Unofficial Season 2020 hopes thread

lassitershawn

Iccotak wrote: »

Dracan_Fontom wrote: »

Honestly I just want more magic weapons, specifically a melee magic weapon

1H+Spells?
How would it work? Would ESO need to establish the other schools of magic first? Like Alteration and Illusion? How would it work in contrast to staves?

Alteration and illusion definitely have representation ingame. NB has fear and cloak which are both illusion spells, necromancer looks to be getting some fear spell as well. DK earthen heart spells like igneous shield and magma shell are alteration as well (akin to stoneflesh type spells). Some sorcerer "dark magic" spells like crystal fragments as well as DK stonefist appear to be at least partly or mostly alteration and look like you are telekinetically throwing things at the enemy (certainly more so alteration than any other school).

That said, an alteration or illusion staff as some kind of buff weapon would be amazing.

Noxavian

I want to see more done with Vampires/Werewolves, it makes no sense why we don't have quest lines and "guild" hang-out areas for them.

Also a third option for players that DONT want to be vampires or werewolves, like the dawnguard or some other hunter group.

tinythinker

~minor spoilers~

*cracks knuckles*

Stars are my personal rating.
Percentages reflect my view of likelihood we'll see it in 2020.

ZONES

More of Argonia (a.k.a. Black Marsh) - **** ....(1%)
More of Hammerfell - *** 1/2 ...(25%)
Western Skyrim - *** 1/2 ... (25%)
Out of Tamriel (like ancient Yokuda) - **** ...(0.1%)
Beyond Nirn (such as plane of Oblivian) - *** 1/2 ...(20%)
Massive Dwemer megacity - *** (5%)

Just had Murkmire, so no realistic chance of more lizard territory. Atmora or Yokuda (present day remnant that held on somehow or time travel) is even less likely. Unseen portions of Skyrim, Hammerfell, and the Planes of Oblivion are much more likely. Western Skyrim would not be territory controlled by any Alliance, and parts of Hammerfell may only tenuously be under King Fahara'jad's control. Taking us to see more of a Daedric realm we've only seem glimpses of so far in ESO (or which have thus far have been absent) would be broadly popular with players. A DLC zone that is just one gigantic Dwemer ruin would be fun but may be too much like Clockwork City.

One of the above would be the Chapter, the other a DLC. While it would make sense based on the pattern so far that a place like Hammerfell would be a Chapter and more of Oblivion would be a DLC zone, it would be depend on who's realm it was.

SURPRISES/LORE EXPLORATION

Lost Ancient(s) - **** ...(1%)
Connection to Goblins - ***
Dwemer Mysteries - *** (5%)

Lost Ancient could be an unknown Daedra that doesn't take on the airs of a Prince, or one of the Magna Ge, or something else entirely. Lots of lore teases and exploration would be available as well as great story inspiration for multiple content drops.

We've seen the history of the treachery toward goblins in Summerset and compassion/attempts to understand them in Shadowfen and in the Frostvault dungeon. Might this go somewhere else as a thread of a larger theme in a future chapter?

And yeah, if we get a DLC zone made up of an ancient Dwemer city, more teases of who they were and what happened to them would abound, with in-story loremasters and scholars of Tamriel featuring as prominent NPCs.


GAME SYSTEMS/FEATURES

Agent/Spy skill line and dailies - **** ...(1%)
Bards College skill line - *** 1/2 ...(10%)
Crafting expansion - *** ...(2%)

So the agent/spy thing I've made threads and comments about many times. Basically, each Alliance has their spy ring: Eyes of the Queen (AD), Hidden Armigers (EP), and Ring of Daggers (DC). Technically player characters join the EotQ if they do the AD story line, but for these purposes you would indicate to Raz an interest in being a more active member if you are on an AD toon. Otherwise you would join the one for your home faction of EP or DC. Dailies would be a combination of stealth, speechcraft, and combat. The skill line would be likely be passive based, perhaps allowing players to see hidden entrances (requiring puzzle solving or lock picking) to many locations for areas relevant to a mission (like how they added new rooms to delves for the Elsweyr prologue quest), new speech options or buffs to existing ones in NPC dialogue, etc. This would go nicely for a contests territory that is more of a cold war area rather than a hot zone like Cyrodiil, such as other areas of Hammerfell or western Skyrim.

