Suggestions for new weapon line/type

Scrub_Potato

SPEARSSSSSS, of some kind, either two hand, or like a spear and shield thing. Something with spears lol

hehoolaughs

Sergykid wrote: »

yep, 1h+rune would be the magicka tanking equivalent, or even DPS why not, just like frost staff works. The rune will be one-handed and will have 3 specializations: illusion, alteration, and conjuration. The alteration one will be like the frost staff, will be used for tanking. The other two will be dps ones.

This has been the best idea I've seen in a while, and is a new personal favorite. I also have a soft spot for spears/polearms - seems like those could be added into the game utilizing the 2H-skill line abilities with a different light/heavy attack animation.

In my perfect future we would get a new skill line (1h+r) and also some new weapons that revitalize the ones we already have by adding new animations.

Fist weapons could function pretty easily in the 1H/DW skills without new animations, crossbows could function as bows simply as well but maybe fire slower and hit harder. Whips/thrown weapons could be interesting by adding some mid-range combat capability to the melee classes, and would give the opportunity for some really interesting (i.e. flourish-y) animation sequences.

I'm super pumped this topic is still alive!

Menelaos

Spear & Shield

damdamjel

I don't really have other ideas than spears/poles which falls in 2h. Crossbows/1hand+rune might have their own skill line. well they could work. But what i want to see are the bound weapons or better yet Sword-singer skill line, we know that they are already history in 2nd era but the LoreMaster might have a loop hole around this. Im hoping this comes out on the next expansion since daggerfall is likely to have it next. The Lost Art. also it would be cool if it was a class.
Spears also would be nice if they have their own skill line, like mid range melee weapons, for a new style of gameplay.(yeah templars have magical spears)
Also what about instruments? Support skill line, like playing music for buffs during battles, Bards are fun.
Alright i need to stop. my mind is bursting out too much ideas right now. Im always excited for newer content like this.
A dragon break is always viable if they break the lore lol.

ezio45

I was to see a one handed line with a stam and mag morph for each ability for that spellsword type of gameplay, would also be nice if they added the same option to the dual wield line, maybe by changing its unpopular morphs to mag. Mag weapons could do thing like burning or shock instead of bleed or whatever, base effect does straight mag damage.

I feel like spear fits into two handed but the weapon type needs to be added, with a focus on quick mid range combat.

A midevil explosives? For lack of a better word, line might be cool with the ability to use disease, poison, burning etc aoe damage.

Lunatic_Dizzy

Go a step further with weapon lines and give abilities/passives for each individual weapon. This would give you a chance to expand on frost staves for tanking which is something I'd love to see expanded on. Right now, there is just no reason to frost staff mag tank over s&b stam tank. S&b too far out performs. I've got my fingers crossed so hard for this one thing, that I'll probably have arthritis and be unable to play by the time they ever do implement this.

DamenAJ

Spears are definitely something I've wanted in several games. A 2h with melee and range abilities.

I also love the idea of throwing glaives... In real life I imagine you'd either have to go get them or keep them on chains, in a videogame I guess they'd just sort of bounce back to you. I don't really imagine this one will happen, but you don't know if you don't try.

These ones are popular:


Although I prefer ones that are completely round... I couldn't find a picture of one though... Hm.

I feel like I saw some chick on summerset conjure a sword and wield magic her other hand, so I definitely wouldn't be surprised if this was in the works. She was a civilian... Noble I think.... Got mad at me trying to pickpocket her.

Uviryth

Spear/Polearm obviously.

itsJylerTAG

I'd love to see an actual spellsword class/weapon line.

Destruction magic in one hand, sword in the other. Just like the good old skyrim days.

Armatesz

ZOS_Holden wrote: »

Violynne wrote: »

10mm SMG.

That shoots lightning.

This sounds like a fun idea! Unfortunately, we don't know any lightning-based action movie one-liners. Maybe you could help us out there?

Seriously though, thank you all for sharing your ideas for new weapon type/skill line, they're all great ideas. We especially liked knuckle weapons, and the idea of a Magicka-based melee weapon. While we can't promise anything, feedback and suggestions are always greatly appreciated, we love reading them and hope to see more.

I have a suggestion: Make a sort of hand to hand where you have a new type of equipable sort of thing on fingers range and make the hand to hand a sort of tank set. Also add where you can make people fall on their butts and cause attacks to be reflected.

KeiruNicrom

Conjuration/bound weapons magicka line. Different effects depending on which weapon is used (similar to the 2h, dw, and destro staff passives)

Bound bow: increased range of abilities and ranged light and heavy attacks

Bound 2h weapon: increased damage of abilities and aoe effect on light and heavy attacks

Bound dual wielding: increased crit chance to abilities and bleed chance on light and heavy attacks

Bound 1h and shield: reduced block and bash cost and heavy attacks taunt enemies

Leaving staffs out of this since i was thinking it would be a magicka skill line

agegarton

Crossbows could be good - and could, with a bit of imagination, be both Stam and Mag based - e.g. one morph is a poison dart that links back to your Stam pool, whereas the other is a Mag morph that fires an elemental bolt.

