Bound Weapons ideas

Eivar

one of my favorite things since skyrim has been bound weapons, they weren't overly effective late game but were cool as hell. I'd love to see a bound weapon skill line added someday to ESO. So along with that desire I've come up with a few ideas I think are pretty cool.

In my concept you would of course be barehanded, no weapon or shield needed, perhaps there would be a passive that adds to your weapon/spell damage and armor when barehanded. light/heavy attacks would summon a weapon on swing that would perhaps vary based on distance from your target, from dagger to greatsword to bow, blocking would of course summon a shield.

each active ability could represent a different weapon as well, which the ability would summon and use when activated, such as a snipe ability that would summon a bow, or a crit charge like ability that would summon a greatsword/axe/etc. really it doesn't matter as skill animations have little to do with what weapon you have equipped as is.

this is all off the top of my head, feel free to add your own suggestions or just rip on the idea lol.

DDemon

I would love a bare handed skill line. I am running a sorc and am using a staff, but I feel I should be able to use spells that don't require a staff, and get spell bonuses to spells without a weapon.

c.p.garrett1993_ESO

I think they would be best as items.
A "Bound Rune" could be equipped that summons the weapon. They would work similar to any other weapon and could be crafted, enchanted, and traded.
Essentially it would be cosmetic, but they could have their own unique skills and ultimate abilities.

Prokonto

Its all cool but what reason would be to farm\craft normal gear if u could use bound one w\o any cost or just little magicka as same effective as normal ones? Single player wise it is good idea but in mmo it will never happend...

Eivar

Prokonto wrote: »

Its all cool but what reason would be to farm\craft normal gear if u could use bound one w\o any cost or just little magicka as same effective as normal ones? Single player wise it is good idea but in mmo it will never happend...

one answer to that was suggested by the post before yours:

c.p.garrett1993_ESO wrote: »

I think they would be best as items.
A "Bound Rune" could be equipped that summons the weapon. They would work similar to any other weapon and could be crafted, enchanted, and traded.
Essentially it would be cosmetic, but they could have their own unique skills and ultimate abilities.

Its not the way I would choose, but it would probably work well. Another option would be to have an ability that copies the stats of a weapon, and applies them to your bound weapon base dmg/armor. though this could be very complicated.