Please bring back bound armaments glow effect

francesinhalover

I remember back in the day around 2018 i became a sorcerer main due to this special effect. it was permanent back than. The changes to it made me leave and once it was reworked i came back. I love it so much, and now it's gone... please let us have it active when bound armaments is slotted... Nightblade has access to permanent grim focus glow... please bring it back

Holycannoli

Yep. I remember when Bound Armor was, well, bound armor and looked like it. They even eventually made two different looking versions of it for magicka and stamina.



I appreciate a game where what you're wearing is what you look like, and I appreciate games where magical weapons and armor with graphic effects remain like that.

Dr_Con

I think it's fine to re-add due to the existence of persistent buffs regardless of which bar it's on, but we'll have the "it ruins my motif" brigade hating on the change at the same time.

omnidoh

Totally Agree.
I missed the glow effects from Mage-Light too, but because of PvP, it was removed.

Dr_Con

omnidoh wrote: »

Totally Agree.
I missed the glow effects from Mage-Light too, but because of PvP, it was removed.

It's sad and shameful to see the state magelight is in.

AstroST

Please ESO don't pigeonhole visual appereance of charachters based on their class/skill used.
ESO is about freedom of play and should also be about freedom of visual look.

If people likes them then just add options to make things glow.

colossalvoids

Hot take, remove NB annoying glow and make sorcerer great again bringing that dope smoke back.

Jazraena

Please no permanence.

But I really see no reason why they removed the swirl effect from Bound Armaments while Daggers were active. Just yet another indication if you compare it to Grim Focus which kept the glow for slotting already that there was zero thought put into visuals during this change.

It's not even consistent.

wilykcat

I would love to make my character's armor/clothes to glow purple. Yes please.

Also add in some fading glitter sparkles to make the effect look more magical.

Norith_Gilheart_Flail

Just add toggles so people can have the best of both worlds.

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Clearly the path to least resistance is to give people agency on what visuals hit their monitors.

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francesinhalover

wilykcat wrote: »

I would love to make my character's armor/clothes to glow purple. Yes please.

Also add in some fading glitter sparkles to make the effect look more magical.

yes!!!! Oh that would be beautifull!

Holycannoli

AstroST wrote: »

Please ESO don't pigeonhole visual appereance of charachters based on their class/skill used.
ESO is about freedom of play and should also be about freedom of visual look.

If people likes them then just add options to make things glow.

I always figured if you didn't like how something looked you'd wear something else or use a different skill. That's what all these crafting styles are for anyway. Are they even necessary anymore? I mean aside from master writs. Anyone remember when you would craft in orc or dunmer or the rare and coveted imperial style? And you weren't making your light robes look like heavy armor. People could actually see what kind of gear you wore.

I personally find it absolutely ridiculous that I can make my character look like a shirtless pirate with no shoes yet he's wearing enchanted heavy armor. Especially in PvP, how the heck is anyone supposed to have a clue what kind of gear I'm wearing? I'm all about visual cues and ESO threw that whole thing out the window.

I think light armor wearers should look like they're wearing light armor, medium wearing medium, heavy wearing heavy. I think skills with glowy effects should retain the glowy effect: it's a visual cue for the skill being used.

I'm old school about it though. I liked how it was in the beginning of ESO. It's become bloated with outfits, costumes and polymorphs for the sake of crown store sales.

Jazraena

Yes, if you don't care about efficiency at all you can just not use the skill. I'm like that, often enough. But there's limit.

And ZOS just not bothering to change a key class skill properly is well past my acceptable limit - and in spite of any 'Working as intended' claims it's fairly obvious that this isn't intentional.

fizzylu

Please, no. I just started running that ability in my tweaked build and that would actually hurt my eyes/possibly give me migraines if it is constantly there. The majority of players can't stand the permaglow grim focus either. ESO has a lot of things coming up about how the visuals can overwhelm and serve as a trigger for some people with health problems.... the last thing Zenimax should be doing is changing things to make that a bigger issue than it already is.