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Upcoming Sorcerer Overload Skill Style is Already a Problem

Faltasë
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"Does not apply to light or heavy attacks." in the description for the yellow overload skill style. If this is intentional, it actually is super lazy and makes zero sense.

Why make a skill style for it anyways, if its just the ambient aesthetic that gets changed? Are you essentially telling us that light and heavy attacks will *not* be yellow? Because if the ambient effects of the ultimate are yellow but we shoot blue lightning, that is infinitely stupid and deserves to be changed immediately.

1) The ultimate overrides the light attack and heavy attack you have no matter your equipped weapon, so there is no reason anything else should interfere with color swapping the ultimates specific overrides. They should also be yellow, thats called continuity and consistency, you don't just half ass something that people will also end up spending their hard earned money on.
2) The ultimate light and heavy attacks are tied to the skills activation like previously stated, so if this means that the blue default light and heavy attacks stick but we have yellow ambient FX, this skill style should die on arrival.

Please do not release it in that state if this is the case. It is simply an insult to the people who were excited for yellow sorcerer styles, and is honestly one of the laziest design choices to date.
Edited by Faltasë on 1 July 2026 08:27
  • NoticeMeArkay
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    The only ultimate that alters light and heavy attack animations and it get's half a skill style for the full price I assume?

    That's an awful idea and a sorry state to sell a product in. You can do better.
  • TheMidnightSorceress
    TheMidnightSorceress
    Soul Shriven
    This is very confusing. Overload's main visual effect is changing the way your light and heavy attacks look, but they're saying the light and heavy attacks in the skill style will look the same as the original skill?

    Maybe the sorc rework in U52 will change overload so that it isn't based around light and heavy attacks anymore? But if that's the case, they should hold off on releasing the skill style until then.

    If we are interpreting the description correctly then I have a feeling there will be a lot of people wanting crown refunds once this comes out...
  • Inari Telvanni
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    I did not read closely enough in my excitement and totally missed the warning. Not worth the asking price. Going to refund this one.
  • JohnBlacksad
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    I did not read closely enough in my excitement and totally missed the warning. Not worth the asking price. Going to refund this one.

    You have a screenshot ingame how it looks like ? It definetly doesn't make you shoot YELLOW lightnings ?"
  • Inari Telvanni
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    I did not read closely enough in my excitement and totally missed the warning. Not worth the asking price. Going to refund this one.

    You have a screenshot ingame how it looks like ? It definetly doesn't make you shoot YELLOW lightnings ?"

    I took a video. https://imgur.com/a/HwMVefb
  • Lekjih
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    Skill styles also don't seem to have previews anymore
    698d played, 267 days on the Warden.

    ZOS won't give us Bard class so I'm scribbling songs for Nirn irl.
  • Faltasë
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    I did not read closely enough in my excitement and totally missed the warning. Not worth the asking price. Going to refund this one.

    You have a screenshot ingame how it looks like ? It definetly doesn't make you shoot YELLOW lightnings ?"

    I took a video. https://imgur.com/a/HwMVefb

    What an actual disappointment. They went through with it.

    [snip]
    [edited for bashing]
    Edited by ZOS_Icy on 17 July 2026 10:30
  • Silaf
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    I've purchased it and i'm not happy at all. Such a sad excuse for a style. ZOS this is below the quality level we are used to.
  • NoticeMeArkay
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    Silaf wrote: »
    I've purchased it and i'm not happy at all. Such a sad excuse for a style. ZOS this is below the quality level we are used to.

    You can ask for a refund. If you're unhappy with the skill style I highly suggest you write a ticket. More so since the skill style wasn't previewable
  • ZOS_Kevin
    ZOS_Kevin
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    Hi all, thanks for raising this. We escalated this to the team and we agree this one missed the mark. While we had a fix planned for this, we did not catch the mismatch between when the fix would be on Live and when the skill style was releasing until now. This skill style will apply to light and heavy attacks once the fix goes live with U51. It will also be preview-able at that time. We'll talk with the team that manages the Crown Store to bring this item back shortly after its fix has been live as well.
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  • Faltasë
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    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    Hi all, thanks for raising this. We escalated this to the team and we agree this one missed the mark. While we had a fix planned for this, we did not catch the mismatch between when the fix would be on Live and when the skill style was releasing until now. This skill style will apply to light and heavy attacks once the fix goes live with U51. It will also be preview-able at that time. We'll talk with the team that manages the Crown Store to bring this item back shortly after its fix has been live as well.

    Hi Kevin, thanks for communicating with us and thank you for attempting to rectify the situation.

    However, since the team is now notified of this problem and is going to fix it, can you also forward to the team the same issue people had with Grim Focus Malacath skill style? That one is also done halfway just like this one, and there doesn't seem to be any plans for that fix. I was hoping if they could also be notified of that issue as well, as many people on the forums were also disappointed in that one, too.

    Warm Regards,
    -Falt.
  • SugaComa
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    has any used this and confirmed , I ask as |I read it as the ultimate will be yellow - but your weapon light and heavy attacks would be unchanged, amazing how people can read the same information and form completely different opinions, also a bit disappointed it wasn't red or have i missed that one?
  • sunlightbringer
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    Soul Shriven
    @ZOS_Kevin So now that this skill style is being fixed, what about the Grim Focus skill styles that still leave a red glow on the weapon? What about the unchanged Crux colors, making Arcanists like a neon light show without any coherence?
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