Would it be too much too early to ask for a new class?

Soulborn_Solitude · January 2015

Has it been thrown out there any talk of implementing new classes for even more versatility down the long roads ahead? Just curious...

Gidorick · January 2015

Never too early to bring it up. What are your ideas? Here are the classes that have been included in all ESO games (notice 2 of the ESO classes are ONLY in ESO, so we're not limited to these)

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Classes

I personally would like the Thief class to be released with the Justice system!

AngryNord · January 2015

Don't see how a Thief class would be different enough from the existing Nightblade class to be warranted, TBH...

Rivan12 · January 2015

The Spellsword, Barbarian and Battlemage classes look most widely used in past TES games. Those might be a good start when looking at adding a new class.

Dracane · January 2015

Too early ? Too outragous maybe

I hope, they will never add a new class. The should keep it the way it is, or remove classes from the game. I'm sure, they'll stuck with the 1st option. Please ZoS, don't add another class, rather balance the available ones.

Soulborn_Solitude · January 2015

Spellsword would be my pick sounds versatile in most areas I like containing of skills within class

Soulborn_Solitude · January 2015

Dracane wrote: »

Too early ? Too outragous maybe I hope, they will never add a new class. The should keep it the way it is, or remove classes from the game. I'm sure, they'll stuck with the 1st option. Please ZoS, don't add another class, rather balance the available ones.

They'll run out of ideas sooner or later....I can't wait!

jeevin · January 2015

Necromancer Ftw!!!

Soulborn_Solitude · January 2015

What about Gunslinger that uses hmm...slingshots and pellet guns

jeevin · January 2015

Soulborn_Solitude wrote: »

What about Gunslinger that uses hmm...slingshots and pellet guns

Crossbows perhaps?

Iago · January 2015

then I want a biker class so I can ride a dirt bike through tamriel also this class should come with fully automatic weapons.

SteveCampsOut · January 2015

Bring us to the future! We Want Dragonborn! Or the Past for that matter...

Dracane · January 2015

Soulborn_Solitude wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

Too early ? Too outragous maybe I hope, they will never add a new class. The should keep it the way it is, or remove classes from the game. I'm sure, they'll stuck with the 1st option. Please ZoS, don't add another class, rather balance the available ones.

They'll run out of ideas sooner or later....I can't wait!

This is normal, nobody has infinite ideas. But they only have to read in the forum, to get (mostly ridiculous) new ideas from the players.

Skullemainia · January 2015

I want a Dragon class, so I can summon a dragon and fly above cyrodiil and wear dragon armor

SteveCampsOut · January 2015

...AND DRAGON SHOUTS! DON'T FORGET DRAGON SHOUTS!

DeLindsay · January 2015

Soulborn_Solitude wrote: »

Has it been thrown out there any talk of implementing new classes for even more versatility down the long roads ahead? Just curious...

They already are, it's called Spellcrafting and it will hopefully be in game this year. That system will likely make "Classes" irrelevant and so it should, we don't need more Classes in a TES game, we need less.

TheShadowScout · January 2015

The decoupling of weapons and class skills ESO does makes a few classes kinda included. Where in Morrowind your class determined all your major skills, in ESO its only the class skills, not armor or weapon choices. So what were different classes back then can be the same class now just one as stamina build with heavy armor and two-hander while the other is a magica build with resto-staff.

So, if you think about "new classes", think about the class skills. What's missing?

And then wonder... does it seem like enough to mandate a new class? All three skills? Or could it maybe be covered by a single new skill line or some new skills rumoured to be possible to add with the upcoming spellcrafting?

Let's see... some thoughts on this...

