I'm going to swap my Templar's Aedric Spear skill line for the Nightblade's Assassination skills. I've never cared about most people's interpretation of the Templar as ESO's take on a Paladin, I just wanted my character to be able to use destruction and restoration magic like she does in other TES games and that seemed like the best fit. Assassination is a much better fit with her approach to combat than waving around a huge glowing spear.

I'm also going to swap out the frost skills on my Warden, but I'm not sure what for yet. Maybe the Sorcerer's Storm Calling. Oh and give my Nightblade better healing, but again I'm not sure which I want.

I'm really happy that a bunch of us are going to be able to get their TES characters closer to their canon.

I've always wanted my nightblade spiritmage to have necromancer's spirit guardian so I'm going to swap assassination for living death on her healer setup and shadow for living death on her damage setup.

I will swap dark magic on my sorcerer main for dragonknight's ardent flame on her damage setup but leave her tank setup as standard sorcerer.

I don't have any more subclassing plans. I'm not really sure what ''subclass into first'' means. I'm going to do both on the day it comes out?

It’s hard to say. I have two no-pet sorcerers so I think the first thing I will do is play it safe and swap out their summoning lines with something else, but I’m not sure what yet. And I have a warden that I play as a Druid with an affinity for ice magic, but I really don’t like the animal companion skill line so I may swap it for storm calling, but keep the nature skill line for the Druid theme. And I think I would really like to try a full-blown elementalist character with ice, storm, and fire, that could be a brand new character. And for the rest of my existing characters, I’m just going to look for skill lines. I do not use and see if there’s one out there that I might like better, but I just might leave them mostly the same.

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I don't have any more subclassing plans. I'm not really sure what ''subclass into first'' means. I'm going to do both on the day it comes out?

I worded it like that because Vanilla forums only support a small number of poll options, and it made the most sense to me to ask what skill line from another class was the community's priority. I'm really happy to see everyone discussing their future Subclassing plans even past their first Subclassed skill line, though!

Just an idea here.

For Dragonknight Tank. Keep Earthern Heart line for burst resources regeneration on Ultimate activation.

Slot in Shadow skill line from Nightblade: Mirage (Major and Minor Resolve, Major Evasion in one click), Dark Cloak (heals and Minor Protection).

Slot in Soldier of Apocrypha from Arcanist: Runic Sunder, Rune of the Colorless Pool and Minor Evasion from passive.

Example:
Front: Pierce Armor/Runic Sunder/Dark Cloak/Igneous Shield/Revealing Flare/Replenishing Barrier

Back: Elemental Blockade/Silver Leash or Leashing Pull/Mirage/Rune of the Colorless Pool/Cinder Storm/Aggressive Horn

Major and Minor Resolve, Major and Minor Evasion, Major and Minor Protection, Major and Minor Breach, Major and Minor Vulnerability, Minor Brittle, extra armor penetration and damage reduction by Runic Sunder, heals, etc.

Thinking about borrowing crit surge and bolt escape for my mag-plar, but we'll see what else could be useful. I only hope I'm not forced to take herald of the tome, not too fond of the theme or the beam.

Haunting Curse -> Mage's Wrath -> Incap -> Spectral Bow seems next-level dirty, and I can't wait to try it.

I tried out Fatecarver with my sorc but I'm really not feeling the beam. At all. I hope I won't be forced to use a subclass (forced, as in, I hope pure sorcs won't lag behind too much).

My main character is a Nightblade, and having thought carefully about subclassing into something else, I now feel I would not gain anything terribly important by subclassing into even one other skill line. I believe my Nightblade actives and passives are too good to change. I do also feel that to see a bunch of non-Nightblades running around, for example, with the Cloak skill is a mistake. It seems to me to be a way to hybridize classes but more importantly to acquire skills "on the cheap" so to speak.

I am reminded of something that happened not too long ago. The Gladiator's costume and helmet which I worked so long and hard to get and wore proudly because it showed my effort to get it, was simply given away for purchase, thereby cheapening the effort to acquire it. I still have no idea why that was done. So, while I do not always agree with or even understand certain changes to the game I do believe that we must "adapt or die."

I do understand how others will feel differently about this issue.

Since I roleplay as a knight of House Indoril with my main (sword n' shield Dragonknight), I'm planning to try replacing Ardent Flame with Aedric Spear and see how it goes.
Aedric Spear to invoke the close relationship between House Indoril and the Almsivi Temple - in this case the Aedric Spear can be seen as a power granted by Vivec, resembling the Muatra.
Keeping Earthen Heart to invoke the Ashlander-related heritage of Dark Elven civilisation, with its magma-related skills.
Not sure about Draconic Power, because it's more dragon-related rather than Dark Elven, but I have no idea what to possibly replace it with, and the passives are pretty useful.
However, I never played Templars for longer, and always sooner or later got back to pure Dragonknight so I'm not sure if it will actually work. For now, it's just an idea.

I'm also thinking about doing a Death Knight build by mixing Necromancer's Bone Tyrant abilities with Nightblade's Siphoning.

And maybe a "pure" mage build for a Breton or Altmer, mixing Sorcerer's Storm Calling with Warden's Winter's Embrace.

These are my ideas that I'd love to check out. However, while I was pretty excited about subclassing back when it was announced, now I kinda realised that I really enjoy playing my favourite classes just as they are, and I might not be interested in replacing any skill trees at all, especially when it comes to Dragonknight.

I'm really excited for subclassing, but I just realized that people can now have two pet skill lines and I hope to god that ZOS is planning on releasing this with a way to hide combat pets in non-combat areas because the bear/twilight/scamp/clannfear spam is already out of hand in towns.