Do you plan to Subclass or stay Pure?

SilverBride

Do you plan to Subclass or stay Pure?

TaSheen

Other: leave the game, play something else.

LPapirius

We'll see I guess. But I'm already wondering why I'm still logging onto ESO after the vengeance "test".

valenwood_vegan

I don't really know, will likely stop playing for the rest of the year while they sort the system out and then see what I think.

tomofhyrule

Some of each

I have a few characters who could pick up a line here or there for lore reasons, but in a lot of cases I designed my characters around their classes so it would feel wrong to throw out what they have.

My main may also need to pick up something for various progs, which I am not happy about. I like playing the way I know and I do use all three of my lines when doing content. If I have to, I have to, but I'd prefer Subclassing to be done in such a way that nobody has to.

That was one of the interesting things when Scribing released. The Crow even straight up says "No one would claim they're the most efficient, most reliable workings. But they're far more flexible than the average magecraft" when she talks about Scribing and that was what I liked about it - something that would be a tradeoff of raw power in exchange for flexibility of build. I thing Subclassing should work the same way, in that you can choose to have the power of a pure class, but be constrained by that Class's abilities, or to open yourself to a wider range of possibilities in exchange for some raw stats.
...unfortunately the current choice is "get nerfed lol" or "all of the power and none of the weaknesses," which is not exactly a good choice.

colossalvoids

Idk. I'm pretty oblivious to the game currently but if the metrics for the performance is set by current parses flying around (not bugged ones) then probably yes when playing as a team. No reason to let other folks down cause selfishness. As of RP thing it's horrendous, not sure I can justify any subclassing at all but one exception of 20 or whatever the current character cap is.

Alaztor91

Some of each

I will wait like 3, maybe 6 months after release for the next patch cycles, but if ZOS fails to correctly balance this and decide to just throw ''pure'' Classes under the bus I'll just go play something else.

Seeing as they can't seem to fully commit and finish major changes(Hybridization), even years after being implemented I'm just expecting that they will do another 180 in 2-3 years and I'm tired of them trying to reinvent the wheel.

Divine1976

TaSheen wrote: »

Other: leave the game, play something else.

This for me, see how it all settles from a PVP perspective

Dithieon

I will wait and see what happens after the smoke clears; as a casual,it doesn't seem that exciting,for me anyway. Time will tell.

Wereswan

Stay Pure on all my characters

I didn't ask for this, don't want it, and am not even slightly excited for it. Whichever of my characters become nonviable as a result of it will probably become furnishing mules.

SilverBride

Stay Pure on all my characters

My characters' classes are a big part of who they are and have been for years now and I'm going to keep it that way.

ragnarok6644b14_ESO

Some of each

Some of my characters have themes/stories that are well-served by their pure class lines. For them, I will stay pure on the class lines.

Some of my other characters have themes/stories that are better served by subclassing, and for them, I will subclass.

Tandor

Some of each

I have 2 accounts with characters on both regional servers but only 3 of the 4 character rosters have one or more level 50 characters. Initially I'll probably limit subclassing to one or two new characters made for that purpose, but I may also apply it to one or two existing characters where there is duplication of builds.

Einstein_

Subclass on all my characters

Just because you will have a massive disadvantage if not...

emilyhyoyeon

Some of each

I'm only going to use subclassing for RP purposes. Two of my characters are going to swap a skill line. Most of my characters are going to remain as their normal classes since other classes' skill lines aren't going to help their canons. More scribing grimoires would be better for that, for me.

Wereswan

Stay Pure on all my characters

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I'm only going to use subclassing for RP purposes. Two of my characters are going to swap a skill line. Most of my characters are going to remain as their normal classes since other classes' skill lines aren't going to help their canons. More scribing grimoires would be better for that, for me.

This is part of my problem with the whole idea; play balance issues aside, class abilities are (mostly) designed to have a consistent "feel" to them (aside from some oddballs like some Warden abilities using the same cyan glow as Necro, which I've never understood.) I love all the white-gold spell effects on my Templar, for instance, but can't imagine that working for a Nightblade. So even if everything was a 1:1 swap (which it obviously isn't,) it would still leave us with weird, jarring combinations of effects.

licenturion

Some of each

I am going to experiment with it on an extra armory slot on my main.

If there is super OP stuff I will clear some easy achievements or get some easy stuff with it before it gets nerfed.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Some of each

I mostly play my main; I don’t object to subclassing on my alts it’s just going to depend on if it’s worth the time investment.

