Is there a possibility of Crossbows being in ESO?

Daemons_Bane

pod88kk wrote: »

Give us craftable jewelry first

Would take quite some time to make this right, so don't hold your breath

mwo1480

its unlikely to see them to do it but it is possible
problems with bringing crossbows in to the game as carryble wapon

they have to make/bring crossbows for every style thats in the game and that are ready but not in game yet
they have to chance every crafting book to also have crossbows
they have to make for ever crafting motif style pages a crossbow motif page
they have to chance some archivements to also include crossbow
they have to give (or make new) npc/enemy's crossbows so its not the players who only have them
the have to make new holding animations for the crossbow (carry-walking in hand-walking on back-riding etc)
(least problem) the have to make a new skilline like the bow line with attack and morphs
and the have to find a way to make the crossbow reload quick lorefriendly otherwise u will have a slow reload mechanisme

my idea for crossbow (and yeah i know fightersguild has crosboww attack)
a dwemmerkind dlc like clockworkcity where u can craft at only one craftingstation a dwemmercrossbow without the use of a motif, so only the reload, animations and skilline they have to create (as the city will have npc/enemy's with crossbows they dont have to imput them into rest of game)

or a hunter (could be vampire hunters or animal hunters) dlc or festival wich will give you a crossbow passive like blade of woe

Inhuman003

mwo1480 wrote: »

its unlikely to see them to do it but it is possible
problems with bringing crossbows in to the game as carryble wapon

they have to make/bring crossbows for every style thats in the game and that are ready but not in game yet
they have to chance every crafting book to also have crossbows
they have to make for ever crafting motif style pages a crossbow motif page
they have to chance some archivements to also include crossbow
they have to give (or make new) npc/enemy's crossbows so its not the players who only have them
the have to make new holding animations for the crossbow (carry-walking in hand-walking on back-riding etc)
(least problem) the have to make a new skilline like the bow line with attack and morphs
and the have to find a way to make the crossbow reload quick lorefriendly otherwise u will have a slow reload mechanisme

my idea for crossbow (and yeah i know fightersguild has crosboww attack)
a dwemmerkind dlc like clockworkcity where u can craft at only one craftingstation a dwemmercrossbow without the use of a motif, so only the reload, animations and skilline they have to create (as the city will have npc/enemy's with crossbows they dont have to imput them into rest of game)

or a hunter (could be vampire hunters or animal hunters) dlc or festival wich will give you a crossbow passive like blade of woe

This is good intel brainstorming for crossbows

Prof_Bawbag

AndyTGD wrote: »

Oh no, no crossbows! Please can we have some kind of technological progress across the Elder Scrolls series? Tamrielic technology hasn't changed one iota in hundreds of years, thanks to this game and its pandering to tropes and fanboyism. The least we can do is keep crossbows in the future for goodness sake.

Always wondered that myself. Still stuck in the horse and cart era. You'd think with all the technology here n there and the jiggery pokery etc, they'd at least advance/evolve to some degree. I'm not saying for a minute I want the series to fast froward to the age of what was our industrial age, but we've been stuck in the medieval times like forever. The Dwemer had the right idea.

Darkstorne

devilsTear wrote: »

How about spears/halberds?

Crossbows and Spears would be great new weapon skill trees, and are already heavily established in the series. Their omission in ESO is a little odd, but perfectly understandable from a dev time perspective.

Glaives, halberds, scythes, tridents, etc would all work great as cultural crafting variations for spears.

Inhuman003

A guard with a crossbow
https://youtu.be/EFzURh0R10o

Klemenziusb16_ESO

Wasn't it stated in the beta, that they don't intend to introduce crossbows?

Savos_Saren

I've always thought that crossbows should be to bows as daggers are to 2h swords. Lighter, faster, dual-wielded. Finally, bow users could complete two 5-piece sets with a monster set!

Vaoh

Nope. Not even a little. That's me be totally honest with you. Sorry

Ravena

If there were to be crossbows, I'll want one-handed wands, too.

Prof_Bawbag

If they were implemented the same as they were in Skyrim, no thanks. Not sure if mods ever sorted them, but the vanilla crossbows were awful compared to bows and we couldn't use mods to sort them out in ESO.

