Race change is it worth it?

Dovahkiin804

I'm thinking of doing a race change from level 35 Nord to a high elf, is it worth the crowns to change to high elf because your tired of being a Nord? I'm on xbox one. Does all your skills reset to 0 after the change?

FR0STDEE

Personally I wouldn't if your such a low level. Lvl 1 to 35 can be achieved in a day with exp scrolls and dolmen grinding. Occasionally the race change tokens go on sale for half price too.

technohic

At level 35 no. Not worth it. Level another toon.


It does not reset your skills

Dovahkiin804

So wait till I'm least a level 50?

technohic

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

So wait till I'm least a level 50?

No. Relevel a new toon now. Save your time and money. Lest you just have money to burn.

Chibs

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

So wait till I'm least a level 50?

If you want a different race just make a new character with your desired class and race. Now if you were a level 50 cp160+ with a fully leveled and optimized build, then yes the race change is worth it. But when you’re level 35 your character doesn’t have as much identity or specialization yet.

MLGProPlayer

It depends on what you want to do.

Do you want to be a magicka damage dealer or healer? Then switch to a high elf.

Do you want to be a tank? Then stick with Nord (although there are better tank races, like Argonian and Imperial).

Dovahkiin804

I got 20000 crowns saved up but it's for one of the houses that will become available soon so maybe just wait for that

Rogue_Ghost

technohic wrote: »

At level 35 no. Not worth it. Level another toon.


It does not reset your skills

I would second that one. If you had some significant time invested in the character then it may be worth it. But, at level 35, it may be better to just start a new character. You may turn the other character into purely a craft character or something, or keep it around for later.

Dovahkiin804

Are high elf's only for magic and staves are can they use physical weapons for damage?

LeHarrt91

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

Are high elf's only for magic and staffs are can they use physical weapons for damage?

High Elf is more suited for Magic and Staves. But if you really want to use a sword on a high elf go for it. If you want to be an elf with a sword maybe go Wood Elf

TheShadowScout

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

Race change is it worth it?

Wrong question.

The right one would be - "Is It Worth It... FOR YOU"?

If you want to chase the META, well, there are some combinations that perform somewhat suboptimal. Like nord magica builds - they are more suited to swinging axes then spells you know...
Some people find it worth changing their race to better suit their preferred playstyle.

On the other hand, some might consider an suboptimal combination an extra challenge! And play argonian dragonknights instead of dunmer, and nord sorcerors instead of altmer, and dunmer nightblades instead of khajiit, and breton warden tanks instead of orc... After all, everyone can go easymode and breton mag-templar everything with golden light, right...

So, think about your nord character.
You have several choices. Race change is one of them. Keeping the race, adjusting the build to something you might find more fun and running with it another. You can also make alts (not like level 35 is that much, you can get there quickly enough) and try a few more options... then declare one you like better your "main".

In the end, the only question that really counts is - what would be most fun for -you-?
Because that's what the game is all about - us having fun playing our characters.

...

Now me... I nave had to use a racechange yet. Because I made my characters with intent and forethought. But... I have two characters I had to redo when warden came out, recreate the original concept for the new class, and leave the old ones... in backstory limbo, I'd racechange them in a heartbeat for a new backstory if they gave me races I don't already have represented... but seeing how I already done my token nord as drunk barbarian and token bosmer as treehugger druidess... and all the other races as well... they will have to remain in backstory limbo for a while longer.

And see, that is how I think about racechange. No consideration of passives or such, just how it fits my characters backstory, what -I- would have fun playing.
But that's me.
You?
Make your own choice!

Dovahkiin804

I like to be alble to move faster is my thing so maybe just switch to light armor but I usually don't fight high level bosses my self I wait for another player to come along and help I find my Nord character slow and heavy so maybe a race that can move fast with magic or light armor

max_only

Light armor doesn’t make you move faster.

People in this thread are telling you to make an alt instead of using real life money on a race change token. I agree with them.

All races run the same speed. Orcs can sprint (hold shift) faster if they put a skill point into that passive. If you want to go fast there are skills, potions, and armor sets that let you move faster while sprinting or sneaking.

Dovahkiin804

Maybe what I can do is just make another character probably more simple but take longer to unlock the skills

dem0n1k

One thing to remember if you do opt for the race change is that your appearance will probably be a bit random... for example, the same hair style on a nord character will not be the same on a high elf. The one time I did a character race change I instantly regretted it because then i had to buy an appearance change token to change the appearance as they looked ... well... pretty random!

rliant1864

Any of those change tokens are around the 10-15 dollar range last I checked. I can't imagine in what scenario that'd be worth spending that much money for.

Lyss1991

It is only worth it on a character that you have invested a significant amount of time into. Anything under level 50, I would just delete and start over.

For example : I have a max level high elf templar healer, With all skills/passives unlocked (including warhorn/orbs) And I am going to change it to an Argonian pretty soon. I dont want to go through the long process of re-leveling all of my skill lines, and having to go pvp again for warhorn (because yuckkkk ) and those darn orbs take 134503845 years to level/morph!

