They’re just another transmog at this point. So why isn’t it possible to use enchant illusions on those transmogs?
If this needs to be posted in the transmog part of the forum instead of the general discussions part, then so be it, but this is where I posted it for visibility so mods will have to move it themselves if they don’t want a discussion about design decisions here.
inb4 someone tries to argue that it isn’t “gone and forgotten”, the point of writing it like that is that it’s effectively gone from the public consciousness of the players. We’re 2 expansions past it now, or 3 if you include Classic.
And speaking of enchant illusion restrictions, why can hunters still not use it for their only weapons now that they’re stuck with ranged weps?
It’s really the only reason why I gave up on my hunter and haven’t played it ever since they changed that. It’s too bland.
Isn’t it because a lot of the artifacts have special effects on them already so won’t work with illusions? I am guessing these effects are applied in the same way as illusions, therefore it’s a technical limitation as both would occupy the same slot.
My warlock uses the affliction artifact weapon appearance and it has a purple glow around it already without an illusion applied. I don’t think it’s due to artifact weapons being “top special and unique”, just how it’s been implemented technically.
Well, for one thing, there are weapons with their own effects that doesn’t prevent enchant illusions being used on them.
Spiteblade, hailstorm and quickening blade of the prince being pretty common for that.
Then there’s also a couple of artifact weapons (the basic ones), that doesn’t have any such effect.
In Legion I figure it’s because they wanted the appearances of the weapons to be more imprinted in people’s minds without adding personal choices like enchant illusions on them since that’d reduce their recognizability, especially from afar.
But now that Legion is over, there’s no need for that any longer. It’s just another transmog now, we’ve had BFA and Classic to overwrite the memories from Legion already, and now Shadowlands on top of that, and soon TBC.
I just don’t see the reason why the Legion artifact weapon transmogs have that arbitrary limitation on them anymore.
And that hunter thing with the enchant illusion restriction on ranged weps is just a personal pet peeve of mine.
This was my first thought too. There is a dagger transmog I use on my mage which is not an artifact that cant use an enchant illusion as it already glows. However I just logged in to my Paladin as on Protection we use Truthguard as a sword which has no glow and the OP is correct, you cant put an enchant illusion on it.
Yeah, there are a couple of weapon mogs that prevents enchant illusions even though it isn’t an artifact weapon. I can’t even speculate as to the reason why that is.
But yeah, in Legion I figure it’s because artifact weapons were the “star of the show” of that expansion, but now it’s long past it so it makes less sense now.
All I can really think of is that these enchant illusion restrictions are arbitrary. Just random decisions by the designers at this point, although Legion wep mogs might’ve just been forgotten, but at least for the other non-artifact mogs then it seems entirely arbitrary.
Especially the hunter one, no clue why they can’t use enchant illusions on ranged weps.
I think the auto attack arrows should take on the effects of the illusions. Or at least the “string” of the bow.
I hated that about being a Hunter in Legion, must suck being a hunter unlocking these new Covenant illusions right now (assuming you like them).
As for the topic my guess would be a database schema issue where it’s set up so one item can have one visual enchant and some models have visual enchants on them already.
They could allow us to replace the enchant entirely but perhaps then the original model looks ugly and they’re unhappy seeing it in the game.
I mean, there are weapons with their own effects, in fact most of the weapon mogs with effects, can use enchant illusions on top of them. (Which would suggest the likelihood of the illusions themselves being capable of adding their own paths on top of any transmog.)
While as you said, mechanically speaking there’s a limitation. A restriction. But the point of the thread is why is that restriction still there?