Nords transform in to a frost atronach. Nice.

I'd re roll wood elf in a heartbeat if they got command beasts!

No, balancing racial passives is already problematic. I dont want more balance issues.
The idea might seem fun, but imagine if your racial ulti is completely useless for your build and another race's ulti is "must have".
I think the game should promote more diversity in builds, not less. And I really dont like to see something like "Looking for a tank, imperial only pls" or "you cannot heal, you're not a breton".

I'd prefer weapon ultimates honestly

New racial ultimate's or a new class entirely... I know what I would rather have worked on.

Way too risky in terms of balance, I'd rather see weapon ulties as they are accessible to all classes & races.

Racial Ultimate should all be the same ultimate / or very similar, but have a strong different flavour. So it would be basically a same spell but with a different cosmetic. Would be SO COOL

no. the meta would just shift to the race withthe better ults

TES had it i don't see why ESO can't. for example DK had ancestrial guardian

Fat_Cat45 wrote: »

Racial ultimates existed very early in the game, but got removed. I would assume they got removed for proper reason, but it's still possible they can come back with proper balance and utility

what were they like?

I'm tired of crap being tied to a race. Especially when we can't change it.

I'm always up for more fun abilities to use (though this would be the most highly-gated set of abilities, given that there are 10 unique races).

Nord: some kind of wind/frost thing, it's everywhere in their lore but they totally dropped the ball in Skyrim by barely addressing it. Big AoE knockback/ perpetual pushback and slow thing, maybe?

Argonian: Maybe some kind of regen thing, only legitimately useful instead of objectively bad.

Dunmer: Summon Ancestral Ghost. Think about it.

Orsimer: Rage or something, IDK. I think they had something like that in a couple of games. Big weapon/spell power buff. Knockdown with heavy attacks that goes through block. Something neat.

Redguard: Weapon attack speed = YES. A thousand cuts/arrows/however staves do.

Breton: They always had that one damage shield, right? Give them a damage shield.

Altmer: Something boring. Just kidding, maybe something like an AoE resource restore. They always had magicka to spare in other games, seems giving their allies a sudden glut of resources would be right up their alley.

Bosmer: Summon beast of some nature. They had that Command Beast power back in Morrowind, would be interesting to see an ultimate along those lines. Like a stampede of boar or some such.

Imperial: Command creature. Makes something fight its friends. Might need way more tweaking than it's worth, though, since it would need unique but powerful effects in a huge variety of PvE and PvP environments.

Khajiit: Eye of Fear, maybe, like in a lot of the other games? Or some kind of Twin Moon's Dance mystic martial arts nonsense would be cool, too.

Peel_Ya_Cap_517 wrote: »

Neat idea.. But I think people would just choose whichever race had the "best" ultimate..

They should have racial ultimates and make them all underewhelming except for the argonian's. Then one would have to take crappy passives to take advantage.

Typhoios wrote: »

Artjuh90 wrote: »

TES had it i don't see why ESO can't. for example DK had ancestrial guardian

Single player game vs MMO. Balance is not needed in single player games.

cause the racial balance is so good atm?
P.s. ZoS choose to follow the TES line so i see no reason to not implement it.

Typhoios wrote: »

Artjuh90 wrote: »

Typhoios wrote: »

Artjuh90 wrote: »

TES had it i don't see why ESO can't. for example DK had ancestrial guardian

Single player game vs MMO. Balance is not needed in single player games.

cause the racial balance is so good atm?
P.s. ZoS choose to follow the TES line so i see no reason to not implement it.

So your suggestion is to make racial imbalance even worse? They need to balance the passives, but the passives are not nearly as big of a deal as imbalanced racial ultimates would be. MMOs have to have balance.

no you could also balance things out like vampire is now.
a good example for this is the Altmer. in TES they always had the highest mana with a daily abilty to regen it fast. but this racial had it's price -> weakness to magicka. things like this you can actually balance. but they are to damn afraid to put any negative passives on a race with very strong passives
and for a racial passive if it's not strong they actaully lose out another strong ultimate like meteor or dragonleap (for DK for example) so it's not just adding things is the option to choose. diversaty is always good in a game