That is intended.

As per the tooltip, all of the Iceshard weapon styles are designed to be invisible when stowed, just like the Gloambound weapons. If you have an effect on them (like Empower, or everyone's favorite Grim Focus), the glow will hang around until the effect expires (or in the case of Grim Focus, until you unslot the skill), but the weapon itself is only visible when unsheathed.

RetPing wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

. If you have an effect on them (like Empower, or everyone's favorite Grim Focus), the glow will hang around until the effect expires (or in the case of Grim Focus, until you unslot the skill), but the weapon itself is only visible when unsheathed.

You telling me that with one of those weapon NBs go around with this red dot following them from nowhere ????

Yes, actually. And there's an entire thread of people showing it off, and making the point that it looks more than a little ridiculous.

Since the Grim Focus effect was made permanent, its glow hasn't done much. It used to inform us that the skill was active so we knew when to reapply it, and the basegame stack counter told us how close we were to a bowproc, and then the icon radically changed to show it was ready. Now the glow hangs around simply from slotting the skill, the basegame stack counter doesn't work so you need an addon to count your stacks for you, and the icon only gets an edge glow which is easier to miss. It's... not been a popular change, but like everything else on the internet, there are people who also think that the glow is essentially a free Arms pack for NBs only, so they don't need to spend Crowns to get anything else because they like the red.

But that's a topic for another thread...