[Character Creation] Imperial VS Breton/Nord

Legis

Helloooo guys!

I was wondering to buy "Imperial Edition Upgrade" for my roleplay dipendence but before to do it I have a doubt.

Are there differences in Imperial Character Creation compared to Breton/Nord ?

I tryed to inform myself and I find on internet that Imperial have a Darker Skin Tone compared to the other 2 races....

Are there any other differences?

tomofhyrule

The face shape is also different. Imperials look a bit more Romanesque as opposed to the softer Breton faces. Otherwise there's not too big of a difference. Imperials and Bretons even share the voice files.

The biggest thing is to consider if the RP experience is worth it (in my opinion it is, but ymmv) and also whether you like the passives for one better. You can build however you want, but Bretons do make better mages since all of their passives deal with Magicka.

mimisapje

All races have distinct skin texture and facial structures. Making it somewhat impossible to make the exact looking character with a different race.
When it comes to skin colors, imperials do have much darker tones than bretons and nords. Bretons have like 3 skintones that are darker, but it's mostly looks like a tan. Nords don't really have dark skintone

All races have different passives and are more suited for a specific class (Magic/stamina).
So if you want to do high end pve (trials/vet dungeons), then you might want to keep those passives in mind when picking a race.

Here is a comparison of the darkest skintone from Imperial, breton and nord

markulrich1966

I think the imperials look less "artificial" and have more variety in their look.

Had created a black haired looking hellenistic like from old greek myth hollywood movies, and later changed the look to modern looking blonde-red haired with sun tanned skin, more barbie-like.
Am not on console atm so have no screenshots.

I have the impression that they hit harder as magplars than bretons.

The screenshot I posted earlier on a request concerning different skintones, the left shows 3/4 of the maximum possible darkness.



Another one:

Sinolai

Nords are the "biggest" race (altmer being slightly taller but slimmer). They are taller and have wider shoulders than other humans and their men also have the hairiest chests (apart from Khajiits). They also have round faces which I personally dont like much and I had to spent a while in character creation to get the face right.
Imperial and Breton are pretty similar in body build, Imperials having slightly more muscular body and they are generally darker and have sharper face. The eye and hair colours are also a bit different but you can still make pretty good look-a-likes from Breton and Imperial.

Not sure if any hairstyles & adroments between these races were different, but I remember that atleast male Redguard is missing a couple of hair styles (management material, medium length hair) that are availiable to the 3 other human races. You can however buy the syle packs from Crown Store to get access to the locked hair styles, adroments and breads on all races (except Khajiit manes and Argonian feathers/horns, which are race specific).

Though you are asking only the differences in character creation, I would also recommend you to think for a moment what kind of player you are and what "role" you prefer to play in a group (Tank = Take aggro from the enemies and focus on mitigating damage, Damage Dealer = Avoid taking damage and just maximize your damage output to kill things quickly, Healer/Support) = Give important buffs on allies, debuff enemies and heal everyone when needed.)

For gameplay purposes, Bretons are best as a magicka based character (magicka damage dealer or healer/support) but they are also a decent tank race, while as stamina damage dealers, they are underwhelming. They have bigger magicka pools, cheaper spell costs, faster magicka regeneration and extra spell resistance.
Nords and Imperials are generally used as tank races. Both have lots of extra health & Stamina, with Imperial having a bit more than Nord. Nord has 3,9K extra resistances (that's like having one and half additional heavy armor pieces equipped) and generates ultimate faster. Imperials have inbuild resource regeneration tool and universal 3% resource cost reduction on everything (block, dodge, sprint, ability costs). Imperial can also work as a decent stamina DD race, although it is not the meta as it lacks weapon damage passive.

FrancisCrawford

Apparently, Bretons became a top tanking race while many of us didn't notice.

Kalik_Gold

I'd advise buying it. Especially if you enjoy roleplay and creating a variety of alts. Passives are good also...

Scaletho

We need a upgrade on Face/Body creation editor asap. The lack of real options to create different expressions and face diversity is absurd. The difference estimation is not more than 35-40%. This is very low.

emilyhyoyeon

I want to add that the lightest imperial skintones are still quite light compared to breton and nord. I would post some comparisons but I have reshade on, and the last time I tried temporarily disabling it, long story short, I almost lost my reshade preset file. Anyway......... I think it's worth it for the roleplay value alone.

