Request/pre-emptive feedback for warden bear skill styles

Danikat · December 5

I'm hoping that skill styles are slowly leading towards us being able to change the warden ultimate to summon something other than a bear.

But having seen the new winged twilight (and a number of other skill styles) I wanted to make a request: if we do get new versions of that skill please, please, please make them normal animals, or maybe make several versions with a mix of normal animals and glowing or flaming ones or whatever else.

I'd love for my breton warden to be able to summon a wolf like the wyresses can, but I want it to be an actual wolf, not some glowing "daedric" wolf spirit thing.

the1andonlyskwex · December 5

While I appreciate the desire for a completely different model, I seriously doubt it's going to happen. There are too many people in PvP who rely on being able to recognize different opponent abilities at a glance, and that quickly stops being possible when each ability has multiple completely different animation options.

SkaiFaith · December 5

Still, I'd rather a polar bear than a glowing bear...

Danikat · December 6

the1andonlyskwex wrote: »

While I appreciate the desire for a completely different model, I seriously doubt it's going to happen. There are too many people in PvP who rely on being able to recognize different opponent abilities at a glance, and that quickly stops being possible when each ability has multiple completely different animation options.

If PvP players can figure out the existing skill styles where abilities have different colours and animations I think they can work out that a wolf or senche-leopard or whatever running at them is just as dangerous as a bear.

Erickson9610 · December 7

I'm looking forward to the potential Feral Guardian Skill Styles we could get! For those who don't already know, the Slate-Gray Summoned Bear item from the Morrowind Collector's Pack is now a Skill Style, and so we might expect that future Feral Guardian Skill Styles might just swap the texture of the pet.

Ideally, I'd like to get a white-furred "polar bear" Skill Style for Feral Guardian, given that Warden has the ice/frost theme with the Winter's Embrace skill line. Aside from that, there's also an existing black bear texture that would look really cool as a Feral Guardian Skill Style!

There's a lot of existing bear textures in the game which could be made into Feral Guardian Skill Styles. If we do get a unique Skill Style for Feral Guardian which is in the same vein as Summon Winged Twilight, Warrior, I hope it would have a similar orange as Sharp-as-Night's spectral kagouti from his Ultimate, Gore:

This would fall in line with the color palette of our first batch of Warden Skill Styles.

anadandy · December 7

Disable skill styles in PVP like they do for mementos and assistants. Problem solved. I would love my wild witch theme warden summon a wolf!

Nihilr · December 13

Shalk alt should be vines like Mazzatun final boss, or snakes.

Cliffracer should have been a hawk, but they made it the armor set from IA instead...

Netch could easily be Nixad, moth, dovahfly, etc.

Baby Netch would be the easiest to implement an alt because it has as much complexity in animation as a non-combat pet.