Do you feel class abilities and skill lines could use a visual overhaul?

huskandhunger

See above

Necrotech_Master

i bet a lot of people are going to say "no" after how they handled the templar jabs change lol

huskandhunger

Yes

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "no" after how they handled the templar jabs change lol

Some may feel that way, this is true. Others may feel animation updates might make the game feel refreshed.

Necrotech_Master

huskandhunger wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "no" after how they handled the templar jabs change lol

Some may feel that way, this is true. Others may feel animation updates might make the game feel refreshed.

if they do the animations good, or give people an option to choose animation, sure

i dont think people want a one and done forced change, that may end up resulting in what happened to the templar jabs change

i think they are on their way though to alternate skill animations, they have already been introducing alternate animations for harvesting so i think its only a matter of time before they start on skill alternate animations

Araneae6537

No

Change templar jabs, dual wield flurry, and nightblade permaglow nonsense back and then don’t touch the visuals again except to introduce new OPTIONS. Options are good.

Options for pet visuals would be great.

EDIT: Also vampire. I want a cool bat swarm, not this ugly alchemical monster thing. And vampire skills should be red. NB can be red and shadow or no such effect, as appropriate or as the player chooses — even better.

KaosWarMonk

Yes

I'm fine with most of them but have a strong dislike of the Necro class skills - especially Boneyard.

huskandhunger

Yes

KaosWarMonk wrote: »

I'm fine with most of them but have a strong dislike of the Necro class skills - especially Boneyard.

What do you dislike about how Boneyard looks?

Luckylancer

Yes

Game need a visual overhaul but after what they did with templar jabs, I think current visuals will be better than the new ones.

huskandhunger wrote: »

KaosWarMonk wrote: »

I'm fine with most of them but have a strong dislike of the Necro class skills - especially Boneyard.

What do you dislike about how Boneyard looks?

It looks stupid imo. 3 garve stones + a ring...

CameraBeardThePirate

huskandhunger wrote: »

KaosWarMonk wrote: »

I'm fine with most of them but have a strong dislike of the Necro class skills - especially Boneyard.

What do you dislike about how Boneyard looks?

It's pretty tacky looking tbh, and I say that as a Necro Stan that likes pretty much every other skill visual they have.

reazea

They desperately need to revert jabs and flurry animations, that's for sure and for a fact.

Too bad ZOS refuses to listen to customer feedback on this issue.

Remiem

KaosWarMonk wrote: »

I'm fine with most of them but have a strong dislike of the Necro class skills - especially Boneyard.

The bone spikes ability from the concept art was cooler, but other than boneyard and flame skull being a bit cheesy I find most necro animations well done.
There are even skills that look really cool imo and I want to use them but they are so garbage I can't justify having them on my bar like Grave Grasp which has to be the worst CC ability in the game.

Skoomah

Yes

It’s time to make unique spell visuals PvP rewards.

RaptorRodeoGod

No

We don't need animation changes, we need new skill lines to breathe life into stale playstyles.

thegreeneso

Yes

I love the idea of updating older animations (and not just abilities, but also basic animations like running), but after the jabs/flurry rework I'm not sure if the new animations are going to be better. But despite this I'm still open to the idea and want to see the devs try updating older parts of the game.

LunaFlora

No

yes and no.
several arcanist skills are an eye strain type of green.
and some are flashing too fast like the beam skills and the watcher ultimate.

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "no" after how they handled the templar jabs change lol

i love the templar change,
but i wouldn't want most other skills changed.

i would love new skill lines that any class can use.

Mesite

As long as they don't change my beam. Or my massive green circle. Or my blastbones. And leave my soul siphon alone. And I like my birds and skulls at the current speed...I'm afraid I'm leaning towards 'No'. I'm too scared that what I like will be irrevocably altered.

huskandhunger

Yes

Mesite wrote: »

As long as they don't change my beam. Or my massive green circle. Or my blastbones. And leave my soul siphon alone. And I like my birds and skulls at the current speed...I'm afraid I'm leaning towards 'No'. I'm too scared that what I like will be irrevocably altered.

Hesitation is completely understandable. We would need a lot of communication and openness from the developers on any type of visual changes which they tend to have struggled with in the past on jabs and flurry changes so makes sense.

Erickson9610

Yes

I think the Werewolf skill line could use a visual overhaul. We had a better looking werewolf model many years ago, and we even had a more detailed visual effect for using the Devour skill.

Class abilities could be looked at, too. I hardly remember the old Biting Jabs at this point, but I remember an update where Isobel had the old animation while players had the new one — the difference was night and day.

Vaqual

Yes

As long as they don't make more abilities with disappearing weapons, I could be convinced.
Anyway, what stops them from presenting their ideas to us before dedicating to a design. They can literally just ask if we want what they have in mind.

chessalavakia_ESO

Yes

I think some of the animations can come across poorly in both first and third person. The weapon attack animations can come across as being quite weak and many of the other animations can be quite flashy without looking good.

With that said, I dislike many of the newer animations as well as the reworks to some of the existing animations so I would be quite hesitant regarding ZOS actually changing them.

Billium813

Yes

Sooo many designs for classes are very dated at this point; not just visually, but also functionally. I think they really drew attention to this fact by releasing Arcanist so pushed in both departments. The Arcanist animations are just so vibrant and complex compared to anything the other classes have.

KlauthWarthog

No

shudders at shovels

FoJul

Yes

Fix necro

huskandhunger

Yes

Billium813 wrote: »

Sooo many designs for classes are very dated at this point; not just visually, but also functionally. I think they really drew attention to this fact by releasing Arcanist so pushed in both departments. The Arcanist animations are just so vibrant and complex compared to anything the other classes have.

yeahh i agree, the arcanist blew everything else out of the water that at this point they have to go back and at least take a look at what has come before because it's so vibrant

Solariken

No

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "no" after how they handled the templar jabs change lol

This! If new Jabs and Flurry are the best the current team can do, I pray they don't touch any animations ever again.

IZZEFlameLash

Yes

I want Templar jabs changed back. Only reason for yes currently. I am split on bringing decent visual and sound effects for classes to sort of match Arcanist level. Because I also dread what they will do given... jabs.