- Archer (nightblade stamina build bow)
- Assassin (nightblade stamina build melee yearning for Dark Brotherhood)
- Barbarian (medium armor and heavy in fighters guild skills)
- Bard (can be done with an added music skill line)
- Battlemage/Spellsword (sorceror with some degree of stamina build?)
- Crusader/Paladin (stamina build heavy armor templar)
- Cryomancer (Ice staff sorceror, maybe a few extra skills?)
- Druid/Ranger - that one might be viable for a full new class. Three skill lines, animal (some pet summoning, some swarm summoning DoT), plant (some heal, some harm) and perhaps even shapeshifting...
- Healer (templar magica build)
- Illusionist (magica build nightblade, maybe a few extra skills?)
- Knight (heavy armor and lots of fighters guild skills)
- Mage (Sorceror with heavy mages guild focus)
- Necromancer (can be done with an optional skill line for sorceror)
- Pyromancer (dragonknight magica build)
- Rouge/Thief (nightblade wating eagerly for justice system and Thieves Guild...)
...or something like that.

AngryNord · January 2015

TheShadowScout wrote: »

The decoupling of weapons and class skills ESO does makes a few classes kinda included. Where in Morrowind your class determined all your major skills, in ESO its only the class skills, not armor or weapon choices. So what were different classes back then can be the same class now just one as stamina build with heavy armor and two-hander while the other is a magica build with resto-staff.

So, if you think about "new classes", think about the class skills. What's missing?

And then wonder... does it seem like enough to mandate a new class? All three skills? Or could it maybe be covered by a single new skill line or some new skills rumoured to be possible to add with the upcoming spellcrafting?

Let's see... some thoughts on this...

- Archer (nightblade stamina build bow)
- Assassin (nightblade stamina build melee yearning for Dark Brotherhood)
- Barbarian (medium armor and heavy in fighters guild skills)
- Bard (can be done with an added music skill line)
- Battlemage/Spellsword (sorceror with some degree of stamina build?)
- Crusader/Paladin (stamina build heavy armor templar)
- Cryomancer (Ice staff sorceror, maybe a few extra skills?)
- Druid/Ranger - that one might be viable for a full new class. Three skill lines, animal (some pet summoning, some swarm summoning DoT), plant (some heal, some harm) and perhaps even shapeshifting...
- Healer (templar magica build)
- Illusionist (magica build nightblade, maybe a few extra skills?)
- Knight (heavy armor and lots of fighters guild skills)
- Mage (Sorceror with heavy mages guild focus)
- Necromancer (can be done with an optional skill line for sorceror)
- Pyromancer (dragonknight magica build)
- Rouge/Thief (nightblade wating eagerly for justice system and Thieves Guild...)
...or something like that.

A hunter class geared towards archery and with the ability to summon/control animals is something that could be added.

Artemiisia · January 2015

I like a new class as well, just remember with a new class, a whole new set of problems comes with balance issues

healing, dps, survivability, synergy and so on.

and people will start to moan about that for the next year

kifyiib14a_ESO · January 2015

New classes could be interesting. I hope they'd keep with the TES history of premade classes.

More than a new class I'd like to see the pet taming thing they had mentioned early on in beta, where you could invest a perk and then have a combat pet. I know Sorc's get a summon but I'd rather have an animal companion than a slave daedra.

bosmern_ESO · January 2015

There could be one scheduled for the end of this year or next, but we never know.

There are three classes I'd love to see and they are:
-Elemental mage (one that uses frost,water, and maybe poison or something, cant do shock or fire because DK and sorcs)
-A high mobility support class (Currently templar is most supportive, but when they get attacked they have to turn into a wall and can't continue playing supportive, I'd like to see a class that can support groups from the back. Maybe a bard?)
-High mobility warrior (would be somewhat like a Nightblade but without invis and all that stuff, more like a foot soldier.)

Sazakala · January 2015

I do not think that it is a priority, but if another class would be introduced... Well, we have most fantasy classes covered as well as most elements but we seem to lack a frost/nature magic oriented one which I would like to see.
Something along the lines of a druid, windarcher or hunter. There was a thread about this the other day that theorized Wardens could be introduced as a healer/shapeshifter class which actually sounds awesome.

Gidorick · January 2015

jeevin wrote: »

Soulborn_Solitude wrote: »

What about Gunslinger that uses hmm...slingshots and pellet guns

Crossbows perhaps?

A Bowslinger... sounds kind of cool.

olsborg · January 2015

Remove classes entirely, make all the class skills under the new spellshchools that are coming with spellcrafting, most of nightblade skills would belong under illusion, templar under restoration and dk/sorc under destruction/summoning.

