red sword / bow icon and red helm??

Beardimus

I've had this icon appear to the left of the potion quick slot icon. Its a red sword crossed over a bow I think. Its on my archer build so I started to ignore it as a bow thing BUT its now appeared on my mains screen sometimes.

Then today it changed to a red helm silhouette.

Any ideas what these are? Had a search but no joy!

Am xbox, EU. If that helps. And nothing obvious showing in the character effects screen.

DurzoBlint13

it means you need to repair your gear. I thought the same thing the first time I saw that stuff too. lol

Divinius

I believe the weapon icon (sword and bow) will also show up if you are using a weapon without any enchantment at all, if you don't have any poison equipped.

Basically, the game wants you to either have a non-depleted weapon enchantment or poisons equipped. If you have neither, the icon appears.

Beardimus

Oh!!! Ha, man I've played a year and never seen it but yes my gear was all at zero for the first time!!! So I guess Sword/Bow means taken damage and Helm is zero??

Brrrofski

These were added with dark brother hood.

Helmet means your gear needs repairing

The weapon means you need to charge your weapon (both if it stays when you weapon swap)

DurzoBlint13

yeah it is new with DB DLC but I do not remember any patch notes about it so it may have been "under the radar" type change. Do not remember for sure but I was confused at first too. red icons=charge weapons or repair armor

starkerealm

Brrrofski wrote: »

These were added with dark brother hood.

Helmet means your gear needs repairing

The weapon means you need to charge your weapon (both if it stays when you weapon swap)

I remember seeing it in the PTS patch notes. I believe it was on the official list as well, but I never checked that.

starkerealm

Divinius wrote: »

I believe the weapon icon (sword and bow) will also show up if you are using a weapon without any enchantment at all, if you don't have any poison equipped.

Basically, the game wants you to either have a non-depleted weapon enchantment or poisons equipped. If you have neither, the icon appears.

Not that I recall seeing. I've got a few new characters with the new slots open, all of them are using unenchanted weapons at the moment. No on screen warning.

Beardimus

Awesome thanks guys, mystery solved

Brrrofski

starkerealm wrote: »

Divinius wrote: »

I believe the weapon icon (sword and bow) will also show up if you are using a weapon without any enchantment at all, if you don't have any poison equipped.

Basically, the game wants you to either have a non-depleted weapon enchantment or poisons equipped. If you have neither, the icon appears.

Not that I recall seeing. I've got a few new characters with the new slots open, all of them are using unenchanted weapons at the moment. No on screen warning.

This is correct. When levelling, most of my characters weapons i'd never enchant or use poison and it never came up. It's purely for running out of charge.

Divinius

Brrrofski wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Divinius wrote: »

I believe the weapon icon (sword and bow) will also show up if you are using a weapon without any enchantment at all, if you don't have any poison equipped.

Basically, the game wants you to either have a non-depleted weapon enchantment or poisons equipped. If you have neither, the icon appears.

Not that I recall seeing. I've got a few new characters with the new slots open, all of them are using unenchanted weapons at the moment. No on screen warning.

This is correct. When levelling, most of my characters weapons i'd never enchant or use poison and it never came up. It's purely for running out of charge.

Ah ok. I hadn't tried using a non-enchanted weapon since this was put in. I was going by what I had read in the patch notes about how it was supposed to work. The patch notes said:

• Added indicators for Armor Durability, and Weapon Charge/Poison.
  • When any piece of equipped armor is broken, an indicator will appear near the ability bar.
  • When a weapon for your current weapon set has no poisons equipped and runs out of weapon charge, an indicator will appear near the ability bar.

I guess I misinterpreted. Apparently all it's saying is that if you area using an enchanted weapon that's out of charges, it will NOT show the icon if you have poisons equipped instead.

So if you are not using an enchanted weapon at all, it never shows the icon.

That's probably for the best, since I could see that being annoying if it showed it all the time for non-enchanted weapons without poisons.

UltimaJoe777

The Weapon icon indicates the Enchantment on your Weapon has no charges left. The icon does not appear if the Weapon has no Enchantment.

The Helmet icon indicates one or more of your Armor pieces are completely broken and need to be repaired as soon as possible because broken armor is not counted as wearing that piece and thus your Armor Passives do not take them into account.