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Desert Penguin

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 18:43 - 1

We all love our skills, but do we all like the icons that represent the skills? Some icons have a cool little picture, you just love the cute little icon on your skill bar. At the same time however, some icons look somewhat lame

Here are my favorite skill icons:

Frenzy: This picture shows the face a really angry man, who is obviously giving it all he's got on the enemy!

Backfire: This picture shows some dude with a wand being struck by massive bolts of purple lightning, obviously as a punishment for casting a spell. Really nasty. As a matter of fact, when I first suffered from Backfire, I casted a spell on purpose to see the cool purple bolts as shown on the icon, but all I got was "-127 (Backfire)" Lol

Tainted Flesh: Some really cool poisonous zombie-looking guy. totally awesome!!

Conjure Phantasm: A cute but nasty ghost-like phantom!

Mind Shock: Some dude gets owned by having a lightning bolt getting stuck into his brain! Very nasty!

Contemplation of Purity Aww... a picture of such a cute baby!

Those were my favorite icons. Now, here are are some crappy looking icons!

Sprint: This picture looks like some clumsy man who is about to trip over, it seems he cannot even lift the sword in his hand properly.

Diversion: Looks like a pictue of some person breathing. I don't see how it relates to the actual skill.

Soothing Images: This skill denies Adrenaline, but why does it show a picture of a musuclar bicep? It looks like it was supposed to be some damage buff for warriors, rather than de-buff.

So, what are your favorite skill icons, as well as your least favorite? If ArenaNet gave you the oppurtunity to design some new icons for their skills, what would be your ideas?

felinette

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Girl Power [GP]

Me/

07 Jun 2006 at 18:46 - 2

I like just about all of the icons for skills that relate to a pet. Ones I hate: just about all the assassin ones. Half the time, I can't even tell when they're charged.

Vermilion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

NY

07 Jun 2006 at 18:58 - 3

I think mending deserves a mention...and that is strictly based on the art. look at it!

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Mending ftw

Kyosuke

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

The Tomb of Souls

DC

N/Me

07 Jun 2006 at 19:00 - 4

SS icon FTW!!!

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 19:03 - 5

I liked the ORIGINAL icon for Holy Veil

Noctourne

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

07 Jun 2006 at 19:19 - 6

how could you forget about skull crack? It shows a guy getting comletely owned by a fist, unfortunately this differs greatly from in game use.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Skull_Crack

Lasher Dragon

Draconic Rage Incarnate

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Alphahive

R/A

07 Jun 2006 at 19:27 - 7

I always liked Endure Pain... looks like some ape that got shot to hell but is still coming after you.

Super Gorilla Skill FTW

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

07 Jun 2006 at 19:27 - 8

Love:

Shadow Strike. Basically a cool undead hand clawing the life outta your flesh.

All Necro Wells. Love the snake biting its tail - a classic symbol of life and death.

Symbiotic Bond. Love showing how the pet and its master become one under the spell.

Hate:

Mending. WTF is that spiral pattern?
Empathy. Looks like someone died and is going towards the light.
Live Vicariously. A laser beam shot through a cloud?
Strength of Honor. Looks like a Viagra ad.

Desert Penguin

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 19:29 - 9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetdoc

Love:

Strength of Honor. Looks like a Viagra ad.

LOL

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 19:38 - 10

>.> pwned!

Balance

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

NYC, US

red basilica [isis]

R/

07 Jun 2006 at 19:45 - 11

Illusionary Weaponry, it just looks way cool with the purple trailing the sword. But what really finished the look of the icon is the Elite skill border.

wsmcasey

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Right behind you.

HeRo

W/Rt

07 Jun 2006 at 19:50 - 12

I really like protective spirit, but that may also have something to do with it saving my ass so many times.

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

07 Jun 2006 at 19:59 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

>.> pwned!

pwned indeed. Does that site have alot of larger images like that?

Sorry.. but that truly is hilarious. Its so awful i love it.

If you look closely, its actually a picture of a head (in purple obviously) with a sword over it.

What its great

Picture this with STFU NOOB!!111 under it and you get what i mean

Teh Diablo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

07 Jun 2006 at 20:06 - 14

Hundered Blades reminds me of tall buildings.

Hey Lasher Dragon, what about Defy Pain?

Lasher Dragon

Draconic Rage Incarnate

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Alphahive

R/A

07 Jun 2006 at 20:19 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teh Diablo

Hey Lasher Dragon, what about Defy Pain?

Defy is nice, but not gorilla-y enough for me.

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

07 Jun 2006 at 20:25 - 16

Pacifism for some reason.

x-todd

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Lemmings of Death

Mo/Me

07 Jun 2006 at 20:25 - 17

this guy looks like he is taking a big long hard dump.

