Bound Armor Feedback

Ajaxduo

So I just hopped on PTS and these visual changes grabbed my interest;

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Combat & Gameplay

Sorcerer

• Daedric Summoning
  • Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs now display new, permanent visual effects when they are toggled on. The new visuals are significantly less obtrusive than before and no longer hide all the other gear your character is wearing.

Bound Aegis


Bound Armaments


Bound Aegis is awesome, the glowing eyes and misty aura suits it perfectly (although the glow clips into the eyes slightly). However, I think the Bound Armaments visual is both underwhelming and very distracting. Bound Armaments verbally implies that is has some effect on weapons and the skill itself improves heavy attack damage so why not add a visual to them? Have a purple aura surround the users weapons, also if you could replicate the glowing eyes from Bound Aegis, then it would be epic.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Spearblade

Make Bound Armaments DO something upon activation while yer at it, keep passives there if ability is slotted.

The visual swirly effect is a bit "busy." Needs to be slowed down a touch imho.

phaneub17_ESO

Can't we just get a silhouette that slowly fades in and out?

Taruha

Please improve the animation on Bound Armaments. The Bound Aegis looks stunning, such a shame if the other one just ends up being an eyesore and more distracting than useful! ;__;

Anhedonie

Bound Aegis looks really great.
You got some nice artists, Zenimax.

Mettaricana

Ajaxduo wrote: »

So I just hopped on PTS and these visual changes grabbed my interest;

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Combat & Gameplay

Sorcerer

• Daedric Summoning
  • Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs now display new, permanent visual effects when they are toggled on. The new visuals are significantly less obtrusive than before and no longer hide all the other gear your character is wearing.

Bound Aegis


Bound Armaments


Bound Aegis is awesome, the glowing eyes and misty aura suits it perfectly (although the glow clips into the eyes slightly). However, I think the Bound Armaments visual is both underwhelming and very distracting. Bound Armaments verbally implies that is has some effect on weapons and the skill itself improves heavy attack damage so why not add a visual to them? Have a purple aura surround the users weapons, also if you could replicate the glowing eyes from Bound Aegis, then it would be epic.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

I agree to this entirely I want glowy eyes and bound weapon glows

Kendaric

Personally, I don't like the new visuals for the skills and would prefer to retain the old one. Any chance we can retain the old look for those of who like it better?

XaXa

Still No active effect?

/yawn. Sorc will remain crafter.

ListerJMC

I'd actually prefer to turn that visual off entirely, I prefer it as a brief animation that goes away like it is now. Please make it a toggle?

silentknight1x1ub17_ESO

So it no longer covers your armor at all? Is it covered by skins such as the mind shriven skin still?

Dracane

Bound Aegis fits the style of a Sorcerer soooo good.
It's just perfect. Now if the ability itself would just be half as good as it looks...

Pappa

Please get rid the swirly thingy for the stam morph it's very distracting, just having a bit of mist and glowy eyes is surely enough, or better yet as someone has mentioned, move the effect to the equipped weapon, anything!

I would prefer the current no effect to the one you propose, it's like getting the mage light morph back urghhh!

Flaminir

As much as I like the visuals for bound aegis ( I didn't expect to.... but that looks really nice)... it actually frustrates me that time has gone into this change rather than doing anything useful with any of the class skills

Dracane

Flaminir wrote: »

As much as I like the visuals for bound aegis ( I didn't expect to.... but that looks really nice)... it actually frustrates me that time has gone into this change rather than doing anything useful with any of the class skills

Right. I was expecting some help for Sorcerers with this patch.
When I saw the title "Bound Armor" "Volatile Familiar" etc I was beginning to feel happy.
But as I read the text, I saw that these were only unnecessary technical things that don't help anyone.

The Bound armor change was made because ZoS wants people to see that you have it active, because you know ? Bound armor is such a mighty ability, your opponents MUST be alerted that you are currently in OP mode.
The unvisible bound armor thing was only a band aid fix

CasNation

Agreed. Magicka morph looks great. Stam morph looks terrible.

Ajaxduo

CasNation wrote: »

Agreed. Magicka morph looks great. Stam morph looks terrible.

Let's hope we get a response! I think the request is reasonable

Wolfchild07

Make Bound Armaments a GREEN version of Bound Aegis.

CasNation

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

Make Bound Armaments a GREEN version of Bound Aegis.

This would not be a bad idea, but I doubt they would do it since it clashes with the sorcs color palette. I personally didn't have a problem with it not having a visual effect at all...I get why they added one, but still...

MrTarkanian48

Still waiting for this ability to be on non-toggle like Inner Light, with max stam/magic active while slotted.

I feel like the visuals get changed every patch, but the skill remains unusable since you need to double bar it.

Ajaxduo

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

Make Bound Armaments a GREEN version of Bound Aegis.

Interesting idea, or make it blend well with hurricane.

Akimbro

The bound armors, both morphs, should just have a glowing effect. Purple for aegis as is the color for conjuring, and that smokey/grey color for armaments that's similar to hurricane.

dsalter

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

Make Bound Armaments a GREEN version of Bound Aegis.

prefer a dark blue. all shocky n stuff ya know?

DPShiro

I don't care how it looks, as long as it's made useful with an active effect etc.
Please....?

Emma_Overload

Bound Aegis is fine, but Bound Armaments is too distracting.... reminds me of the old Mage Light, and not in a good way.

Minalan

You devs forgot that all of this skill's benefits are given to nightblades as a passive.

For us it's a toggle that takes up two or three skill slots for a nominal return.

Derra

Can you change bound armor to count as a "pet" for necropotence pretty please

Grao

I will agree with the new effect looking nice, but Bound Armor and morphs are still the the only toggles in the game without an active component, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom . Please do something about it, we are essentially shoehorned into slotting this skill 3 times for a benefit nightblades have as a damn passive, this abilities need an active component...

Minalan

Magicka flood - grants 8% Magicka bonus. Passive. Just slot a siphoning ability.
Shadow barrier - grants 5K physical and spell resists and so much more. Just for using a shadow ability. Passive.

Come on ZOS, buff this skill already. I'm glad you made it pretty, but it's baaaaaad.

AtAfternoon

I like the new effects for all 3 morphs a lot. Only criticism would be that it's always blowing to the left when you stand still and that the bound aegis looks a little odd on argonians, even more so if you have boundless storm activated. Keep an eye on the eyes.

opaj

AtAfternoon wrote: »

I like the new effects for all 3 morphs a lot. Only criticism would be that it's always blowing to the left when you stand still and that the bound aegis looks a little odd on argonians, even more so if you have boundless storm activated. Keep an eye on the eyes.

Ha! It's like you're wearing aetherial spectacles.

...wtb aetherial spectacles.

Joysheeped

Please make the visual effect togglable. There will ALWAYS be people who do not like (and like, of course) the design of Bound Armor and its morphs and I am one of them. And please do not say you cannot hide the visual effect because it cannot allow enemy players to determine what skills you are slotting because the visual effect of Inner Light is gone already.