New classes

Tycobb117 · February 2015

I know that this has already been talked to before but what new classes would you like to see

orangeberry4 · February 2015

i would love to see an illusionary class or elemental class like water and earth. I wanna be a necromancer or shaman character so bad its ridiculous. we need way more classes.
we have wood elves we should have a class that fits them like wood, air, and water magic since they are all about the spirit of the earth.

some of these classes really don't fit some of the races. but I think an engineer class would fit just fine with thhe dwemer lore.

phairdon · February 2015

A necromancer type class, with skills online the line of gravesingers & witchmen.

Rangers. Imperial or otherwise.

TheShadowScout · February 2015

The only thing I really would like to see that was worth a whole new class would be some nature magic class.
Three skill lines, Animal magic for pets and "stinging swarm" DoTs and CCs, plant magic for entangling vines and poisonous spore cloud AoEs, and maybe water magic for healing and support (mist cloud, etc.)

Everything else, I think is not worth a full class, but ought to be done with an optional skill line. And I guess even the nature magic could be done that way...

DeLindsay · February 2015

None, I would rather ZoS remove Classes from ESO entirely and let us choose how we want to play and pick what abilities we want to use (even if everyone ends up running the FoTM).

AshySamurai · February 2015

Tycobb117 wrote: »

I know that this has already been talked to before but what new classes would you like to see

Actually, yes, it was discussed many times. Search: New Class

phairdon · February 2015

DeLindsay wrote: »

None, I would rather ZoS remove Classes from ESO entirely and let us choose how we want to play and pick what abilities we want to use (even if everyone ends up running the FoTM).

Mix & match skills from all classes? Nice idea!

ZOS_MichaelM · February 2015

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Snowstrider · February 2015

I want a shaman,druid nature magic type of character with useful pets. Or anything like that.

SanderBuraas · February 2015

I don't want any new classes, but it would be cool to see new skill lines such as a Necromancer and magic focused on nature. However, we don't know what skills we will get with the spellcrafting.

Wolfsspinne · February 2015

Tycobb117 wrote: »

I know that this has already been talked to before but what new classes would you like to see

The Necromancer!

But, since every class needs 3 skill lines, I think necromancy should be one line of a priest/occultist class.

Jitterbug · February 2015

Wolfsspinne wrote: »

Tycobb117 wrote: »

I know that this has already been talked to before but what new classes would you like to see

The Necromancer!

But, since every class needs 3 skill lines, I think necromancy should be one line of a priest/occultist class.

or morphs of the daedric summoning line

rawne1980b16_ESO · February 2015

DeLindsay wrote: »

None, I would rather ZoS remove Classes from ESO entirely and let us choose how we want to play and pick what abilities we want to use (even if everyone ends up running the FoTM).

Even though I do love my Templar and Nightblade I am going to agree with this.

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls, just give us a blank slate and let us pick and choose how we play.

Messy1 · February 2015

TheShadowScout wrote: »

The only thing I really would like to see that was worth a whole new class would be some nature magic class.
Three skill lines, Animal magic for pets and "stinging swarm" DoTs and CCs, plant magic for entangling vines and poisonous spore cloud AoEs, and maybe water magic for healing and support (mist cloud, etc.)

Everything else, I think is not worth a full class, but ought to be done with an optional skill line. And I guess even the nature magic could be done that way...

The Wyrd Class

AngryNord · February 2015

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls

People STILL spew this ***??

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Battlespire:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Classes

Wolfsspinne · February 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls

People STILL spew this ***??

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Battlespire:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Classes

But Skyrim...

AngryNord · February 2015

Actually, even Skyrim has classes, but only for NPCs: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Classes

Wolfsspinne · February 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

Actually, even Skyrim has classes, but only for NPCs: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Classes

But TES VI...

DeLindsay · February 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls

People STILL spew this ***??

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Battlespire:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Classes

It's not crap because it's true if you look at it correctly. In previous TES games the Class you picked ONLY decided what base stats you started with. You were then completely free to choose how you played your Character, this is called an OPEN Class system. This was the same from at least Morrowind and up. In ESO as well as most MMO's they are a LOCKED Class System in that you can NEVER choose to use Negate on a NB as an example or have Reflective Scales on your Sorc. Locked Classes should never have been designed into ESO.

Spiritreaver_ESO · February 2015

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

DeLindsay wrote: »

None, I would rather ZoS remove Classes from ESO entirely and let us choose how we want to play and pick what abilities we want to use (even if everyone ends up running the FoTM).

Even though I do love my Templar and Nightblade I am going to agree with this.

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls, just give us a blank slate and let us pick and choose how we play.

Not picking at you, but just throwing this out there: There were more TES games than just Skyrim in the main series. And for TES 1-4 there most definitely classes.

