Hot take : active race skill

Foxtrot39 · February 14

We got passive, but what if we had a race themed active skill line?

Example :

-Beast race such as kahjit and Argonian would have one related to their pysiology, like a pounce for kahjit and tail swipe for Argonians

Then related to their culture

-Redguards would have acces to martial skills and maybe even a low class Shehai as ult

-Argonian related to the Hist and/or their reptilian nature

-Kahjit related to Jone and Jode and/or their feline nature

-Imperial some sort of commanding aura

-High elves focused on magicka

-Breton a mix of magicka and martial focus

-Wood elves related to the green pact (or forest/hunter themed at least)

-Nordic about their resilience

-Dark elves could have deadric focus to some extent

-Orc about brute strength/relentless attack

Just throwing out ideas atm

Now obviously it runs the issue of min maxing races out of roles but thats not the topic

QB1 · February 16

Love this idea!!!

LunaFlora · February 16

so kinda similar to their abilities in Skyrim?
could be fun. i would really love it if bosmer had an extra bow skill.

Malyore · February 16

I think this could be a cool idea so long as any counterbalancing doesn't make my already non-pet dunmer worse off by continuing to not use daedra. I don't want to get any nerfs out of just the assumption that a race will use their race abilities. I can see it being more like Skyrim race ability where it's just one ability among passives, similar to the eso armor skills.

While we're at it, I'd love more active skills for guilds like dark brotherhood and thieves guild.

ViggyBoi · March 6

Honestly kind of surprised there were no race active skills when I first started playing. I mean I get now why there isn't but it still would be a fun idea.

OtarTheMad · March 10

There were active racial skills or ultimates actually at one point, I believe in early beta. All I remember is during some live event they showed off a devs screen who was playing the game and they had the racial abilities up and you saw that the race they were on had passives and an ultimate.

I believe the Dunmer one was called Ancestral Guardian or Ancestral Spirit.