Expansion Idea: Dragonsreach

Azurephoenix999

New Zone: Whiterun Hold - Encompasses Whiterun, the surrouding area, and the Throat of the World.

New Faction: Companions - They have their own skill line (involving weapon abilities) and crafting style.
New Faction: Greybeards - They have their own skill line (involving Dragon Shouts).
New Crafting Style: Dragonscale - Similar in appearance to the Dragonscale and Dragonbone armor from skyrim.

Dragon Shouts consume and scale off of Magicka OR Stamina, depending on which is higher. As for which ones are available:

• Unrelenting Force - Attacks in a cone in front of the user. Guaranteed knockback and stun on anything hit that's not immune.
• Fire Breath - Attacks in a cone in front of the user. All non-immune enemies are set ablaze when hit, causing both direct damage and some DoT damage. Has about a second of channel time.
• Aura Whisper - Reveals stealthed enemies to the user for 30 seconds, but nobody else. The user is able to attack stealthed enemies while under its effects.
• Clear Skies - Removes up to 2 harmful effects from all allies in range.
• Whirlwind Sprint - Causes the user to launch ahead with a burst of speed, knocking back all opponents in their path and granting the user Major Expedition for 10 seconds afterwards.
• Storm Call - The Ultimate Ability of the skill line. Cause a storm to brew which deals DoT for all opponents in its radius, as well as causing a lightning strike every 2 seconds in a random location which deals direct shock damage and stuns opponents. One of the morphs turns this into Dragon Storm Call, which is the same, except the lightning strikes are replaced by falling meteors.

Storyline: The Dragonborn of ESO's time is a powerful warlord. He serves Alduin, whose spirit was cast back in time after his defeat in the 4th era. The Dragonborn raises dragons from the dead, much like Alduin did in the 4th era, and begins building an army. Alduin seeks to regain a corporeal form and lay waste to Tamriel once again. The Vestige must join forces with the Companions to fight against the Dragonborn and his army, while learning all they can from the Greybeards to level the playing field. Main story quests end with taking down the Dragonborn in an epic duel in Dragonsreach.

Trial: Throat of the World - Climb upwards from High Hrothgar to the top of the mountain where a newly resurrected Alduin awaits.

Dropped set: Alduin's Bane - Drops in the trial, always Dragonscale style. Set piece bonuses revolve around increasing the damage dealt to dragons, and the effectiveness of dragon shouts.
Crafted set: Skyforge Steel - Crafted at the Skyforge in Whiterun. Set piece bonuses revolve around increasing Max Health and improving resource recovery.

VaranisArano

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The Companions would be a good faction, they are fun to meet in the Rift questline.

Froil

Ah the problems with this one!

Okay so the really big thing here is THERE IS NO DRAGONBORN DURING ESO/THE INTERREGNUM and IT TAKES PEOPLE YEARS TO LEARN THE DRAGON LANGUAGE AND TO BE ABLE TO SHOUT, THE PLAYER CHARACTER IS NO EXCEPTION AS THEY ARE NOT DRAGONBORN.

Companions as a guild with an ability line seems interesting but probably wouldn't be much different than the Fighter's Guild.

Alduin is still cast adrift in time and cannot be anywhere in the second era...

Also really? Honestly if you want all that, just go back to Skyrim.

AlienatedGoat

I could honestly do without more forced "Skyrim nostalgia" for a good long while.

So, no thanks.

static_recharge

Agreed, please no more dragonborn stuff. If they want to include the rest of the province of Skyrim in ESO then that would be great, it just has to fit the time and there's no dragons or Dragonborn in this time. That was unique to TES V: Skyrim and it should stay that way.

ak_pvp

No, ew, don't retcon things and force fake skyrim nostaligia in.

Throat of the world as a trial though yes pls, just no dragony ***.

nimander99

VaranisArano wrote: »

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The Companions would be a good faction, they are fun to meet in the Rift questline.

Hahahahahahaha

Bruccius

Can we please not break the lore for the sake of gameplay purposes? For someone who spends a considerable amount of time learning TES lore, my head started to pound a bit while reading this post.

No offense, of course.

Stewart1874

No need in more dragon born stuff. I think the push for all things Skyrim kinda shows how badly bethesda need to get another TES game out. Skyrims all too many people know - Oblivion was a great game, seeing more Daedric realms would be good - I mean meaningful realms like a zone with a city etc.

My personal dream dlc is the Skingrad zone with a vampire led story line - How old is the Count of Skingrad would that fit?

Aliyavana

I've had enough of skyrim for a while, it's be released like 7 times. I only care for winterhold before it's collapse

Rexy18

Horned Dragon has a bit of resemblance to Skyrim's Dragonscale/bone.

bloodthirstyvampire

VaranisArano wrote: »

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The vestige is a prodigy he or she could do it quickly no problem

VaranisArano

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The vestige is a prodigy he or she could do it quickly no problem

The Vestige is many things, but a Dragonborn is not one of them.

phairdon

How dare you break peoples immersion and lore

dbgager

I think a good expansion would be to fill out the SE part of the map with the Black Marsh.

xeNNNNN

VaranisArano wrote: »

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The Companions would be a good faction, they are fun to meet in the Rift questline.

Not too mention the serious mind bending retcon that would take place should we be able too learn a dragonshout at the same speed as a dragonborn.

I've defended most of the retcons in this game that bethesda approved but that one I would never approve of. EVER.

