World Activation Indicators For Certain Effects

Fairly simple suggestion:

At the moment, it can be hard to notice when effects such as agility, dexterity, life steal, and mana steal activate, especially if you have a low chance and aren't really expecting/looking for it.

Why not add some simple particle and sound effects to indicate these things?

Dexterity Crit: When this activates, those hit would release angry villager particles and the sound that plays when a zombie breaks a door would play. (I'm not too happy with the sound but can't think of anything better, anyone have suggestions.) Maybe the message "Critical Hit" could also be displayed along with the damage message?

Agility Dodge: When you dodge a hit, you will emit some wind-like particles and a small "whoosh" sound will play (I'm not sure what the actual sound is called, but I've seen it used on other servers quite a bit)

Life Steal Activation: When life steal triggers, the target hit will emit activated redstone particles and the "potion drinking" sound effect will play (only the final part that is heard if a regular mc potion is drunk completely) (The reasoning behind this one is that a lot items with high lifesteal involve references to vampires or parasites).

Mana Steal Activation: When mana steal triggers, the target hit will emit witch particles and the "wither taking damage" sound effect will play at low volume.

 

+1 I like it.
Relatively simple as well as being something useful, that we should add.

 

There's already a snowball poof for when Agility kicks in, and a heart appearing for Lifesteal. For critical hits, there could be some kind of yellow particles, and for Mana Steal, possibly just a smattering of blue particles.

 

Problem is the builds based on life steal or mana steal or agility. It would sound like:

WOOSH WOOSH PING PING BLUE! YELLOW! WOOSH WOOSH PING! CRITICAL HIT! WOOSH! WITHER DYING!

But cool idea bro

 

I have literally never seen anything resembling a snowball poof, and my main class has like a 60-something % dodge chance. Same goes for the hearts, though I confess I don't really use lifesteal. Regardless, if there is an agility indicator, it's not very noticeable.

Anyway my suggestion is mostly that there should be indicators, the ones I listed were mostly there as examples.

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Lol the sounds may be a bad idea in retrospect...

 

Okay, but where's the downside there.

 

The snowballs are at your feet

Your screen is covered and loads of sounds play if your class is based off life steal or mana steal.

 

The particles would be on the mob/you, not right in front of your face. xD

 

Nice idea! My scoreboard status suggestion is pretty similar too :3

 

The sounds would be no louder than the current "ding" every time you get xp. They're still not necessary, but they can be a good indicator, especially if you're more focused on the fight than looking for a specific particle effect.

 

+1 supporter

 

....... Yes but the mobs wont be more than 10 / 20 blocks away...

Alright I guess.... Still its gonna be a jam of sounds though a bit more quiet.


I should really stop fighting this....
+1 supporter

 

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Stump the Bump.

 

Oh god, imagine using multihit as a dex assassin on an agi person. The noise...

 

I like the idea but sound doesn't sound the best. With mana regen for example, when I hit a large group, it can activate many times and I can only imagine the sound spam.

 

reverse the roles to agi assassin, dex archer with arrow storm

 

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