phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Get 6 people surrounding you as you play an instrument, now have those 6 people start pushing you around while you attempt to play instrument, now have them start punching you, and finally have them start sticking pointy objects at you while you attempt to play your instrument. Tell me your results after.
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Get 6 people surrounding you as you play an instrument, now have those 6 people start pushing you around while you attempt to play instrument, now have them start punching you, and finally have them start sticking pointy objects at you while you attempt to play your instrument. Tell me your results after.
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Get 6 people surrounding you as you play an instrument, now have those 6 people start pushing you around while you attempt to play instrument, now have them start punching you, and finally have them start sticking pointy objects at you while you attempt to play your instrument. Tell me your results after.
HappyTheCamper wrote: »I don’t demand we get one. But like…they are definitely Elder Scrolls friendly. There were literal bard classes in the old games (Anyone play Oblivion lol?) I know classes in those games weren’t the same as ESO, but technically it is where we got nightblades from.
I am excited for Archanist, but I admit making a class specific to Hermaeus Mora is very pigeon-holey when trying to create a character. I could come up with a lot more vibrant characters if it was a bard.
Holycannoli wrote: »Has nobody played classic Everquest? Or Dark Age Of Camelot? Bard classes can be a lot of fun and bring great utility to groups. DAOC had three varying versions of "bard":
Bard for Hibernia: https://darkageofcamelot.com/content/class-library-bard
Minstrel for Albion: https://darkageofcamelot.com/content/class-library-minstrel
Skald for Midgard: https://darkageofcamelot.com/content/class-library-skald
Slight variations on the same basic theme of music as magic. If devs 20 years ago can come up with three variations of the class I'm sure ZOS can come up with one.
And it can fit Elder Scrolls lore just fine. If dragon voices can be magical via shouting, and the dwemer used tonal magic (they don't call it magic but it basically is in a sense), what's wrong with music being magical?
Some of you need to go play classic Everquest and Dark Age Of Camelot.
Oh and I didn't even mention that ESO was heavily influenced by DAOC. The whole RvRvR thing and Imperial City being ESO's version of DAOC's Darkness Falls, which you couldn't access unless your realm owned the majority of keeps. Who here remembers when you couldn't enter Imperial City unless your realm owned the circle of keeps surrounding it? And anyone inside IC counted toward the pop cap so you had to do your farming quickly before another realm took control of the entry and came to wipe you out? Just like Darkness Falls. Good change getting rid of that but this game was originally an almost spiritual successor to DAOC, set in the Elder Scrolls universe instead of a fantasy Arthurian universe. A bard class can fit just fine.
I've always made my own bards in previous games - I pick the sort of spells that are "roguish" (I don't have any of the games loaded right now as I'm getting ready to reinstall Oblivion and Skyrim so don't really have spell names at my fingertips), and usually use a sword or dagger as weapon, which leaves a hand free. Of course Skyrim has the bard mods available (for singing/playing for one's supper and a bed) but that's more on the line of the bards you see in this game rather than being its own "class".
Since we have had Shouts in TES V, and Tonal Architects among the Dwemer, I've never really found spell-using bards that out of range. But of course, that's just me. I've never really looked at what the lore says about it, because I don't really care as long as I can do what I want in the single player titles.
I think it's unlikely to happen in ESO, but I really do wish it would. I actually think it would be better as an additive skill line - along the same setup as antiquities.
tohopka_eso wrote: »I played both EverQuest titles. In EQ2 the bard is kinda like a all around jack of all trades while the one in EQ you learned how to twist songs.