Sorcerer's Pets visual rework?

CaptainVenom

After we had storm atronach mounts, I've been thinking... it would be great if we could get new visuals (or at least skins) for familiar, clannfear and twilight, for example:

A small Storm Atronach Wolf for Familiar:


A Storm Atronach Horse for Winged Twilight:


A Storm Atronach Bear for Clannfear:


It would be awesome, still paired with daedric summoning (as atronachs are elemental daedra), Conjuration (at least from Skyrim, where one could only summon elemental daedra) and sorcerer's lightning theme.

Nairinhe

Horse and bear a too small, let's give sorcs echatere, mammoth and a dragon. (No)

Bobby_V_Rockit

I just wish the matriarch would land when I’m just faffin about crafting stations

maboleth

The matriarch needs resizing, she literally gets in the way of both the caster and other people. It's useful in combat (decoys the enemies), but in the overland she's really too big (mostly, the wings) and I always tend to pull my ability on/off to make her disappear.

Other than that I'm totally fine with the way pets currently are.

CaptainVenom

I dunno sometimes scamps and winged twilights feel a little bit out of place. Plus familiars are ugly AF. Wish we could have at least a crown store skin for them, similar to Warden's bear.

Neoealth

Our pets don't have flashy effects because of game performance reasons I would imagine. Probably why they look so bland.

Will echo what others have said about the matriarch though, she is way to big, needs scaling down a lot. And make her land or buzz off when the player is not moving around. And tell her to stop flapping around my head.

Axx_Xa

Change ALL sorc pet for pokeball. TY

ArchangelIsraphel

It would be nice if there were skins you could use like the one skin for the wardens bear, I'd more seriously look into playing sorc if the pets looked a bit better

Zephard

The skin for the bear, does it high the glow of the markings? and the eyes?

Danikat

I'm in favour of anything which reduces the number of obnoxious flapping wings crowded around banks, crafting stations and anywhere else players are likely to want to be for any length of time. I can't stand the constant flickering animation, especially when I'm trying to look at menus and the wings keep appearing behind it. But sometimes it seems like every time I change position so they're off screen one of the sorcers moves to get them back in my way again.

I'd also like to be able to choose pets which suit my character's theme rather than being stuck with the same generic grey ones, but mostly I just want to avoid the constant flapping.

Zephard wrote: »

The skin for the bear, does it high the glow of the markings? and the eyes?

No, it just changes the fur from brown to grey. The glow is part of one of the morphs (the other one gives them a glowing 'brand' of the warden symbol on their shoulder), but I can never remember which is which.

idk

It seems more that this is just a redesign for the sake of a redesign with on added benefit to the game. It is also at a time Zos has more than enough on their plates. The current sorc pets work fine and make sense for the damage they do.

RefLiberty

OP, you are probably aware that only this month there was at least 10 threads with request to rework Sorc summons, first and foremost the flapper, and since it is something that is unanimously accepted by player base, ok, lets go with another one.

I can agree that skins are cool and no wonder you would like to have it as a Sorc pets, but PLEASE let's not request even bigger Sorc pets. Horse, bear... they are way to big, imagine two Sorc at the same place with 2 pets - 2 horses, 2 bears, it would be a freaking Zoo.

Yes, it would be great if pets are reworked, first and the foremost the matriarch. AS QOL feature, the solution for twilight, imho, would be a Watcher Deadra spawn.

I'm not for horses and bears, although they look cool on the artwork, and although Storm Atronachs are Elemental Deadra and thus lore friendly, what would be the Horse? He would shoot lightning from his eyes and zap enemies? It would be hilarious.

Starlight_Knight

Remember when Warden was released; the Grey bear skin had its own "Specials" tab with the nothing but the skin in it.
It was almost like ZOS only pretended that they were going to introduce new pet skins all the way back then to get more people to buy the class as now the "specials" tab has been removed.

Sorc Pets are awful and annoying, Desperately need reworking.

Its not like there is much work to do because different colour variants of bears and harpies already exist in the game - Hell there are even harpies that sit down properly like good boys and don't do that incredibly irritating flap flap flap thing!!!

Pet skins are WAY TO LONG OVERDUE!

dcam86b14_ESO

Re-skins for pets and warden bear would put tons of $$$ in ZoS pocket

I'm baffled why it's never been done

Kagukan

Has been brought up many times and seems to be something most people agree with. Pet skins and morphs should be a thing.

Starlight_Knight

As its understood, Sorcs have Deadric summoning and Storm calling
Implying they can summon any Daedra and storm atronachs.
So many different summon options should be available, just in a little drop down or when you take the skill morph you can chose then.

Same goes for the warden with the Animal Companions. Many nature options should be available as summons.

There isn't enough depth in the ESO class systems and pet skins is a big offender. We need more customisation across the board.

TheShadowScout

Neoealth wrote: »

Our pets don't have flashy effects because of game performance reasons I would imagine. Probably why they look so bland.

Nah.
They look so bland because they were made back in the early days.

I mean, they -could- make them with bling... and yes, it would add a little lag - exactly like those mounts do, so there is that, already in the game, so...

But they were made back before that was a thing! And have not been updated in visuals since, (because why should they spend resources on something that works well enough and nets them no extra profit?) so...

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

It would be nice if there were skins you could use like the one skin for the wardens bear, I'd more seriously look into playing sorc if the pets looked a bit better

And yeah, that would be a nifty thing! And one they could sell too!

Another possibility would be if they ever did something like my Class Specialization Idea, letting people "morph" their classes for "advanced class" versions... then they could also change several skill visuals to reflect the new "specialized" class.
Like... have a basic sorceror with basic pets, but if you go electromancer, all the pets get more lighting-ish, if you go summoner, all the pets get more daedric-ish, and if you go warlock, all the pets get more dark-magic-ish.

I mean I could see lightning-infused spirits replacing scamps, clannfear or twilights, dark magic purple gem encrusted golem versions for all sorc pets, or daedric powerup versions with extra horns, spikes and other "oooh, eeeeeeeevil deeee-mons!" visuals...
Same for the warden bear, like... go ranger for a senche-raht, go shaman for a shambling bear-shaped wood monster, or go cryomancer for a polar bear...
Something along those lines anyhow.
But... it would be way more work for them, so I don't much dare hope it might happen, as much as I'd live the idea. It's why I kept my daydreams along my ideas lines to simple palette swaps or reskins... like, blue deadric pets, purple daedric pets or orange daedric pets; or black bear, mystic rune bear, polar bear...

mayasunrising

i would love to see the Sorc Pets reworked. IMO they are so boring and ugly. I get they need to look like Daedra, but they could at least be interesting to look at.

Aztrias

Personally I wish there was a way to make combat pets invisible outside off combat without having to de-summon and summon them again. Sometimes I get tired of dragging around an ugly scamp with me everywhere I go.

Shortb0y

It would be great to be able to select from a range of pets like we can non combat pets for sorc and warden. Being able to change skins helps personalise characters and means no more cookie cutter chars!

Starlight_Knight

Shortb0y wrote: »

It would be great to be able to select from a range of pets like we can non combat pets for sorc and warden. Being able to change skins helps personalise characters and means no more cookie cutter chars!

I would enjoy my warden a lot more if i could change that blasted floating octopus netch thing into a something else.