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

07 Jun 2006 at 20:31 - 18

Mantra of signets most definetly!

Seef II

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

US

R/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 20:37 - 19

Skull crack.

Desert Penguin

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/Mo

07 Jun 2006 at 20:41 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMSDome

Mantra of signets most definetly!

That looks like a nice wedding ring to buy for my future wife

generik

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

07 Jun 2006 at 20:42 - 21

Dwayna's Kiss

Okae

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

LA.. not Lions Arch

R/Me

07 Jun 2006 at 20:42 - 22

Feast of Corruption... gotta love zombies!

Big Tony

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

Currently guildless

07 Jun 2006 at 20:48 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by x-todd

this guy looks like he is taking a big long hard dump.

I always thought he looked like he was about to crap his pants but I guess your explanation would work too!

Dissonance is a pretty good looking rit skill as well, imho.

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

07 Jun 2006 at 20:50 - 24

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

I liked the ORIGINAL icon for Holy Veil

qft. I loved that old graphic, and I don't know why they changed it.

I also like Air of Enchantment, Vampiric Spirit, Blood is Power, and others I can't recall right now. A lot of the new Factions necro skills were nicely done as well, imo.

xBakox

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

[JF] Just Friends, [NOT] Nomads of Turmoil

07 Jun 2006 at 21:02 - 25

Desecrate Enchantments is cool. However, the Factions version of it is complete crap.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Image:D...chantments.jpg
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Image:D...chantments.jpg

Determined Shot and Delibating Shot are nice looking ones for Ranger.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Image:Ritual_Lord.jpg
Ritual Lord looks very cool. Its one of the only Factions skills I like looking at

.

The old Hamstring was cool and Protectors Strike is cool as well. Oh and Warriors Cunning. And Deflect Arrows and Disciplined Stance.

Xenrath

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Me

07 Jun 2006 at 21:07 - 26

I like the new "Live Long and Prosper" mesmer elite skill. It helps them survive and become very rich farmers while they're at it.

Dave_Spanners

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

07 Jun 2006 at 21:07 - 27

Another vote for skull crack, that picture is just class!

Mind wrack's big picture of a brain amuses me too for some reason.

What I don't like are the new factions mesmer icons: pretty much all of them apart from signets are a woman in a little black dress (Lyssa, presumably?) with some swirly lines around her. It's really hard to tell which is which from the icon sometimes, let alone what they do. :/

SnipiousMax

Perfectly Elocuted

Join Date: Sep 2005

07 Jun 2006 at 21:12 - 28

Maybe it's just a sub-consciously repressed violent disposition... But I like Eviscerate.

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

07 Jun 2006 at 21:17 - 29

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnipiousMax

Maybe it's just a sub-consciously repressed violent disposition... But I like Eviscerate.

Its name is great, on par with Equinox for coolest sounding imo. Its picture is pretty standard though...

Dahnel

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Rt/Me

07 Jun 2006 at 22:03 - 30

cant beat good ol' flurry

Sagaris

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Netherlands.

07 Jun 2006 at 22:06 - 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by x-todd

this guy looks like he is taking a big long hard dump.

I'd really like to know which idiot modelled for this one. Don't give me the 'they made it themselves' crap. I know they got the expression of a human. I totally want to know who it was, so I can contact him and ask him to do it again and totally laugh my ass off.

dgb

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

08 Jun 2006 at 01:19 - 32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desert Penguin

Soothing Images: This skill denies Adrenaline, but why does it show a picture of a musuclar bicep? It looks like it was supposed to be some damage buff for warriors, rather than de-buff.

If you bother to look closely you'll see it's a ray going through said muscle, presumably cutting off the adrenaline. Makes perfect sense to me.

Muse of Shadows

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

08 Jun 2006 at 02:07 - 33

To lazy to search for long - was looking for a skill pin pic, but went with this when I couldnt find one.

Hidden in the Mist

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

08 Jun 2006 at 02:09 - 34

Spirit Shackles.

Vermilion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

NY

08 Jun 2006 at 02:18 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evilsod

What its great

Heh...emo. Thats my new favorite.
and..
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Penetrating_Blow
Ownt!11111

Daithi the wolf

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Ireland

Fcuk

W/R

08 Jun 2006 at 02:34 - 36

Im gonna say charge cause the guy in it looks nuts

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/%22Charge%21%22

Mustache Mayhem

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

BEN

R/N

08 Jun 2006 at 02:48 - 37

check out rupture soul http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Rupture_Soul looks cool.. I always liked the dazed condition icon too- looks like some guy from abu ghraib