Between the two options, which sounded more exciting as the primary chapter feature to YOU?

Cooperharley

TaSheen

Arcanist (new class)

I have never had any interest in spellcrafting.

And thank you for having the "Other" option in this poll at least.

spartaxoxo

Arcanist (new class)

Arcanist looks pretty cool and the combo system looks interesting. Spell crafting also seems cool, but seems hard to balance and less likely to add anything as novel as the combo system seems from the description.

metheglyn

Arcanist (new class)

I've never wanted spellcrafting, so just about anything else would have sounded better.

Though I doubt I'll play it, the arcanist class itself looks like an interesting concept.

SilverBride

Arcanist (new class)

Spellcrafting sounds like a complete nightmare to me. I'm excited about the new Arcanist class.

tomofhyrule

Arcanist (new class)

I am so excited for this new class. It looks really fun.

Before, I would have preferred something that everyone could use (we haven't ever gotten a new weapon, and spears have been absent from the Elder Scrolls series for a while and are really due for a comeback), but then they showed off this new class and I'm completely sold.

Not going to change my main, but alts are all for fun. And this looks like a lot of fun.

FeedbackOnly

Arcanist (new class)

It's too late. Arcanist isn't a bad class. The gameplay is different from the rest without skill cap being too high.

Shihp00

Arcanist (new class)

Not even a question

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Other (comment below)

Neither sound exciting. There was a lot of other things I was hoping for instead, like new skillines, weapon etc, and no I don't count the Arcanist towards that because I can't use it for any of my already existing characters.

phaneub17_ESO

Arcanist (new class)

More character slots is always a welcome. Even if the class really sucks, I can use those 2 slots for anything.

Dojohoda

Other (comment below)

I was hoping for something that all my characters could possibly use such as a new skill line or a new weapon. We have never had a new weapon as far as I know.

Cazador

Arcanist (new class)

I really couldn't care less about spellcrafting and its been a while since I leveled a new character, so arcanist seems like the obvious choice.

shadyjane62

Other (comment below)

I would like to be out of combat.

blktauna

Other (comment below)

I would like my skills to work in Cyrodil.

Syldras

Arcanist (new class)

Actually interested in both, but spellcrafting would be hard to balance.

Soarora

Arcanist (new class)

Spellcrafting would be a disaster unless its cosmetic and non-combat related, imo. A new class has fun effects outside of something new to try several times (tank, healer, stam dps, mag dps, pve, pvp...). It inspires people to main it as a class and I'm excited to see its role develop and the meta setups be built for it in real time.

colossalvoids

Spellcrafting

Can't be excited about something that would just sit there collecting dust.

Cireous

Spellcrafting

Team Spellcrafting

I have to admit, though... Arcanist looks pretty cool, but that's so much stuff we have to level up again

Clyde_BlueSnake

Spellcrafting

Honestly both sound exciting to me, but for as someone familiar with spellcrafting from the main games (Oblivion & Morrowind specifically, was a Ranger class when played Arena & Daggerfall so I was restricted from using the spellbook) I have to say spellcrafting more. Though it could be a nightmare, while it would be something interesting for all classes.

Suna_Ye_Sunnabe

Spellcrafting

The only reason I had my heart set on spellcrafting was to have a hope of enjoying my butchered Templar again, with new moves...

jtm1018

Other (comment below)

C. Others. Monk class.
D. Marrying Naryu.
E. Naryu as companion.

XSTRONG

Other (comment below)

Im more excited for the new dungeon system

thorwyn

What's with all those polls lately?

merpins

Spellcrafting

To me, if spell crafting was as they described it back when it was almost done, 2014, 2015ish, then it would be that. An open-ended system, with the prospect of having more skills than a single skill line and possibly more skills than a class... One where you can choose the effects of the skills you make, and since it's open ended, it could have more spell options added to it. One that opens the prospect of an offshoot system; spellcrafting, then there's martial training where you come up with skills that are more based in weapon combat than magic. It wasn't something ever really suggested, but it would make sense for both to exist at some point.

It's the possibility of having a lot of new options that is enticing for me. More summons, skills, buffs, attacks, spammable skills...

Of course a new class isn't bad. If its playstyle is something I like, I'll be super on board! I wasn't on board with Warden when it came out, didn't get into it until mid 2019 or 2020, and now with the Jabs animation change, Warden is my main. I never liked Necro though. Tried it, tried it again, I even have one fully leveled. Just don't like the skills or how it feels to play. I'm hopeful it won't be like that for Arcanist.

Danikat

Arcanist (new class)

Of the two I prefer the arcanist. Spellcrafting sounds interesting in theory but I agree with the people who said ZOS would want it to be balanced and at least give the appearance that it's optional and not the only way to get viable skills once it's introduced which would leave it so limited it would basically be a variation on enchanting.

I would like to get new weapon skills, because that's one area where all my characters end up seeming the same, but I don't think ZOS have even mentioned that possibility.

UntilValhalla13

Arcanist (new class)

The game has needed a new class for a long time. I don't ever see spell crafting ever happening. It seems like a balancing nightmare.

fizzylu

Other (comment below)

Neither, would have much preferred a new weapon line.

Stx

Spellcrafting

I couldn’t care less about a new class. I want new skills to make builds on my current characters.

Dr_Con

Arcanist (new class)

I prefer this poll over the other one . Truth is, arcanist is leagues more appealing since a "spellcrafting" system would be beneficial to certain classes, while stripping away class identity from others. The final version of such a system would be so underwhelming that it wouldn't be used. What I find odd is that Arcanist is tied with a daedric prince and is now a discoverable class with an expansion- unlike Wardens and Necromancers which you can argue were already in the game with their respective chapter releases, you'll now have new masters of a new form of magic that can rival other forms... you would think that a sorceror could be an arcanist, for example- which begs the question "why haven't they released a class change option"

Sheridan

Other (comment below)

Story Mode for dungeons and trials

Varana

Arcanist (new class)

Of the two, a new class is clearly the better option.

Spellcrafting sounds great.
It is.
In single-player games where you can totally forget about balance and stuff.

In an MMO, esp. in one where they struggle with balancing anyway, there can be no actually open system like spellcrafting.
What they can do, is cosmetics. Take the Liquid Lightning spell and transmogrify it into a frost spell, or poison. But even that would be hard to keep in heck, due to all the synergies and secondary effects.
Or pure roleplaying. You can craft your own spells, but they will always and definitely be worse in all aspects than the original.
Everything else is wishful dreaming.