Cross-class skills

Etienne_et_Isabeau

In previous Elder Scrolls games, each character had access to every skill. The issue I had with this was at high levels, every character was essentially the same. In Oblivion and Morrowind, when a character had 100 in every attribute, and 100 in every skill, there wasn't a significant difference between a Nord and a Breton.

The different classes in ESO give a distinctness to each character. However, there are only four character classes, which doesn't create a lot of variety. To allow for greater variety among the classes, each character could gain access to one cross-class skill, starting at level 10n. Access to cross-class skills would effectively increase the number of distinct classes to 36, giving players greater flexibility in creating their characters, while maintaining the integrity of the four base classes.

Kutsuu

Yes, yes, give my nightblade ganker access to Igneous Weapons. Even blazplars will not be safe.

Kattemynte

Pretty too late now but I liked Morrowind/Oblivion because you technically did not have a class. You have a large list of skills to choose from and select 3 major skills and 5 minor. Mixing and matching made each 'class' feel personalized and would have been awesome in ESO but as I mentioned... pretty much too late now to change. It would be a major overhaul.

Nestor

We already have this:

Fighters, Mages, Undaunted are all cross class skill lines open to any class or weapon choice.

Weapon Skills are cross class, but not cross Attribute except for One Handed Sword/Shield which plays well in both camps.

Then there are the Support and Alliance skills which are Cross Class, Cross Attribute and Cross Weapon.

Etienne_et_Isabeau

Nestor wrote: »

We already have this:

Fighters, Mages, Undaunted are all cross class skill lines open to any class or weapon choice.

Weapon Skills are cross class, but not cross Attribute except for One Handed Sword/Shield which plays well in both camps.

Then there are the Support and Alliance skills which are Cross Class, Cross Attribute and Cross Weapon.

These are skills open to everyone, regardless of class. What characters don't have access to are the other class skills. These are the skills I'm referring to. Either a single skill, or a single skill line from a second class.

GrumpyDuckling

It would be awesome if I could drop Ardent Flame skill line and add Restoring Wrath on my DK.

Ardent Flame is wasted on my tank.