NEW CLASS CONFIRMED

Valykc

I too can use Microsoft Excel...

Valykc

Everyone calm down, we know that the "Super Duper Class" is Magicka Dragonknight....

..oh wait...

DoctorESO

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Kolzki

So these necromancer threads are now role playing by coming back from the dead? I'm not sure which I dislike more - that the thread title is a lie or that it's all in caps.

Vanthras79

Real necromancers also necro dying threads

nihirisutou

Radinyn wrote: »

It looks like that the new class will be Battlemage, my friend found this in the game files:


Why Battlemage? Because it has small number like the rest of the classes, and Summerset is quite a magical place you know.

For researching only is too ominous. Please nerf.

Jhalin

I want to be the Projectile Mage Bot

Radiance

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Cireous wrote: »

Battlemage vs. Necromancer.

Someone should do a poll and see which one people hope to see as the Summerset chapters' new class. The lore is looking Necromancery, but the Battlemage theme was so high in demand when some of us (read: me) thought we were possibly getting one in Morrowind due to what we saw in the cinamatic trailer. Also, all that one hand + rune hype.

Spellcrafting?

SPELL CRAFTING WILL NEVER HAPPEN It would only throw the game even further out of balance...
I was excited then very skeptical after reading the post but after close inspection, I think you may be on to something!!!
I'm still going in with my expectations low so as not to be disappointed, I won't accept anything less than a new Weapon Skill Line at the very least. All this being Purely Hypothetical until I get some more concrete evidence but I would venture to Guess that "BattleMage" would have a Necromany Skill Line, IF it is in fact a class. So it looks like they may have gotten their wish... Maybe.

LadyLavina

Interpretation of random data does not equal confirmed.

ZOS going "Yeah this is going to be a thing" = Confirmed.

Jhalin

This reminds of my random amusing-at-the-time comments whenever I'd write extended code. It's nothing OP, but we appreciate your optimism!

Cireous

Blackleopardex wrote: »

So was this determined to be a real thing in the files as well? Interesting...

Bhaal5

#healing-potato

Jarryzzt

You know...

...if they introduced spell crafting exclusively for a new class (which might be called "battlemage", "spellsword", whatever)...

...I mean, one, that solves the problem of having to balance crafted spells for all classes viz. their extant class skills, because you are limiting all of them to a single class. Two, it sort of makes for a neat idea - level 3 schools of magic, pick (craft) some spells in each, sort of like build-a-bear but for ESO. [Not that I've ever been inside Build-a-Bear. I am making assumptions.]

Of course then the problem would be - why spend four years, what, implementing the spell crafting system if only one class gets to use it. Does not seem like an appropriate "return on investment", even in non-monetary terms. And if they open it up to all classes then we are back to square one of how do you balance >100 new skills (de-facto, counting all the possible morphs and using the 2014 video as reference) accessible to everyone.

Iccotak

No matter your class you are a caster, aren't we all battlemages?

You can't be a pure barbarian, fighter, or ranger

The classes simply take existing schools of magic in ES games and divide them amongst themselves.

SilverIce58

Iccotak wrote: »

No matter your class you are a caster, aren't we all battlemages?

You can't be a pure barbarian, fighter, or ranger

The classes simply take existing schools of magic in ES games and divide them amongst themselves.

Well, you can set it up so every single skill you use costs stamina/ultimate, but that requires tons of resource management.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

SilverIce58 wrote: »

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Iccotak wrote: »

No matter your class you are a caster, aren't we all battlemages?

You can't be a pure barbarian, fighter, or ranger

The classes simply take existing schools of magic in ES games and divide them amongst themselves.

Well, you can set it up so every single skill you use costs stamina/ultimate, but that requires tons of resource management.

Not really my Stamblade has no magic costing skills on her bars and only uses soul harvest over incap because 10 ulti on kills in pve is too good to pass up. Has the best Stam management of my stam dps cause NB skills are the cheapest in the first place and leaching strikes is so good. My stamplar would also only have Stam costing skills but shards are too useful for the group to pass up.

Runschei

It has now been a few months and this thread is back and I am still laughing over 'stealth potato' oh dear. Interesting to see or hear more of the new class(es) tho!

Zypheran

Something about Eric Wrobels last ESO Live gave me the impression that this year's system addition would be a new weapon skill line

Iccotak

Zypheran wrote: »

Something about Eric Wrobels last ESO Live gave me the impression that this year's system addition would be a new weapon skill line

gimme my spears damnit