Skillcrafting (AKA Spellcrafting) concept

Make2k15

There has been no much new information about spellcrafting in recent years, but there have been quite a bit threads discussing about this topic. So I thought about to come up a Spellcrafting concept of what could be relatively easily implemented to the current game (food for a though). Not too hard to balance while taking advance of a knowledge of how new things like skill altering weapons (e.g. Maelstrom weapons) and poisons have been implemented to the game in the past.

Skillcrafting concept:

In this concept Skillcrafting is build around new Baseline weapon skill line called One handed and Tome skill line. This One handed and Tome skill line has magicka and stamina morphs for all of it's skills. Skillcrafting comes also with a new magicka based weapon type wand and a Tome which holds a crafted skill altering scroll in it. The crafted skill altering scroll in the Tome replaces one morphed skill from the One handed and Tome skill line with altered version of that skill. The Tome can be accompanied by one handed magicka or stamina weapon and thus One handed and Tome skill line can be used by magicka and stamina builds a like.

One handed and Tome Skill line:
- 6 baseline skills: (1) Single target spammer skill, (2) Single target DOT skill, (3) AOE DOT skill, (4) Single target debuf skill, (5) AOE spammer skill, (6) Ultimate skill.
- These 6 skills do the damage type based on the weapon in use (e.g. skills do fire dmg if fire wand is equipped).
- All skills have magicka and stamina morphs.
- Magicka morphs of the skills are ranged and stamina morphs of the skills are short range melee skills.
- Only morphed One handed and Tome skill line skills can be altered with crafted skill altering scrolls.
- 5 Passive skills

Wand:
-Magicka based weapon.
-Does range attacks like staff.
-3 types of wands (fire, shock, ice).
-Wand can be crafted at the woodcrafting stations.

Tome:
-The Tome is like board in the sense that it is enchanted with armor glyphs rather than weapon glyphs.
-Tome can be used with wand, mace, sword, axe or dagger.
-The tome can hold one active Skill altering scroll at a time.
-Tomes can be crafted at the woodcrafting stations.

Skill altering scroll:
-The Skill altering scroll active in the Tome will replace one morphed skill from One handed and Tome skill line with altered version of that skill.
-The Skill altering scroll can be crafted at the Skillcrafting station using (1) Empty scroll (2) Skill type rune, (3) Skill altering rune and (4) Skill quality rune.

Skill type runes:
-Skill type rune specifies the morphed One handed and Tome Skill line skill for the crafted skill altering scroll.
-There are magicka and stamina Skill type runes for every morphed One handed and Tome skill line skills.
-Skill type runes are rewarded from doing challenging veteran content in the game.

Skill altering runes:
-Specifies what skill attribute(s) (e.g. dmg, radius, duration) will be altered.
-In addition to normal Skill altering runes there can be prismatic Skill altering runes which allow to alter two or even more skill attributes at once.
-Class skill altering runes can be farmed from nodes.

Skill quality rune:
-White, green, blue, purple and yellow qualities.
-The Skill quality rune specifies how potent the skill altering effect is (White = least potent and Yellow = most potent).
-Skill quality runes can be farmed from nodes.


Class Skill altering scroll concept:

Allows to replace one Class skill from the weapon bar with altered version of that skill by using the same slot as poisons do atm.. Class skill altering scrolls can be crafted only for some Class skills and more of these can be added to the game later with new content.

Class Skill altering scroll:
-Class Skill altering scroll represents altered class skill (note that e.g. Maelstrom weapons are skill altering weapons in the game atm., but they alter the skill in just one specific way).
-Class Skill altering scroll is used in the place of poisons, but do not make weapon enchantment inactive like poisons do.
-Class Skill altering scroll can replace one slotted class skill from the weapon bar with altered version of it.
-Altered skill casts consumes Class Skill scrolls at some specific rate.
-Class Skill altering scrolls can be crafted at the Skillcrafting station using (1) Empty Scroll, (2) Class Skill type rune, (3) Class Skill altering rune and (4) Class Skill quality rune. Class Skill type rune specifies the specific skill for the crafted class skill altering scroll. Class Skill altering rune specifies what skill attribute(s) (e.g. dmg, radius, duration) will be altered. Class Skill quality rune specifies how potent the effect is.
-Class Skill type runes are rewarded from doing challenging veteran content in the game. Class Skill altering runes and Class Skill quality runes can be farmed from nodes.

The Skillcrafting concept consist of these two systems: One handed and Tome Skill line and Class Skill altering scrolls. This system would allow max. 2 altered skills (one altered class skill and one altered One handed and Tome Skill line skill) on a weapon bar at a time. IMO this would not be too hard to balance cus even if it potentially allows some good build customization in the end from the combat balance point of view these new skills can be seen just as specific altered skills like the ones in skill altering weapons (e.g. Maelstrom weapons) in the game atm..

johnnified

+1

Slick_007

Make2k15 wrote: »

Wand:
-Magicka based weapon.
-Does range attacks like staff.
-3 types of wands (fire, shock, ice).
-Wand can be crafted at the woodcrafting stations.

funny, that looks EXACTLY like a staff. at least come up with something new

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

with the current engine...that sounds like a lot of lag and crashes.

xeNNNNN

Slick_007 wrote: »

Make2k15 wrote: »

Wand:
-Magicka based weapon.
-Does range attacks like staff.
-3 types of wands (fire, shock, ice).
-Wand can be crafted at the woodcrafting stations.

funny, that looks EXACTLY like a staff. at least come up with something new

Doesnt need to be new.

Sword + Great sword. Same thing one has high damage the other has low damage.

Wand can be the same as staffs but just have lower damage. Would be funny see people running around with wands and shields anyway.

inb4 dual wield wands.

rteezy

stop with this already, IT WONT WORK IN A MMO!
its already incredibly hard to try to achieve anything remotely balanced (and puré balance is IMPOSSIBLE in mmos) and you would add somethign that would jsut throw balance into the garbage.

Cant be done, drop it

Make2k15

rteezy wrote: »

stop with this already, IT WONT WORK IN A MMO!
its already incredibly hard to try to achieve anything remotely balanced (and puré balance is IMPOSSIBLE in mmos) and you would add somethign that would jsut throw balance into the garbage.

Cant be done, drop it

TBH it wouldn't be much more harder to balance this kind of Skillcrafting system for PVP than what a new skill line would be. The biggest reason why Skillcrafting could be really hard to balance is the cumulative effect of the crafted skills if any number of any kind of crafted skills are allowed to be used simultaneously on the weapon bar. This kind of Skillcrafting system doesn't allow that.