Which Class are you going to Subclass into first?

Erickson9610 · April 11

Subclassing is an upcoming base game feature that allows you to swap some of your Class skill lines for skill lines of other Classes. You can pick up to 1 skill line from any particular Class, and must retain at least 1 skill line from your original Class.

Which of the 7 Classes will you Subclass into first, and which 1 of its 3 skill lines would you take? Which skill line from your own Class would you swap out for it?

Erickson9610 · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

Aedric Spear from Templar and Storm Calling from Sorcerer will be extremely useful for Werewolf PvE builds because we get to use most of the Class passives from those skill lines while transformed.

I might swap Restoring Light out for it, which for Werewolf only grants the Master Ritualist passive bonus.

msetten · April 11

Warden [ Animal Companions | Green Balance | Winter's Embrace ]

I really want to try out the max amount of pets. So pets of my sorc (2) + pet from the warden (1) + necro or nightblade "pets" (1) and then go into the Infinite Archive where I activate the pet you get there from the memento and then I hope for the pet that comes from one of the visions. Making it six "pets".

And then go in with another player with the same setup and the zoo is complete. 😂

Soarora · April 11

Warden [ Animal Companions | Green Balance | Winter's Embrace ]

My main is supposed to be a sorc/warden (summoner/ice/bow), so I guess it’s time to make her a sorc/warden.

GloatingSwine · April 11

Arcanist [ Curative Runeforms | Herald of the Tome | Soldier of Apocrypha ]

Swapping Ardent Flame for Soldier of Apocrypha on my DK Tank to get access to Scathing Rune and Runeguard of Freedom/Still Waters.

Stx · April 11

Nightblade [ Assassination | Shadow | Siphoning ]

Oh man this is a tough question but I’m probably going to take my Templar and subclass into Nightblade. Those are my two mains and Assassination just looks like a great line for damage to add to the Templar kit.

ForumBully · April 11

Templar [ Aedric Spear | Dawn's Wrath | Restoring Light ]

If I play again, I think it'll be no proc since that's the garbage that drove me away, and subclasses will shine more without that nonsense.
Templar has been just shy of greatness for a long time, particularly ranged magplar. I'd probably start there.

cyclonus11 · April 11

Nightblade [ Assassination | Shadow | Siphoning ]

Not sure, honestly. It looks like a situation of trial and error to see what works best with my various builds.

sarahthes · April 11

Why only take one?

Probably will run whatever skills the raid lead wants me to run tbh. I doubt I'll have much choice in the matter if I want to continue to raid at a very high level.

LunaFlora · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

my main build will probably be
- Animal Companions
- Curative Runeforms
- Daedric Summoning
extra pets and my favourite healing skill line ^_^

planning to make my healer build have
- Animal Companions
- Curative Runeforms
- Purifying Light

resource farm/speed build
- Green Balance
- Storm Calling
- unsure, maybe I'll only swap a line with Storm Calling for bolt escape

vampire/assassin/thief build
- Animal Companions
- Shadow
- Storm Calling

I'm so excited for Subclassing 🩷

it'll also be fun to do an all pet build with
- Animal Companions
- Daedric Summoning
- Grave Lord or Living Death

and an Elementalist with
- Winter's Embrace
- Storm Calling
- Ardent Flame

Destai · April 11

Templar [ Aedric Spear | Dawn's Wrath | Restoring Light ]

First thing will be making a DK with some Templar healing skills. Can finally play a viable DK healer!

ArchMikem · April 11

Dragonknight [ Ardent Flame | Draconic Power | Earthen Heart ]

No idea actually. My Stamblade is a critical kitty and nearly my entire front bar is Assassination skills in order to get the crit chance I have.

My Sorc is full Shock damage, though I do like ZOS' mention of an Elementalist build. I think I might do a MagSorc/DK.

Tryxus · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

I was thinking of replacing Winter's Embrace with Storm Calling at first because I think it's a very solid and fitting replacement for the rest of the Warden. But I now really want to go with Daedric Summoning instead.

- Animal Companions
- Daedric Summoning
- Winter's Embrace

Adding Curse on top Scorch plus a nice damage buff for my bear, or Ward along with Polar Wind and maybe some Crystal Slab slapped on top of that...

