Bow light attack options

JobooAGS

Would you be in favor of being able to change the element of your light attacks on bow to say, poison or disease, or even other elements?

esp1992

Yes to poison/disease

Love my poison for my wood elf stamina warden.

crazy_catman21

No

No you shouldn’t be rewarded for simply light attacking with a bow. L2P

RaptorRodeoGod

Yes to poison/disease

It'd be neat if they did this on all Stam weapons. I'm a StamSorc, so I benefit the most from the physical damage that all the Stam weapons do, but I imagine having the ability to change the element to poison/disease would make the other Stam classes happy

MashmalloMan

Other

Should be tied to the class. Looking at DK's, imagine their version of igneous weapons made their light attacks deal poison dmg + 1k or something like that. Gives stam DK's much needed class identity.

Solariken

Yes to other elements

I think it could be cool if all light attacks changed element based on which glyph you put on them.

So if a bow had a fire glyph, the light attacks would deal fire damage etc etc.

DocFrost72

crazy_catman21 wrote: »

No you shouldn’t be rewarded for simply light attacking with a bow. L2P

They're actually far more likely to be punished ala wood elf, argonian, nord, dunmer, breton passives so I don't get your argument.

Starlock

Yes to poison/disease

This would be a great thematic addition to one of my characters. While I'd like it and voted "yes," I also feel kind of "no" about it since it wouldn't make a lot of sense. She can get poison damage from glyphs or poison slotting, which makes more sense. A poison damage weapon makes me think a spell or staff.

Kanar

Yes to poison/disease

Swamp raider + Morag tong bow/bow (dk)

McCloskey10_5_13

No

I don't understand the question. You can already do this with enchants. An infused poison or disease enchanted bow means that every other light attack will be a poison or disease light attack. I guess they could cut the cooldown, damage and status chance by half so it applied every time, but that seems unnecessary. Or you can add an actual poison to your bow.

Unless of course you mean the way that staffs can be fire, shock or ice, but those are innate to the item and cannot be "changed" as you suggest in the poll. Also, the reason for the 3 types there is simply for magicka weapon diversity.

So Magicka has:
Fire
Shock
Ice
Resto

Stam has:
2 hand
DW
S&B
Bow

We don't need a poison and disease version of every stam weapon. If you simply want your bow to be magical, enchant it. If you want it to be double magical then that doesn't make any sense, especially on a stam weapon. So "no", I guess.

Casul

I would be more in support of something you can put in your poison slot that causes the damage type to change, but also makes light attacks cost X amount of stamina or magicka. Unlimited use of course.

idk

No

No other weapon has such a choice with their basic attacks plus it does not make sense because the base of an attack from a bow is an arrow which cannot be anything other than physical.

IZZEFlameLash

No

L2P.

Fur_like_snow

Other

If it was a purely visual change then sure.

WrathOfInnos

Yes to poison/disease

Poison could be nice if used with sets like Morag Tong or Swamp Raider. However this would negatively impact Stam Sorcs and Stamplars that use Automaton, since their light attacks would no longer count as physical damage. So essentially a Stam DK and Warden buff at the expense of other classes (Nightblade wouldn’t be affected much).

I’m not sure I really see the point outside of the set examples I mentioned though. Even if Light Attacks get a different damage type they still won’t be able to proc status effects, just like destro Light Attacks cannot cause Concussion, Chill, or Burning.

Valykc

Other

Give me explosive arrows hahahahaha

tunepunk

Other

It would be cool if you could convert any outgoing damage, not only light attacks. I would love to have a staff, where all outgoing damage was poison or disease. Wall of elements with disease, for example for stamina staff, necro build.

Gilvoth

No

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

JobooAGS

Yes to poison/disease

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

It is not a "change skill" thread it is a "give you an option to change a skill" thread

Gilvoth

No

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

It is not a "change skill" thread it is a "give you an option to change a skill" thread

no, this thread is asking the devs to change our skills.
my comment stands, please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

JobooAGS

Yes to poison/disease

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

It is not a "change skill" thread it is a "give you an option to change a skill" thread

no, this thread is asking the devs to change our skills.
my comment stands, please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

No it isn't, I know what I did when I made this thread and there is nothing asking the devs to change anything. It is just a question to the community about how they would feel as in give your opinion if they were given the option to have their light attacks from bow to be elemental. You can stop spinning ideas to your own agenda.

NolaArch

No

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

It is not a "change skill" thread it is a "give you an option to change a skill" thread

no, this thread is asking the devs to change our skills.
my comment stands, please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

No it isn't, I know what I did when I made this thread and there is nothing asking the devs to change anything. It is just a question to the community about how they would feel as in give your opinion if they were given the option to have their light attacks from bow to be elemental. You can stop spinning ideas to your own agenda.

How would anyone be given the option if not from the devs changing how a skill works?

JobooAGS

Yes to poison/disease

NolaArch wrote: »

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

JobooAGS wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

if you guys remove your nerf request threads and your "change this skill" threads from the skill lines, then the devs can do their work. please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

It is not a "change skill" thread it is a "give you an option to change a skill" thread

no, this thread is asking the devs to change our skills.
my comment stands, please stop making these type of threads, it is killing eso.

No it isn't, I know what I did when I made this thread and there is nothing asking the devs to change anything. It is just a question to the community about how they would feel as in give your opinion if they were given the option to have their light attacks from bow to be elemental. You can stop spinning ideas to your own agenda.

How would anyone be given the option if not from the devs changing how a skill works?

Same thing with destro staves. There is a fire staff that does fire damage with light attacks, a ice staff that does ice damage and etc. There can easily be a physical bow that does physical damage, a poison bow thst does poison damage...

MerlinPendragon

No

No, leave as is.

usmcjdking

Great idea.

Remove snipe and replace it with a bow-specific version of ele weapon that can change elements.

JobooAGS

Yes to poison/disease

usmcjdking wrote: »

Great idea.

Remove snipe and replace it with a bow-specific version of ele weapon that can change elements.

Oooh I like that, a spamable that is like flurry and force pulse at once, 3 arrows fired in 0.6(1.1?) seconds like rapid strikes with each arrow being one of the following: poison, physical and disease.

Edit: snipe at that point can be a cheap ultimate

WildRaptorX

No

That’s a bit much. But I like this idea. but I think I’d prefer minor breach or a small bleed

Nerftheforums

No

You can already do it, just enchant your weapon with a glyph...

JobooAGS

Yes to poison/disease

Nerftheforums wrote: »

You can already do it, just enchant your weapon with a glyph...

That is an enchantment which is different, or by that logic you can make an inferno staff a lightning staff by slapping in a shock glyph on it

Avran_Sylt

Other

Have a poison type (alchemical), that adds damage to all weapon ability attacks.