Bard college could include illusion magic such as charming opponents. I won't write out the system here, but yes it could work and be fair for both NPC targets and in PvP. Also good for western Skyrim in terms of zone, obviously.

Crafting expansion? Yup. Not more skill lines. But being able to build or rebuild parts of the world, perhaps. This or other options could involved a group effort. In other words, things that go beyond just dropping of the finished product of a writ and never seeing any outcome or advantage other than coin and a box of generic goodies. Being able in some way to see some form of impact from your efforts, which could take numerous creative and exciting forms and even be folded into an expansion of the in-game economy.

Osteos

Anywhere outside of AD lands and swamps.

I would rather see some new magicka weapons or something that allows a magicka character to just cast with their hands and be "unarmed".

Tasear

New potions

thedovahmon

I got one wish and one wish only: Akavir.

SFDB

Poison and Disease staves which use stamina and recover stamina.

Non-staves such as swords that can use magicka and recover magicka.

A frost destruction staff focused upon destruction with frost.

Lich as a World skill line like vampires and werewolves.

Iccotak

Mount Customization

Have a mount that you can uniquely customize

• Choose what type of animal it is
• Choose what kind of armor motif it is wearing
• Customize the animal colors and armor dyes

Itzmichi

Let the flames of yokuda take you!

Nerouyn

Review review.

Iccotak wrote: »

Thread review; Popular ones so far

Locations

• Skyrim
• Black Marsh

I had read all the posts leading up to your review.

Two for Skyrim. Two for Morrowind. One for Black Marsh.

AngelFires333

WW3

Iccotak

Most ambitious hope for the game

Naval Combat and Underwater Exploration, (no underwater combat)

Iccotak

Haj Mota Mount

lelink88

Skyrim Expansion and Spell Crafting

WeerW3ir

AngelFires333 wrote: »

WW3

This ^

SantieClaws

More Elsweyr

A Khajiit place we do not know about yet - I'm going to call it Claws Island ...

More of the area around Claws Island - let's call it The Sea of Santie

Placeable decorative weapons and shields - like for the walls

Strings of sausages

More 'blank space' housing like the one in Coldharbour but less blue please - walled enclosures of some kind would probably work no?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

gepe87

Western Skyrim Chapter with Solstheim as DLC.

Jeirno

Big no for most of those.

Banana

Account wide everything
A ping less than 300 or
Elder scrolls 6

Defilted

Customizable mounts is something I have heard mentioned here and other places and I think that would be a very cool idea and something ZOS could monetize.

Also a Nightmare Bear would be really cool. Please take my money.

WeerW3ir

No more crownstore. Pay for the game to play. just llike old times ;D

ArenGesus

I just want to sync my account across pc/console so I can play on different platforms at different times.

lassitershawn

I think new weapons:
Spears
Alteration and/or Illusion staves
"Unarmed" spell casting
Maybe some new major/minor buffs to go along with them so we don't get stale and rehashed skills?

New zones:
Some Skyrim please?
A daedric realm?
New raid ofc, I think one in either of the above zones would be pretty fun.

Rebalancing:
Ice useful for DPS, at least for warden.

Chaos2088

Really want version 2 of dungeons that only have version 1 so far.

Ertosi

lelink88 wrote: »

Skyrim Expansion and Spell Crafting

Please let them finally add Spell Crafting one day.

Look at the list of big features loudly asked for since the game first came out and Spell Crafting is literally the last one not yet added. Necromancers, Jewelry Crafting, Transmutation, Outfitting, Player Housing... all of these were begged for by some members of the community, others said we'd never get them, they slowly got added one by one. It's finally time to make it happen and put Spell Crafting back on the road map.


Whatever they decide to add, looking at their previous pattern of Chapter content might give a clue as to their future pattern.
2017 Morrowind zone and a new class (Warden)
2018 Summerset zone and 2 new Skill Lines (Jewelry Crafting, and Psijic)
2019 Elsweyr zone and a new class (Necromancer)
2020 ??? zone and new Skill Lines? (Spell Crafting would be a perfect fit!)
2021 ??? zone and a new class?

lassitershawn

Ertosi wrote: »

lelink88 wrote: »

Skyrim Expansion and Spell Crafting

Please let them finally add Spell Crafting one day.

