Okay, it's official now (2019): no Spellcrafting in the near future

Seraphayel

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Taunky

Good.

BuddyAces

The only time I said 'Yes' outloud during the streams.

crjs1

Good!

Tasear

...just like no dragons in near future

Seraphayel

I find it astounding that so many dislike a feature that could shake up the entire combat in this gam (which is highly necessary).

Balance has always been an issue and will always be an issue, with or without Spellcrafting.

Exodium

Thank God honestly.

Chaos2088

Richard did say they are interested in it, but not at the moment. Still on the back burner.

Alinhbo_Tyaka

Seraphayel wrote: »

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Rich did say they are attempting some performance fixes so maybe they did listen and that is taking the place of some of the playable content.

kirgeo

There will never be perfect balance. Hopefully they look into adding it someday.

Nifty2g

Good.

crjs1

Balancing would be a utter nightmare and would just lead to a whole new set of metas rather than promoting diversity. Plus it would be another huge grind. Totally unnecessary

Lake

Good.

Rohamad_Ali

Disaster Averted

Ertosi

Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Rich did say they are attempting some performance fixes so maybe they did listen and that is taking the place of some of the playable content.

Hopefully so, because if they aren't working on performance fixes then what ARE they working on? Because without new features, this is looking like their weakest year yet. Looking at what was added in the last two years helps put it into perspective:

Seraphayel

crjs1 wrote: »

Balancing would be a utter nightmare and would just lead to a whole new set of metas rather than promoting diversity. Plus it would be another huge grind. Totally unnecessary

Where do we have diversity now? There are what, 2, 3 metas at the moment. That's it. It cannot be worse than now.

TimeDazzler

Ertosi wrote: »

Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Rich did say they are attempting some performance fixes so maybe they did listen and that is taking the place of some of the playable content.

Hopefully so, because if they aren't working on performance fixes then what ARE they working on? Because without new features, this is looking like their weakest year yet. Looking at what was added in the last two years helps put it into perspective:

They didn't really say anything about Q3 or Q4 so graphs like this are a bit unfair.

Tasear

Seraphayel wrote: »

crjs1 wrote: »

Balancing would be a utter nightmare and would just lead to a whole new set of metas rather than promoting diversity. Plus it would be another huge grind. Totally unnecessary

Where do we have diversity now? There are what, 2, 3 metas at the moment. That's it. It cannot be worse than now.

Shh, let's not give up all. Nercomancers where but a dream too! Keep the dream alive!

ankeor

Thank God!

Ertosi

Like many, I consider the lack of Spellcrafting to be a pretty bad thing. It's one of the most requested features since the game came out, and certainly now is the most requested feature now that they're bringing Necromancers as a class.

But not having Spellcrafting isn't the worst thing. There was no mention at all of getting any new kind of crafting compared to the last two years which brought us jewelrycrafting and transmutation.

And there was no mention of getting any new kind of game system, like the previous years were we got the Outfitting system and Player Housing. And no, ui tweaks to the guild vendors and region maps doesn't count as a new feature.

Lack of new features and new systems is a sure sign of decline in a game.

Seraphayel

Cries wrote: »

Ertosi wrote: »

Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Rich did say they are attempting some performance fixes so maybe they did listen and that is taking the place of some of the playable content.

Hopefully so, because if they aren't working on performance fixes then what ARE they working on? Because without new features, this is looking like their weakest year yet. Looking at what was added in the last two years helps put it into perspective:

They didn't really say anything about Q3 or Q4 so graphs like this are a bit unfair.

Q3 is a dungeon DLC so not worth mentioning. Q4 might be the last hope for something "fresh" and interesting.

Rex-Umbra

I really happy about necromancer but damn 2019 could of been the golden year. I was hyped because I expected massive changes to Cyrodiil and spellcrafting.... i might actually take a year off and start over as a necromancer once they really refresh the game and not just keep adding quests, trials and dungeons. I want more sand in the box aka more features and systems.

ManwithBeard9

Rex-Umbra wrote: »

I really happy about necromancer but damn 2019 could of been the golden year. I was hyped because I expected massive changes to Cyrodiil and spellcrafting.... i might actually take a year off and start over as a necromancer once they really refresh the game and not just keep adding quests, trials and dungeons. I want more sand in the box aka more features and systems.

That's youre own fault. Nothing that was datamined hinted at anything for spell crafting or major changes to pvp.

Skwor

No spellcrafting is a good thing, a very good thing!

Caligamy_ESO

We already knew this months ago

SiAScORCH

I'm glad they're not implementing this. It would kill the game.

ccmedaddy

Oh thank god. Was getting sick of seeing so many threads on this topic.

pieratsos

Seraphayel wrote: »

I find it astounding that so many dislike a feature that could shake up the entire combat in this gam (which is highly necessary).

Balance has always been an issue and will always be an issue, with or without Spellcrafting.

So what you are basically saying is that you found it astounding that people want the game to be a little more balanced and not even more unbalanced? Prety astounding indeed.

Numerikuu

Said it several times before and will say it once more, Spellcrafting will never, ever be a thing in an MMO. The utter chaos it would bring to balancing would be an absolute nightmate. And should it ever be added? It will only be added in name only. It'd be nowhere near what you expect or want it to be for the sake of balance. What you want will only ever be found in a single player game.

JJBoomer

Cries wrote: »

Ertosi wrote: »

Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Rich just stated what they said back in 2015 or so: they are still thinking about doing it maybe but not in the near future.

RIP Spellcrafting

P.S.: what the hell is ZOS working on? Elsweyr offers less features than Morrowind or Summerset and none of the DlCs seems to add a significant gameplay update either.

Rich did say they are attempting some performance fixes so maybe they did listen and that is taking the place of some of the playable content.

Hopefully so, because if they aren't working on performance fixes then what ARE they working on? Because without new features, this is looking like their weakest year yet. Looking at what was added in the last two years helps put it into perspective:

They didn't really say anything about Q3 or Q4 so graphs like this are a bit unfair.

not only that, but not every content release has to be packed. if Elsweyr is low on features, i'm okay with. gives people a chance to take a breath. baseline is good sometimes.

and as someone already said we don't know what Q3 or Q4 will hold until E3.

Vapirko

Just had to make one last spell crafting thread didn’t you?