Bouvin · January 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

Don't see how a Thief class would be different enough from the existing Nightblade class to be warranted, TBH...

It would have a skill that makes it go invisible, and stay invisible, for a short period of time. Unlike Nightblade.

themizario · January 2015

I want a new class too. Legoless create button. 300 create button. Jk!! A serious Necromancer class would be welcomed. Have ultimate where you can rez enemy players to fight for you for 30 seconds before they can respawn. Amazing!

seanvwolf · January 2015

The classes in the game may just need to be purged when spell crafting comes out so that we can build our own class. The reason the current classes have been made is because they embody the ideal of ESO's hybrid-gameplay philosophy.

Just for fun:
What I think they had in mind for the following class breakdown incorporating past TES playable premade classes:

Barbarian - Stamina Dragonknight (2hand/shield/medium armor)
Warrior - Stamina Dragonknight (shield/heavy armor)
Knight - Stamina Dragonknight (2hand/bow/heavy armor)
Monk - Stamina Sorcerer (dualwield/bow/medium armor)
Acrobat - Stamina Nightblade (bow/shield/medium armor)
Archer - Stamina Nightblade (bow/dualwield/medium armor)
Burglar - Stamina Nightblade (dualwield/shield/medium armor)
Pilgrim - Stamina Nightblade (shield/shadow/light armor)
Ranger - Stamina Nightblade (bow/shadow/medium armor)
Rogue - Stamina Nightblade (dualwield/shield/shadow/assassination/medium armor)
Scout - Stamina Nightblade (shield/medium armor)
Crusader - Stamina Templar (2hand/destruction staff/heavy armor)

Dragonknight - Magicka Dragonknight (shield/2hand/heavy armor)
Battlemage - Magicka Sorcerer (2hand/dualwield/summoning and dark magic/heavy armor)
Mage - Magicka Sorcerer (destruction staff/restoration staff/light armor)
Sorcerer - Magicka Sorcerer (destruction staff/heavy armor)
Witchhunter - Magicka Sorcerer (shield/bow/dark magic/summoning/light armor)
Spellsword - Magicka Sorcerer (shield/destruction staff/heavy armor)
Agent - Magicka Nightblade (bow/shadow/light armor)
Assassin - Magicka Nightblade (bow/dualwield/assassination/medium armor)
Bard - Magicka Nightblade (shield/dualwield/medium armor)
Nightblade - Magicka Nightblade (duawield/destruction staff/siphon/medium armor)
Thief - Magicka Nightblade (bow/shadow/medium armor)
Healer - Magicka Templar (restoration staff/destruction staff/light armor)
Templar - Magicka Templar (2hand/restoration staff/heavy armor)

Note that not all magicka builds use light armor and not all stamina builds use medium.

I'm sure some of these are wrong... seems to me to be a lack of magicka Dragonknights and stamina templars. There's a profusion of Nightblades as there are a lot of rogue builds present and very little synergy between classes other than nightblades for rogue type playstyle. Who knows what Thieves' guild and Dark Brotherhood will allow though, right?

Sacadon · January 2015

Soulborn_Solitude wrote: »

Has it been thrown out there any talk of implementing new classes for even more versatility down the long roads ahead? Just curious...

Never to early to share ideas and brainstorm on how we'd like to improve and/or influence the direction of ESO. Ignore the haters & LOLers.

Sacadon · January 2015

How about adding real effing dragons to the game and expanding the DK skills further? Yes DKs are unbalanced... This idea expects it's done with balance in mind.

seanvwolf · January 2015

Sacadon wrote: »

How about adding real effing dragons to the game and expanding the DK skills further? Yes DKs are unbalanced... This idea expects it's done with balance in mind.

If you knew lore... even what was explained in Skyrim... you'd know that there are no dragons during this timeframe.

Amsel_McKay · January 2015

How about instead of adding new classes they remove the class system and let you pick from any of the class lines.... They you can call yourself a flamemagedragoncleric for all I care.