[SUGGESTION] Clockwork Factotum Personality

Pixiepumpkin · March 2025

Good day friends and denizens of Tamriel. Today I would like an item to be created by the team at Zenimax Online Studios. A "Clockwork Factotum Personality".

I envision this item to be an extracted personality (animation and sound) from the current Clockwork Factotum Polymorph that currently resides in game as a trial reward, or from the silver polymorph version sold in the crown store.
In the image below, I took a number of screenshots with my Clockwork Factotum Polymorph and compiled them into an aesthetic image to help illustrate what the personality animations would look like.

EDIT: I am creating this one because it was requested by ZOS to be made new, vs bumping an old one per their reply at the bottom of that post.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/646874/mechanical-factotum-personality#latest

LunaFlora · March 2025

Yes that would be awesome to have the personality separately available from the Factotum polymorphs.

(i use plural because there's also the silver Factotum in the Crown Store/Baandari Peddlar Crates which looks to the be one you're using in your screenshots. the Asylum Sanctorium polymorph is Clockwork Curator. )

Ragnarok0130 · March 2025

TBH, it wouldn't make any sense for a biological character to have the movement and sound of the clockwork polymorph without the visual portion.

Even if the personality was to be added it should be an in game reward for a piece of content related to the Clockwork City much like the rare trial award polymorph. We shouldn't encourage ZoS' overpriced predatory crown store strategy any more than absolutely necessary.

LunaFlora · March 2025

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

TBH, it wouldn't make any sense for a biological character to have the movement and sound of the clockwork polymorph without the visual portion.

Even if the personality was to be added it should be an in game reward for a piece of content related to the Clockwork City much like the rare trial award polymorph. We shouldn't encourage ZoS' overpriced predatory crown store strategy any more than absolutely necessary.

there are multiple outfit styles that would fit the personality like Apostle and Arkthzand Armory

tomofhyrule · March 2025

I’m all for more personalities, but this one is honestly a little too niche for automata instead of actual people. Sure, it’d fit if you were RPing a clockwork or Dwemer construct, but the Elder Scrolls universe does not have human-looking Fallout synths.

I do think they should just add the other animations from the Crown Store silver factotum to the vAS+2 one though. Why does the earnable (or purchaseable from others if you have RNG like mine…) one not have as many features as the Crown Store one?
Don’t answer that…

Still, just give the bronze one the rest of the silver one’s animations.

Pixiepumpkin · March 2025

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

TBH, it wouldn't make any sense for a biological character to have the movement and sound of the clockwork polymorph without the visual portion.

Even if the personality was to be added it should be an in game reward for a piece of content related to the Clockwork City much like the rare trial award polymorph. We shouldn't encourage ZoS' overpriced predatory crown store strategy any more than absolutely necessary.

The apostle armor set has mechanical limbs (elbows, joints wrists, ankles, etc). Its very much intended to be a factotum as represented in game.

This is the Apostle Set.
Note the ankles.

Note the knees.

Note the elbows and wrists.

Maitsukas · March 2025

Obligatory Fallout 4 meme:

But oddly enough, there is an Argonian NPC (Chal-Meesei) in the Gonfalon Bay Fighters Guild that utilized one of the Factotum's idle animations at times. Though I think it's been patched for now.

Pixiepumpkin · April 2025

Maitsukas wrote: »

Obligatory Fallout 4 meme:

But oddly enough, there is an Argonian NPC (Chal-Meesei) in the Gonfalon Bay Fighters Guild that utilized one of the Factotum's idle animations at times. Though I think it's been patched for now.

Love me some Brotherhood of Steel.

Pixiepumpkin · June 2025

This would have been a good week to sell a Clockwork Factotum Personality in the crown store. Would have easily made 35 bucks from me.

Jaimeh · June 2025

That would be an immediate 'ZOS take my money!' reaction from me, and I don't often say that about Crown store items. The animations are already there, and although I don't know if it would be easy to implement them to player characters, there are personalities that are pretty complicated from a movement perspective (like the beast one), so hopefully they'd be able to do it. Anyway, it's an awesome idea, OP--there's also a long-standing crown store wishlist thread, maybe you could add it there as well for more dev visibility.