Horseback Combat

Strykerous

Hello everyone. I have 2 new ideas thus far and they both are really great for improving combat ideas. My first one is where there’s a skill line for fighting on horseback with a one handed sword or a bow. The second is a Joisting arenas and contests where players get matched up and have a grand time knocking each other off horseback with a lance. This leads to a new idea for a new class called paladins. Paladins can be DPS or healer via holy magic and the use of a one handed sword or a lance.

VaranisArano

So...stamplars.

Also, we just had a,thread about mounted combat in PVP. IIRC, the general consensus was "Awesome in theory, but ZOS' chance of pulling it off on the current servers? Nil."

Strykerous

What is a Stamplar and ZOS? Also what does Nil mean?

Strykerous

If your talking about stamina Templars, it’s nothing like them. Besides, a spear and a lance are 2 different weapons. Second, I’m sure that it can be worked.

Strykerous

Or just make it a Calvary Skill line where you can only use one handed swords on horseback.

VaranisArano

Sorry, I just assume most people recognize those terms, my bad.

ZOS = Zenimax Online Studios
Stamplar = a templar who uses stamina morphs and weapons skills
Nil means zero.

So the closest thing you'll get in game to a D&D style paladin is the templar class. Templars have powerful healing and holy light magic. A templar that uses magicka makes for a powerful healer (though any class can also do damage or tank). A templar that uses stamina would use weapons like two-handed, bow, dual world or one hand and shield in addition to their stamina-morphed class skills to do damage or tank.

VaranisArano

This is the recent thread I was referring to about mounted combat and I think it illustrates the problems with that idea better than me re-typing it here would do: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/399240/who-wants-mounted-combat-in-cryodiil/p1