[Suggestion] Riftwalker MTX Skins

I was suggested to make this post by one of the developers who appeared to like my idea.



For those who haven't seen the video, you can find it here. Original news post here.

The boss, named the Riftwalker, is a walking MTX goldmine! Wherever you move, the void that makes up its body shifts, giving you the impression that it's a living rift into space. What completes the look is the darkness flowing into it, as if trying to consume the light like a black hole. The Riftwalker also uses abilities which have the same appearance, from the spectral thrown weapons to the vortexes it deploys.

I'm not sure about you guys, but I'd totally dig having the whole thing as an MTX. The gloom set and wings were awesome and all, but I can't help but enjoy the thought of having the appearance of a walking, living tear into dark space.

At the very least, I'd love to have this be an effect for a variety of skills. Could you imagine having spectres with this appearance? Or spectral throw? Imagine earthquake, where you make a tiny rift crack in the ground before it rapidly expands then collapses into nothingness.

I believe those are ice bolts and not ST.

I doubt this will ever happen for skills though, if you did then when in party it would be very difficult to tell friendly vortexs from enemy ones.

My guess as to why the riftwalker skin is so unique is to avoid that issue to begin with.

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Prisus wrote:

I believe those are ice bolts and not ST.

I doubt this will ever happen for skills though, if you did then when in party it would be very difficult to tell friendly vortexs from enemy ones.

My guess as to why the riftwalker skin is so unique is to avoid that issue to begin with.

That argument SOUNDS good...Until you go look at the Hydra's boss fight, with Vortexes that look...EXACTLY like regular vortexes.

Not the first time this has happened with a skill, so...GGG clearly doesn't care about that at all.

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Prisus wrote:

I believe those are ice bolts and not ST.

I doubt this will ever happen for skills though, if you did then when in party it would be very difficult to tell friendly vortexs from enemy ones.

My guess as to why the riftwalker skin is so unique is to avoid that issue to begin with.

I wouldn't say this is much of a problem, we've been using skills and MTX effects that are based on boss skills for a while now and nobody has complained about it. Take Gravicius for example, his firestorm is now an MTX for players.

Bear in mind the effects I want added from the Riftwalker are exclusive only to that one boss. I highly doubt players will be fighting it all that often to get confused between its attacks and their own.

Ive never played Guild Wars 2 but man do they have some sick items.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCpEbV158k

Riftwalker instantly reminded me of Twilight from GW2, would be sick to see a weapon MTX like this. Reason why i remember this sword is because i used to watch Dontains videos for fun.