Prismatic Enchantments

Savetti · July 2015

This new enchantment will grant all three Stamina, Magicka, and Health for that armor piece and is designed with hybrid builds in mind.

This is a most welcomed addition to the game!

What does everyone think?

starkerealm · July 2015

I'll be honest, my first thought was more enchantments like the Prismatic weapons. Then he said, "for hybrid builds." And, you know, I like that, I want that... but I was a lot more excited a couple seconds earlier.

Emma_Overload · July 2015

It's impossible to say without knowing the details. If you can net higher overall stats with this, then yeah, it will be worth doing. But if it's just splitting the enchantment 50/50 or whatever, then it's not that great.

RDMyers65b14_ESO · July 2015

My enchanter is at 50, so bring it on. I'll just upgrade my enchants.

Thymos · July 2015

It allows for a more even split. Right now we have what, 3 high range, 3 mid range, and 2 low range pieces of armor when it comes to the amounts from enchantments. So if you do use multiple different enchantments for health, stamina and magicka, well now you can get an even amount across all 3 stats.

Teiji · July 2015

I watched the stream and this went way, way over my head.

I have no idea what Prismatic Enchantments are; could we please get it added to the original post to help people with terrible memory such as myself?

Thanks for clearing that up for us Savetti.

Pirhana7_ESO · July 2015

Emma_Eunjung wrote: »

It's impossible to say without knowing the details. If you can net higher overall stats with this, then yeah, it will be worth doing. But if it's just splitting the enchantment 50/50 or whatever, then it's not that great.

I am guessing it will be like Purple food, you get less of each compared to Green food but more overall when you combine teh 3 stats. So it would help hybrid builds if it works that way.

If it does work that way id like there to be enchanments for 2 stats like the Blue food.... as i would rather have more of 2 stats.

UrQuan · July 2015

Pirhana7_ESO wrote: »

Emma_Eunjung wrote: »

It's impossible to say without knowing the details. If you can net higher overall stats with this, then yeah, it will be worth doing. But if it's just splitting the enchantment 50/50 or whatever, then it's not that great.

I am guessing it will be like Purple food, you get less of each compared to Green food but more overall when you combine teh 3 stats. So it would help hybrid builds if it works that way.

If it does work that way id like there to be enchanments for 2 stats like the Blue food.... as i would rather have more of 2 stats.

Oh man, if that's the way it works I'd be very happy. I'd also have to respec my attributes, but I'm OK with that trade-off.

Savetti · July 2015

Teiji wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that up for us Savetti.

Absolutely, I should have had that from the beginning.

Lynx7386 · July 2015

IMO:

Prismatic Glyph
Weapon Enchantment
Grants a chance to deal fire, frost, and shock damage on attack.

Chromatic Glyph
Armor Enchantment
Increases magicka, stamina, and health.

Shimmering Glyph
Jewelry Enchantment
Increases Fire, Frost, and Shock resistance.

Korozenn · July 2015

I don't know about you guys, but I'm defo just sticking with calling it the "Prism" enchantment. So much easier on the tongue.

Looking forward to it! I'll be using it a ton on my Altmer Enchanter.

Savetti · July 2015

Korozenn wrote: »

I don't know about you guys, but I'm defo just sticking with calling it the "Prism" enchantment. So much easier on the tongue.

Looking forward to it! I'll be using it a ton on my Altmer Enchanter.

I kinda like saying prismatic. It's a fun word.. lol

timidobserver · July 2015

This actually will be interesting. It will now technically be possible to put together an extremely viable hybrid build. With regard to PvP, this could be huge for Templar if you could put together a decent stam build that can also breath of life and blazing shield decently.

Mos-De-Atmo · July 2015

Looks good, I imagine that the values will be less than a standard glyph though. So you get a bit of everything or a lot of one thing?

Savetti · July 2015

Mos-De-Atmo wrote: »

Looks good, I imagine that the values will be less than a standard glyph though. So you get a bit of everything or a lot of one thing?

They may be, not sure. I'm hoping that it isn't a lot lower. I think it would be good to have a more powerful type of glyph.

UrQuan · July 2015

Savetti wrote: »

Korozenn wrote: »

I don't know about you guys, but I'm defo just sticking with calling it the "Prism" enchantment. So much easier on the tongue.

Looking forward to it! I'll be using it a ton on my Altmer Enchanter.

I kinda like saying prismatic. It's a fun word.. lol

Any time I hear the word prismatic I always think of the prismatic spray and prismatic sphere spells from D&D... Now those were OP!

