Cosmetic Skill Styles - Race/Culture Based Animations
Magenpie
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When Skill Styles were introduced I wasn't that excited about them. Simply changing the colour of skill animations didn't really grab me.
I know there are some skill styles which do more than just change the colour of the animations. However, I think some styles which really reflected the various races and culture of our characters would be amazing. For example, so I'd LOVE some Hist or Sithis based skill styles for my Argonian characters. Or for Khajiit characters we could have skill styles themed around the moon and the lunar cycle (so imagine your khajiit templar calling down the power of the moon for example)? I'd love some plant/forest/botanical styles for my wood elves.
I'd love some more environmentally linked styles too. I never got on with the very flashy blue necro themed skills - what if those skills were instead all about dry bones, moss and earth, and you summoned up the skeletons of creatures in the zone you're fighting in?
But I'd also like some effects a bit like the ones we get on armour sets - so flocks of crows, automatons, sea creatures, etc etc. Because sets are so BiS driven, I think it's a shame these fun sets with interesting animations don't get used much, so why not take those animations and apply them to skills?
I think styles like this would give so much more meaning to our characters, add to their stories and give a boost to the RPG elements of the game.
I know there are some skill styles which do more than just change the colour of the animations. However, I think some styles which really reflected the various races and culture of our characters would be amazing. For example, so I'd LOVE some Hist or Sithis based skill styles for my Argonian characters. Or for Khajiit characters we could have skill styles themed around the moon and the lunar cycle (so imagine your khajiit templar calling down the power of the moon for example)? I'd love some plant/forest/botanical styles for my wood elves.
I'd love some more environmentally linked styles too. I never got on with the very flashy blue necro themed skills - what if those skills were instead all about dry bones, moss and earth, and you summoned up the skeletons of creatures in the zone you're fighting in?
But I'd also like some effects a bit like the ones we get on armour sets - so flocks of crows, automatons, sea creatures, etc etc. Because sets are so BiS driven, I think it's a shame these fun sets with interesting animations don't get used much, so why not take those animations and apply them to skills?
I think styles like this would give so much more meaning to our characters, add to their stories and give a boost to the RPG elements of the game.
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mdjessup4906✭✭✭✭The only issue/hard part i can see would be tweaking the animations to fit the cast time well, which is essential to make them not clunky to use. Otherwise yes plz, these are really fun and lore friendly ideas.0 -
Heren✭✭✭✭To some extent, there is already some styles like that ( https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Wall_of_Elements,_Autumn_Leaves for example ). But I sadly wont bet on a massive and widely available release of skill styles ( for the style aformentioned, well, I guess it will be available again in two or three years, so, don't be in a hurry to get it ).0