Which Skill Line should be given to a future Companion next?

Erickson9610

Presuming future Companions will follow the example set by Tanlorin, which new skill line would you most like to see given to a future Companion?


It's likely that we will continue to see existing Companion Classes reused, but each time with a different selection of skills from the Player version of the Class and with different "morphs" to set them apart from previous Companions. For example, Tanlorin and Bastian are both Dragonknights — they both share the skill Kindle, but Tanlorin has a different "morph" of Bastian's "Searing Weapons", which is called "Volcanic Arms", and Tanlorin has some entirely new Dragonknight skills that Bastian didn't get a Companion version of.

The most interesting development, though, is that Tanlorin's two Dragonknight skill lines, Draconic Armor and Radiating Heart, share the same name as the corresponding skill lines that Bastian has. This implies that Tanlorin's version of the Soul Magic skill line, "Empathic Fighter", might be reused on future Companions, which leads me to the main question of this poll:


If these new Companion skill lines may be reused, then which existing Skill Line would you like to see be given to Companions next? They may not always replace the Damage Dealer skill line for their Class, the way Tanlorin's Soul Magic skill line replaces the Dragonknight Damage Dealer skill line "Ardent Warrior", so keep in mind that this is an opportunity to see a wider variety of skills given to individual Companions.

These extra skill lines might level up with XP gained, since there are no Psijic Order daily quests or Companion-accessible Alliance War quests. Also note that, like how the Companion Soul Magic skill line created an Active Ability out of the Soul Shatter passive, even the skill lines with only passives are viable candidates.

N00BxV1

Other (please describe your thoughts)

Crafting skill lines. So the companions can actually be useful and do my crafting writs and surveys for me.

Edit:
Maybe this belonged in the option "Skill Lines with only Passive Abilities (Thieves Guild, Legerdemain, Dark Brotherhood, Scrying, Craft, etc)". Whoops!

meekmiko

Werewolf (World)

Definitely werewolf and vampire.
I'd love to see a Bosmer werewolf and a vampire Orc.

Erickson9610

Werewolf (World)

My vote is for a Werewolf Companion, but who knows the direction ZOS may take to implement one. It wouldn't work if it replaced one of the human form skill lines; it'd have to be under a separate category.


If a future Companion were to have one of these other skill lines replace their damage dealer skill line instead of being separate, then I could imagine a Nightblade Vampire Companion working out thematically. They would have plenty of siphoning abilities from their healer line, and of course the Vampire abilities are already about siphoning blood.

Psijic Order doesn't have many damage skills, so it might replace either the tank or healer skill line instead, if it isn't kept separate from the Class toolkit. Psijic Order only has one damaging ability, Imbue Weapon, and maybe it could turn Spell Orb into a damage ability as well.

Assault has 2 damaging skills, Caltrops and Magicka Detonation, or 3 if you include the Scribing Grimoire Trample. We don't know if Companions will ever get skills based on Scribing — after all, we saw new Soul Magic skills added, yet Empathic Fighter made a skill out of a passive instead of drawing from a Grimoire.

And Support has no damaging skills. It has plenty of shielding and protective skills, though.

barney2525

Basket weaving

A magica based attack that makes the opponent(s) sit and make baskets for 1 minute

Syldras

barney2525 wrote: »

Basket weaving
A magica based attack that makes the opponent(s) sit and make baskets for 1 minute

No, it may lead to horrendous results.

CGPsaint

Companions need access to more than just one ultimate, as they are currently shoehorned into a certain role, or just flat out have a useless ultimate for what they're being used for. Let's start with that!

Erickson9610

Werewolf (World)

CGPsaint wrote: »

Companions need access to more than just one ultimate, as they are currently shoehorned into a certain role, or just flat out have a useless ultimate for what they're being used for. Let's start with that!

I agree. All Companions up to this point have had their Ultimate be in their Damage Dealer skill line — which honestly might've been part of the reason why Tanlorin's Dragonknight Damage Dealer skill line was swapped out for the Soul Magic skill line.

I'd say that we should have at least an Ultimate for each Companion's Class Healer and Tank skill line as well. Following the precedent that every Companion's Class Ultimate must be unique to them, that means Tanlorin's Dragonknight Healer/Tank Ultimates would not be the same as Bastian's Dragonknight Healer/Tank Ultimates.

AvalonRanger

Other (please describe your thoughts)

If you go by your tank player character, then companion makes sense.
But in DPS character, then companion system doesn't work at all.

Every skill line is just useless as companion's skill line.
Because companion is extremely weak.

I want "money builder skill line" for companion.
They're not fighter in current balance tunning anyway.

Mascen

I just want a straight up maomer pirate somewhere between Errol Flynn and Johnny Depp. Sea based magic abilites and summoning water out of nowhere.

duagloth

I want a new class or skill line. No more companions.

SilverBride

Other (please describe your thoughts)

No more Companions.

DreamyLu

Other (please describe your thoughts)

Egoistically, I don't want future companions. I have no need for more.

I could say that I don't care, but it's not true, because I can't avoid the feeling that the budget invested to provide new companions could have been used for something I like better instead.