HEALING NOVA IS T3 ITEM BUT HAS T2 BACKGROUND ON ICON

[souloms]

HEALING NOVA IS T3 ITEM BUT HAS T2 BACKGROUND ON ICON

 

[ssds]

The icon creates dissonance and confusion about the item's tier. It needs to be redrawn to match a T3 item so that it aligns with the design of the store

 

[Playwithme]

Yes, i saw it too

 

[pidjan]

FATAL BUG FIX THIS

 

[arXaik]

Today I was deeply concerned by the fact that the background of the Tier 3 item doesn't match the others. I hope the developers respond quickly — it just looks so ugly.

 

[gibnewitems]

Honestly, it's fine. The backgrounds aren't even consistent in the tier 2 category if you look closely.

 

[souloms]

Honestly, it's fine. The backgrounds aren't even consistent in the tier 2 category if you look closely.

But all t3 items have same style w dark bg. And nova stands out a lot. Look at pidjan's screenshot. Ugly af

 

[Playeroth]

HEALING NOVA IS T3 ITEM BUT HAS T2 BACKGROUND ON ICON

its definitely not a bug but will receive eventual changes. notice that they are updating other icons, eventually healing nova

 

[gibnewitems]

But all t3 items have same style w dark bg. And nova stands out a lot. Look at pidjan's screenshot. Ugly af

That's not a general rule. Just take a look at other item trees, specifically the items that look closer to finished.


I guess Toxic Bullets (a tier 3 item) must be such an eyesore with that dark background, despite being a candidate for the single best designed icon to have came out of the item update.


Or Escalating Resilience (another tier 3). My god, this don't even look like a weapon item, especially with all that green!

Here's a few example of items in the tier 3 vitality that does follow your design convention of a similar background color. Notice anything in particular?

(i will admit that this icon does radiate quite a bit of soul).

(and it's literal gameplay counterpart for good measure)

They're obviously incomplete. Far more so than Toxic Bullets or any other visually goated icon.

My main point is that the items which don't follow this background trend, tend to be far closer to completion than items that do. In my opinion, the developers should focus on making visually appealing icons. Making every background the same flat color with a bit of photoshop noise because some internet guy hallucinated a pattern when there is plenty of evidence for the contrary is not a recipe for a well-designed icon.

As more and more items receive updates, you will slowly see the flat colors go away, in favor of visually appealing designs. We will have less debuff removers, and more toxic bullets as time marches on.

 

[Ragnaman]

literally unplayable, i just cant

 

[scratchviolin]

if anybody wants, i recolored the icon (badly, but you can't tell at the scale you'll be seeing it in game) and made a mod to replace it in game. i made a post about it in the modding discord.