Look at the list of big features loudly asked for since the game first came out and Spell Crafting is literally the last one not yet added. Necromancers, Jewelry Crafting, Transmutation, Outfitting, Player Housing... all of these were begged for by some members of the community, others said we'd never get them, they slowly got added one by one. It's finally time to make it happen and put Spell Crafting back on the road map.


Whatever they decide to add, looking at their previous pattern of Chapter content might give a clue as to their future pattern.
2017 Morrowind zone and a new class (Warden)
2018 Summerset zone and 2 new Skill Lines (Jewelry Crafting, and Psijic)
2019 Elsweyr zone and a new class (Necromancer)
2020 ??? zone and new Skill Lines? (Spell Crafting would be a perfect fit!)
2021 ??? zone and a new class?

I honestly don't think spellcrafting, if added, will be what people expect. It seems borderline impossible to add a balanced and interesting system. They might as well just add a well thought out but ordinary skill line in my opinion.

Ertosi

lassitershawn wrote: »

Ertosi wrote: »

lelink88 wrote: »

Skyrim Expansion and Spell Crafting

Please let them finally add Spell Crafting one day.

Look at the list of big features loudly asked for since the game first came out and Spell Crafting is literally the last one not yet added. Necromancers, Jewelry Crafting, Transmutation, Outfitting, Player Housing... all of these were begged for by some members of the community, others said we'd never get them, they slowly got added one by one. It's finally time to make it happen and put Spell Crafting back on the road map.


Whatever they decide to add, looking at their previous pattern of Chapter content might give a clue as to their future pattern.
2017 Morrowind zone and a new class (Warden)
2018 Summerset zone and 2 new Skill Lines (Jewelry Crafting, and Psijic)
2019 Elsweyr zone and a new class (Necromancer)
2020 ??? zone and new Skill Lines? (Spell Crafting would be a perfect fit!)
2021 ??? zone and a new class?

I honestly don't think spellcrafting, if added, will be what people expect. It seems borderline impossible to add a balanced and interesting system. They might as well just add a well thought out but ordinary skill line in my opinion.

I think you're missing the point of this thread. It's about posting our hopes for next year's new content, not critiquing other's hopes for next year. That's twice now you've essentially said nope to other people's hope. Nobody did that for the hopes you posted you wished to see next year; try to extend the same curtesy to others and help keep the thread from going off topic.

lassitershawn

Ertosi wrote: »

lassitershawn wrote: »

Ertosi wrote: »

lelink88 wrote: »

Skyrim Expansion and Spell Crafting

Please let them finally add Spell Crafting one day.

Look at the list of big features loudly asked for since the game first came out and Spell Crafting is literally the last one not yet added. Necromancers, Jewelry Crafting, Transmutation, Outfitting, Player Housing... all of these were begged for by some members of the community, others said we'd never get them, they slowly got added one by one. It's finally time to make it happen and put Spell Crafting back on the road map.


Whatever they decide to add, looking at their previous pattern of Chapter content might give a clue as to their future pattern.
2017 Morrowind zone and a new class (Warden)
2018 Summerset zone and 2 new Skill Lines (Jewelry Crafting, and Psijic)
2019 Elsweyr zone and a new class (Necromancer)
2020 ??? zone and new Skill Lines? (Spell Crafting would be a perfect fit!)
2021 ??? zone and a new class?

I honestly don't think spellcrafting, if added, will be what people expect. It seems borderline impossible to add a balanced and interesting system. They might as well just add a well thought out but ordinary skill line in my opinion.

I think you're missing the point of this thread. It's about posting our hopes for next year's new content, not critiquing other's hopes for next year. That's twice now you've essentially said nope to other people's hope. Nobody did that for the hopes you posted you wished to see next year; try to extend the same curtesy to others and help keep the thread from going off topic.

I didn't say I didn't like the idea, just that I didn't think it would happen well. I DO like the idea in theory and I hope ZOS can pull it off well if they decide to do it.

Iccotak

Chaos2088 wrote: »

Really want version 2 of dungeons that only have version 1 so far.

in the base game or do you mean the DLCs?

Because in the DLCs those dungeons do act as a two part story

ArchMikem

Theyre finally giving me Elsweyr, my wants have been satisfied.

The only thicng i still really want is Pellitine too, to fill in the entirety of Elsweyr.