The new gem art just looks messy

I like the new design. Each gem, while bit messy, has a design that tells what it does. We just need little time to get adjusted to them. Give it couple of weeks and if it still feels off, then you can complain.

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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...

Because the artists are the ones that do that stuff right? Stop talking about something you clearly know nothing about.

I personally really like the new gem designs & I am already memorising the designs. To me they fit with the high detail artwork of the game & while the OP's suggestions are functional they are also boring as hell.

even though the new gem look is pretty cool, it definitely lacks refinement and discipline in my eye. And I have trained and refined my eye a lot, myself.

Strip them and tidy them up, then it'll be good. Which is a necessary step to get back to over and over again in all processes, game development included.

New ones are gorgeous.

Leave the Gem art alone, it's fine, if you can't tell what gem is what from a glance after you have moused over 2-3 of the same gem, then it sounds like a personal problem. I already know which gems are which in my stash and I have half a tab of them just sitting there.

I honestly hope they keep this design, because it's both useful and eye-candy.

Seems like 'some people' will never get it. Problem starts in the first place where something starts to being gorgeous or eye candy. When they are added into a graphic design, jobs fail, and this is the case here.

Since point of view in this design is literally wrong for the fact that they are not pictogram anymore, where it supposed to be, instead they are all paintings. Thus disturbs perception of a human-being. Simple as that.

At least, i expect from graphic designers to understand my expressions, if not for everybody.

I love the new gems.

IMO, less is more, especially when you have soooo many different gems. Having 100+ gems that all look different is as confusing as having them all look identical. Either way, I can't tell at a glance what a particular gem is...there's just way too many to remember. So, I have to look at each gem's stats to figure out what it is.

Worse yet, you can't tell the suppport gems from the skill gems now.

The support gems are gilded all the way around the circumference of the gem.

I personally love the new art, because after a bit of training I will be able to identify exactly the gems I want from a massive pool.