In terms of Mag based melee weapons, I like the idea of an elemental whip - lots of scope there for some neat skills, plus some cool animation.

xeNNNNN

Easy....

Conjuration Magic....

You can use bound weapons and such to create the "illusion" of melee combat while actually being in melee combat while actually doing damage.

Seriously...illusion and Conjuration magic are skill lines that SHOULD be part of this game already. They're two very important parts of elder scrolls magic archetypes... I really do not know why either do not already exist...

Kill two birds with one stone..

That said I would not mind 1h + Rune or Polearms as actual weapon skill lines...but seriously I WANT MUH CONJURATION BRUH

Caligamy_ESO

Whatever she is using.. 1 Hand & Rune it was rumored to be?

Ilithyania

dwarven guns and rifles

xeNNNNN

Caligamy_ESO wrote: »

Whatever she is using.. 1 Hand & Rune it was rumored to be?

Yep that rumour was all over the place and while I have no citation - supposedly it was put on the back burner with spell crafting...."supposedly".

EDS604

Spears +100000, also would like to see flails (1h and 2h) and fist weapons for stam.
Spellblades would be cool for magicka users and tanks (pair with shields)

Darkhorse1975

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Avran_Sylt

Any criticism is welcome.

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Dwemer Siege Bow Skills

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Note - All magic damage in this skilline has no scaling with Max Magicka/SD && All Crossbow skills have a 20m base range and cost stamina.

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Active Abilities

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Ultimate: Loaded Bolt (Channeled) (100 Ultimate or 83 depending on Morphs)
*Comprised of your current bolt schematics and winch. (or uses the base for unmorphed/unlearned skills)*
Utilizes the current Winch
-(Channeled: Instant - Lower Cost/Damage or Longer Range)
-(105% WD or 63% WD + 10% Stamina or 6% Stamina)
Current Elemental Bolt Effect (Added Elemental Damage: Stun on Status or Always Status proc).
-(Magic Damage can be increased with Infused/Torug's)
-(+1,350 Magic Damage and 100% Status or + 405 Magic Damage and Stun if Target suffers from a Status Effect)
Morph 1: Adds the Current Explosive Bolt Effect (Added Direct Damage: Increased Direct Damage or Bleed)
-(11% WD + 1% Stamina or 95% WD + 9% Stamina AoE Bleed over 8s)
Morph 2: Adds the Current Soul Bolt Effect (Magicka Damage: Mag Return or Mag Execute)
-(+1,350 Magic Damage and +200% of Magic Damage if below 25% or +100% of Magic Damage returned as Magicka)

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1: Winched Bolt (Channeled) (3240 Stamina)
After channeling for 1s, fires a bolt that has been drawn back more than normal.
-(168% WD + 16% Stamina)
Morph 1: Lever Winch - Becomes Instant Cast with reduced cost and damage.
-(105% WD + 10% Stamina) (2700 Stamina)
Morph 2: Siege Winch - Increases the Range by 10m

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2: Elemental Bolt (47% WD + 4.5% Stamina + 2,700 Magic Damage at max Rank Morph (Increased by Infused and Torugs)) (32% status chance) (2295 Stamina)
An Imbued Bolt that deals Physical Damage and some Magic Damage with a greater chance of applying a status effect. Damage type is augmented by your current weapon enchantment.

Magic Damage for all effect based glyphs. (non pure damage)
Magic Damage for Oblivion and Prismatic
Flame for Flame, Shock for Shock, Poison for Poison, etc.

Morph 1: This bolt will always apply a status effect if applicable and the status effect lasts twice as long.
-(100% status effect)
Morph 2: This bolt will deal greater Magic damage and stun the target if they are currently effected by a status effect.
-(3,510 Magic Damage at Rank IV + Stun)

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3: Explosive Bolt (AoE Spammable)
Ground Cast AoE damage.
-(63% WD + 6% Stamina) (2754 Stamina)
Morph 1: Shaped Bolt - Changes to Target Cast, Applies Major Fracture to the Primary Target for 8s and increases the Damage done to the Primary Target. (Now 74% WD + 7% Stamina to Target + Previous AoE to surrounding)
Morph 2: Shrapnel Bolt - Applies a bleed to all enemies hit over 8s. (Bleed Damage: (95% WD + 9% Stamina)

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4: Soul Bolt (Utility or Single Target Execute) (2295 Stamina)
Bolt tipped with a small soul gem. Deals Physical Damage and some Magic Damage (Increased by Infused and Torugs), applies Minor Maim for 8s
-(47% WD + 4.5% Stamina + 2,700 Magic Damage at max Rank Morph)
Morph 1: (Soul Link) Restores 100% of the Magic Damage done as Magicka.
Morph 2: (Soul Crush) +400% Magic Damage to targets under 25% health.

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5: Calibrate (Offensive skill Increases Range to attack marked Target - Grants Major Brutality) (2,160 Stamina)
-Increases the range you can attack a specific target with Siege Bow abilities by 5m. Grants Major Brutality. Can only calibrate to one target at a time.
Morph 1: Increases the range by an additional 10m.
Morph 2: Your fully charged Heavy Attacks ignore target Physical Resistance.

