It's not necessarily weapon skills - the colour of your arms is used as a visual indicator for many things, here's a couple of examples:

Minor Force - White arms
Burning Spellweave proc - Orange arms
Follow-up after interrupt - Orange arms
Clever alchemist proc - Orange arms (IIRC)

There are many more - they usually serve to give the player some means of knowing when a certain buff is active, given the lack of base-game buff trackers at present.

Saying that, I see no argument against allowing players to turn off all of these cues if they so desire.

Panth141 wrote: »

It's not necessarily weapon skills - the colour of your arms is used as a visual indicator for many things, here's a couple of examples:

Minor Force - White arms
Burning Spellweave proc - Orange arms
Follow-up after interrupt - Orange arms
Clever alchemist proc - Orange arms (IIRC)

There are many more - they usually serve to give the player some means of knowing when a certain buff is active, given the lack of base-game buff trackers at present.

Saying that, I see no argument against allowing players to turn off all of these cues if they so desire.

I see, then its a bit more problematic. Non class specific buffs should have class visual for example so that the effect is not in conflict with the class. Especially the arm glow is very intrusive to me.

I rather have an addon for procs like in Warcraft, they tend to be more clear and informative in the group situations but in solo PVE, i mostly dont want them, just basic spell visuals or in the warrior case, no visuals at all, at least not in traditional warrior, spellswords are different but thats a different case. A sorcerer based biuld could look fantastic with these yellow and orange glows turned blue with some lightning effect added but the yello glow for shock spell specialist feels like i was not paying attention at class of collage and had some odd side effect from spell i did not cast properly.

KoshkaMurka wrote: »

Well, if you're a pure warrior, surely you cant buff or heal yourself with a 2hander? There's still some magic involved.

Indeed, but when there are no magical visuals, at least the feel is right when you dont see odd glows everywhere

Kendaric wrote: »

KoshkaMurka wrote: »

Well, if you're a pure warrior, surely you cant buff or heal yourself with a 2hander? There's still some magic involved.

Well, you can choose not to use these magical skills. I, for one, don't as I like playing pure warrior/thief/hunter characters.
Therefore I'm in favor of the OP's suggestion.

As i have done, no magical skills on the bar right now but the problem is that the arm glow which is very easily seen, triggers when i am blocking. Im not sure if it also happens on dual-wield and 2 handed weapns but my character wants axe and buckler so there is no choice there.