Ingenon

Depends upon what gets released to live. Right now I'm using easy to play Arcanist alts and One Bar Oakensoul alts for all of my trials/dungeons/overland. If the 171K parse on PTS I saw (Grave Lord/Herald of the Tome/Assassination) ends up making it to live, then all my current DPS builds will be way under performing and probably unwanted for playing with others. I will need a new easy to play build that doesn't require 120 actions per minute (APM) and performs closer to the new top builds. Hopefully there will be a new easy to play build, otherwise ZOS may have designed me out of ESO.

beth6230_ESO

hmm, I'm thinking I'll get a couple more armory slots to have some play-around/RP builds. I doubt I would use them for anything serious (ha, I never do anything in-game that is serious). It will be interesting to see if someone discovers a one-shot, unkillable build - and how the devs tune for THAT

LunaFlora

Some of each

not all of my 20 PS EU characters have builds so i won't subclass on all either.

probably only half of them or less.

edited to add:
i have already mostly planned how I'll update most of my main character's builds, which are 9 builds

Cazador

Some of each

Depends on the character, I do already have a few combinations in mind that I think will be fun.

Shagreth

Some of each

I am conflicted. I like the identity of the classes, and I honestly wouldn't want to mess with the whole fantasy. I'd still rather have a class change token than subclasses, but there's also a part of me that would love to experiment. Still, I know the price to pay will be: "Pure DK now sucks without X or Y skill line from another class."

RaddlemanNumber7

Some of each

19 of my 20 characters use Oakensoul, and that's not going to change, so not much point in subclassing there.

My 20th character is an ultra-sneaky, evasive 2 bar NB, so I might try him out as as a Shadowmancer (mostly because of the name).

Desiato

Subclass on all my characters

I can't imagine a scenario in which I would continue to play eso without using subclasses.

I don't prefer the sublcass system and wish they wouldn't introduce it. But reality will not adapt to us, so we must adapt to it. If I continue to play when it becomes reality, I will adapt to it the same way I adapted to hybridization and the dozens of other disruptions the game has seen.

Xarc

Some of each

I have characters that only use 2 out of 3 bars. Maybe I'll rectify this by replacing a skill tree.
I also have a character I wish was a different class. Maybe I'll orient him.
Finally, I have at least 3 characters that I will leave "pure" because I don't see myself amputating their identity.

Elvenheart

Some of each

I have some characters I like just the way they are and will continue to use them as-is no matter what ZOS does in regards to nerfing any of the class skills, I’ll adapt without changing their class identity the way we always have to do when skills are changed.

I have some other characters who only use one or two of their class skill lines that I’m more open in trying a different direction with, such as my attempts at no-pet sorcerers and my frost warden.

And finally, I am considering making a brand new character that starts off with three different class skill lines from the beginning, something I normally wouldn’t have done until a new class came out because I currently have at least one character and in some cases more of every class. I’m just reading through these forum topics about sub classing in hopes of coming up with a good concept for that character. 🙂

Castagere

Stay Pure on all my characters

I don't see the benefit of it in how I play ESO. I don't PVP or do dungeons or PVE/group content, and don't care about housing. The whole 46 update is nothing to me. I don't plan on spending 50 bucks for this new content pass either. I own everything up to that point, anyway. So I will miss out on the worm cult 1 and 2 until they make an offer to buy that instead of the two dungeons, which are meaningless to me.

Freelancer_ESO

Subclass on all my characters

Fully unlocking subclassing will mean leveling up 21 skill lines.

Assuming I'm playing still I'll be putting it on every character of mine that I am actively playing so that I can level the skill lines up faster.

It's going to likely take me months to fully unlock it.

After it's unlocked, I'll probably be using it on most if not all of my characters because I generally don't use a ton of class skills so it's likely most of my characters would be better off shifting one or more of the lines off towards something else.

BretonMage

Stay Pure on all my characters

I will stay pure sorc for all my one character

I thought about it quite a bit, and of all the classes, only Arcanist and Warden would have fit her personality. After looking through their skill lines, and Fatecarving my way around N Elsweyr, though, I realised I still like pure sorc the best.

Soarora

Some of each

I have like two in mind and I’ll probably be forced to subclass another 2. I know for sure 2 won’t be subclassed and it’s likely the rest won’t be either.