I'm not entirely sure that this is an issue or not, but I recently threw a bunch of perks in Conjuration to start messing around with bound weapons as my soul trap/banish go-to. However, I am noticing that contrary to casting soul trap or using a weapon that has it as an enchantment, when I kill something that I have put soul trap on via my bound weapons (with the Soul Stealer perk), the soul IS captured, but the effect/graphic of the soul flowing from the corpse into me doesn't happen. Is this something everyone else is experiencing and do we think it is something that shouldn't be occurring? (I'm on 360 btw)

Happened to me too, when i'm sure when i started playing (1.1) i was seeing this effect but now that i have "reverted" from 1.2 back to 1.1 i no longer get the effect but it still traps souls.

Not a major down just an aesthetic bug... doesn't look bad it just doesn't look pretty either...

Agreed, yet I find that to be my favorite part of soul trapping lol. Looked so good. Hope to see it get fixed soon.

So it (Soul Steal perk) actually does work as far as trapping souls using bound weapons?? I never counted filled gems before and after - I just assumed that it wasn't working

It works, but I've never seen the soul absorption effect with bound sword.

Hey guys talking about bound weapons ....im working my way up to the conjuration tree ...since i love givin the necromancer style to my aragonian mage ..but i have been skeptic whether or not invest a perk in this ...are those powerful or worth the perks....

Damage is based off of the One-Handed (Bound Sword), Two-Handed (Bound Battleaxe), or Archery (Bound Bow) skills, as well as Conjuration (I'm not very sure about the last part, but I do know that attacking with them levels up the weapon skill). They may not be very strong, at first.