Class Skill Styles?!

propertyOfUndefined · July 8

Why you gotta tease us like this?

tomofhyrule · July 9

I'm guessing we're getting a hint of the first wave of Crown Store styles...

Incidentally, if anyone wants a list of which skills now have the icon:

DK:

Lava Whip
Fiery Breath
Spiked Armor

Warden:

Scorch
Fungal Growth
Arctic Wind

Arcanist:

Runeblades
Fatecarver
Runemend

Necromancer:

Frozen Colossus
Sacrificial Bones
Death Scythe

Nightblade:

Death Stroke
Veiled Strike
Assassin's Blade

Templar:

Puncturing Sweep
Backlash
Rushed Ceremony

Sorcerer:

Crystal Shard
Daedric Curse
Summon Winged Twilight
Lightning Form

Also can't help but notice a few other skills that have the Styling icon now and nothing in the menu:

Two Handed - Critical Charge
One Hand and Shield - Puncture
Bow - Volley
Psijic Order - Undo
Psijic Order - Accelerate

_Ahala_ · July 9

I hope the scorch one is non vvardenfell themed and not just a recolor

Alaztor91 · July 9

_Ahala_ wrote: »

I hope the scorch one is non vvardenfell themed and not just a recolor

I think all of them have been recolors so far. I would love different creatures for stuff like Scorch, Bear, Sorc Scamp/Twilight, etc but I guess those would also require new animations and thus more work.

_Ahala_ · July 9

Guess if it’s a crown store thing that just depends on how much money they want to make. I’m willing to bet anything that swaps warden skills to be less vvardenfell focused would sell quite well.

LittlePinkDot · July 9

I want a red impervious runeward!

anadandy · July 9

NGL, I'd pay crowns for the old jabs animation.

Lags · July 9

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I'm guessing we're getting a hint of the first wave of Crown Store styles...

Incidentally, if anyone wants a list of which skills now have the icon:

DK:
Lava Whip

Fiery Breath

Spiked Armor

Warden:
Scorch

Fungal Growth

Arctic Wind

Arcanist:
Runeblades

Fatecarver

Runemend

Necromancer:
Frozen Colossus

Sacrificial Bones

Death Scythe

Nightblade:
Death Stroke

Veiled Strike

Assassin's Blade

Templar:
Puncturing Sweep

Backlash

Rushed Ceremony

Sorcerer:
Crystal Shard

Daedric Curse

Summon Winged Twilight

Lightning Form

Also can't help but notice a few other skills that have the Styling icon now and nothing in the menu:
Two Handed - Critical Charge

One Hand and Shield - Puncture

Bow - Volley

Psijic Order - Undo

Psijic Order - Accelerate

jesus i hope not. that is so unforgivable if all that is on the crown store.

Lystrad · July 13

I mean, I feel like class skill styles have to be more than just recolors right? Like, Weapon/world skills it makes sense to change the colors so they can blend into different themes better but with class skills just changing their color would looks weird unless it changed the colors of ALL of your class skills, since you'd just end up with a mismatch of your old colors and your new ones. Arcanist would be especially egregious, since even if you could change all of your ability colors you'd still be stuck with the green crux spinning around you.... Unless maybe they had a way to tie crux color to runeblades color?

Luke_Flamesword · July 13

I hope it's red or orange fiery breath, because I need so much for my stamdk. I will be dissapointed if it will be purple, blue or something completely off with class colors.

propertyOfUndefined · July 13

It would be cool if blastbones changed to a drunk zombie pirate or something.

I could totally see warden skills being styled so that they aren't so thematically morrowind - eg. a bed of flowers instead of a bed of mushrooms, an eagle instead of a cliffracer, etc.

Erickson9610 · July 13

I think the first batch of Class Skill Styles will be simple recolors of class skills away from their standard color. We've yet to see anything complex like remodels being done with this system, but that's not to say that it won't happen somewhere down the line.

I think a few basic VFX recolors would be a good starting point.

CameraBeardThePirate · July 15

Will the skill style bring back the time based scaling for blastbones? If not I'm not interested.

Zyaneth_Bal · July 17

Lystrad wrote: »

I mean, I feel like class skill styles have to be more than just recolors right? Like, Weapon/world skills it makes sense to change the colors so they can blend into different themes better but with class skills just changing their color would looks weird unless it changed the colors of ALL of your class skills, since you'd just end up with a mismatch of your old colors and your new ones. Arcanist would be especially egregious, since even if you could change all of your ability colors you'd still be stuck with the green crux spinning around you.... Unless maybe they had a way to tie crux color to runeblades color?

I agree but I think they might simply be saving it for future updates.
And I am absolutely certain it’s just recolours

TDVM · July 17

It should be free and for everyone

Erickson9610 · July 17

TDVM wrote: »

It should be free and for everyone

Why should the Class Skill Styles be free for everyone?

I think Class Skill Styles are the perfect opportunity to begin monetizing the system because those skills are so popular with players.

Lystrad · July 19

Upon further consideration, I'm hoping that at some point we get skill styles for nightblade that allow us to change all of the assets used by nightblade's spectral weapons from the red ones they have by default to specifically the gloambound weapon models because a nightblade just cycling through an arsenal of bound weapons actually sounds kind of cool and it would allow them to have optional in universe consistency by allowing use of proper bound weapons instead of the weird red ones they have by default.

In theory you could extend this to templar's spear line, necro scythe and bound armaments for sorcerers too. Give templars blue animations and the staff (or a mix of GS and staff based on the skill if animations can be changed for things like jabs/sweeps), necros gs/2h axe, and just make the knives for bound armaments the proper bound dagger asset.

colossalvoids · July 19

Erickson9610 wrote: »

TDVM wrote: »

It should be free and for everyone

Why should the Class Skill Styles be free for everyone?

I think Class Skill Styles are the perfect opportunity to begin monetizing the system because those skills are so popular with players.

My guess would be that some of us fed up with everything being sold to us via micro-giga-transactions while it's not a free to play game with a sub and hard cash expansion costing like a new game. Too many monetisation and not much content produced from those.

Erickson9610 · July 19

colossalvoids wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

TDVM wrote: »

It should be free and for everyone

Why should the Class Skill Styles be free for everyone?

I think Class Skill Styles are the perfect opportunity to begin monetizing the system because those skills are so popular with players.

My guess would be that some of us fed up with everything being sold to us via micro-giga-transactions while it's not a free to play game with a sub and hard cash expansion costing like a new game. Too many monetisation and not much content produced from those.

I see. I don't feel the same way about the situation, but I respect that others may feel differently.

I think Class Skill Styles on some of the most popular Class abilities sounds like an obvious pick for monetization. They might come out around the same time as Update 43, which introduces new Skill Styles which are earnable via content.

Maybe ZOS intends to strike a balance between the number of monetized Skill Styles in the Crown Store and the number of earnable Skill Styles in-game (some of which require DLC to unlock)?