Unarmed Combat or lack of!

Tannakaobi

So, play the way you want huh!

Well I want an unarmed combat expert that uses his hand and feet with deadly consequences that occasionally uses throwing stars for range. As a second weapon option I would like a pair of nunchucks.

OK! I was joking about the nunchucks, (although it would be cool) but seriously? What's the deal with no unarmed combat? I was under the impression this was a TES game.

GuyNamedSean

Skyrim was a TES game and removed the Unarmed skill tree. If I could have two skill lines for weapons added, I'd want Unarmed and Polearm.

Tannakaobi

And Crossbows.

Paazhahdrimaak

POLEARMS!!!! Yay for spears

BaldusMageezack

New weapons would be cool. Unarmed being one sounds good to me. Would khajiit get the old bonus back?

TheShadowScout

Crossbows would be nifty, but wouldn't really require a new skill line - they could just as well be added to "bow" (macbe renaming that one "marksmanship" or something) with a few tweaks (maybe more armor penetration but some reload time drawback compared to bows?)
And while we're at it... they could just as well add other ranged weapons to that line as well. Throwing javelins with more damage, but less range? Slings? The skills might work out for most of these... maybe some changes, like bow&crossbow doing poison damage, javelin lightning (yes, I am thinking of zeus right now )and sling fire or something...

Polearms... now there we have a prime candidate for a new skill line! Borrow some animations from the "aedric spear" templar skills, add some more and there we go... I'd love to see dwemer halberds, imperial pikes, breton glaives, and so on in ESO...

Unarmed? Yes, I'd love to see that as well, but... nowhere near the damage "standard" weapons do. Anything "brawling" just wouldn't be able to compete with proper weapons when it came to sheer damage (and certainly not when it came to getting through armor...) Say, half normal weapon damage with punch daggers at best, but relying more on CC and such rather then damage? And then... add opportunities where unarmed combat does -not- register on the guards radar? Barroom brawls! Pugilism show fights! Tamriel heavyweight championships! (though khajiit certainly would get a bonus for claws...)

And while we are talking new weapon skills... there is always the third I mention - "One-handed and Magic", for the discerning spellsword character, mixing magically charged melee strikes and elemental mid-range and AoE attacks... offhand could be a runestone, or wand, or something of that sort...

jhharvest

Yep and yep. Polearms and unarmed combat, please. In Morrowind I always played an Argonian with a spear. Now I just have to pretend like my resto staff is a spear.

Jade1986

Unarmed combatants are a huge part of elder scrolls lore, I hated how they took that out of skyrim. So dumb.

Tabi

laced wrote: »

Unarmed combatants are a huge part of elder scrolls lore, I hated how they took that out of skyrim. So dumb.

That's an overstatement if I ever heard one. Would like to see new weapon skill lines though.