MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Lol, when the outfit system launched, weapons didn't have a glow at all. People complained.

Then ZOS added a permanent glow, and people complained.

Now they only glow when drawn, and people complain again.

I think this is a fine compromise (only thing better would be a toggle). I think the glow effect is pretty ugly and low-res, so I'm glad it's hidden outside of combat.

Part of me gets where you're coming from; it does sometimes seem like it's impossible to make the forum happy, and complaints will roll in no matter what.

The other part of me thinks a little common sense would go a long way with implementations like this. As you say, a toggle option would have been the way to go from the start. Kinda seems like a child would have been able to make the right call there, let alone whatever team / professional game developer dropped the ball in not doing so.

I agree that the current solution is fine, and a compromise. But it's "fine" only because I'm quickly losing confidence in ZOS's ability to make good decisions on things like this. It's a small and non-critical aspect of the game, but it's also a detail that doesn't escape people's notice. If it were handled sensibly from the start (i.e., with an option to pick your own setting), it wouldn't be a topic of as much (if any) complaint.

Funny how people now claim that "they love the glow", when Summerset landed I counted the first 5 threads complaining about them being permanent. Also, I think many here do not understand the difference between VFX effects, such as the fire/lightning when you draw your weapons, and the lingering MoL glow - and the low-res, blurry swirling enchant glow on your weapons, that reflect the enchant on it. Those are two completely different things, and have nothing to do with one another.

THIS is how the weapon enchant looked before Wolfhunter:


Contrast that to the picture of my outfit above, with no glowing weapon enchants.

I'm all fine with a toggle to toggle it completely on or off, but the fact of the matter is that for the entirety of this game's life up until Summerset, weapon enchant effects have ALWAYS been toggled off when the weapon is not wielded, the time between Summerset and Wolfhunter is the anomaly where weapon enchant effects were ALWAYS turned on. We're basically just back to the state of visuals we had before Summerset, so while you may complain about that if you will, they did fix what was a bug from Summerset up until now.

RANKK7 wrote: »

This was a BUG that needed correction, how nice was one of my characters all blue-themed with a giant orange-glowing staff on the back.

Exactly. You can see on the pic above how the otherwise stylish blue/silver Ordinator outfit is ruined by a huge, glowing orange staff on the back. I'm glad they fixed this as well, so it at least only glows when the staff is wielded and drawn. More customization is always nice, forced visuals are not so nice.