Skill styles for light / heavy attacks

Nemesis7884 · April 26

Especially thinking of lightning staff, getting different lightning colors or effect visuals like disease, blood, frost etc i think could be really cool and make heavy attack builds feel a bit more varied and thematic?

sshogrin · April 26

Honestly, I don't think we need more skill styles. It's just more things to make the game more complicated from a programming and resource standpoint.
The more bells and whistles, the more CPU resources it takes to calculate all of it.

Nemesis7884 · April 26

sshogrin wrote: »

Honestly, I don't think we need more skill styles. It's just more things to make the game more complicated from a programming and resource standpoint.
The more bells and whistles, the more CPU resources it takes to calculate all of it.

Skill styles are the best most immersive addition to eso in yeeeears and i highly doubt they generate a big performance impact looking at the amount that zos adds...

LunaFlora · April 26

that would be awesome

DVBURNSII · April 27

I like this idea. After all there are many styles of swordsmanship and combat. If this is implemented I hope they won’t lean in to the realm of anime’s ridiculous exaggerations.

SkaiFaith · April 27

As a Warden main, playing exclusively Oakensoul HA builds, I'd love if I could change the appearance of my lightning staves' channels to make them look and sound like frosty.

LunaFlora · April 27

SkaiFaith wrote: »

As a Warden main, playing exclusively Oakensoul HA builds, I'd love if I could change the appearance of my lightning staves' channels to make them look and sound like frosty.

that would be very cool

illutian · April 27

You can only swing a sword so many ways...

AcadianPaladin · April 27

Would love to have the option of selecting a continuous stream heavy attack for fire and ice staves - like the lightning and resto staves have.

Darknessofchaos · April 27

I would love a necromancy themed light and heavy attack style for staves personally. It would be very fitting for my necromancer who currently uses lightning staves in both pve and pvp.

AnnaMolly66 · April 27

I would like to be able to set the blue flame and red-black void effects on staves like enemies have.

It would also be cool if we could get different stances. I'd love for have the sword dancer and the Skyrim DW stances for DW and maybe ochs stace for 2h.

DVBURNSII · April 27

illutian wrote: »

You can only swing a sword so many ways...

While technically true, there are many different stances and grips that allow for various styles and flourishes with bladed weapons. I don’t see it being very complicated for devs to achieve and allow for this.

olsborg · April 27

They could do so much more with skill styling, It hasnt even scratched the surface of its potential and it could be such a huge cashcow for zenimax.

barney2525 · April 27

Seems to me, in Gaming, I have observed that the greater the variety, the greater number of Complaints appear.

There is always someone who will make complaints about things that don't actually affect/increase/decrease the actual effectiveness of the skill. Anyone ever hear any complaints about what Jabs " looks like " ?

More variety = more noise, IMHO

DVBURNSII · April 28

barney2525 wrote: »

Seems to me, in Gaming, I have observed that the greater the variety, the greater number of Complaints appear.

There is always someone who will make complaints about things that don't actually affect/increase/decrease the actual effectiveness of the skill. Anyone ever hear any complaints about what Jabs " looks like " ?

More variety = more noise, IMHO

You'd probably enjoy playing on the SNES more than ESO then. It is very basic like what you are describing.

Nemesis7884 · April 28

barney2525 wrote: »

Seems to me, in Gaming, I have observed that the greater the variety, the greater number of Complaints appear.

There is always someone who will make complaints about things that don't actually affect/increase/decrease the actual effectiveness of the skill. Anyone ever hear any complaints about what Jabs " looks like " ?

More variety = more noise, IMHO

I think thats a fallacy... more choice means more desires but also attracting a lot more people