Moonshadow66 wrote: »

There ARE spears in the game already, in weapon racks on a few ships. So the model exists already. Last time I've seen some was just yesterday during a quest in Auridon, and I wondered about the same thing, again.

There are also the guards by the Skywatch fighters guild, practicing with spears.
And the rebels in Cheydinhal carry racked javelins on their backs...
So we shall all remain hopeful!

My half septim worth of thoughts for the matter...

There really ought to be more weapons.
Both weapons added to existing linbes for more options, and more skill lines.
Things I for one would like to see:

More options added to bow (maybe renaming that one "marksman"), maybe with a bit of stat difference - say, have crossbows with more armor penetration, but a "reload" time making for a lower rate of fire... or javelins with less range, but more damage, perhaps also doing lightning effects instead of poison (don't you want to feel like zeus throwing one of those? ), or mayne slings with less initial damage, but bigger effect damage, and make that one fire too... (representing firing clay stones with fire-enchantment inside or something of the sort - magical explosive ammo!)

More options added to destruction and restoration magic... only having staves blows, I want more. I always hope for some sort of "spell focus" that would be one item held with the left hand, while making mystic gestures to cast your magic with the right, those objects could be (depending onracial style) holy symbols, ornage spellbooks, gemmed skulls, shaman rattles, medidation crystals, mystic scrolls, gemmed scepters, eldritch amulets, glowing artifacts, et cetera.

A "Polearm" skill line for weapons like pikes, halberds, glaives, tridents, naginata, monks spades, ranseur, poleaxes, etc.; half the animations could just be copied from the templars aedric spear skill line, just stamina-powered and done with a weapon instead... come on, who hasn't seen the "Red Viper" fight the "Mountain" on game of thrones and didn't think "Hey, I want a character like that..."

A "one-handed and magic" style skill line, mixing elementally-charged melee attacks and magical mid-range and AoE attacks. Offhand could be a wand, or runestone, or something like that...
(perhaps even allow those offhands to be dual-wielded for proper destruction magic skill line, alternating the elemental type cast between them...)

A "brawling" skill line, that does much less damage then "proper weapons", but excels in CCs. A leg sweep for a knockdown here, a dirt throw for a blind there, a kick below the belt for a stun (bonus points if the stun lasts double on male opponents... )


Maaayyybe even some "subduing weapons" for some skill lines, stuff that does lower damage, and does not kill but does a "knockout" stun & knockdown at reaching, say, 20% health... but will not count as murder attempt in the eyes of the guard... bare-fisted brawling, cudgels, billy clubs, the good old leather sap filled with sand... you know, just for barroom brawls and to knock out the guy who caught you pickpocketing without adding murder to your charges... that sort of thing...

FHM.Pauline wrote: »

Cheydinhal? That's near Cyrodiil right?

One of the cyrodil towns. The one SW of the southern EP gate... the one where half the town is rebels, and the other half imperial legion occupation.