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I'm a Mesmer and I just hit lvl 80 not long ago, and I'm going into Virtuoso. Should I replace one of my specs in my build for Virtuoso now and use the weapons I plan on (dagger/sword and greatsword as 2nd) or wait until I have the tree more progressed? I've only trained Virtuoso up twice so it's missing the majority of the spec tree.

I know people typically say something insensitive after stating they don't mean to, but I really do not intend to sound insensitive to colorblind people. I know hearing about your colorblindness or being "tested" about it gets really stale and annoying. However, I feel like I have a friend who is a unique case when it comes to colorblindness. He is usually the one to bring it up, not me.

My friend who has what we've come to believe as red-green colorblindness. We've done quite a few tests over the years, and deuteranomaly seems to match up with his color visual acuity. However, he has seemed to be persistent about the fact that he can see reds just fine (and yes, I know he can see "red", it just isn't the same red), and has mentioned how some descriptions specifically say reds may appear more distinguishable than greens for certain people with deuteranomaly. I think he has also read that deuteranomaly is a green weakness, not red blindness, which has also lead him to believe that he is seeing red more vividly than people without it. Of course, a person with normal trichromatic vision trying to explain what they see when viewing colors through a colorblind lens to a colorblind person is like trying to explain what black is to a blind person, it doesn't translate.

I remember I was screen sharing on Discord a while back, and a video popped up while I was scrolling YouTube shorts about a woman showing her boyfriend who is deuteranomalous a picture of a store front that had a bright red set of bollards and awnings (think Target), and second picture below it of the same photo where those red objects were color-shifted towards what looked like a dark brown, nearly black color. I figured they would just look like a brownish color to a deuteranomalous/deteuranope. Her boyfriend could not tell the difference between the two photos, and neither could my friend. This confirmed to me that he in fact does not even remotely see red vividly. He has remained insistent to this day that he sees red as "more red" than people with normal color vision. He's quite hard-headed and egotistical, and I have never shoved it into his face that he isn't seeing what he thinks he is so I have never pressed him about it and let him think he's living in his own world where he has some kind of superpowered vision.

Aside from my experience with him, I guess my question would be to ask why a person with deuteranomaly would not just see the red in that photo as a brownish color and the significantly darker variation as a different color? How do they look the same? I wish I could find the video/photos to share, but I've looked for it for a while with no luck.

Nearly every song I create has no intro of just an instrumental, no matter the prompt. There is always some moaning vocalizations (mmm, oh, ahh) type of shit at the beginning before the first verse/chorus/hook etc. Is there a way to get it to not do this?