New item idea for crown store: Animation packs

BejaProphet

Basic idea: Reimagine specific classes with purchasable animation packs. Basically you change nothing mechanically about the class, but you can buy a pack that changes the animations so that visually you reimagine the theme and allow players a new customization for their character.

Meant for your Dragon Knight to be more of a holy crusader? No problem! Pick up the Holy Knight pack and now all that fiery, smokey, earth themed stuff visually has golden glows and angelic visuals.

Did you always want to be a necromancer? Now you can! Pick up the necromancer pack and all your sorcerers casting animations appear to be tapping into the dark arts of necromancy, your pets will even be reskinned to be undead themed, though nothing has actually changed in what the abilities and pets do.

Did you mean for your Nightblade wood-elf to be less nefarious and more an elusive guardian of the forest? Then you should definitely pick up the Forest Sentry pack and strike out at the foes of the nature from the shadows as each of the animations are designed for that theme.

You get the idea. Zero game balance head aches, and players feel like a whole new class that they always wanted ZOS to add. This would make huge money in the crown store and it would be something gamers bragged about all the time to their non-ESO friends.

Elsonso

We call them "Personalities"

Edit: they are available in the Crown Store, and elsewhere

BejaProphet

I'm having a hard time thinking of a response that isn't mean. I'll try my best to stick to a simple unemotional statement.

The personalities change emotes and the way you might walk or stand. That is very very very very clearly not what I described. Your response is so silly, I am struggling to think you even read my post. (ok, at least a little emotion.)

Elsonso

BejaProphet wrote: »

I'm having a hard time thinking of a response that isn't mean. I'll try my best to stick to a simple unemotional statement.

The personalities change emotes and the way you might walk or stand. That is very very very very clearly not what I described. Your response is so silly, I am struggling to think you even read my post. (ok, at least a little emotion.)

After reading what you wrote (before I replied), that is what they are doing. Now, since you did not mention Personalities, I had to consider the possibility that you were just not familiar with them. What you describe is what I expect ZOS will feel is a feature filled by "personalities".

BejaProphet

Awesome. Kindly point me to the one that alters the Dragon Knight ability animations please. I'd like to check it out.

JJBoomer

I get what OP is trying to say. Not so much animations. Class visuals would be more accurate. Changes the cosmetics of class skills (eg. color, sounds, etc) and then Animations (how the spell is cast, how the character moves)

I think this would actually be very cool. But if I'm honest, I don't see ZOS going through all the effort to create such things.