the image is (the green glow over the mouth)

But anyway, i think most of the new skill icons are very good and I generally don't have any trouble distinguishing one from another.

sgtclarity

sgtclarity

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Can Break These C[uffs]

W/

All the skills look the same to me. I have to check which spirit I'm slapping out all the time on my Rit

Evilsod

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

All i can say is woot for the wavey line monk skills...

Really, Word of Censure does look crap. I can see what you mean now, its a picture of half a face done in very dark colours on a green background with a completely unrelated green light in his mouth.

Seriously, i always thought White was the sign of purity, the sign of God sorta stuff, what the hell does green have to do with anything!

You know what we need, a Caption competition. Take a Factions picture that quite obviously looks like a Dev with weird colour effects and add text to it

Eg.
" Stop making fun of me!"

samifly

samifly

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Girl Power [GP]

Mo/Me

The high res ones do look much better I must admit, but I still think alot of them do not meet the quality of Prophecies icons. Plus many of the ashes spells look like Klingons from ST:TOS.

Ghozer

Ghozer

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Sheffield, England, UK

Super Cute And Fluffy [scF]

E/

I always thought that this...



looked like a part of the male anatomy... *Cough* am I imagining things?

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghozer
I always thought that this...



looked like a part of the male anatomy... *Cough* am I imagining things?
I think you are.

TopGun

TopGun

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghozer
I always thought that this...



looked like a part of the male anatomy... *Cough* am I imagining things?
I can't see a (get ready for the stupid fire engine... here it comes) penis in that no matter how hard I try.

But, maybe a dev took a picture of his (here we go again with the dumb red engine...) penis and it ended up looking... like that...

...poor dev...


WHOA!??!!? THAT'S NOT CENSORED, BUT RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO IS?!?!