Yes and No.

It will address the balance issues between classes. I imagine that everyone will now have access to a healing ultimate, which will allow them to heal on par with a Templar. I imagine that everyone will have access to spells that make their stealth more effective, which will make them closer to NBs in regard to stealth. I imagine that there will be tanky spells to bring people closer to DKs and teleport/escape spells to bring people closer to Sorcs and Nbs in regard to escape.

It will solve the class balance issue as much as it can be solved, but it will still leave stamina needing some work.

There is no way that offering people more possibilities can bring more balance into the game.

In fact it`s quite the opposite. You`re giving player the chance to figure out new ways to become gods and some people will find those OP builds i can assure you of that .

There are just so many different combinations out there that the Devs did not think of with the game as is and soon they`re going to add more .

They can try and figure out as many different combinations as they can either with just the new spells or just the abilities in the game or trying combinations between both the new spells and the current abilities , they most likely will forget a few .

Plus ability combos are not the only things to consider. Gear set bonuses can affect those builds , then gear and jewelry enchantments can affect them even further.

Plus some people don`t even use complete sets of gear , they rather use bonuses from only using 2 peices of multiple sets and i`m sure there are ways to exploit that no matter how much you think that using a full set is better.

The fact that some people are able to think outside the box and some can`t , there will always be imbalance in this game . Always. There is no cure for imbalance at this point.

The devs will keep trying to adjust as the time goes but this game becoming completly and perfectly balanced is not possible .

Draxuul

Armitas wrote: »

Stamina builds are already questionable. Unless I'm missing some key part of spell crafting it would seem to make a magicka build a necessity even more. It would perhaps "fix" the balance by removing any remaining doubt that one should have a magicka build.

I want spell crafting, but honestly stamina needs development first. Being able to mix weapon skills with "other" magicka skills while tying them to stamina could be a panacea for the stamina build.

You know?? the more i think about that stamina build issue that people seem to be having and the more i`m starting to think that the devs never thouht that people would actually go for a pure stam build considering that there is just so much more to each characters then just stamina.

Why limit yourself to being a regular joe when you can be so much more .

It`s like someone is asking you to choose between 100 millions $ or a house, a car and a pool.

Now most people go for the 100 millions because they know that they can have everything from the second option AND more and some of them invest that money and make it grow into an even bigger amount of cash.

But then there are those who go for the house, car and pool because it represents everything they ever wanted from life and then when they look at what the others are doing with their millions , they complain that they want that too.

the point i`m trying to make here is why the hell would you limit yourself to using stamina only if you`re gonna turn around and complain that there are people more powerful than you.

Yes they are more powerful than you, of course they are because they didn`t limit themselves and they`re taking advantage of everything that has been offered to them rather than just one thing.

Draxuul

oren74 wrote: »

yes, but, it's just going to make every class be exactly the same with the same abilities. Classes will just be irrelevant.

I really hope so. Class has always been a starting point in the ES series. What you start out as leads into what you can become, which is usually a demigod. I'm fine with everyone having access to more or less all the same abilities, its what we choose to use that makes us unique, and the more powers we have access to, the more unique we can be. Not convinced? Check out the way TSW skills work.

they're widening the gap between magicka and stamina - the only thing of benefit is they're giving stamina an equivalent of dark exchange

I assume spellcrafting will make it worse.

Maybe if you added weaponcrafting, it might help.