And ofc all the pets

Renato90085 · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

I think I need check how big nerf in pts first and choose

robwolf666 · April 11

I might experiment with it to see what it's like, on an alt, but I don't know if it's something I'll use more generally. I pick a class for a reason.

AScarlato · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Aedric Spear from Templar and Storm Calling from Sorcerer will be extremely useful for Werewolf PvE builds because we get to use most of the Class passives from those skill lines while transformed.

I might swap Restoring Light out for it, which for Werewolf only grants the Master Ritualist passive bonus.

I'm really into my Werewolf right now also (NB). I like 2 lines for my playstyle, so will need to choose between Storm calling and Aedric Spear. Would you have a recommendation on which is better?

Planning on dropping Siphoning / Healer line for one of the two.

shadyjane62 · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

Sticking to my three skill lines. It won't be optimum but it will be real and honest.

Erickson9610 · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

AScarlato wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Aedric Spear from Templar and Storm Calling from Sorcerer will be extremely useful for Werewolf PvE builds because we get to use most of the Class passives from those skill lines while transformed.

I might swap Restoring Light out for it, which for Werewolf only grants the Master Ritualist passive bonus.

I'm really into my Werewolf right now also (NB). I like 2 lines for my playstyle, so will need to choose between Storm calling and Aedric Spear. Would you have a recommendation on which is better?

Planning on dropping Siphoning / Healer line for one of the two.

Between the two, I think Aedric Spear is the better choice for long fights, and Storm Calling is the better choice for shorter fights.

Aedric Spear gives you:

Burning Light, a damage proc which scales off your highest offensive stats. It deals Magic Damage and counts as Class damage, so you can proc sets like Overwhelming Surge and proc the Overcharged status effect. This scales with the Bloodthirsty jewelry trait, so it's better for drawn-out fights as it can get more deadly the longer the fight goes on.
Balanced Warrior, which increases Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 6% and Physical and Spell Resistance by 1320. The % increase to WD/SD is useful across all of Werewolf's damaging abilities and also damage proc item sets like Arms of Relequen.

Storm Calling gives you:

Capacitor, a +10% increase to Magicka Recovery. Handy in difficult content when you need to use your heal more often, which is useful for maintaining the uptime of Major Berserk from casting Hircine's Rage at 100% Health.
Energized, which increases Physical and Shock Damage by 5%. This affects Piercing Howl and its morphs (Werewolf's main spammable) and it also affects item sets that deal Physical or Shock Damage like Arms of Relequen. Maybe we'll get a Werewolf Scribing ability that can deal Physical or Shock Damage to make more use of this.
Amplitude, a sort of "reverse execute" which increases your damage done against a target for every 10% current Health they have. This is better for short fights (like with trash mobs) because they'll spend less time at low Health.

Also, keep in mind that Nightblade's Class Mastery restores 333 Magicka and Stamina if the target's current Health is > 50%, or increases your Critical Chance by 10% for 5 seconds if the target's current Health is <= 50%. This won't be useful until we get a Werewolf Grimoire which can use Class Mastery, though. Neither of Nightblade's Class Sets work in Werewolf form either, so we'll have to wait and see if the third Class Set will.

Aggrovious · April 11

Dragonknight [ Ardent Flame | Draconic Power | Earthen Heart ]

If I can have access to passives, then I will subclass my Necro with DK. I want my DOTs to obliterate.

Zodiarkslayer · April 11

Nightblade [ Assassination | Shadow | Siphoning ]

Assassination is probably the single most powerful skill line in the game. The amount of crit chance and damage one can get and you can frontbar Soul Harvest for Ulti gen.

Zallion · April 11

Warden [ Animal Companions | Green Balance | Winter's Embrace ]

The ultra troll pet build

Grave lord
Animal companions
Daedric summoning

Twilight, familiar, skele mage/archer, blastbones, bear. Maw of the infernal with morkuldin and unleashed ritualist

randconfig · April 11

Necromancer [ Bone Tyrant | Grave Lord | Living Death ]

Lmao only 2 votes for Necromancer T__T

Foreal though, I haven't felt and seen this hyped for an update since One Tamriel (Ithelia trailer, Infinite Archive, Scribing/Spell crafting, and both Necrom chapters were close though)!

TaSheen · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

Though I doubt I'll be around much (if any) longer.