Stahlor

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Apparently, Bretons became a top tanking race while many of us didn't notice.

It always was a good tanking race.

pihlaja

I love my imperial upgrade! I really like the looks of my two Imperials and the way they can be made. I’m not much of a role player myself (except writing some backstories to my characters in my head) but I prefer that their looks tend to have a bit “edgier” feeling compared to Bretons from my experience, and they are also shorter and less “round faced” than nords, which I personally find to be the one of hardest races to make. (Comments apply mainly female characters, I don’t have Nord and Breton males)

Ratzkifal

Aside from the differences in racial passives and Imperials not being restricted to a specific alliance (unless you have the All-Races-All-Alliances upgrade), the differences are small.

Nords are always very tall. Even the smallest Nord is as tall as the average Breton and Imperial.

From a roleplay perspective Bretons and Imperials are culturally very much alike only that Imperials have this roman empire theme to them that Bretons don't. Nords are vikings and culturally quite distinct from the other two.

Mythreindeer

There’s the white horse thing too but nobody does chubby like Nords.

orion_1981usub17_ESO

Mechanically there is no reason to ever be a imperial. Every role in game is done better by someone else. And though its only happened once, I've been asked in a random vet dungeon why my tank was imperial and not nord. I couldn't even say for looks because he looks like the mountain in merc heavy helm.

Ratzkifal

orion_1981usub17_ESO wrote: »

Mechanically there is no reason to ever be a imperial. Every role in game is done better by someone else. And though its only happened once, I've been asked in a random vet dungeon why my tank was imperial and not nord. I couldn't even say for looks because he looks like the mountain in merc heavy helm.

@orion_1981usub17_ESO Imperials tie with Nord on the best tank race. Nords have better resistances and ult generation, but Imperials have cheaper everything, including block cost and ultimate cost. Now of course you don't need to buy Imperials just to be the best tank, since Nords are free, but you are making it sound like they are in the same worthless spot that Argonians are in now...

Araneae6537

It looks like the Imperials may have a more natural looking face than Bretons and especially Nords. I’ve thought it odd that Bretons’ faces didn’t have an option to go a bit more angular since they are supposed to have a good deal of Elven ancestry, which you would expect to have some influence on their features, at least in some of them.

I should consider adding Imperials someday as I enjoy making alts and I’ll never play a Nord. How do Imperials and Redguards compare as tanks or stamina damage dealers?

pihlaja

My Imperial and Breton happened to have pretty similar face type, so I thought to share these, if it adds something. I haven't compared the sliders though:

Imperial:


Breton:

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Took and made some comparisons between bretons and imperials because they are the most similar (even uses the same body model).

Breton skintones. Two palest and two darkest:


Imperials skintones:


Imperial and breton male faces. Showing average/middle and then full out to each corner. So middle, soft, heroic, angular.


Imperial and breton female faces:


Also, racials passives aren't everything. Pick whichever race you want to play. I personally prefer imperials way more than bretons and have them as both stamina and magicka users.

Lysette

If you like the imperial armor style, it is certainly a good choice to buy the upgrade - you can convert any kind of armor to the imperial style - well, if you actually have an imperial character that is, it won't work on different races.

pihlaja

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Took and made some comparisons between bretons and imperials because they are the most similar (even uses the same body model).

Very good comparison!

zaria

Lysette wrote: »

If you like the imperial armor style, it is certainly a good choice to buy the upgrade - you can convert any kind of armor to the imperial style - well, if you actually have an imperial character that is, it won't work on different races.

The restyle function was replaced by the outfit system.
Convert also had the limit that it did not work on set armor who is that all are wearing making it totally useless.

Obviously Imperials and therefore your alts can use the imperial style, Imperials can also use Imperial style for crafted gear.

WaywardArgonian

In terms of skin tones you'll have pretty much the same skin tones available to you as with Bretons, with you having the option to go several shades darker as an Imperial. You can easily make Imperials to look as white as your average Nord, though.

The body sliders of Imperials are more comparable to Nords/Redguards, with you having the option to more easily build athletic/muscular builds, even in female characters.

I personally think Imperials offer the best sliders in that it is the easiest to make a good-looking character with them.