Furthermore @Azurephoenix999 Please reconsider what you're suggesting here; if ZoS did this and I hope they never will EVER consider doing this it would retcon most of the significance of TES V for the player not to mention the importance of the whole thing. You would immediately trivialise the entire thing. As others have said, while the contribution of the idea is a nice thing do not try and get things added that would severely retcon the lore for gameplay purposes it would ruin elder scrolls it really would. Not too mention that only in the remotest sense would this even world due to dragonknights and even they would be able to learn shouts...it would be believable but not only would it take decades for one it would be the only class that could do it in a reasonable amount of time for the player as well.

These retcons are a HUGE no from us lore nerds. Sorry.

VaranisArano

dbgager wrote: »

I think a good expansion would be to fill out the SE part of the map with the Black Marsh.

Murkmire!!

jssriot

I played Skyrim until I had to force myself to admit I was bored with it. Not interested in any more Skyrim or Morrowind nostaglia. There is more to Tamriel than Skyrim and its boring Nords, thankfully.

Rosveen

May I direct you to this game called The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? It sounds exactly like what you want to play.

SilverIce58

On the one hand, I'd love to go to the rest of skyrim (just mostly Markarth/the reach), because I'm sure it all looks (reasonably) different during the 2nd era. But on the other hand, however, the Vestige isn't a dragonborn, the next dragonborn to be born is Tiber Septim (in a few hundred years), and shouting takes wayyy too long to use, let alone master or even understand the metaphysical meaning the way the greybeards do.

This is almost as bad as the jils thing from a month or two ago.

bloodthirstyvampire

You don't need to be, your still a quick learner and if it took an idiot like ulfric took 10 years to learn just one shout it'll take you like 10 days
Maybe each shout could have a type of research function similar to crafting your no dragonborn but again the vestige is a prodigy

VaranisArano wrote: »

Given that it takes years to learn to shout without being a dragonborn, can you imagine how bad the grind for the greybeards would be?

The Companions would be a good faction, they are fun to meet in the Rift questline.

bloodthirstyvampire

Rosveen wrote: »

May I direct you to this game called The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? It sounds exactly like what you want to play.

Sounds like a great online game I can play with friends, where can I get this skyrim online

starkerealm

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

New Zone: Whiterun Hold - Encompasses Whiterun, the surrouding area, and the Throat of the World.

Not my first pick, if we're expanding the map into Skyrim, but Whiterun's cool enough. Though If High Hrothgar gets added, it should probably be attached to The Rift. It might be a good location for a trial or 4 man dungeon down the line, but there's no easy access to it from Whiterun.

Though, I'd honestly rather see Haafingar or Hjalmarch, before Whiterun.

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

New Faction: Companions - They have their own skill line (involving weapon abilities) and crafting style.

Eh... not really. I mean, they're already in game as it is, and their geographic limitations make them less than ideal for a guild. Consider that the other guilds you can join operate across the entirety of Tamriel. But, the Companions are specifically a Nord institution, and are nominally aligned with the Pact.

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

New Faction: Greybeards - They have their own skill line (involving Dragon Shouts).

No.

Just no.

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

New Crafting Style: Dragonscale - Similar in appearance to the Dragonscale and Dragonbone armor from skyrim.

There already is a Dragonbone motif in game. The Scalecaller motif is very clearly influenced by the Dragonbone gear in Skyrim. That's not currently craftible, but it's been announced that it will be coming. There's also a variant which is slated for the Battlegrounds. So, this is coming.

starkerealm

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

May I direct you to this game called The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? It sounds exactly like what you want to play.

Sounds like a great online game I can play with friends, where can I get this skyrim online

Search The Nexus.

Narvuntien

Dragonsreach... should be in The Reach... as in Markath's zone of skyrim

It should involve the Blades having retreated from Cloud Ruler Temple to the hide out in Kathspire, which would not have been lost yet.

You help them slay a dragon and eventually recapture Cloud Ruler Temple from Molag Baals minions.

The Reach would be crawling with Reachmen still strong from their time as emperors, Markath is under the rule of a petty despot and westerns skyrims king is useless to resist them. Keep the Reachmen at bay perhaps meet good reach people instead of them always being the bad guys.

bloodthirstyvampire

starkerealm wrote: »

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

May I direct you to this game called The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? It sounds exactly like what you want to play.

Sounds like a great online game I can play with friends, where can I get this skyrim online

Search The Nexus.

Console peasant

Menelaos

I'd love to see a skill line associated with the Bards College but it's not a mandatory "Skyrim"-themed feature.

kind_hero

You described Skyrim Online..

It would be better to see Skyrim in the time of ESO, revisit certain places but with their current struggles, not those from the dragonborn's era.

All those skill lines? Hmm.. no... The Vestige is not the dragonborn, also he is not restricted to the Pact or to Skyrim.

TBH it is a shame that these areas are not yet in the game, because of how important they became in TES history, but I understand why they are not included.

I really hope for a Blades DLC. Also I would like to see more places from TES Oblivion

GabiAlex

VaranisArano wrote: »

dbgager wrote: »

I think a good expansion would be to fill out the SE part of the map with the Black Marsh.

Murkmire!!

The map was data mined in 2014, together with Wrothgar, Gold Coast and Mephala's Real (now we know that it's called Spiral Skein) so it's more likely to be the next chapter/DLC. As for Skyrim, it can wait for few years, we already have the toaster version for TES V incoming.

Silver_Strider

I wish ZOS had done something similar to IC with the rest of the Dungeon packs, in that they came with their own little zone with a MQ and dailies. They could have easily opened up Falkreath and the Reach with Dragonbone and Horns of the Reach, had Helgan and Markarth as hub cities for the zones (since Falkreath is a dungeon) and threw the Dungeons in the zones somewhere.

Missed opportunities I guess.

Sevalaricgirl

No, if I want to go back to Skyrim, Whiterun etc, I'll do it in Skyrim.