Tons of freedom in how you made your character play a set class,yes. You could even eschew the pre-made classes and make your own custom class. But classes were indeed a part of TES. Heck, even in Skyrim if you open up the creation kit and take a look at the npcs, they all have some class that they are supposed to be-even though the dovahkin was full on custom.

Wolfsspinne · February 2015

DeLindsay wrote: »

AngryNord wrote: »

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

There are no classes in Elder Scrolls

People STILL spew this ***??

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Battlespire:Intrinsic_Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Classes
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Classes

It's not crap because it's true if you look at it correctly. In previous TES games the Class you picked ONLY decided what base stats you started with. You were then completely free to choose how you played your Character, this is called an OPEN Class system. This was the same from at least Morrowind and up. In ESO as well as most MMO's they are a LOCKED Class System in that you can NEVER choose to use Negate on a NB as an example or have Reflective Scales on your Sorc. Locked Classes should never have been designed into ESO.

Afaik Arena had strict classes.
But it was Daggerfall that introduced the free-form classes.

Skyrim finally dropped the classes completely and only had some templates for auto-generated NPCs.

TheShadowScout · February 2015

Wyrd yould the breton-ish name, yes. A nature-tistic class would also fit very well with bosmer, argonians, nords, even orcs going "wood orc" in style.

Of course, like mentioned... it would be quite possible to do the same with more skill lines. And likely much easier to implement then making a whole new class...
...not to mention that IF they made a new class, what about the players who already played eight characters into veteran levels, but wish to try the new class too? Reroll one? Loose all those many many hours spent just to try the new class? I would hate that... thus it might require adding an class change option to the crown store, which would need more coding effort.

Thus the idea of adding new skill lines, in an "pick one" fashion, for character diversification. Could be done with an quest you get from Cadwell after completing "Silver"... let me repost a bit:

So I would think the best way to add more "classes" is to give each class, say, three different "class morphs", each with its own new skill/passives line. Perhaps becoming available after completing cadwells silver? Some possibilities:

Dragonknight
- Berzerker (self buffs, warcries?)
- Conqueror (group buffs, standarts)
- Pyromancer (flame resist and even more fire)

Nightblade
- Illusionist (illusion summoning, mind magic)
- Monk (melee support & assorted magic?)
- Ranger (animal summoning and magic)

Sorceror
- Cryomancer (ice magic)
- Necromancer (death magic and undead summoning)
- Spellsword (melee support & magic)

Templar
- Druid (plant magic, some summons)
- Shaman (primal nature magic, totems)
- Witchhunter (counterspells)
(Those were just some ideas of course, off the top of my head... there might be other options...)

I personally would love something like that to happen. It would give people added incentive to play through cadwells for the class morph, and those who already did that can just go and grab the skill line option of their choice, thus making each of the established classes into three new sub-classes, giving us all 12 "classes" to play...

Nacario · February 2015

I wholeheartedly disagree with adding new classes from a completionist PoV as achievements/progression is mostly character bound, not account bound. What would benefit the masses is adding more class skill lines to the existing classes for more diversity.

TehMagnus · February 2015

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Wyrd yould the breton-ish name, yes. A nature-tistic class would also fit very well with bosmer, argonians, nords, even orcs going "wood orc" in style.

Of course, like mentioned... it would be quite possible to do the same with more skill lines. And likely much easier to implement then making a whole new class...
...not to mention that IF they made a new class, what about the players who already played eight characters into veteran levels, but wish to try the new class too? Reroll one? Loose all those many many hours spent just to try the new class? I would hate that... thus it might require adding an class change option to the crown store, which would need more coding effort.

Thus the idea of adding new skill lines, in an "pick one" fashion, for character diversification. Could be done with an quest you get from Cadwell after completing "Silver"... let me repost a bit:

So I would think the best way to add more "classes" is to give each class, say, three different "class morphs", each with its own new skill/passives line. Perhaps becoming available after completing cadwells silver? Some possibilities:

Dragonknight
- Berzerker (self buffs, warcries?)
- Conqueror (group buffs, standarts)
- Pyromancer (flame resist and even more fire)

Nightblade
- Illusionist (illusion summoning, mind magic)
- Monk (melee support & assorted magic?)
- Ranger (animal summoning and magic)

Sorceror
- Cryomancer (ice magic)
- Necromancer (death magic and undead summoning)
- Spellsword (melee support & magic)

Templar
- Druid (plant magic, some summons)
- Shaman (primal nature magic, totems)
- Witchhunter (counterspells)
(Those were just some ideas of course, off the top of my head... there might be other options...)

I personally would love something like that to happen. It would give people added incentive to play through cadwells for the class morph, and those who already did that can just go and grab the skill line option of their choice, thus making each of the established classes into three new sub-classes, giving us all 12 "classes" to play...

