Official Discussion Thread for "ESO 2024 Global Reveal–Introducing Scribing"

ZOS_Kevin · January 18

This is the official discussion thread for, "ESO 2024 Global Reveal–Introducing Scribing"

"Discover new ways to play with Scribing, arriving as part of The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road."

LukosCreyden · January 18

Hmmm. Sounds cool, but I am wondering; how many of these skills will there be? Will there be skills unique to classes? Or are they for world/guild/weapon skill lines only? As for skill cosmetic changes, will there be bigger stuff? Make my Warden look like a full druid? Or a full ice mage?

It looks like a promising system, but I am left with so many questions lol

Muizer · January 18

Sounded like 1 per weapon skill line to me.

Casul · January 18

Been playing on console since 2015. I have to honestly say the team has done great this year.

AzuraFan · January 18

I'm really looking forward to this! I was hoping for a system that would be useful for everyone, and this certainly fits the bill.

vsrs_au · January 18

Is the emote the only Twitch drop from the reveal stream? Just checking, in case I missed any other one.

Araneae6537 · January 18

Looking forward to this and customizing abilities and I hope that it will be more than color! I also hope there will be options to remove effects, especially if NB Grim Focus is never fixed!

Galeriano · January 18

Looks very mediocre. Poor mans version of spellcrafting they were showing in 2014.

colossalvoids · January 18

Hope it's just me but indeed sounds pretty tamed and underwhelming, if that's what I'm seeing: couple customisable skills a patch plus couple skill skins a patch — it's really bad. And if second part is partially ditched into store or crates... I swear to Shor.

AzuraFan · January 18

vsrs_au wrote: »

Is the emote the only Twitch drop from the reveal stream? Just checking, in case I missed any other one.

I got two drops. The emote and a gold coast experience scroll.

Jaimeh · January 18

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Hmmm. Sounds cool, but I am wondering; how many of these skills will there be? Will there be skills unique to classes? Or are they for world/guild/weapon skill lines only? As for skill cosmetic changes, will there be bigger stuff? Make my Warden look like a full druid? Or a full ice mage?

It looks like a promising system, but I am left with so many questions lol

I think they said for weapon skill lines, PTS will start soon though, so we'll know more!

ThelerisTelvanni · January 18

Sounds awsome what I have heared so far! I'd love to see more soon

colossalvoids · January 18

Jaimeh wrote: »

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Hmmm. Sounds cool, but I am wondering; how many of these skills will there be? Will there be skills unique to classes? Or are they for world/guild/weapon skill lines only? As for skill cosmetic changes, will there be bigger stuff? Make my Warden look like a full druid? Or a full ice mage?

It looks like a promising system, but I am left with so many questions lol

I think they said for weapon skill lines, PTS will start soon though, so we'll know more!

Alcasthq article mentions guilds and other lines also, so all but class ones I guess for now.

d_raw514 · January 18

This is the sort of system that will have immense impact on the game's meta. Everything from solo PvE, endgame group PvE, and PvP. Players with access to full Scribing will pull even further ahead than their competition in PvP.

vsrs_au · January 18

AzuraFan wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

Is the emote the only Twitch drop from the reveal stream? Just checking, in case I missed any other one.

I got two drops. The emote and a gold coast experience scroll.

Yes, I got the scroll about a minute after posting the question. Thanks for the reply.

MoonPile · January 18

I'm also waiting on the emote. Don't want to bother Support yet, but I'm a little worried because I re-linked the account shortly before the stream. I did get the crate so I assume it's ok.

Besides that, VERY excited for the zone, love the overgrown design of the wood elf areas and the autumnal look of West Weald... (art team is ON FIRE as usual

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and the Raven pre-order pet!!!

Feel so heard lol. I hope a Blackfeather Deconstructor will come someday too.

LunaFlora · January 18

Scribing looks like a lot of fun!
i cannot wait to try it out

Necrotech_Master · January 18

customized skills + styling for existing skills?

both sound like really fun systems, and it will be nice to see other customizations besides the recolor for the warden bear thats been the only skill style since morrowind chapter lol

Gwythyr · January 18

Will we have to have max level all weapon skills in order to fully use this “skill system”? Like taking the empower skill from 2h and putting it on a staff skill?

acastanza_ESO · January 18

Scribing is looking to be significantly more in-depth than even my best hopes for an ESO implementation of Spellcrafting. Very excited for this chapter!

