cool - was this an update?

Just logged in and started playing my sin this morning - noticed he had a lot of new glowing animations around his daggers that he had never had before.

I had no new skills, hadn't changed the make up of my heroes and henchies, hadn't changed any option settings or had any updates to my video card driver that would enable graphics I had not had before, so it's not any of those things.

Did anyone else notice this with their sin or other characters.

In any case, WAY COOL - thanks ANet.

I'm curious.... I was playing this morning, but since I was doing Ferndale box-carrying runs I didn't attack anyone with daggers... I'll check later.

what kind of daggers were you using? if you were using zodiac daggers then that might be why =D

im interested to see though...

no different daggers - i like kinshi's butterfly ones and those were the ones I was using - i'll try later with some others and see if they do the same thing.

Take a SC. From your description I am starting to think it may be the aura from the Proph CE. Or you could've been using a skill in which is plausable since Anet buffed alot of the sin stuffs.

here's a screen shot - hard to catch because they don't last long.



The magenta around the hands and the orange crescents in the back are what I am talking about.

I think the magenta was a result of mobeus strike and the orange was from death blossom - not entirely sure - but they are different according to the skill you are using.

I did check and I do not have CE on my account so I am assuming they upgraded some of the skills to include new graphics.

In any case, I am happy - the sins arlready had some pretty good moves and now they are even better - thanks.

Nine Tail Strike is totally ftw now.

It wouldn't be the CE anyway as that only happens when you do emotes.

Yea it's attack animation. When I use Ox Horns I get a scythe effect as my sin strikes twice, and when I use twisting fangs my palms emit a barbed circle aura before striking.

Crazy eh?

You know if you slow the animation of "Falling Spider" down, you'll actually see a purple spider at the hand. This is actually there before the update you're talking about.

Many of Assassins attack skills have purple glow to it, it just the animation is too fast for you to notice it.

^ Yeup, and that sucks because the animations are so pretty. At least it makes up for it with the fast-paced action.

You can also see something similiar with Sun-and-Moon slash; You see a sun and moon in the animation but it's *really* tiny. Try it with a Katana.

You're making me want to play my assassin again.....<struggle with inner self>... must ... get... protector... title ... with....ele.....first.....

This brings up an interesting point actually. How many people really notice the animations? Every now and then I'll see some cool animation from a skill or spell, and I'll spend a minute or two waiting to see it again. Most of the time though, I don't notice them. It kinda sucks, alot of the animations are very cool.

How about an instant replay feature.....picture in picture in insta-slow-mo(TM)....
Now that would be cool - Anet developers drop everything that you're not working on (i.e. auction house) and start not working on this immediately..... I decree it!

Interesting. I had the same feeling that some of those things finally got an effect. Maybe they increased the size a bit or fixed a bug that prevented them from being shown?

I often go out to low level areas and kill stuff just to watch the animations for attacks. OOoo... pretty colors! 0_O

Sigh, and just when a few days ago people were attacking and flaming a guy for suggesting sins have fancier combos by calling him "naurto noob" etc.

Interesting but like others I don`t notice many effects as they are hidden by the other brighter effects. In fact sometimes I can`t even see my char for all the effects going off at once, it`s just a massive bright white/blue smokey mass with my char and the enemies popping out of it between each attack.
Maybe the testing spots might reveal more, kick some dummies and check out some animations.

are you talking about a yellow glow around the weapon when you use an attack skill? thats been around for a LONG time.

It has, but it's more than a yellow glow, each of the martial classes has it's own effects. Warrior attack effects look different than rangers which look different than assassins, dervishes, or paragons, etc.