Ability cast animations and follow up particle effects...

Thormar

The Crown Store never offers any new cast animations or even particle effects for any ability in the game.
Why is that?

Alienoutlaw

its not needed

Mayrael

Imagine in PvP someone uses on you purple Jesus beam. You would be confused what it is and this could lead to your death eventually. Now imagine we all run with different animations etc. etc. It would be to confusing.

Nerouyn

Thormar wrote: »

The Crown Store never offers any new cast animations or even particle effects for any ability in the game.
Why is that?

That is a good question.

The closest they came to this was the different skin for the warden bear, which to this day has a whole tab by itself in the collections UI.

It seemed very clear that they intended to offer more.

Personally I don't love the sorc pets. I never used those summons in the single player games and you know, that big seller Skyrim was especially big on atronachs.

When they started introducing imp pets who cast illusions to appear like baby dragons and so forth, I thought that was a sign that sorc pets were going to get different forms.

But no.

Possibly related is another oddity - opal style weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5nRb9Erg0

These obviously look a lot like daedric weapons, which apart from summons are the only daedric magic in the single player games. They've been oft requested.

But when ZO give them to us, it's without the "daedric" label.

How weird is that?

Even though they're all owned by the same parent company, Zenimax, the rights for Elder Scrolls belong to Bethesda. ESO is owned by Zenimax Online, another Zenimax baby. It's possible that Bethesda and ZO can't agree on terms, eg. $$$$, for stuff like this.

Malkiv

Nerouyn wrote: »

Thormar wrote: »

The Crown Store never offers any new cast animations or even particle effects for any ability in the game.
Why is that?

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Possibly related is another oddity - opal style weapons.
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These obviously look a lot like daedric weapons, which apart from summons are the only daedric magic in the single player games. They've been oft requested.

But when ZO give them to us, it's without the "daedric" label.

How weird is that?

What? No, they don't look like Daedric weapons. They are a special, colorized version of the Monster weapon packs available at times in the Crown store. Those designs were curated from the aesthetic of the monster they were named from.

Nerouyn

Malkiv wrote: »

What? No, they don't look like Daedric weapons. They are a special, colorized version of the Monster weapon packs available at times in the Crown store. Those designs were curated from the aesthetic of the monster they were named from.

ROFL.

Like, duh, they use the same models as the monster weapon packs.

But bound daedric weapons are purple and have purple magicky particle effects.

i.e. "opal" style.

Malkiv

Nerouyn wrote: »

Malkiv wrote: »

What? No, they don't look like Daedric weapons. They are a special, colorized version of the Monster weapon packs available at times in the Crown store. Those designs were curated from the aesthetic of the monster they were named from.

ROFL.

Like, duh, they use the same models as the monster weapon packs.

But bound daedric weapons are purple and have purple magicky particle effects.

i.e. "opal" style.

The Opal weapons are multi-colored. That's what opalescence is, and why they were named such. If you're seeing only purple, then something is off with your display. It's a pretty far reach to say the Opal style of weapons are Daedric-like because they "are purple" and have "purple magicky particle effects". They're not even stylized like bound weaponry - so even that's a reach. That's all I have to say about it. Agree or disagree, it is what it is.