I just used the inky black potion while I was around a pool of water in the Oasis dome in K’aresh and it really hit me how great this game still looks. I really, REALLY think this potion effect should be a permanent toggle on/off setting in the options. There is even a torch toy you can get to pull out a torch in your one hand. The game is begging for this sort of immersive content. Little stuff like that does a lot for the feel of the game. The darkness effect didn’t just lower the brightness of the screenspace, it also highlighted some of the effects in the world and on textures. The water in K’aresh looked as if it had little blue stars sparkling in it and the skybox was much more vibrant.
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Should be a toy really.
The other one too, that makes it brighter should likewise be a toy.
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I think it’s really just WoW players who will go on about how good it looks.
I have a couple people in Discord who don’t play but occasionally watch if someone is streaming and they’re always surprised by how dated it looks.
I think the game can produce some solid screenshots, but what you see playing normally, is, ehh.
That said, yeah, I’d like toggles for the potion effects.
There’s ones that we can’t even get potions for, too.
There’s one you can get in Ardenweald after unlocking the Cradle mount (and you can go talk to the NPC to re-apply it anytime afterward) that’s essentially Inky Black + Ardenweald’s Skybox, even if you leave Ardenweald / Hearth / Load / Whatever.
But it lasts for 10 minutes and since it comes from an NPC Dialogue you can’t re-apply it without going back there, so it’s only good for specifically grabbing to take a few screenshots.
There is precedent for no-cooldown filters like this. I have the story filter that parchment’s everything, for example. If that can be on permanently I don’t see why these types of effects couldn’t be added in the same way as toys, if not toggles.
Best Blizz can do would be to remove the potions in exchange for giving us a toy, but then that toy has a cooldown that’s 10x longer than the duration of the effect.
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The inky black potion works great in various places (Undermine and Dornogal especially), but it doesn’t work very well in K’aresh. I despise that skybox. It looks like someone dropped some white pixels on a black square and did a hasty copy-n-paste job. Plus, it’s just the top half. The bottom half washes out completely. Why couldn’t devs just copy the skybox from the Ny’alotha staging platform? Or leave the original skybox.
Now, I know the sky box effect is one thing - each zone has it’s own, but the lighting effect? …
The fact that that’s a consumable item is utter gibbering madness. Imaging locking other fundamental options behind this system.
Coming in 12.0!
⠀⠀[Draught of Volume Control]
⠀⠀[Crystal of Anti-Aliasing]
⠀⠀[Key of Interface Colorization]
⠀⠀[Scroll of Mic Settings]
And so forth. This effect should be a little tiny toggle in the options menu, and nothing more.
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I kinda wish they would come up with a new toy that we could use that is like the inky black potion, but does not replace the sky. I would love something that would make the night darker/make it night, but not get rid of some of the brilliant skyboxes these places have at times.
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^ Pretty much this. It’s especially weird to use during rainstorms.
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This should not be a toy. It should be a part of the game. If it’s night time in game, this should be the effect, period. I’m sick of everyone thinking it should ALWAYS be bright daytime forever. (This is exactly why they turned this into a potion, because of “It’s too dark!” from whiney players.)
Wait 'til you see these…
Your guess is as good as mine as to why this stuff keeps happening instead of just going into the options menu.
Inky Black pots are awesome. I use them while gathering almost all the time, but my favorite thing they do is highlight the lighting of the game.
Flying over any city with an Inky Black pot active will showcase the work they put into the lighting of any zone in a way we don’t otherwise get to see. Fly over Dazor’Alor with an inky black and just…you can thank me later.
ha ha
Along with the day potions, yes please.
Or…people who live in a different time zone and would like for it to be daylight sometimes in their game?
I mean, I happen to agree with you that nights in WoW should look like Inky Black, but I don’t think “whiny” is the correct designation for players who like being able to see.
It’s like with modded Skyrim. I always use ELFX Hardcore and Shadows because I like it to be so dark you need a torch to see where you’re going in my dungeons.
For other people, that just makes the game an unbearable slog to play.
We can have different preferences without calling people who like something different some kind of pejorative name.
This is the way to go.
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I don’t mind going to the faire and stocking up every few months, especially with war banks now. If they made it a toy it would just have some ridiculous arbitrary cooldown on it.
It would make a cool filter for the selfie cam though.
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Realistically speaking, I don’t think anyone here expects WoW to be on the same level as a PS4 or later game. It’s easily on par with late PS2/early PS3 so long as you aren’t going for a more realistic style of art (ie: a Resident Evil)
Ultimately, that’s the thing: games that chase realistic art styles tend to get dated in terms of looks MUCH more quickly. While there have been graphical updates, I think that’s the key reason why you see so many folks mention WoW still looking good for a 21 year old game: it isn’t trying to be ultra realistic, so it tends to hold up much better overall.
I see so many games where the graphics of individual elements are better, but there’s no effort being made to make the whole scene flow together. The end result looks something like a pop-up book. WoW’s animation makes everything look like it belongs in that environment, not like one artist pasted their object onto another artist’s work.
“It’s night time and I can’t see! I don’t want it to be dark!!”
Whiney. I stand by my statement.
You’re prolly right.
Fun detected and all that.
I used one for the 1st time after I looted one a little while ago, I think the Diablo event…not sure tbh.
Anyway, it was a “wow” moment for sure, felt rather late to that party.
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This is one of my biggest pet peeves with WoW aura toys and such! My friend recently pointed out “oh no, you’re gonna want the ky’veza victory aura toy,” and he showed me the toy, at which time I pointed out the hour long cooldown and I said “thankfully I do not!”
That witch aura from BFA is up full time on my warlock. My Druid who “was a priest” during legion has the Xal’atath whispers up full time. My monks all have one of the fulltime MoP remix wing-proc toys up at all times! More like this!
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There is no “e” in whiny.