Elusiin

AndyTGD wrote: »

Oh no, no crossbows! Please can we have some kind of technological progress across the Elder Scrolls series? Tamrielic technology hasn't changed one iota in hundreds of years, thanks to this game and its pandering to tropes and fanboyism. The least we can do is keep crossbows in the future for goodness sake.

ESO takes place BEFORE Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, and etc. It wouldn't make sense lore wise to have new tech advancements in the past...

Izaki

I don't think we will ever see a new weapon skill line, but Crossbows as weapons that share the same skill line as bow would be pretty cool. Poison Injection from a Crossbow... How badass is that?! Or a Draining Shot from a Crossbow... It would already make more sense for the damn thing to push your opponent away and have such a short range.

Izaki

Ravena wrote: »

If there were to be crossbows, I'll want one-handed wands, too.

Contrary to crossbows, wands were NEVER a thing in TES. Plus, wands look stupid. We ain't in a fairy tale here, this is serious business. NO children allowed. Proof is in the game! Not a single kid in the whole of Tamriel.

Stovahkiin

I would certainly like to have crossbows in the game, but I'd say this is really just wishful thinking due to the amount of work required to implement it.

Ravena

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

Ravena wrote: »

If there were to be crossbows, I'll want one-handed wands, too.

Contrary to crossbows, wands were NEVER a thing in TES. Plus, wands look stupid. We ain't in a fairy tale here, this is serious business. NO children allowed. Proof is in the game! Not a single kid in the whole of Tamriel.

A short staff then!

Dragonborn can dual wield staves :<

Inhuman003

If ZoS put Crown Crates here and so can Crossbows be in ESO too. Think about it where in the world in the LORE of ELDER SCROLLS you see Atronach mounts.

ArchMikem

Crossbows would have a very slow fire rate between each attack since it's not nearly as easy as just pulling a new arrow back on a string. To compensate for this, each attack would need to do incredible damage. Think the time it takes to charge a heavy flame staff attack, so it's not totally out of the question.

Crossbow abilities could be very similar to regular Bow skills. An Explosive knockback shot, an AoE skill, perhaps an incendiary bolt that hits the target and does flame damage over time like Poison Injection.

Inhuman003

Which crossbows you prefer being in Elder Scrolls Online the ones from Morrowind or the ones from Skyrim.

Arundo

Yes please needs to be in the game just as polearm / haleberds and other weapons. More skills the better.

Mercutio

Crossbows today, Dwemer tommy guns tomorrow! Count me in on all counts.

Enslaved

I would much more like to see some sort of spears in game. Beside templar spears.
Spears could be unique type of weaponry that can be used with either one hand (where they go under s&b passive restrictions but can use spear abilities too), and as two handed weapons, for more offensive style( using some 2h passives in that case). I mean, spears are one of the cheapest and most used weapons trough the history, why is ESO shunning them away? Is it that hard to make them?

susmitds

The Maelstrom Bow is basically a hybrid Crossbow or at least a machine bow.

magnusthorek

Considering that accordingly to Dawnguard DLC in Skyrim, the crossbows were an adaptation of a Dwemer technology so, useful or not, cool or not, wouldn't be "fanboyism"

Izaki

Ravena wrote: »

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

Ravena wrote: »

If there were to be crossbows, I'll want one-handed wands, too.

Contrary to crossbows, wands were NEVER a thing in TES. Plus, wands look stupid. We ain't in a fairy tale here, this is serious business. NO children allowed. Proof is in the game! Not a single kid in the whole of Tamriel.

A short staff then!

Dragonborn can dual wield staves :<

The staves in Skyrim were a totally different concept though... They were just weapons that dished out regular spells... So they were probably the stupidest thing in that game lol. Especially that your perks in the Destruction tree affected the staves, so in order for the staves to be effective you had to level the skill tree anyway. But I do think that some sort of "new" thing would do the game some freshness it needs IMHO. So maybe something to do with a new class (not too sure personally, it would make a balancing nightmare, but it would be good if they managed to nail it) or something to do with new skill lines. Staff + Sword come to mind, just to open up some possibilities for magicka builds and yeah crossbows for stamina builds.

I doubt it will ever happen though.

dodgehopper_ESO

Fighters guild has a little crossbow you can spam.

shadowwraith666

well, there's already a crossbow type skill in the game, Silver bolts