DirtySmeegs33 · July 2015

But with removal of soft caps and champion system multipliers effecting your most crucial attribute pool, do competitive hybrid builds still exist? I REALLY hope this is the direction the game is going. I miss hybrids and build diversity! Anything that gives incentive for these types of builds is great in my book!

xaraan · July 2015

I don't think this will be all that different than just splitting enchantments up as it is. So you'll have three prismatic enchants on three pieces instead of one magicka, one stamina and one health on those three.

ontheleftcoast · July 2015

Savetti wrote: »

Korozenn wrote: »

I don't know about you guys, but I'm defo just sticking with calling it the "Prism" enchantment. So much easier on the tongue.

Looking forward to it! I'll be using it a ton on my Altmer Enchanter.

I kinda like saying prismatic. It's a fun word.. lol

Until we find out the implementation is totally effed up then we'll call them "pissmatic".

Faulgor · July 2015

I'm 99.9% sure this will not affect Enchanters one bit, just like the Master weapon enchantments.

Enchanting keeps on sucking, and meanwhile, they add new enchantments as loot to make the profession even more useless.

Rinmaethodain · July 2015

Prismatic what?

Where did you get that?

Is this going to be new enchantment coming from IC?

Stalwart385 · July 2015

I dont see this being very good. Maybe a tank, even then its doubtful. They may have some new sets to support it better.

leepalmer95 · July 2015

Hmm they need to do a physical/magical resist glyth as well

starkerealm · July 2015

MaximusDargus wrote: »

Prismatic what?

Where did you get that?

Is this going to be new enchantment coming from IC?

Enchantments.

Quakecon.

Yes.

Savetti · July 2015

Faulgor wrote: »

I'm 99.9% sure this will not affect Enchanters one bit, just like the Master weapon enchantments.

Enchanting keeps on sucking, and meanwhile, they add new enchantments as loot to make the profession even more useless.

What on earth are you talking about? Enchanting is seriously one of the only useful professions in this game. The amount of money you can make of this craft is well beyond that of any other in this game.

How does adding a new enchantment not affect enchanters?

Thymos · July 2015

Savetti wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

I'm 99.9% sure this will not affect Enchanters one bit, just like the Master weapon enchantments.

Enchanting keeps on sucking, and meanwhile, they add new enchantments as loot to make the profession even more useless.

What on earth are you talking about? Enchanting is seriously one of the only useful professions in this game. The amount of money you can make of this craft is well beyond that of any other in this game.

How does adding a new enchantment not affect enchanters?

I would say provisioning and alchemy are more useful than enchanting, as the passives can increase the durations and effects of the consumables.

Savetti · July 2015

Thymos wrote: »

I would say provisioning and alchemy are more useful than enchanting, as the passives can increase the durations and effects of the consumables.

I suppose, but the bonus through glyphs is also quite helpful for both armor and weapons. Not to mention the economic perspective that enchanting has. I have made more money with this profession than all of the other ones combined. Most of the crafting in ESO is backwards. The materials are more expensive than the value of the item you craft with those materials. But, not with enchanting; there is a very nice profit margin.

PBpsy · July 2015

xaraan wrote: »

I don't think this will be all that different than just splitting enchantments up as it is. So you'll have three prismatic enchants on three pieces instead of one magicka, one stamina and one health on those three.

I agree .This whole thing looks pretty pointless to me. Unless you can get something like 75-80% of both the maximum potential Stam and Magicka and they add some way to get ~75% of the max potential Weapon/Spell damage/crit . I do not see much improvements to hybrids.

Strider_Roshin · July 2015

I think enchantment that boost both health and stamina/magicka will be more utilized.

Savetti · July 2015

Strider_Roshin wrote: »

I think enchantment that boost both health and stamina/magicka will be more utilized.

I think so too. Especially with these new armor sets coming out. I imagine thy were created with these in mind.

Soulshine · July 2015

Faulgor wrote: »

I'm 99.9% sure this will not affect Enchanters one bit, just like the Master weapon enchantments.

Enchanting keeps on sucking, and meanwhile, they add new enchantments as loot to make the profession even more useless.

Don't agree with your views on enchanting so I am not even going to bother with a list of reasons as to why, but do think it's too early to argue anything about this addition until there is more information. As usual, ZOS did such a rotten job of presenting this that there is no way to know without proper details.

One thing you can bet though is that it will be possible to make new glyphs of some type, since there are new mats to collect for them (see screenshot, two of the new potency runes are worth one big chunk of TV stones even from a vendor)... Will we be able to decon the prismatic enchants? craft something similar? this is definitely one of the things I intend to check out on PTS and find out what's what, especially in the absence of ZOS bothering to give any decent info on the subject.