Grim Focus Permaglow

huskandhunger · April 7

I understand that the effects of the red glow are intentional. How most unfortunate.

amig186 · April 7

Stx wrote: »

The permanent glow really makes me want to never play my Nightblade. It’s that bad.

Why was it changed in the first place? It never used to have a permanent glow.

I think it's been perma-glowing since they removed the need to activate it to build stacks

odaphii · April 7

It's funny that they have a "never change assets unless bugged/broken" policy but the reason we have a permanent glow effect and have been begging for months on end for a fix is because they've changed something without even giving us a choice in the first place so.........................

LukosCreyden · April 7

Obligatory post to keep with tradition;

@ZOS_Kevin have you collected enough feedback yet?

Stx · April 7

Don’t even get me started with how bad the new jabs animation was lol. Nightblade was my original main and Templar my second character that became my main and I play both of them much less than I used to because of the horrible jabs animation and also red permanent glow.

Toanis · April 7

To be fair, the glow was always there when grim focus was active, all the devs did was making it active permanently, and don't want to put any more work into this. After 2 years, I don't think changing it back to a casted skill is a good idea, but we have skill styles now...

Can we have a skill style with an invisible permaglow, pretty please?
Heck, add the whole Rainbow for the permaglow enthusiasts.

Apollosipod · April 7

Toanis wrote: »

To be fair, the glow was always there when grim focus was active, all the devs did was making it active permanently, and don't want to put any more work into this. After 2 years, I don't think changing it back to a casted skill is a good idea, but we have skill styles now...

Can we have a skill style with an invisible permaglow, pretty please?
Heck, add the whole Rainbow for the permaglow enthusiasts.

Yeah, I'm all for keeping the effort for others who like it. That doesn't have anything to do with me. But for my character, I've always preferred a grounded, su tle aesthetic. Right now I can't use this ability anymore because I feel like I'm running around Tamriel like an irradiated Easy Bake Oven.

"Don't look, Mike. That Khajiit that emits a lot hum is taking your wallet."

"Ugghhhh This is the third wallet this week. What happens if I call him on it?"

"Oh, he'll just write a note in front of you to absolve his bounty. It says, "I do what I want." I have four of them."

"I hate this guy. He sneaks all over but he does know everyone sees him right? He's like a sneaky stoplight"

......I hate it.

Edit: spelling is hard

LukosCreyden · April 7

Stx wrote: »

Don’t even get me started with how bad the new jabs animation was lol. Nightblade was my original main and Templar my second character that became my main and I play both of them much less than I used to because of the horrible jabs animation and also red permanent glow.

I am still in mourning for what they did to jabs. Magplar was my comfort class.
The old spear looked like it wreathed your weapon in light. The new one awkwardly appears after your weapon awkwardly disappears and then does the goofy swing thing. The whole thing cries out "this was done with minimal effort."

Stx · April 7

https://imgur.com/a/j7VEQUe

How can anyone defend this? Completely ruins gloambound weapons.

Morvan · April 7

Speaking of Jabs, imagine if they had actually given the spear a unique new model instead of reusing the Nighthollow Staff for it, which is a vampire motif...

TES Legends had an art for Piercing Javelin and it would look so good on ESO if they used it or made something similar.

That being said, I'm still curious to why they have been ignoring this thread for so long, player discontent is irrelevant if it doesn't align with what they want apparently, even though they could remove the glow with a skill style and that wouldn't hurt anyone, I bet many people here would be willing to even pay for it. lol

odaphii · April 7

Willing? No. But if that's the only way to turn off a cosmetic shine on a weapon, even though it shouldn't be......... Then yeah whatever lmao

Erickson9610 · April 7

Skill Styles affect all of the VFX of an ability. Asking for an "Invisible" Grim Focus Skill Style means the spectral arrow that's fired would also have to be invisible — that would be bad for PvP.