That said, while I'm really hoping for things that shake up PVP, my main hope is that rather than being hard "must slot" meta choices, or skill variants that substantially step on the toes of the last vestiges of class identity, the Scribed spells provide more versatile and situationally viable options that expand build diversity. I know that's a difficult middle ground to find, but I'm hopeful we can get there if the devs really keep an open mind to our feedback once this ends up on PTS.

BulletMagnetX · January 19

I was hoping that scribing might make it possible to make use of magicka (spending and HA gaining) with weapon skills. Alas, that looks unlikely.

bachpain · January 19

Am I the only one that is worried about a new system further taxing the code and hardware of ESO when the ques for PVP are a joke, group finders are still broken, and class balance is nowhere near a thing?

I mean, on an average night I spend more time waiting than actually being able to enjoy what I want to do in the game, and now they are adding more to tax the limited resources and make wait times even longer. Please before adding any more content fix the broken systems and increase the population caps in the Cyrodiil campaigns. Maybe then people will have incentive to purchase the new content and renew their subscriptions!

RetPing · January 19

bachpain wrote: »

Am I the only one that is worried about a new system further taxing the code and hardware of ESO when the ques for PVP are a joke, group finders are still broken, and class balance is nowhere near a thing?

I expressed the same concerns and someone answered to my post saying that fun is more important than balance.
I think this is the common thought now and that the game will be more and more catered to that kind of players.

I have nothing against them of course, we just like different things.

FlopsyPrince · January 20

Moved my question to the general thread.

JerBearESO · January 20

Any idea when we will get a better overview of what the planned abilities will be? I noticed when I finally watched the video breakdown that all there was to show was an animation with syvarras scales vfx slapped on and a ui layout that seemed rather slapped together. These give no evidence of the system even existing beyond concept at this time, so I know it will be a while. But will we get some better info in the next month or two, or do we need to wait until it's pts I'm guessing in May? That's just a really long time to wait xD

LunaFlora · January 20

JerBearESO wrote: »

Any idea when we will get a better overview of what the planned abilities will be? I noticed when I finally watched the video breakdown that all there was to show was an animation with syvarras scales vfx slapped on and a ui layout that seemed rather slapped together. These give no evidence of the system even existing beyond concept at this time, so I know it will be a while. But will we get some better info in the next month or two, or do we need to wait until it's pts I'm guessing in May? That's just a really long time to wait xD

likely in april.
chapters usually go to the public test server in mid April.
and zos usually has preview livestreams before that as well.

JerBearESO · January 21

Just want to point out something I noticed from the example image we have. It seems the primary selection will be for things you can only select one of; like you can't have it be poison and fire damage at the same time. That's fine. But the secondary and tertiary selections seem separated for no reason. Those can be joined together for more versatility overall.

This would mean all options within both selections become a single list of options, so we would then have just primary and secondary, but then allow 2 secondary options to be selected. This results in far more combinations of possibilities, so it's worth considering.

Also the system can be pushed a bit further by allowing a 3rd selection from this now joined list of options, perhaps optionally and with a drawback to maintain balance.

@ZOS_Kevin

Animar111 · January 21

Personally I think scribing is a wise approach to spell crafting and sets a solid base on which to build on.
I think all out spell crafting would have been too much of a broad move to make and could bring too many problems to the game.
The way they have implemented scribing/spell casting was a safe move and builds a solid base for improvement and extending further functionality with spells.
To start off with weapon skill lines was a good choice, further down the road I would like to see this done with other skill lines.
I was afraid of them going all out on spell crafting in one move and was pleased that it was approached with careful thought.

Holmarion19 · January 25

I was more excited until Rich described the system on the German Channel as being intended for Vet players. Now I am more fearful.

Elsonso · January 28

Holmarion19 wrote: »

I was more excited until Rich described the system on the German Channel as being intended for Vet players. Now I am more fearful.

Source?

Holmarion19 · January 29

Elsonso wrote: »

Holmarion19 wrote: »

I was more excited until Rich described the system on the German Channel as being intended for Vet players. Now I am more fearful.

Source?

The German Twitch channel.

Not sure whether we are allowed to link that here or not. You'll want the Bethesda Mainstream Bethesda_DE from 6 days ago. The vid is there.

Interview with Rich starts about 1 hr 10 mins in. His part of the vid is in English.