Templar Weapon Glow

Rraith · May 2016

Greetings,

I am a new player playing a templar. Sometimes my weapon starts to glow and it stays that way. I suspect the templar ability Solar Flare causes it. Is this working as intended or some kind of a bug? The screenshot below might explain it better.
imgur.com/soGOSdg

Usara · May 2016

The glow is the enchantment on your weapon.

Some skills can activate a glow on the weapon too : Molten Armaments of the Dragon Knight (if a DK cast it near you, you'll be affected), Evil Hunter (Fighter's Guild tree), Siphonning Attacks (Nightblade Siphonning tree)
Templars don't have any.

By the look of your screen, it looks like a fire enchantment. Check your weapon, you probably have one

Rraith · May 2016

Usara wrote: »

The glow is the enchantment on your weapon.

Some skills can activate a glow on the weapon too : Molten Armaments of the Dragon Knight (if a DK cast it near you, you'll be affected), Evil Hunter (Fighter's Guild tree), Siphonning Attacks (Nightblade Siphonning tree)
Templars don't have any.

By the look of your screen, it looks like a fire enchantment. Check your weapon, you probably have one

Thanks a lot for your valuable insight

Usara · May 2016

@Rraith

Usara wrote: »

The glow is the enchantment on your weapon.

Templars don't have any.

Ah, I was just playing with my Templar and I was wrong. Solar Barrage does indeed put a glow on the weapon, I was so sure it was on the hands, but no it is on the weapon. It's a golden/light effect though, so I still think that yours is a fire enchant, but I just wanted to correct what I said earlier

Van_0S · May 2016

Its a visual effect to make you know that the empower is active.
Empower- increases your damage of your next attack by 20%
So, it grants you Empower similar to inner light.

Enraged_Tiki_Torch · May 2016

You can "bug" out the empower effect on your weapon to keep it for however long you like. I do it by Dark Flare, charge heavy attack and then as Dark Flare hits, Puncturing Sweeps. Timed right, you can keep the effect which is cool to run around with a glowing weapon. You don't keep the empower buff though, it's just a weapon effect bug.

Rraith · May 2016

Van_0S wrote: »

Its a visual effect to make you know that the empower is active.
Empower- increases your damage of your next attack by 20%
So, it grants you Empower similar to inner light.

Problem is the effect never vanishes. It would be useful to know when my next attack will hit %20 more but since the weapon always glows it does not help. I tried everything to get rid off it but only logging out solves the issue.

Enraged_Tiki_Torch wrote: »

You can "bug" out the empower effect on your weapon to keep it for however long you like. I do it by Dark Flare, charge heavy attack and then as Dark Flare hits, Puncturing Sweeps. Timed right, you can keep the effect which is cool to run around with a glowing weapon. You don't keep the empower buff though, it's just a weapon effect bug.

I am not doing anything intentional to keep the buff forever (Maybe I accidentally do). I really don't like this weapon glow. I generally play in first person and it has a negative effect on my gameplay. In my opinion the effect is somewhat poor too.