Tanlorin predicted Subclassing

Erickson9610

Tanlorin is the first Companion to swap one of their Class skill lines for another. In Tanlorin's case, the Companion Dragonknight damage dealer skill line was swapped for the Companion Soul Magic skill line, which may be a reference to how Soul Magic was initially intended to be one of the base game playable Classes before we got the 4 base game Classes we have now.

Hopefully future Companions also utilize Subclassing the way Tanlorin does!

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Nah, i think they ran out of dk skiil between her and Basten so they just filled the gap with a world skill line. The next 2 will likely fill those same gap with vampire and werewolf or other remaining class now that we have subclass comming

spartaxoxo

I actually didn't know that about soul magic, interesting.

Erickson9610

Dark_Lord_Kuro wrote: »

Nah, i think they ran out of dk skiil between her and Basten so they just filled the gap with a world skill line. The next 2 will likely fill those same gap with vampire and werewolf or other remaining class now that we have subclass comming

There were plenty more DK skills they could've used. They even started making "morphs" of DK Companion skills.

ZOS really wanted to emphasize the importance of Soul Magic to the character, hence the replacement of the damage dealer skill line (which always has the Companion's personalized Ultimate) with that of Soul Magic.


Still, think about the possibilities now that players can mix and match Class skill lines! Surely future Companions will come with mixed Class skill lines, too.

Ragnarok0130

No my DK could use soul magic since launch just like everyone else so this isn't subclassing. ZoS chose soul magic for her because they needed to make her different from the other DK Bastion so they chose another skill line. Personally I wish companions had full class and guild skill lines so we could really customize their builds like we can our playable toons.

Erickson9610

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

No my DK could use soul magic since launch just like everyone else so this isn't subclassing. ZoS chose soul magic for her because they needed to make her different from the other DK Bastion so they chose another skill line. Personally I wish companions had full class and guild skill lines so we could really customize their builds like we can our playable toons.

Well, obviously what Tanlorin is doing isn't explicitly Subclassing. It just looks identical to what players will be able to do; albeit using a non-Class skill line in place of a Class skill line.

I think it's important to credit Tanlorin for being the first example of Class skill lines being swapped out.

emeraldshado

All I needed was for them to have green dragon blood, and then I would of replaced Bastion for Tanlorin. But because Tanlorin doesn't have green dragon blood, I have no reason to use them.

soul magic is a base game skill line, not a class skill line.
Tanlorin is the first companion where they removed a class skill line for the base game skill line.