Zee.1294 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Well then.....Finally after 8 years Anet outdone it self ! Who ever design this skins needs a Christmas bonus...ok ...Well done Anet!!
AgentMoore.9453 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Honestly, yeah. Both this and the Dark Matter set are examples of flashy/bright particle designs that actually look alright.Recently I've been pretty let down by messy eye-burning additions like the Demon Haunted and Volcanic Stormcaller sets and even the overabundance of sharp teal in some of the Dragon Slayer set, but employing the right amount of contrast really made a difference with Shimmering Aurora.Nice. Good. I'd enjoy more like this for the shiny things, and more like the Privateer set for the practical things.
Sobx.1758 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Dark Matter, Eternal Forged and Dark Wing too imo. Ice Reaver looks good as well, but I'm just not a huge fan of icy theme.Overally I think a lot of recent skins were solid.
Veprovina.4876 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 What do you need to get them? Besides play Wintersday? Or are they not Wintersday exclusive?
Danikat.8537 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 @Veprovina.4876 said:What do you need to get them? Besides play Wintersday?They're not actually part of Wintersday, they're the new black lion weapon set. So you either need to open black lion chests and hope you get weapon tickets/scraps, or you can buy them from the Trading Post.
Veprovina.4876 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 @Danikat.8537 said:@Veprovina.4876 said:What do you need to get them? Besides play Wintersday?They're not actually part of Wintersday, they're the new black lion weapon set. So you either need to open black lion chests and hope you get weapon tickets/scraps, or you can buy them from the Trading Post.Ah i see. I couldn't find the wiki for them, just some video showcasing the skins.They look really nice. :smile:
Danikat.8537 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 @Veprovina.4876 said:@Danikat.8537 said:@Veprovina.4876 said:What do you need to get them? Besides play Wintersday?They're not actually part of Wintersday, they're the new black lion weapon set. So you either need to open black lion chests and hope you get weapon tickets/scraps, or you can buy them from the Trading Post.Ah i see. I couldn't find the wiki for them, just some video showcasing the skins.They look really nice. :smile: The Wiki is updated entirely by players, so there's always a bit of a delay adding new things, especially when lots of stuff comes out at once. I'm sure they'll get pages soon.
Veprovina.4876 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 @Danikat.8537 said:@Veprovina.4876 said:@Danikat.8537 said:@Veprovina.4876 said:What do you need to get them? Besides play Wintersday?They're not actually part of Wintersday, they're the new black lion weapon set. So you either need to open black lion chests and hope you get weapon tickets/scraps, or you can buy them from the Trading Post.Ah i see. I couldn't find the wiki for them, just some video showcasing the skins.They look really nice. :smile: The Wiki is updated entirely by players, so there's always a bit of a delay adding new things, especially when lots of stuff comes out at once. I'm sure they'll get pages soon.Yeah i know, that's why i asked here. :smile:And since they came out on Wintersday or somewhere around this time, i thought they're maybe connected to that.Anyway, thanks for answering!
AliamRationem.5172 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 I already picked up a bunch of the dark matter skins. Most of them look awesome!
Eramonster.2718 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 Best skin imo, kudos :+1: .Colours, brightness & light particles with trails (stars). That's quality weapon.Just missing the underwater skins.
Ashantara.8731 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 Like with many other shiny weapons, I do not understand why they do not illuminate their surroundings like a torch. That's something that is bugging me about those skins. At least a soft light would be nice, then I would at least consider using them...
LucianDK.8615 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 I just wish that non legendary weapons hid the class trails when swinging. The green necromancer swing clashes with so many weapons.
Zera.9435 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 Indeed, it looks so good that I have based the entire look of almost all my characters (20+) on the weapons. It's also the first weapon set I ever cared to complete. Mad kudos to everyone involved in the making of these weapons. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/684428623461220448/788828879682666586/gw025.jpg
Fueki.4753 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 If Arenanet could go back to design decent looking weapons instead of these particle effect annoyances, that'd be great.
Ashantara.8731 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 @Fueki.4753 said:If Arenanet could go back to design decent looking weapons instead of these particle effect annoyances, that'd be great.:+1: However, very few of their past designs were decent. I especially loathe the ridiculous sizes of most of their weapons, something they keep doing to date. Just plain awful.
Funky.4861 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 I know they are themed around the aurora borealis, but i find them quite glaring and the trail is mismatched imo. It's the hard lines around the ribbons of light, i wish they were softer/more blurred and used as the trail instead of this out-of-nowhere starry effect.
mindcircus.1506 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 While the base designs are pretty nice, the particle effects are a complete eyesore.I really wish they would just reel in the ridiculous effects.... the game doesnt need to give me retinal burn.
Randulf.7614 Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 These are nice indeed. I'm normally against such flashy things, but they are very pretty nonetheless. I do have a BL ticket spare, so might grab one if I can find a character it would work on. But I don't really use that colour schemeYet
Danikat.8537 Posted December 17, 2020 Posted December 17, 2020 I like the colour scheme, but I think the effects are a bit much for most of my characters most of the time.But I'm tempted to pick some up since I have black lion tickets from somewhere or other, and I suspect this set will be very expensive later on since they seem pretty popular now. The question is whether to get the weapons I'm most likely to use, or the ones likely to be the most expensive later on.
ugrakarma.9416 Posted December 17, 2020 Posted December 17, 2020 damn that unfair, just when im close to completing my Exordium,
Danikat.8537 Posted December 17, 2020 Posted December 17, 2020 @ugrakarma.9416 said:kitten that unfair, just when im close to completing my Exordium,I still think Exordium looks better. I think that's going to be my next legendary, because I love the effects as well as the colours. I might start not long after Wintersday, but I haven't decided yet, but it's going to be a very long time before I finish it, so I'm kind of jealous you're so close to finishing already.
Eloc Freidon.5692 Posted December 18, 2020 Posted December 18, 2020 Another "yes I'm getting the full set" of skins. Eternal Forged and Lorekeeper also are fantastic unique sets.If I know I'm getting most of the set, I figure I get them all to complete the collection to get 7 full tickets back. Then spend gold on an older set when it drops under 200G total to get another 7.
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 Even I kinda like them, and I am NOT a fan of over the top particle effects that have become so overly used the last few years. Not sure if I'll get any though, would probably clash with most of my characters looks.
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