I recently had an interesting idea in regards to necro and their summons that somewhat coincides with the concept of permanent necro summons. Basically it revolves around timed necro summons (Skeletal Mage and Spirit Mender) having an added function that they can be summoned permanently while slotted on both bars and essentially become bound to the players service. While bound in this way, the summons have access to new abilities like the skeletal mage casting a fireball with a DOT effect when the ability is activated, or the spirit mender doing an instant heal on the caster when activated.

Here are some examples:

Skeletal Mage Spirit Mender
Another idea I had is to make Necro feel more like a proper horde summoner is to give them the ability to have multiple small minions as temporary summons. The idea is that some of their aoe skills (Grave Grasp, Boneyard and Life Amid Death) can summon up to 4 skeletal minions similar to the Undead Avatar Lich transformation verse in the infinite archive. These minions would deal a little bit of damage as they defend your character and could potentially be used for corpse consuming abilities if there are no other corpses nearby to essentially bring the corpses with you. There would naturally be a limit on how many minions a player could have active at a time, I think that 4 should be fair. The way such skills can be reworked to allow the summoning of minions are as follows:

Grave Grasp Boneyard Life Amid Death
I think that changes such as these could be really interesting for Necro to play around with, while adding to the class fantasy and making their corpse mechanic a little less frustrating to manage.

lDaede wrote: »

As for my own Gift Wishes I have a couple of things in mind I would really enjoy but I also know the second I mention them @Metheglyn and @gch_tamriel amongst others will leap into action. As unfair as it is on those who would share their generosity with me the truth is until I feel more confident I will be able to send out my own stocking stuffers I wouldn't be able to truly appreciate the spirit of those gifts as much. With that in mind I won't ask for anything this year until my work is done ;P

Thanks for the organizational list! It's much appreciated. And thank you for the most lovely message you send in-game every year. It's truly a wonderful gift to receive.

For those who seem to think that AI could take over bug fixing and developing, this article provides some useful background.

The short version is: coding AI tools are just that - tools - and they are not a replacement for experienced developers. They can be very helpful to new programmers for relatively simple problems but, if you want them to do real work they need to be trained on the specific code base and data structures they will be modifying, and this gets expensive.

Gotta agree with the OP here. I personally despise the temporary nature of necro pets. They're basically another "buff" to manage which I don't find fun at all. I may be in the minority here but I also hate the collosus ultimate (it's especially annoying in cyrodiil right now but that's another issue altogether).

What I'd love to see is a big bone golem as a permanent pet at the very least. Heck, I'd be happy if they just reused the current three headed bone golem model. I prefer skeletal minions myself but maybe make a morph that is a flesh golem (again the model already exists) for variety. Physical damage for the bone golem, disease for the flesh golem. Just my two cents.

ESO housing is very static. It's like walking around inside a painting. Some enjoy that. I prefer more action.

A person over in the game systems sub-forum (which they should follow through on and get rid of in favor of the old dedicated sub-forums) suggested the ability to use our houses to create our own mini dungeons.

Then an off the wall idea - they could sell us (or give us) npc house guests that we could check daily to see if they have some simple "golden pursuit style" quest for solo or duo play. Randomly, have to check every day, offered every week or so. Give us a reason to visit the house. Maybe with a whole new currency to accumulate for various rewards! Who wouldn't love that? (probably everyone)

Happy Halloween!
Errrrrrrrrmmmmm.
I mean, Holidays!
Yes, all of them...

I have only but a few desires:
Transmute Station (to complete my crafting haven)
Adornment Bundle (cosmetics are the spice of life)
Lyranth (she seeks out my sanctuary)
Character-Slot (to level with a friend)
Imperial Edition Upgrade (see above)

I will happily donate excess recipes and furnishings.
And rent out my murder of crows to serve your needs.

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gusthermopyle wrote: »

That said, the aforementioned housing community have long asked for additions such as harvestable plants, fishing in lakes/rivers, sleeping in beds (perhaps even with a small boost in stamina as a result of spending a few seconds sleeping well in your own cozy bed.
Sadly most of the things asked for by dedicated housing folks are never realised. We still don't even have basic weapons/armour furnishings. The more voices raised the better!

These suggestions came up from all kinds of people since housing was implemented; there were threads about this in the main forum all the time. The ability to use beds (and maybe gain a little xp buff for it) was one that came up very often, as well as having harvestable plants for alchemy. So it's not just the exclusive endgame housing community that asked for these functions, but many more people. Still, ZOS hasn't reacted on it yet.

Also, I don't have the impression that OP wants to become part of a bigger more specialized community with visitors and competitions. Some people just want to use their house to roleplay with it a bit themselves, or with a few friends at most.

Bro… we don’t even have complete systems in ESO. All the systems they add are incomplete:

Group Finder → broken for years, still queues wrong roles
Group Finder → “tank” with 18k HP and a bow
Companions → cool idea, zero depth, abandoned
Antiquities → great launch, then… nothing
Trials accessibility → zero in-game tools to teach mechanics
Endgame progression → once you clear vets/HMs… that’s it
etc...


and you’re asking for AI?
Why? For what? So I can ask AI to queue me for a fast dungeon as a tank, and then it puts me in a damn trial as a healer?!?


EDIT:
And btw, ESO already has AI in support tickets. And of course, it’s 100% incomplete or broken, just like the game and the systems inside it.

"We ask support about houses… AI replies with items you can use on your pets. Amazing!" I'm Lovin' It

No, just No!.

There's already far too much AI, or AI adjacent software, being forced into every aspect of our lives where it's not needed, nor wanted, no need to force it into key aspects of ESO such as actual development of the game itself as well.

AI is a tool intended to help find trends within massive data samples, which is what it is good at, not to create artistic visions which it really cannot do without a large dedicated team to fix what it creates.

Also, the way AI is heading, is looking like a repeat of the "dot com" bubble of the 90's that caused wide spread massive financial impacts, so why anyone would want to expose a popular game/intellectual property even more directly to such volatility and risk is beyond me.