new light spell... not impressed

Anyone else not impressed w/ the new Light spell?

a) it's small; too small
b) its tinkerbell fairy look doesn't do it for me
c) its light (similar to the white light of Elysium Illumination) has a "squint your eyes or be blinded" quality when seen from up close w/ certain angles

 

I Like it, I love Tinker Bell

 

I neglect to use it before and preferred using nightview instead.
Now I like using the light spell, although nightview is better in some situations, but the green view need some love .

 

I actually prefer the new look of the Light spell.
To me it's less blinding than the old one, while giving better illumination of detail.
Different strokes, I guess ...

 

I don't care so much about the look of the light spell. I thought the ball of fire was fine. What really bugs me is the positioning, which the devs seem to want to ignore.

 

Can't please everyone, it seems. Even with something as minor as this.

 

+ 1 to "I like the new one"

 

First new iterations often are not perfect, we'll be looking to continue improving the light spell where needed!

 

I love the new light spell. In QA at first it was soooooo big and irritating, it was beautiful but blinding. I love it now and yes sometimes it gets a little in the way but not too bad with its smaller size. As for seeing better or worse, I think that it is about the same well imo.

 

I love the new effects for the light spell.

Less blinding, doesn't get in my way quite as much, but still sometimes lingers in front of my vision more than I'd like.

 

I love the new light spell, I think it's awesome!

 

I liked the old one well enough, but I like the new one as well. I especially like the trail, and also watching the falling lights in dark dungeons like The Fall. Makes me wish I could cast my own falling lights just to watch them drop down and light up the caverns below me, to use as a tool to scout out areas. Of course, some combo with archery would be cool too, so we could shoot out a light spell in any direction with an arrow like a flare.

Just a guess, but they probably started going down this direction when they removed the huge magic glyphs, and then represented a spell being cast by your hands filling with magic. For Sun Magic, it fills with the glow of a yellow light, and its a bit of a disconnect when you see an orange fire ball appear. So we had the first iteration of the yellow light, with the rings of light, but too many players didn't like that; so now we have this one.

At any rate, I do like it

I've noticed recently the light effect on candles has also been improved.

 

Put it in front of the avatar when moving forward. Keep it still otherwise. Its supposed to be helpful magic. Backlighting you and not illuminating where you are walking do the opposite.

If the spell currently leads your avatar, unlike prior interactions, disregard my comment.

 

@Solstar,

It should definitely be sensitive to surroundings so it doesn't sink into the cave wall when you're mining and disappear, cutting off your light.

 

Agreed. Also a worthy adjustment.

 

I like the looks of it, but can't see very well with it, I think it lost some of it's oomph.

 

love the new effect as it does not get in the way when creating videos and is more appealing to the eye. thumbs up to Tinkerbell

 

I prefer the new version as well, the big ball was taking up screen space for nothing. They could tweek the positioning of it though..

 

I like the new light spell. Good work. Keep it.

 

As head of the Asian Chapter of the Tinkerbell Fan Club,
I have only one thing I'd like to say about this ...

Spoiler

I like it !'
~Time Lord~