Pixiepumpkin · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

shadyjane62 wrote: »

Sticking to my three skill lines. It won't be optimum but it will be real and honest.

This! Unique classes are the way to go, everything else is just watering down what it means to play an RPG even more.

Pixiepumpkin · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

TaSheen wrote: »

Though I doubt I'll be around much (if any) longer.

Personal reasons or you see the writing on the wall?

PDarkBHood · April 11

Nightblade [ Assassination | Shadow | Siphoning ]

Finally get Grim Focus (Nightblade > Assassination) on my Templar!!! I want the visual effects, permanent glow from Nightblade's Grim Focus. I hope the bug (if it is a bug) will continue to work on my Templar!! Really looking forward to the subclasses, this is as close to a class change token as we will get for a while!!

SilverIce58 · April 11

Warden [ Animal Companions | Green Balance | Winter's Embrace ]

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

shadyjane62 wrote: »

Sticking to my three skill lines. It won't be optimum but it will be real and honest.

This! Unique classes are the way to go, everything else is just watering down what it means to play an RPG even more.

I like that the game is going to be a little more open like other Elder Scrolls games and less like a classic RPG. Elder Scrolls classes are all just collections of major and minor skills anyway, nothing real "class" about them other than the descriptions for them, especially when you could just create your own class anyway.

Anyways, I'm definitely going to use Winter's Embrace on many of my characters, and for my Khajiiti Templar-turned-Nocturnal Priest I'm probably going to add in the Shadow skill line and maybe daedric summoning or dark magic skill line while keeping the Sun Magic line. He'll truly be a priest of Nocturnal then 😊.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · April 11

I will stick with my original 3 skill lines.

A lot of people are failing to realize something, many of these class skylines were made to synchronize with only each other and not other class skill lines, take an Arcanist for example, Nightblade, Dragonknight, Sorcerer, Warden, Templar and Necromancer skills do not generate crux and without crux many Arcanist skills will be underpowered and if you try to subclass as a Necromancer be warned, you will not beable to use Corpseburster.

Erickson9610 · April 11

Sorcerer [ Daedric Summoning | Dark Magic | Storm Calling ]

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

A lot of people are failing to realize something, many of these class skylines were made to synchronize with only each other and not other class skill lines, take an Arcanist for example, Nightblade, Dragonknight, Sorcerer, Warden, Templar and Necromancer skills do not generate crux and without crux many Arcanist skills will be underpowered and if you try to subclass as a Necromancer be warned, you will not beable to use Corpseburster.

You can only use Corpseburster if your base Class is Necromancer. You can proc Corpseburster and corpse consuming abilities/passives with Templar's Repentance skill (Restoring Light) or with Werewolf's Devour synergy.

What I want to know is what happens to the corpse glow when you have Repentance and a Necromancer corpse consuming ability slotted on the same bar. Corpses glow yellow with Repentance, glow blue with Necromancer skills, and glow red while transformed as a Werewolf — with subclassing, we'll see what happens when corpses glow yellow and blue.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 11

Templar [ Aedric Spear | Dawn's Wrath | Restoring Light ]

I want to try out Breath of Life on my Sorc.

randconfig · April 11

Necromancer [ Bone Tyrant | Grave Lord | Living Death ]

Erickson9610 wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

A lot of people are failing to realize something, many of these class skylines were made to synchronize with only each other and not other class skill lines, take an Arcanist for example, Nightblade, Dragonknight, Sorcerer, Warden, Templar and Necromancer skills do not generate crux and without crux many Arcanist skills will be underpowered and if you try to subclass as a Necromancer be warned, you will not beable to use Corpseburster.

You can only use Corpseburster if your base Class is Necromancer. You can proc Corpseburster and corpse consuming abilities/passives with Templar's Repentance skill (Restoring Light) or with Werewolf's Devour synergy.

What I want to know is what happens to the corpse glow when you have Repentance and a Necromancer corpse consuming ability slotted on the same bar. Corpses glow yellow with Repentance, glow blue with Necromancer skills, and glow red while transformed as a Werewolf — with subclassing, we'll see what happens when corpses glow yellow and blue.

Maybe it will prioritize your class, and if both skill lines are from subclasses, maybe it'll mix the two glow colors and be green (blue + yellow = green lol)

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