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If you change race, surely your going to change the look of the character, I don't think you can do much about that, even the gear look may change, but for me if I wanted to change race then I would accept the appearance change if the change gives me the buffs/traits I need.

yeah, take me for example:

I created a magicka based Orc sorcerer back at launch.
I knew back then, that this race/build combo would be less then ideal, of course.
However, back then, the game had softcaps!
Therefore, my orc sorc had exactly the same max magicka and magicka-reg as for example an Altmer sorc - where my orc sorc was weaker (ironically) was in the stamina and health departments. Reason: with soft caps in place, my "mismatched" race character could compensate by simply putting more resources towards the "primary" stats, allowing the "secondary" stats to fall lower then they would on an optimal race.

and I was fine with that. loosing a few HP and either 3% spellcost reduction (breton) or 4% lightning damage (altmer) for the privilege of playing an orc instead was ok in my book.

fast forward a year, and ZoS decided to remove softcaps.
Suddenly my Orc sorc has 10% less max magicka, and 9% less magickareg in comparision to an altmer sorc (in addition to the 4% lightning damage differential that has always been there). Instead of lower health I now have higher health and stamina then the altmer sorc - but that does not actually help my build at all (remember, I did not care having those values lower in the first place)...

So, due to the removal of softcaps, the importance of racials has massively increased.

I would not have created an orc spellcaster in a game devoid of softcaps...
But the prospect of rerolling: grinding up all the vet levels, getting my undaunted rang up, get back to my PvP rang (27).... well, I'm not exactly going to enjoy doing that...

so yeah, @ZOS_RichLambert , I'd sure appreciate making race-change options a priority

MaximusDargus wrote: »

Or your looks wont change at all and they will explain that race change means "you suddenly discover that your family have roots in X/Y race and your grand grand grand something was actually an Y race while your grand grand grand something was X race" and because of that you find to have natural affinity to A,B,C things (new racial passives of newly choosen race) instead of D,E,F (racial passives of previous race)

well, as someone who wants to play an Orc spellcaster, I'd obviously love that option.
That said, I'm not sure giving up one of the flavours of elderscroll lore to accomodate people like me would actually be the best move here

Who said they wont add a precaution to that?

Only one race change per month? With like 2 confirmations to make sure people know what they are doing

OLIVI3R wrote: »

Thanks for your thoughts guys!

I do like the idea of adding a race change cooldown, and of course the high price of the race change will most likely to prevent it from being frequent.

However, with the race and appearance change, you pretty much create a new character, however keeping the achievements and level. Wouldn't it make sense to just implement special scrolls that would insta level your character to lvl. 50? (Following WOW strategy). That being said, this would only make sense after the removal of the veteran ranks, as people would still have to grind up 16 vet ranks.

Sidenote: If you think that they will simply remove VR and then waste all the work people put to VR1-16 including all materials and every single crap accompanied to it - you are really naive.
The VR will be gone as they wont be named "veteran" anymore and will become normal lvls. There is no absolute point to remove whole 16 lvls into game and set it back in progress back to like what? 2 years ago?

Race change please! Immediately. Definitely needs a cooldown or we'll have Wykkyd's Racechanger.

I say be proud of who you are!

Honestly, it seems to me like the easiest route would be to allow race and appearance customization together. In previous elder scrolls games, there was a console command to retrigger the character creation at any point. Your character, armor and all, would suddenly get plopped into the creator where you could do whatever and be done with it.

Honestly, it seems the easiest method would be to have tokens you can use on a character. When you use it, it triggers an extra button on the login screen that says "Edit Appearance" or something like that, along with the log in button. Click that button and off you go to the creator.

I think the first race change of each toon you have if you so choose to change race on all of them (you would think you would have picked a better race for a build with 8 tries) should be free. Since eso made racial passive changes to the game and also changed the game mechanics/meta. someone's build that was viable before they made those changes isn't anymore. Basically forcing them to re roll a toon. I believe that would be fair, but after that there should definitely be a fee to change it again after that. Also, I would like them to allow us to change the toons name as well if we can change race. Because some of my characters names suit the race I chose. Can't have a khajit name on a high elf or what have you. (unless that high elf was adopted by a khajit family lol). Either way, I'll be happy with just the race change. Definitely would like to change one of my toons race. Maybe two.