ZOS just needs to make the glowing only happen at max stacks while in combat, or remove it outright. After all, an "Invisible" Skill Style for Grim Focus would be completely useless to most people in this thread if ZOS decided to remove the weapon glowing entirely.

nwilliams2107b16_ESO · April 7

Make it a toggle, I like it as is!

NotaDaedraWorshipper · April 8

Toanis wrote: »

To be fair, the glow was always there when grim focus was active, all the devs did was making it active permanently, and don't want to put any more work into this. After 2 years, I don't think changing it back to a casted skill is a good idea, but we have skill styles now...

Sorcerer's Bound Arnaments went though the exact same change at the same time, but that skill had its affect (which looked a lot better) turned off/invisible instead.

AtriaKhorist · April 8

Stx wrote: »

The permanent glow really makes me want to never play my Nightblade. It’s that bad.

Why was it changed in the first place? It never used to have a permanent glow.

Incidentally, Jessica wanted to elaborate on the why. But alas... :

AtriaKhorist wrote: »

AtriaKhorist wrote: »

Happy New Year indeed, everyone!

17 months by now. Time flies.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Hey @Kyip! Just wanted let you know we see this question, and we're very aware of the thread. When the feedback about the Grim Focus change first surfaced, we did raise it with the dev team. In the thread, Kevin did pass along the info that we got from the dev team, that this change was intended and not a bug. That said, we've raised it again to see what's possible. Reading back through our responses in the original thread, there may also be an opportunity to elaborate on why we made the change - we're checking with dev on that. (As an aside, many of us are about to be out for Thanksgiving holiday break, so any additional info we can share will likely be the week of Dec. 2.)

While I'll maintain that the reasoning alone will be wholly insufficient as said earlier, December 2 was a month ago. Any update?

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Another 2 months later. Any update?

Another month of silence later, by the way. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, any update?

bruta · April 10

AtriaKhorist wrote: »

Another 2 months later. Any update?

Another month of silence later, by the way. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, any update?

update: soon you can permaglow on every class lmao

Erickson9610 · April 11

bruta wrote: »

update: soon you can permaglow on every class lmao

I lowkey think the glow would look great on my main (a Templar), who uses Balorgh style weapons which already glow red. But I wouldn't use the Assassination skill line on a Werewolf because the passives that work while transformed aren't super great — just resource restore when an enemy you damaged dies and extra penetration when flanking an enemy.

With Subclassing, though, the Grim Focus Permaglow becomes everyone's problem.

Vaqual · April 11

byebye assassination skill line

Morvan · April 14

THEY FIXED THE PERMAGLOW ON PTS GUYS, OUR BATTLE IS OVER!

emilyhyoyeon · April 14

Morvan wrote: »

THEY FIXED THE PERMAGLOW ON PTS GUYS, OUR BATTLE IS OVER!

oh my god you're right

here's the info from the PTS patch notes posted recently in case anyone wants specifics

THANK YOU DEVS!!!!

Morvan · April 14

THANK YOU ZOS! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

TIME FOR CELEBRATION!

nwilliams2107b16_ESO · April 14

Starting a petition to re instate permaglow!

NoticeMeArkay · April 14

It's finally over. All it took was 2 years of waiting, amazing.

The nightmare is over, I cannot believe it actually happened.

LukosCreyden · April 14

Once more, for old time's sake :,) ...

@ZOS_Kevin HavE YoU COllEcTed ENOugH FeEdbACk YEt!?!!1!?

Renato90085 · April 14

Congrats
I think it a win/win change

ESO_player123 · April 14

Finally. Thank you.

Elvenheart · April 14

OMG, this is the BEST PART of Update 46 for me, even better than Subclassing!!! (At least in this moment of hearing the good news!) 🥹😅😂😆

Vaqual · April 14

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alp · April 14

NoticeMeArkay · April 14

Alp wrote: »

That's the best gif you could have possibly posted for this xD