Hircine's Ring

Eirikir

So I had a thought/wish/suggestion for in regards to Greymoor. Since it's got heavy werewolf flavor I was wondering if we could see this classic item?

Honestly I have no idea what I want, only that it feels like something is missing with it not there. Maybe a momento that "changes" you into your wolf form in appearance only and dispells when weapons are drawn. Or maybe an artifact that boosts the stats and weaknesses at the same time. Hell a furnishing item would be great.

Alucardo

A 1pc item that significantly reduces the werewolf ult cost and extends the duration. Why it's even an ultimate I don't know. The only time you see werewolves is those beating up NPCs in overworld zones, because in general it's not very practical giving up your human form.

EDIT: also, if we could make them look a bit more buff and scary, instead of like giant sewer rats spliced with humans that'd be just great.

VoidCommander

With the “antiquities” system, being able to get players daedric artifacts with one piece bonuses is more possible than ever before. It would be nice to see them capitolize on this. Namira’s ring could give you bonuses when a group member dies, hircine’s ring extends werewolf transformation and lowers ultimate cost.
Mace of molag bal could reduce the effective drawbacks of vampirism by 1 stage.
So many possibilities

Eirikir

At the risk of being OP I wish it would just pause our transformation timer when not in combat. The only way I could see that balanced is if the cost to change was raised.

Noxavian

Eirikir wrote: »

So I had a thought/wish/suggestion for in regards to Greymoor. Since it's got heavy werewolf flavor I was wondering if we could see this classic item?

Honestly I have no idea what I want, only that it feels like something is missing with it not there. Maybe a momento that "changes" you into your wolf form in appearance only and dispells when weapons are drawn. Or maybe an artifact that boosts the stats and weaknesses at the same time. Hell a furnishing item would be great.

I would also really like to see the vampire lord rings from Skyrim come too. The ring of Erudite and the RIng of the Beast.

Possibly even the amulets too! The amulet of Bats and Amulet of the Gargoyle.

I would love these.

bearbelly

I am intimately aware of the ring of which you speak from Skyrim (it's one of my favorite items, along with the quest line that grants it), and I too wish that we had such a Hircinic artifact in this game.

Not quite what you asked for, but there is a... "version"... of "Hircine's Ring" (imagine air quotes) currently in the game.
Unfortunately, it's just a ring as part of an item set, and doesn't possess the attributes or impart the character traits of the classic item.



It's the only piece of that set I currently possess, and that's only because they offered it on the weekend Golden Item Vendor a few weeks ago and I happened to have enough gold on-hand at that moment.

One of my goals in this game is to collect at least one of every Hircine-related item that there is.

Alucardo

bearbelly wrote: »

That feels like a very underwhelming use for Hircine's Ring, an iconic and powerful Daedric artifact from the Lord of the Hunt himself. It's pretty disappointing, really.

Aigym_Hlervu

We have Volendrung in Cyrodiil already - have you seen it's powers? That is the performance of a real Daedric artifact, not the one shown by any of the armor sets. Moreover, how would you explain it's simultaneous usage by multiple characters? Dragon Break, the Elder Scroll nature or maybe some other yet absent in the lore phenomenon? Mementos?.. Well, we already have one that transforms its user into a Werewolf Behemoth - do we need another one?..

Unlike, say, Volendrung, the Ring's function has not been changed severely since TES II, so I see only one logical way to implement it in the ESO today: to let Sheogorath steal it the way he did it with Volendrung and release it for capture on the battlefields of Cyrodiil. The Ring would perform it's traditional function of transforming it's wielder into a werewolf without the necessity to contract lycanthropy. The difference of the Ring user from those who were bitten and passed the ritual of the Hircine's Gift along with those who read the spell in the scroll to become a shapeshifter, would be in the type of a werewolf they transform into:



The Ring could turn it's wielder into a huge relatively slow boss-type werewolf really capable of crushing armies of other players, but in order to make it balanced, the Behemoth should be unable to destroy walls and should be vulnerable to some siege weapons and other Daedric artifacts like Volendrung, or some other specific weapons and skills. If Volendrung is mostly used on the offensive to quickly break the keep walls, the Rings's mechanic should allow it's wielder to transform at will (though the Ring should still be depicted on the map) by pressing, say, the Synergy button, to be used primarily on the defensive in order to quickly use the Transitus Network altars and teleport to a besieged friendly keep. That would be cool. Moreover, it could be a great explanation to Balorgh's Werewolf Behemoth form by some future lore books - only the Ring could be made capable to transform it's wielder into such a horrific type of a werewolf and Balorgh could be made it's wielder retrospectively.

Alucardo

Cygemai_Hlervu wrote: »

Now there's a werewolf that never skips leg day. I wish the current WW morph looked something more like this.

YandereGirlfriend

Noxavian wrote: »

Eirikir wrote: »

So I had a thought/wish/suggestion for in regards to Greymoor. Since it's got heavy werewolf flavor I was wondering if we could see this classic item?

Honestly I have no idea what I want, only that it feels like something is missing with it not there. Maybe a momento that "changes" you into your wolf form in appearance only and dispells when weapons are drawn. Or maybe an artifact that boosts the stats and weaknesses at the same time. Hell a furnishing item would be great.

I would also really like to see the vampire lord rings from Skyrim come too. The ring of Erudite and the RIng of the Beast.

Possibly even the amulets too! The amulet of Bats and Amulet of the Gargoyle.

I would love these.

Those rings aren't canon Daedric artifacts though, they're just items invented for the Dawnguard expansion.

Ring of Hircine has been around basically since the beginning of the franchise.

Raudgrani

They could make one of these antiquities artifact, giving some kind of buff to werewolves. Basically, give us the pre Wolfhunter werewolf back, that would be something.