Asardes

Really not worth race changing on a low level character. Just make that Nord character into a stamina build and make a new one of the same class High Elf for magicka.

Guppet

Depends how much your time is worth to you. If you have the spendable cash and won’t miss it, then it’s worth it.

But, currently you know nothing of how the game works at end game. That’s when race choice can matter most other than cosmetics.

I’d go with what most have said, just reroll another character of the race you want. Just imagine how annoyed you’d be if you race changed then found that you didn’t enjoy the new race.

Tito86

dem0n1k wrote: »

One thing to remember if you do opt for the race change is that your appearance will probably be a bit random... for example, the same hair style on a nord character will not be the same on a high elf. The one time I did a character race change I instantly regretted it because then i had to buy an appearance change token to change the appearance as they looked ... well... pretty random!

Really? I thought, when you change the race, You can customise your appearance, just like you would start a new character. It is stupid if it makes you random appearance. Greedy ZOS wants you to buy appearance change token as well, not nice!

HappyLittleTree

I need to change my bosmer into an orsimer, just because my playstyle doesn't fit the passives of bosmer tbh.

If I could I would start a new char but i have collected every skyshard, every lorebook and got plenty of achievements on her so I really don't want to do this again^^

SO if you're low and haven't collected that much it's easier to just create a new character!

HappyLittleTree

But to be honest racial passives don't make that much of a difference in my oppinion.

You just have to adapt your gear or championpoints.

ATomiX96

paying 20$ for a race change on level 35 is not very smart as you can get from level 1 to 35 within an hour or less (assuming full training gear, exp potion etc.) in spellscar.

technohic

Tito86 wrote: »

dem0n1k wrote: »

One thing to remember if you do opt for the race change is that your appearance will probably be a bit random... for example, the same hair style on a nord character will not be the same on a high elf. The one time I did a character race change I instantly regretted it because then i had to buy an appearance change token to change the appearance as they looked ... well... pretty random!

Really? I thought, when you change the race, You can customise your appearance, just like you would start a new character. It is stupid if it makes you random appearance. Greedy ZOS wants you to buy appearance change token as well, not nice!

You can change appearances when you do the race change. It takes you to the character select screen and it’s just like when you created the character and select race only the alliance and class are locked.

Tito86

technohic wrote: »

Tito86 wrote: »

dem0n1k wrote: »

One thing to remember if you do opt for the race change is that your appearance will probably be a bit random... for example, the same hair style on a nord character will not be the same on a high elf. The one time I did a character race change I instantly regretted it because then i had to buy an appearance change token to change the appearance as they looked ... well... pretty random!

Really? I thought, when you change the race, You can customise your appearance, just like you would start a new character. It is stupid if it makes you random appearance. Greedy ZOS wants you to buy appearance change token as well, not nice!

You can change appearances when you do the race change. It takes you to the character select screen and it’s just like when you created the character and select race only the alliance and class are locked.

So what @dem0n1k wrote is wrong.

gepe87

Sometimes it helps. My main was a Altmer sorcerer, and i do pvp. I tried a alt, same class but dark elf, and for me it performed better for me, then in change my main to dunmer. Many say that altmer is best, but for me only on pve.
Same with khajiit stamblade and changed to bosmer.

technohic

Tito86 wrote: »

technohic wrote: »

Tito86 wrote: »

dem0n1k wrote: »

One thing to remember if you do opt for the race change is that your appearance will probably be a bit random... for example, the same hair style on a nord character will not be the same on a high elf. The one time I did a character race change I instantly regretted it because then i had to buy an appearance change token to change the appearance as they looked ... well... pretty random!

Really? I thought, when you change the race, You can customise your appearance, just like you would start a new character. It is stupid if it makes you random appearance. Greedy ZOS wants you to buy appearance change token as well, not nice!

You can change appearances when you do the race change. It takes you to the character select screen and it’s just like when you created the character and select race only the alliance and class are locked.

So what @dem0n1k wrote is wrong.

Yeah and unfortunate they missed it and paid more money

Violynne

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

I'm thinking of doing a race change from level 35 Nord to a high elf, is it worth the crowns to change to high elf because your tired of being a Nord? I'm on xbox one. Does all your skills reset to 0 after the change?

I recently changed a Khajiit into a Redguard (I created a new Khajiit), and the only thing that reset was the racial passives. Everything else remained the same.

Worth it? Subjective. To me, it was because I didn't want to scrap this character nearing the 60/60/60 mount training.

Now I have two stamBlades: Bosmer and Redguard

Sadly, no way to change the class.

zaria

Dovahkiin804 wrote: »

Are high elf's only for magic and staves are can they use physical weapons for damage?

They can use physical weapons as in stamia builds all classes can but the high elf would be worse than your Nord, probably 5% worse.
With magic skill and weapons the Altmer would be around 10% better than the Nord, this is the margin we are talking about.

How the character look is another issue. But as other say at level 35 its just as well to make another character. Always nice to have multiple for storage if nothing else

kamkar

At lvl 35, no
Make another character