Weapon Staff Elements

yadibroz

I think eso should add a list of elements power such as
Darkness
Wind
Water
Earth
Light
With these elements will help the game and fresh all players on trying new way to play.

Dr_Con

what sort of status effects do you think each should inflict?

ex.
shock - concussion
fire - burning
poison - poisoned
etc

I'm not opposed to integrating any of your suggestions (for example, restorations staves could be light or dark, and the beams could update to reflect this), but usually there's a status effect associated with any given elemental attack

OBJnoob

Darkness could reduce crit chance: Blinded
Water could be a snare that DOES stack with other snares: Soaked
Light could be a bonus to allies (probably only able to be applied with heals,) it would just be like a generic unnamed +8% healing taken: Blessed

I'm struggling to come up with answers for the others... But that isn't the problem. The problem is having to add a mess of new weapons and abilities that do these damage types. And sets.

yadibroz

OBJnoob wrote: »

Darkness could reduce crit chance: Blinded
Water could be a snare that DOES stack with other snares: Soaked
Light could be a bonus to allies (probably only able to be applied with heals,) it would just be like a generic unnamed +8% healing taken: Blessed

I'm struggling to come up with answers for the others... But that isn't the problem. The problem is having to add a mess of new weapons and abilities that do these damage types. And sets.

Something like that even a staff that have poison and I even see enemies have a dark staff so it need to happen for a fresh gameplay.

Ratzkifal

This suggestion doesn't feel very Elder-Scrolls-y in my opinion.
Simply adding new elements to destruction staves isn't going to make for fresh gameplay either because the skills would still function the same so the difference going from Fire to, say, Darkness would not be felt in your gameplay because you would still use crushing shock and wall of elements.

However Alteration, Conjuration and Illusion staves would be neat.