Arelith

Somewhat recently (in the last three months?) I've noticed that the visual effects of poison have gone from the deep drippy green of an acid essence to a barely noticeable dull green glow. I want to praise the effort here, because it looks like a new Arelith-only visual effect. But for me it's really underwhelming.

I'm struggling to understand what the problem was with the classic (and amazing) acid drip of poisons that we had a few months ago. What was the problem that the devs were looking to solve with the new and greatly diminished look of poisons? I remember seeing drow in the official neverwinter campaign that were wielding glowy green weapons dripping with poison. I remember the raw visceral reaction I had playing those campaigns as a teenager and seeing the menacing weapons.

I have no problem with the new visual effects, and they make sense somewhere. Maybe on the swords of some low level mobs in a dungeon, or as the visual effects of certain very cheap poisons. But man, I want my drippy poison sword back.

I would suspect the changes were made to have the weapon effects be visually distinct.

I can say anecdotally, when the effects are the same color, it's harder for me to differentiate between them even if the animations are different. I suspect that I'm not the only one, so maybe that's the problem meant to be fixed.

the old vfx was actually just the acid vfx

In Sorrow We Trust wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:07 am

the old vfx was actually just the acid vfx

That's what I'm saying. It was awesome. IMHO the new VFX doesn't look particularly good and was a solution for a problem that really wasn't there, or was so minor that it didn't really need solving.