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Alright, alright. I'll throw you a bone. In fact, I'll throw you a pile.This is a boss fight arena with theme of ice and crystals.
What's the theme of the boss? Some ideas: small crystals, rocks, treasure, webs, eggs, trash, torches, general demonic doodads, the symbols from the tomb of sargaras (not sure what they're called), blue fire, etc.
Also tile variation.
First off maybe use a little more tile variation?
That ice doodad looks better if you place it on other doodads. For example use the Glacier doodad as angled spiky cliffs and then place the ice on the Glaciers.
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DO
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Alright, alright. I'll throw you a bone. In fact, I'll throw you a pile.
Then why issue this request?I know pretty much all that stuff.
Somehow, my fingers yearn to actually DO this arena terrain, but I shall not bother you with petty desires, let me rather give you the advices I would consider if I were to make this terrain.
-My first and foremost suggestion would be to make it less standard, add in some elements of surprise, some elevated grounds and separation, I'd love to see a custom built chasm, or fissure if you want, in the center of the circle, or actually, two of them, with a small "bridge" gap in between, so that you can move around them and in between them. My best suggestion for making such gaps in the terrain would of course be to use the elevation tool together with the shadow glow and rocky doodads, I'd actually suggest either Steinlord or Felsen, tinted to fit the theme, with using the "Fog" doodad from UTM, and with that I mean the steamy fog, not the glow fog, to make it seem like some kind of white frozeness is emitting from it/them.
I'd also suggest you combine those icy crystals with rocky doodads, to make the rocks seem frozen, rather than having simple and mere spikey ice. I'd also consider using those frozen throne spike stone thingies regardless of what you do to the ice crystals as a sort of frame around the whole thing, on the outer side of the crystals.
Other than that, tiles, detail work and variation. There is nothing like having a eye-catching spot somewhere in the midst of the pit, some statue or ruin or something elaborately constructed, doesn't have to be large, somewhere in the pit. I'd also suggest you fool around with lighting, tinting all the doodads a little darker, and having the settings on "night" whenever the fight is, then have sources of light making everything seem more livid and exciting, it's amazing what lighting can do to a terrain.
Some dragon-like eggs could be pread around in small pods too, to give the impression of it being a sort of "dragon nest."
Then why issue this request?
See that's just it. There are no "fancy little tricks of which we do not speak". We're a clean-cut bunch in that respect. I'll give you this, it's predominantly a matter of vision. Picture how you want your terrain to take shape and materialize it. In this case you might as well have shoved a fresh clean template up your ass and asked kindly of us to enlighten you in the fine art of comfortably passing gold-rimmed bowel movements. It just doesn't work that way.
Really sorry, but I just can't give you any profound pointers at this stage. It's just barely past the cephalic phase. Tell you what, put some meat on the bone and I'll offer you a more concrete review. If my word has any merit to you that is.
EDIT: Keiji lays forth some great examples.
It is no mess...
How dare you say so?
Apart from that: Keiji and Fladdermasken did point it out rather well, it's hard to point out more at this stage.
But with any step you go on, new advices can be given. So go for it.