Alternate Skill Effects: Raise Zombies

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Th3Princess wrote:

Wow Kwonryu - quite the list (methodists LOL).

It's from Blazing Saddles :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpmswBKVN4

I like the idea. Playing thematically, it was tough to justify my Ice Witch having Skeletons. On the other hand, those statue skins look a bit like ice, and they even melt away nicely. I'd love to see something which made zombies element-friendly, too, though it'd be kinda tough to sort out why they needed corpses to raise. Be easier to justify plant-creatures for a Druid-type caster, using bodies as fertilizer, but that would be a lot of development work.

I'd prefer new models or at least drastically different textures than already exist if possible. For zombies it's fairly rare to encounter enemy zombies, but when it does happen I often let them walk right up and beat on me because I think they're my own witless stumbling minions. Skeletons could use a 'remarkably different than existing enemy' skin too for my money.

I hate the looks of Zombies since i first tried the game in one of the first open beta weekends. And i still hate em! They really look like a bleeding flesh bag. If i want to see something like that i'd just order my minced meat with an extra portion of fresh blood.

I like the skeletons, they really look decent. Dark shaded bones with evil fiery glowing skulls. Just missing a more confident pose. I mean, they just look dull right now. My "Army of the Dead" should show a little more dignity and honor. And maybe a little piece of armor, with a spike on one shoulder or something like that would be nice.

But back to the Zombies.
Themed zombies doesn't sound that bad. The zombie mesh as it is but with 4 different textures and effects. One for every element and one for chaos. So instead of bleeding, the lightning versions could have tiny little flashes streak around their bodies. Fiery zombies could've little flames bursting out, where now only blood jumps out, additionally a crispy skin. Ice ones could lose some chilling winds... not frosty farts i mean and a skin a little frosted looking. And chaos versions... they could fart... or well... maybe just have a nice little stinky cloud surrounding them, nothing big, with a greenisch foul looking skin.

And i would like to see a real alternative mesh as well. Could then be a bit pricier than the 4 cheap effect reworked versions. Demons were stated... mmmh yeah.

Thanks for the new zombie skin alternate effect, GGG! Mummies - makes sense; keep the similarity but cover the gore. :-)