ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

when you wear an antimagic item you should see an antimagic debuff icon, unless you joined the antimagic faction

I support this. There should be a clearer warning. Right now one of the most asked questions in chat is "hey, what's messing my sustains up?" Even us more experienced players sometimes don't notice AM on items.

+1.

This always happens to me with lanterns. I've got a default lantern, so I find a slight upgrade and equip it without paying any more attention. Then I get into a battle and suddenly everything goes wrong.
Weapons I useally notice, mostly because they often come with slime or manaburn. Near basic lanterns that do the same thing as most other lanterns I don't want to need to pay particular attention to.

I think there is a chat message, but a debuff makes a great deal more sense.

What if it gave you a timed effect every time you failed/disrupted, with either "one of your items" or "arcane disruption" (if you have that timed effect).

If it needs a real effect as well, it could reduce the disruption by an insignificant amount for a short duration, or else increase saves or something.

I think the idea is to give an indication of AM to the player before anything goes wrong, like transmogrifying the previous piece of equipment, for example.

A debuff icon with the spellpower penalty & disruption chance would be great.

This has happened to me a few times as well - I'm slowly getting used to checking before equipping, but I agree that notification through an effect icon would be helpful.

support for players with spells/racials

If there's some sort of buff that the AM types get out of it, it would be nice to see that too. I keep seeing spells that my enemies try to throw fizzle from antimagical effects - I'm *assuming* they're not all just wearing antimagic gear themselves, but I have no way of knowing, and if it is my antimagic gear, I certainly don't have any way of knowing how much of an effect it is and whether or not it's worth selecting a piece of equipment for.

there is now a visible debuff