Tone down a bit the ice spell effects please

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Seriously it's annoying, as soon as someone starts spamming ice abilities at me half the screen is filled with white and I can't see anything, unless it's by design that on top of snaring thoses abilities are supposed to make your target go blind. All what is left to target is tab and there is like half a dozen of ice cages in the tab list... I have no problems with having impressive spell effects but at least make it transparent or something.

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I agree 100% and I also made a similar post. The ice effects are blinding!

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I tend to agree. Ice is the single most annoying effect in the game at the moment.

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Ice is meant to break the fourth wall, the attacks freeze your character, and your computer.

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Heh, I sometimes 'exploit' this added bonus of Ice on people I don't like in PvP. I'll just spam, spam away. Whiners, ragequitters and people who chain hold/knockdown get on my nerves after a while.

I think you can avoid it if you fiddle with your bloom or light settings, though.

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Seriously?

You now want to nerf the coolest looking effects in the game?.... *sigh*

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dont mess with my ice effects please . i already took a nerf dont take away my good looks too . Also i tend to like blinding my opponent .

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The prob I have and have to agree with toning this back is the fact that I can't see the special attack icons in the cloud of ice effect. I can only imagine how annoying that is in group combat.

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I like the Ice Blast sfx. It makes me feel super!

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why is it that 90% + of these whining threads are about PVP?

Oh, yeah... because that is the game all the whiners play!

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Seriously?

You now want to nerf the coolest looking effects in the game?.... *sigh*

Ugliest. You mean ugliest.

They have to be the least ice-like things I've ever seen in a game. They're way too big, they get in the way way too much, as do the giant mist puffs. It's not really negotiable, they all need reduced in size so we can see wtf is going on.

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Hmmm, I might make a PvP Ice character now and just spam pearly-white ice at people whilst making slightly dubious comments about 'getting snowballed', 'eating my white spray' and 'you love my sticky white prison'. You get the idea.

Either that, or get as many 'breath' skills as possible to slow people's PC's to a crawl heheheh.

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I'm sure they aren't for everyone, but I for one enjoy the effects I see on my Ice Champion.

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Sheehs...

Maybe its time to throw thoese pocket calculators and pidgeons away and get a real computer :)

Nerf Ice effects? hell no (i dont even have ice character)

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Although I love the Ice effect, I do have to agree that it can be annoying. I play Ice myself and sometimes I can't see anything because of my Iceblasts. Do have to check it in pvp though, would be fun just to blind everyone, even myself!

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You should have seen them in Beta. :p

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I have to disagree. The ice effects look great. A superhero game needs stunning effects. You need to consider that icepowers throw structures and not laser beams, so there need to be a difference in effects. But if you hate effects, Counterstrike might be a better game for you.

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Seriously it's annoying, as soon as someone starts spamming ice abilities at me half the screen is filled with white and I can't see anything, unless it's by design that on top of snaring thoses abilities are supposed to make your target go blind. All what is left to target is tab and there is like half a dozen of ice cages in the tab list... I have no problems with having impressive spell effects but at least make it transparent or something.

100% agree - I play Ice and use Ice Blast + Hard Frost Tap spam for single target dps..... but it's really *really* hard to see when mobs emote for big attacks.

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I have to disagree. The ice effects look great. A superhero game needs stunning effects. You need to consider that icepowers throw structures and not laser beams, so there need to be a difference in effects. But if you hate effects, Counterstrike might be a better game for you.

This isn't about turning them off - its about toning them down. It is possible to completely obscure your target (making it impossible to tell when mobs are charging a big attack). This isn't just a PvP problem.

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There are options in the client to turn down the visual effects, and the main lag component is from the particles from an object. Turn down settings if your computer cannot handle it. It's what I do.

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I'm not lagging, and my system can handle anything this game can throw at it. I'm not talking about the ice 'chunks'. I'm talking about the STACKING 'mist cloud' generated at the target which is hit by Ice Blast. Yes - the graphics STACK. Use Ice Blast a few times in quick succession and you have a total whiteout.

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That's kinda the point.

They're supposed to get in your way.

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Seriously it's annoying, as soon as someone starts spamming ice abilities at me half the screen is filled with white and I can't see anything, unless it's by design that on top of snaring thoses abilities are supposed to make your target go blind. All what is left to target is tab and there is like half a dozen of ice cages in the tab list... I have no problems with having impressive spell effects but at least make it transparent or something.

You know what, I have to agree. I still think Ice has the best graphic and sound effect in the game but when somebody start spamming ice attacks (or several people doing it), the whole screen is filled with ice stuff and becomes hard to "see" or target.

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Its the mist cloud thats the problem, its just too thick and like what people have said, it hides the charge icon for mobs. I've seen a ice player get one shot by the viperboss on bullet bound open quest do to him not being able to see that the boss had changed targets from me to him and firing off a chest blast.