Ice staff blocking animation

necro_the_crafter

Are you guys, at any point, did question yourself, why putting a cold stick in front of yourselves does make for a decent defence? And why does blocking with a stick consumes magika? And are you devs, at any point, had a conversation about that? I mean from a mechanical point everybody understands that ice staff is a support/defence tool, that its identity is in its block mitigation, utility such as minor main and minor brittle, as well as taunt and damage shield for allies, BUT from visual perspective how does it make any sense?

I wanna ask you guys to consider an animation rework of a frost staff blocking animation, and for me the best place to derive inspiration from is a skyrims ward spells.

I for one would love to see my char casting an icy ward spell like the one on the picture with its left hand while blocking with an Ice Staff, this would make much more sense from gameplay perspective and easily answer a questions like - how is it better at mitigation? And, why its consumes magika?

Such a minor animation update would add much more depth and attention to gameplay as a whole, and would show the players that devs actually care about Elder Scrolls fantasy, and players immersion into the world they creating.

Soraka

That would be awesome

Soarora

Reading this I was thinking, it costs magicka just because its a game mechanic and you can block things using sticks but I like your idea way more. Maybe can block as it is now if trifocus (what makes blocking take magicka) doesn’t have any points in it, and have a ward instead if you have points in trifocus.

ESO_Nightingale

necro_the_crafter wrote: »

Are you guys, at any point, did question yourself, why putting a cold stick in front of yourselves does make for a decent defence? And why does blocking with a stick consumes magika? And are you devs, at any point, had a conversation about that? I mean from a mechanical point everybody understands that ice staff is a support/defence tool, that its identity is in its block mitigation, utility such as minor main and minor brittle, as well as taunt and damage shield for allies, BUT from visual perspective how does it make any sense?

I wanna ask you guys to consider an animation rework of a frost staff blocking animation, and for me the best place to derive inspiration from is a skyrims ward spells.

I for one would love to see my char casting an icy ward spell like the one on the picture with its left hand while blocking with an Ice Staff, this would make much more sense from gameplay perspective and easily answer a questions like - how is it better at mitigation? And, why its consumes magika?

Such a minor animation update would add much more depth and attention to gameplay as a whole, and would show the players that devs actually care about Elder Scrolls fantasy, and players immersion into the world they creating.

that cold stick shouldn't even be a tanking weapon in the first place, it was and still is a bandaid. id rather see them return the ice staff to a damage weapon and create a new alteration staff next year, than to see them further commit to this travesty that has done nothing but cause issues.

Tcholl

Very well noted and also awesome suggestion. Would be very cool to actually see this animation in game.