YES YES YES. This is the kind of evolution that gives depth to the game and allows different kinds of specializations. Lineage 2 has this system and has expanded it over the years/updates and it's one of the best aspects of the game.

knaveofengland · February 2015

less classes and skills means cheaper to do and manage , people love choice so if they went along the lines of a few more classes and expanded on a few more skills per class .
if there was a poll on bring in some of the classes in the series I think there is the answer . I would say bring it on and take me money I would pay wads to have more classes

heith182ub17_ESO · February 2015

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Wyrd yould the breton-ish name, yes. A nature-tistic class would also fit very well with bosmer, argonians, nords, even orcs going "wood orc" in style.

Of course, like mentioned... it would be quite possible to do the same with more skill lines. And likely much easier to implement then making a whole new class...
...not to mention that IF they made a new class, what about the players who already played eight characters into veteran levels, but wish to try the new class too? Reroll one? Loose all those many many hours spent just to try the new class? I would hate that... thus it might require adding an class change option to the crown store, which would need more coding effort.

Thus the idea of adding new skill lines, in an "pick one" fashion, for character diversification. Could be done with an quest you get from Cadwell after completing "Silver"... let me repost a bit:

So I would think the best way to add more "classes" is to give each class, say, three different "class morphs", each with its own new skill/passives line. Perhaps becoming available after completing cadwells silver? Some possibilities:

Dragonknight
- Berzerker (self buffs, warcries?)
- Conqueror (group buffs, standarts)
- Pyromancer (flame resist and even more fire)

Nightblade
- Illusionist (illusion summoning, mind magic)
- Monk (melee support & assorted magic?)
- Ranger (animal summoning and magic)

Sorceror
- Cryomancer (ice magic)
- Necromancer (death magic and undead summoning)
- Spellsword (melee support & magic)

Templar
- Druid (plant magic, some summons)
- Shaman (primal nature magic, totems)
- Witchhunter (counterspells)
(Those were just some ideas of course, off the top of my head... there might be other options...)

I personally would love something like that to happen. It would give people added incentive to play through cadwells for the class morph, and those who already did that can just go and grab the skill line option of their choice, thus making each of the established classes into three new sub-classes, giving us all 12 "classes" to play...

Something like this would be amazing!

Mercutio · February 2015

While I played UO for a bit in the 90's, I truly broke my teeth on the original Everquest. And while I have high levels of disdain for SOE (or Daybreak, whatever they are calling themselves now) I will give them kudos for doing two classes better than any other game in my opinion:

Necromancer and Shadow Knight.

Were ESO to implement this, or even an optional skill tree where you could mimic those two classes, my cold heart would grow two sizes that day.

cesmode · February 2015

Id like to see:

Necromancer - Master of undead, raising the dead, death spells, maybe poison spells
Revenant/Mesmer(from GW2) - Master of illusions, mirror images, trickery, positioning, CC
Barbarian - All out brawler, shouts, strength
Druid - Master of nature, animals, environment, shape shifting
Monk - Master of agility, movement, spirits

I know some of these might not fit the Elder Scrolls mold, but they would be fun to play.

Also, I know a lot of poeple think that the four base archetypes we have now are enough and with all of the different trait lines, and future Spellcrafting, we will have more than enough diversity. I still disagree. You still start as only one of four archetypes, and then try to make something unique while staying viable. Running around the world you will see 1 of 4 classes and you will know them because they will be using, most likely, one of the class abilities, and it does get boring saying "Oh theres another dragon knight", or "Oh theres another sorc".

I always fancied class/build/gameplay diversity. The more the merrier and to me, that makes a game truly awesome.

LordTareq · February 2015

I would much rather see a complete removal of the current classes than even more classes. I'm all for new skilllines that everyone can use though.

MornaBaine · February 2015

I would hope that spellcrafting would let us shape our own classes, so to speak. But as it seems they've dropped development of spellcrafting (I believe this is because they haven't figured out a way to sell it in the store and it seems pretty clear that all future content must be monetized somehow for them to even consider doing it) I think it's even less likely that they'd consider adding new classes at this point. Unless, you know, they can sell them to you in the cash shop.

cesmode · February 2015

MornaBaine wrote: »

I would hope that spellcrafting would let us shape our own classes, so to speak. But as it seems they've dropped development of spellcrafting (I believe this is because they haven't figured out a way to sell it in the store and it seems pretty clear that all future content must be monetized somehow for them to even consider doing it) I think it's even less likely that they'd consider adding new classes at this point. Unless, you know, they can sell them to you in the cash shop.

This is complete speculation and only serves to be toxic to the community.

I don't think they would try to sell this in the store. In doing so, this would teeter on the P2W line and I dont think they want to do that. They said only convenience and aesthetic items in the cash shop. Being able to craft powerful spells that you can only get by spending real $$ in the cash shop is too controversially P2W.

They probably have slowed down their dev of this, but again, this is speculation.

Don't go posting things like this and create unnecessary unrest.