New Poll Arm skill

soelslaev · July 2025

There is a new thread around here asking if there will be new classes or races, and the first thing that pops into my head is that a new skill line is much more possible. But what new skill line, tho?

For me, I would like to see a new weapon skill line about pole arms (for my Redguard).

Since the mods do not like reviving old threads, here is the list of old threads that I did not revive:

Special thanks for Lynx7386 for keeping the dream alive for so long.

Those threads provide any and all of the arguments I might make for the addition of pole-arms.

But who cares about verbal arguments? What are we, nerds? Check out this sweet glass halberd:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Spears

You know you want one!

LunaFlora · July 2025

i would love more weapons, same as i would love a Dwemer Artificer class and Maormer race, they are all 3 different things. and all equally possible.

Pole arms, spears, or halberds would undoubtedly require lots of Weapon Styles to be created for the weapon. Which ZOS has mentioned as a reason for not doing it.
source: https://wccftech.com/elder-scrolls-online-shadow-over-morrowind-qa-creative-director-talks-necrom-chapter-community-requests/

Beyond classes, would it be possible to add new weapon skill lines? I believe that's something Elder Scrolls Online still hasn't done.

I mean, anything is possible in the future. We're going on nine years now. We didn't have many of the things in the game now when we launched. New weapons and weapons skill lines are difficult, though, as we'd have to do a lot of art. There are a hundred different motifs in the game and they all have weapons associated with them. If we added a new weapon, we would have to add that to all of them. That's just one small consideration to think about that. It would be a huge undertaking.

didn't add the quote for arguments, just a reminder.
But of course they can do that in updates after adding the new weapon.
i assume if ZOS wants to add new weapons they are potentially already working it and won't tell us until it's near completion.

And yes we are nerds, you found and listed 24 old threads about Pole Arms/Spears and i looked up a specific article to find a quote from 2 years ago.

Cooperharley · July 2025

Now that ZOS's literal only focus is ESO, since their other MMO was canned, I'm hoping we see some more content like this. Would be great.

Jestir · July 2025

I'm guessing you obv know that they were planning a spear skill line and it ended up as the Templar's aedric spear line, absolutely 0% chance they replace aedric spear and make spears a weapon line instead

Also I don't there they will be adding any new actual weapons as that would force them to go back and add to previous motifs/styles/set/drop tables, which is why "one handed and magic" or "unarmed" are the only possible weapon skill lines I think we could still get

soelslaev · November 2025

Jestir wrote: »

...any new actual weapons as that would force them to go back and add to previous motifs/styles...

Before this thread gets too old, I want to refute this. Adding a new weapon does not meant it must start with all the existing styles. That is not a requirement of the game engine. The new weapon can be introduced with only 1 style.

Regarding the article with the interview with Creative Director Rich Lambert, the wording is not explicit, but, in my interpretation, he was talking about user expectation as the reason he feels there must be new art for every style for a new weapon. Technically, in my judgement, a single piece of art can be used for all of the motifs at first.

Then, later, when folks complain enough, they can release more art for the pole arms motifs and styles.

Radiate77 · November 2025

I would love if Aedric Spear became Aedric Champion, and we got a Spear weapon skill line along with a rework to Aedric Spear.

Zodiarkslayer · November 2025

I think also think the polls on this forum are bad! They give not enough options. But why would they need arms?

#irony

soelslaev · November 2025

Again, I reject the premise that a new weapon must start with art in all styles. This is a false constraint.