You have it a bit mixed up -- the devs said they didn't want Ice powers to look like jewels.
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Yes I understood that the devs didn't want Ice to have jewel tones. My first sentence could have been clearer but reading the whole short post should have made it clear. Sorry for the misundertanding.
This is one time where I disagree with them and I want the jewel tones.
I'll let them nerf regen and PVP again if i can shoot semi precious stones at people and encase foes in rubies and emeralds!
Take Earth Control, chose the crystal theme, color it jewel-like, and pretend it's an ice set.
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I agree, OP. My Ice blaster gots no love on the color schemes. I just made all my attacks white. At least is actually looks like ice.
I feel like ANY color other than clear, would be subject to "jewel" tones since the ice in my freezer is clear. Also, during the winter months here, the freezing rain and icicles are clear, too. So, with that said, i feel like if we can color it one color that we should be able to have any color. My 2 cents.
My understanding was that when they talked about "jewel tones" for ice powers it wasn't like this
http://images.forbes.com/media/2008/05/15/jewels_01.jpg
or this
http://allaboutrubies.org/selling-rubies.gif
But ended up looking more like this
http://3d-jewels.smartcode.com/image...els_16556.jpeg
If that's the case I'm with the Devs and agree with the choice to not add it to the game.
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Why would the Devs NOT want ice to look like crystals? Were they completely against it or they just didn't consider it?
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They considered it and thought it was a bad idea. I do not recall that they clarified further.
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I seem to remember something about them wanting Ice to remain exactly that....ice, and not something that could be mistaken for something else. Can't find the post that it was said in though...I think it's about bed time >.<
They don't want it in red and yellow. Guess why.
Yellow I can understand, but why would red ice be objectionable?
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Yellow I can understand, but why would red ice be objectionable?
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Eh. "Yellow snow" is an old, easily recognizable joke. But red ice as frozen blood? That's a stretch. Especially since if I wanted to schmear blood everywhere, I could easily resort to default Pain Domination or red-colored Dark Miasma and/or Dark Blast - infinitely more obvious blood stand-ins.
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i added a bit more blue and green into my ice/rad troller and it came out extremly well...
almost irradiated ice look. IMHO i really like the look of the ice with power customization.
as far as jewels i think the big thing was that they wanted the powers while customizable to still be ice.
I ate a yellow and red Popsicle today.
but I didn't see any pink fire...
During beta I vaguely recall reading something about the devs having a reason for limiting the colors available to ice powers specifically jewel tones. Am I remembering this correctly?
Some earth powers got a crystal option which has access to jewel tones and I feel something like Ice Blast would benefit from the crystal option and the added colors for thematic reasons.
So was there a big debate on Ice colors? Did other people like me want better color options for ice powers?