You should sell cosmetic, alternate skill effects. Grinding Gear Games sells A LOT of them.

[Selminus.1490]

Missing some IG store money there, ANet. Path of Exile sells a shit ton of those. One example would be a necro skeleton showing as a mummy instead or a Elementalist fireball having a different appearance.

[TheQuickFox.3826]

Could possibly be a nice additional monetizer for ArenaNet indeed. But they should be cautious not to cause even more visual clutter than we have already during for example boss battles.

 

But I doubt I would pay for these.

[Rysdude.3824]

> @"Selminus.1490" said:

> Missing some IG store money there, ANet. Path of Exile sells a kitten ton of those. One example would be a necro skeleton showing as a mummy instead or a Elementalist fireball having a different appearance.

 

Such a great idea. Depending on design, I know I’d buy a few!

 

 

[Khisanth.2948]

This doesn't work as well for GW2 as PoE because most skills in PoE starts out visually distinct already while many skills in GW2 share animations. PoE uses a common "casting a spell" pose for many spells but the spells themselves have a distinctive element such as Flameblast's circle and Storm Call's markers.

[Warkind.6745]

Also sell special footsteps and character auras on the gem store too.

[Emprer.7256]

Yess I need this so much!!

[Thelgar.7214]

> @"Warkind.6745" said:

> Also sell special footsteps and character auras on the gem store too.

 

And devalue all the legendary weapons in the game...

[aspirine.6852]

Not a bad idea at all. There is money to be made by this..

[videoboy.4162]

I wouldn't mind seeing some of this, especially for Mesmers.

[Lambent.6375]

I think would be hesitant to do this because of legendary weapons.

[Khisanth.2948]

PoE also allows you to have as many bank tabs as you are willing to pay for.

[Sinful.2165]

I really love the alternate spell effects available in PoE but wouldn’t that be tough to retroactively program into a system like GW? Admittedly I don’t know much about their engine. Would love to see this kind of thing though!

[Warkind.6745]

> @"Thelgar.7214" said:

> > @"Warkind.6745" said:

> > Also sell special footsteps and character auras on the gem store too.

>

> And devalue all the legendary weapons in the game...

 

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[SlippyCheeze.5483]

> @"Sinful.2165" said:

> I really love the alternate spell effects available in PoE but wouldn’t that be tough to retroactively program into a system like GW? Admittedly I don’t know much about their engine. Would love to see this kind of thing though!

 

Yes, it would be incredibly expensive to add this. It would require very large scale changes to the client, server, databases, network protocol, etc.

 

It is a good idea, but I think highly unlikely to happen due to that level of work required, but *shrug*.

[ProverbsofHell.2307]

It's a nice idea, but too problematic to happen.

[Malediktus.9250]

sounds like it would ruin WvW and PvP even more

[sitarskee.5738]

I would be against it but not fully. I would only like to see a possibility to dye your skill effects like for example dying guardian skills to be red instead of blue etc.

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

The Hearts toggle item we got for Valentine's Day is what I really like to see.

[Stand The Wall.6987]

it would get really annoying figuring out what to dodge... or making things easier to see lol.

[sorudo.9054]

i suggested something like this years ago and ppl were negative about it, it's not like it would sell well. (like how rift does it, love to have other minions then just miss shaped humps of flesh and bone.

[Plok.5873]

I'd spend gems for spell effects, customized phantasm, etc.

 

Whoever doesn't like it should be enabled to protect his/her nerves, frame rate and load time in the options, just as it is implemented for [My | Other Player's] Unique Items Sounds.

[Khisanth.2948]

> @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> sounds like it would ruin WvW and PvP even more

 

If they cared about that then they shouldn't have introduced outfits either.

[Malediktus.9250]

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > sounds like it would ruin WvW and PvP even more

>

> If they cared about that then they shouldn't have introduced outfits either.

 

You can turn on standard models in pvp/wvw, so unless it is the same for animations it will be terrible

[Eekasqueak.7850]

> @"Lambent.6375" said:

> I think would be hesitant to do this because of legendary weapons.

 

There's a lot of skill effects that no legendary touches, summons, utility skills, engineer kits, etc.. It'd be easy enough just to make the gemstore only for those skills.

[Khisanth.2948]

> @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > > @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > > sounds like it would ruin WvW and PvP even more

> >

> > If they cared about that then they shouldn't have introduced outfits either.

>

> You can turn on standard models in pvp/wvw, so unless it is the same for animations it will be terrible

 

and then realize you've shot yourself in the foot when you run across multiple mesmers