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Passives

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Weighted Bolts - Your Crossbow abilities deal 1/2% more damage for every 5m you are away from your target.
Trained Eye - Increases the range of your Crossbow Abilities by 5/10m
Marksman - Reduced Cost
Hard Release - Your Crossbow abilities ignore 750/1500 Physical Resistance, increased to 2000/4000 against targets within 5m.
Mechanical Assistance - Heavy Attacks restore 10%/20% more stamina.

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Tooltips on a high level build (No CP)

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34508 Stamina
4523 WD

Winched Bolt
13,119
10,270

Elemental Bolt
3678 Phys + 2,700 Magic Damage

Explosive Bolt
4,920
5,762 DD + 4,920 AoE
4,920 AoE + 7,402 AoE 8s Bleed

Soul Bolt
3,678 Phys + 2,700 Magic Damage
3,678 Phys + 8,100 Magic Damage under 25%

Loaded Shot
10,270 + 1,350 MD + 405 + 842 + 1,350 MD + 5,400 MD under 25% = 14,217 (Max) or 19,617 at 25% health (Max)
4,919 + 1350 MD + 1350 MD = 7,629 (Min)

Bobby_V_Rockit

I just want a 2h equivalent of a dagger (10% crit bonus) like a halberd or polearm of some manner

shadowwraith666

hand-to-hand

polearms such as halberds, spears and scythes

thowable weapons like stars, knives or darts

most of the above were in TES 3

TheShadowScout

SaucyMcSauceface wrote: »

I have heard that ZOS have requested suggestions for new weapon lines...

I made a whole discussion on that thought once... https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/371862/additional-weapon-skill-ideas-mk-ii

Madrax573

Hand weapons like knuckle dusters, tiger claws (for non-kahjiit!) maybe magic rune hand wraps that allow magicka recovery from heavy melee attacks? Or allow us to use the stave as a quarterstaff.

Basically I want to be a kung fu monk please!

Raideen

Books. It would be nice if spell casters could weave spells vs using a staff.

IMO there needs to be a couple more options at minimum for magicka users. Having one weapon to use is boring.

Lunatic_Dizzy

Raideen wrote: »

Books. It would be nice if spell casters could weave spells vs using a staff.

IMO there needs to be a couple more options at minimum for magicka users. Having one weapon to use is boring.

That'd be cool. And it would go great with the Scholar personality.

Raideen

Lunatic_Dizzy wrote: »

Raideen wrote: »

Books. It would be nice if spell casters could weave spells vs using a staff.

IMO there needs to be a couple more options at minimum for magicka users. Having one weapon to use is boring.

That'd be cool. And it would go great with the Scholar personality.

I just think its sad that this was not something they could have come up with in the first place. It does not even take a brainstorm session or deep imagination to add this flavor.

It would also work well for Templars who choose to heal.

Wands could be another option, although I have always found wands to be boring. That being said, some cool particle effects and in your face wand attacks that are larger than life could give wands a ferocious and intimidating feeling to the enemy.

Clansman2013

Unarmed
long weapons (Spears, Halberds etc)
Flexible weapons (Chain whips, Three Section Staff etc)

Olav_the_Stout

Unarmed (Jabs, crosses, kicks, roundhouses, etc)
Fist Weapons (Knuckles, cesti, claws, etc)

- Could lead to a monk style class combining mystic arts with physical prowess.

Musical Instruments (Drums, mandolins, lutes, etc)

- Could lead to a bard style class combining buffing and debuffing, or horrible singing damaging opponents.

GeorgeYung

-Dual/twohanded crossbow: stamina skills that can be morfed to magicka. Mid range abilities

-Blood staff: magicka and health based skills. A proper implementation of blood magic. I would be really excited about this and all the possibilities it has. I`d imagine it could focus on damage and even tanking. If we want to make it even more uniqe, it could use a dagger and an offhand weapon. So the character can cat himself while casting spells:)

-illusion and Conjuration: I think it could use several offhands that gives you different bonuses. For example spellbook, orb, scepter and a main weapon that could be a wand or dagger. The skills should be magicka based and it could be a really good option for melee magicka builds.

-Necro staff/Cursed staff: roots, dots, summoning undeads and applying debuffs. Finally I could play the magicka nightblade more like a warlock:)

-Spear: increased melee range and you could throw it away, pulling yourself to the weapon or pulling the enemy to you with it.

Kanar

ZOS_Holden wrote: »

Violynne wrote: »

10mm SMG.

That shoots lightning.

This sounds like a fun idea! Unfortunately, we don't know any lightning-based action movie one-liners. Maybe you could help us out there?

Seriously though, thank you all for sharing your ideas for new weapon type/skill line, they're all great ideas. We especially liked knuckle weapons, and the idea of a Magicka-based melee weapon. While we can't promise anything, feedback and suggestions are always greatly appreciated, we love reading them and hope to see more.

Unarmed (knuckle/cestus) would be awesome! And it could easily be done in a way that both stam and magicka could use it. Think mystic monks for magicka, and burly brawlers for stamina.