Bug or Feature: Earned Blessings are locked to specific weapons

[RobberFly]

@enEEEewon

Read the patch notes more carefully. It’s in there.

I’m assuming by that you mean:

@Fatshark_Hedge

Each weapon pattern has unique Blessings available to them, and you can only swap these with Blessings belonging to the same pattern.

Except, that doesn’t actually describe this behavior. Let’s look at the full context of the relevant sections:

@Fatshark_Hedge

Earn Blessing

You can now extract a Blessing from a weapon in your inventory, which will sacrifice the weapon in the process. After extracting the Blessing, you will earn the permanent ability to use this Blessing on another weapon of the same mark. Earned Blessings are shared between all characters on your account.

Re-Bless Weapon

You can now change a Blessing on a weapon, by swapping out an existing Blessing on a weapon with one of your earned Blessings. Each weapon pattern has unique Blessings available to them, and you can only swap these with Blessings belonging to the same pattern.

First off, why would we interpret something describing the functionality of Re-Bless to apply to Earn Blessing? Second, why would we expect non-unique blessings to be impacted? “Each weapon pattern has unique Blessings available to them.” Yeph, they certainly do. They also have non-unique blessings. “…you can only swap these with Blessings belonging to the same pattern.” As in, the aforementioned unique blessings.

Sure, it’s possible that they meant for that language to describe the behavior we’re seeing, but that would be a pretty obtuse and misleading way to describe it. I think its more likely that the non-unique blessings were simply an oversight.

In any event, the patch notes do not clearly describe the current behavior and this does indeed require clarification from the devs.