Weapon enchantment mesh always displaying

Anastian

Hello!
So, with the latest update the weapon enchantment (in the picture, weapon power, but it also applies to poisons) permanently changes the aspect of your weapon, showing the hue of the enchantment even after a long time since it procced or you have it equipped.
Here is a picture for reference.

Is this working as intended? Or is it a bug? I'd personally prefer weapons NOT to show the enchant/poison skin, as it makes them way more realistic (just as it was in the previous updates). Let me know if you are also experiencing this folks

EDIT: Edited to remove personal information. As you can see, only buffs that have no graphic effect were currently active on the character.

athomaslv77_ESO

I think this is now working as intended. It being hidden before was a bug.

However, I am with you. I'd rather be able to hide the enchantment, or pick the effect as part of the Outfit system, like it is in other MMOs.

Dayth

athomaslv77_ESO wrote: »

I think this is now working as intended. It being hidden before was a bug.

However, I am with you. I'd rather be able to hide the enchantment, or pick the effect as part of the Outfit system, like it is in other MMOs.

Surely it's a bug now rather than before, if you remove your outfit the enchantment affect only applies when the sword is drawn, wearing an outfit makes it always active.

I preferred not having the enchantment visible ever like it was prior to Summerset as well.

Anastian

So if I wear my normal gear, it will not show the enchant mesh right?

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

What is worse the this is the mending purple glow and loud noise and the glow noise from infallible aether procing every time you swap bars, even if you have mending/infallible aether weapons on both bars.

MakeNoiseMan

Yep. Though personally I liked the (bugged) version pre-Summerset where Outfits would hide weapon enchantments 100% of the time, the way the patch notes are worded suggest that they should now display as enchantments have since the game launched; visible when drawn, not visible when sheathed.

Having weapons glowing constantly takes away significantly from my aesthetic enjoyment of the game. The colours clash with my Outfit dyes and unfortunately distract me from all the other pretty stuff to look at, since I'm always staring at the back of my character. I'm not sure which is more annoying; the big, long orange glow on my main's destro staff, or the Christmas green-and-red glows on my alt's daggers.

My absolute ideal would be to revert to pre-Summerset and have enchantments hidden all the time (or an option to hide them). Barring that, I would at the very least like the Outfit weapons to function like the "base gear" and only show the enchantments when drawn.

Pretty please.

Carbonised

MakeNoiseMan wrote: »

Yep. Though personally I liked the (bugged) version pre-Summerset where Outfits would hide weapon enchantments 100% of the time, the way the patch notes are worded suggest that they should now display as enchantments have since the game launched; visible when drawn, not visible when sheathed.

Having weapons glowing constantly takes away significantly from my aesthetic enjoyment of the game. The colours clash with my Outfit dyes and unfortunately distract me from all the other pretty stuff to look at, since I'm always staring at the back of my character. I'm not sure which is more annoying; the big, long orange glow on my main's destro staff, or the Christmas green-and-red glows on my alt's daggers.

My absolute ideal would be to revert to pre-Summerset and have enchantments hidden all the time (or an option to hide them). Barring that, I would at the very least like the Outfit weapons to function like the "base gear" and only show the enchantments when drawn.

Pretty please.

This man has it exactly right. Hide these abominations all the time, or at least with a toggle. And if that's not possible, then at least make the ugly enchantments appear only when drawing the weapon, and not all the darn time.

These low-res blurry atrocities are ruining all my outfits!

Sektion67

I surely hope it's a bug, as they just don't look good. If the quality of the enchants was of higher quality I probably wouldn't mind as much. I can totally understand why people would want to turn this off. I definitely prefer the way this worked prior to update 18.

Dayth

Anastian wrote: »

So if I wear my normal gear, it will not show the enchant mesh right?

It won't show it unless the weapon is drawn.

Sektion67 wrote: »

I surely hope it's a bug, as they just don't look good. If the quality of the enchants was of higher quality I probably wouldn't mind as much. I can totally understand why people would want to turn this off. I definitely prefer the way this worked prior to update 18.

The ability to turn it off would be a fair compromise if someone anyone wanted the enchantment visuals to return. The majority on people seemed to prefer the fact that they weren't visible at all.

Anastian

Still folks: provide some more screenshots so that the situation becomes clearer. In particular I feel like poisoned weapons look ugly, especially because you carefully modify your weapon's colours just to have them reverted to a green-blackish hue.

Mureel

I like it!

Maryal

I like it showing ... I think it looks cool, but I can understand if someone would prefer to not have it show.

Smalls21

My weapons are having the same issue. Even sheathed, they have the enchant glow. I did some light inspecting and found that I'm the only one that sees it. I had another player look at me and he didn't see it on me. That made some sense to me since I didn't see anyone else in town with this problem from my side of the screen but, when I asked the other player if he has had any characters with the perma-glow he said no and didn't see anyone else in town with it either.

Personally, I'd rather the old in-combat display as it was. I can't dye my weapon since the glow overpowers and alters any color I apply with the enchant I use.



Edit: Added pic.