Hi!
I have been finally discharged out of the hospital a little over 1-2 weeks ago, after a brain injury left me in hospital for about 2 months. And now that I am functional enough to catch up on ESO news again, I’m really excited!!!
I love the concept of subclassing and skill styles letting us players create a truly unique character and player experience we can immerse ourselves in. And I heard cross-play is being worked on and now I am dead excited!! I’ve worked my tushy off to build a 4090 PC and now I might finally be able to bring my character to PC!! 😍
Anyway, I just wanted to share my ideas on how I think ESO would truly become a place we can feel like we belong. And we definitely need such a place in these rough times. ❤️
So the idea is the introduction of a new customized action type (Combat). This could alter a player character’s combat animations per weapon type, including: idle animations, walking with weapon unsheathed, running with weapon unsheathed, sheathing and unsheathing animations, light and heavy attack animations, roll dodge animations and block animations. (Sorry animation dev team, we love you

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Below is a simple concept I drew (sorry I tried my best ^_^’) that shows an example of what I mean:

The (poorly drawn) image shows the idle stances for various weapon types. Also, some enemies in the game have animations already that maybe could be turned into a combat customized action, such as the ascendant order boss in Coral Aerie does a cool backwards cartwheel animation that could be used as an alt dodge roll. Also some enemies do a little sword twirl when unsheathing their weapon. These animation could also have the ability to be canceled with our current animation canceling system to keep things balanced but give us an immersion element.
Another idea I have is also taking current personalities and breaking down into something like these screenshots I edited (please forgive the lack of quality as I have yet to learn proper art skills and use of editing programs):


To explain, the idea is giving the players the ability to customize their character’s personality with what we currently have in the game, but in more detail. By allowing us to select the specific animations similar to what is shown in my edited screenshots.
Please tell me what you think, and I’d be interested in any of your ideas. I think we could all use something fun to think about and discuss with everything going on around in the world. ❤️
Edited by elven.were_wolf on June 10, 2025 4:12PM Achievement hunter and secret admirer of Naryu Virian.