The new gem art just looks messy

Here's a good compromise for people concerned about support gems (which I already think are clear enough):

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magicrectangle wrote:

I think changing the gold to silver on support gems would help distinguish them, and would be easy enough to do.

From another thread.

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

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krackhed999 wrote:

They were actually much less confusing, believe it or not.

Not.

Come on man, this is just silly. All due respect, but that's just not true.

I mean, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME you are NOT adapting? You're not able to identify most of your gems by now just by looking at them? That isn't happening for you? Really? Really?

Here's a good compromise for people concerned about support gems (which I already think are clear enough):

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magicrectangle wrote:

I think changing the gold to silver on support gems would help distinguish them, and would be easy enough to do.

I don't NEED to be able to tell what each individual one is. Unless you use all of your gems constantly(which would mean you didn't have much to begin with), you don't need to, either. Nobody needs to see what each individual gem is, when they are searching through a page full of them for a specific one. It's much easier to be able to organize them into visual groups, which is impossible beyond sorting by color.

It's just one big organizational nightmare for those of us who like a little order in our lives.

I understand wanting it to be as easy to see what it does from a glance as possible. Save from CoH, I've never seen a game go into that much detail to make things "clear", and let me tell you what happened with that game. Most people went through the game not even knowing what their various symbols and markings on their skills even meant. It was wasted and the end result was ugly skill art.

I appreciate the aesthetic of the new gems, and I don't find them to be messy. On the contrary, it took me like 5 minutes of effort to memorize a few dozen skill gems, and now my inventory is easier to use than ever before. I don't need to know "what a gem does" or "what stats it uses" because I can tell that at a glance, and so much more, because now I know what skill it is in the first place. That's as opposed to CoH where you'd often forget what your skill was even called, let alone what it did, because all projectiles had the same basic icon with some color and border differences.

I realize I'm coming across like an advertisement here. Partly because I'm tired (it's 1 AM here), and my English is pretty shitty these days, so sorry for that.
I need to get to bed and I respect your position but I respectfully disagree with it and I expect that the gems won't be rolled back, so in the end, I'm not that worried either.

Good night everyone!

Eh, I don't really understand the big deal with it is, it's subjective like all art. You will have just as many people complain if they change them again. Don't understand why nothing can ever be just as simple as "oh cool, they changed the art. Not really my cup of tea, but their usefulness hasn't changed and difference of the gems can be seen. I can deal."

But no. Everyone has to complain about something, even as subjective as icon art, just because it isn't what they themselves specifically had in mind.

I happen to really like the new gems. Makes it easy to know what they are by glancing at them and I like the flashiness of them, fits with the story of them IMO.

I'd like them more if I could actually tell what the symbols are. Most look like random blobs.

Most of you are argueing about how they look in your stash altogether. You are not sorting them out so your stash looks like your desktop.

I prefer the new style on most of the gems, you can find them pretty fast. For example crit chance looks like a target and so on. I just don't like some of them, that look minimalistic and confusable.

In Terms of color they are as distinguishable as before, and they are beautiful.

I like how the new gems look, i takes some getting used to, yes, but it really isn't bad at all. I like it

the new gems look terrible to me, they don't even look like gems to me. i don't know what they are.

also, was re-designing the gems really that important right now?
why the fuck would GGG sped time and resources with this when there are so many other issues with the gamne (lag, de-sync, class balancing, skills, etc)

just mind boggling...

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leopard2lx wrote:

the new gems look terrible to me, they don't even look like gems to me. i don't know what they are.

also, was re-designing the gems really that important right now?
why the fuck would GGG sped time and resources with this when there are so many other issues with the gamne (lag, de-sync, class balancing, skills, etc)

just mind boggling...

Agreed, at the very least, it would be better if art team would go for improving curse and aura visuals.

@leopard2lx, i assume they have some art designers for PoE.