The new icon don’t make sense at all. Now, you have to actually read EVERY. SINGLE. PERKS on every pieces of gear you get since the same icon is used for a a multitude of perk that absolutely don’t belong together.
Refreshing ward and refreshing pillar of fire should not be the same icon.
It was so much better being abble to tell from one quick look that this chestpiece with dex as a firestaff perk and jsut salvage it.
Or just scrolling in Trading Post through some light headwear with full focus and looking for any LifeStaff perk…
They changed more than just the weapon perk icons which I believe you are referring to in your post. I think I prefer all the weapon perks to have a symbol for that weapon like it did before but I don’t think ALL the perk icons changes need to be reverted.
There were tones of perks with the same icons before as well that lead to confusion. They just made the icons relevant to what they were doing. For example, all perks reducing time of CD now share an hourglass symbol. All elemental effects now use the icon for that element. I think this works well and I like the consistency.
All that said… I think I’d rather see that a perk is a GA specific perk rather than a generic effect symbol like the slow symbol used for crippling reap.