At first one could insert that meme
Me when i find out subclassing is a thing: super happy emoji!
Me when i find out my main arcanist is going to be destroyed: Crying emoji.
The main issue i have is that the game just wasn't balanced around people being able to have 3 skill lines of dps, tanking or healing and all this will bring is huge nerfs and reworks for skills and passives. (Looking at you templar passives).
And i can tell you people really dislike nerfs and reworks.
I at least am still not happy with jabs spear appearance being a nighthollow staff.
People are doing more than 170k+++ dps atm. At first glance it's nice that this subclass system opens the door for more casual players to feel excited for dungeons and vet content because they more easily can reach the dps needed for it and the pro players can carry them easily if needed. So this creates a situation where everyone could potentially do vet content. So that just leaves the mechanics and wether or not the pro players will get bored.
At least on my side of things, from guilds i joined, i noticed people wouldn't do trials because there just was never enough people to sign up, tanks... raid leaders.
So subclassing can bring some benefit, but some of the hard mechanics will still be a issue.
From what i saw on update 35, i doubt 170k++ dps will be the norm and i know the first class that will suffer is arcanist. It will create a situation where people that don't do subclassing will be really left behind on the damage numbers. So i am thankfull at least this update is free.
On pvp side of things...i really dislike having what i like nerfed over and over because of pvp. So perhaps if pvp can be separate from pve in the near future, this update won't hurt pvp that bad.
I hope at least before arcanist is heavily nerfed. maybe that removing crux gain from scribbling Class skills can be done to test if it helps the balance.
Arcanist helped me enjoy eso a lot more. I just never liked the combat that much, the class smoothness, the easy of use, the fact i felt strong and not useless, the fact i could do content i couldn't before. It hurts i will lose that.
But i am hopefull i am wrong, very wrong and things end up being awesome and cool for everyone.
Edited by francesinhalover on 17 April 2025 11:54 I am
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