What's the latest on Spellcrafting?

Iselin · December 2015

Haven't been following the twitch channel (or this forum for that matter) all that closely recently. Do we have a timeline on Spellcrafting yet?

It's the one thing I am personally most looking forward to.... more than housing or even Thieve's Guild or DB.

Gidorick · December 2015

Dominoid wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

Shame. It would have been a cool addition.

Neither of these is true. Confirmed to still be in the works by Eric Wrobel a few ESO lives ago.

Edit: It was ESO Live episode 21

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/3byjuw/

From here: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/205822/spellcrafting-any-news-about-it-or-has-it-died

Tryxus · December 2015

Latest on any new content?

"Soon"

ralonasan · December 2015

Hah...

Forestd16b14_ESO · December 2015

Yea how about ZOS fixes the skills that are in the game first then they can add all the spellcrafting.

WalkingLegacy · December 2015

Soon™

altemriel · December 2015

Iselin wrote: »

Haven't been following the twitch channel (or this forum for that matter) all that closely recently. Do we have a timeline on Spellcrafting yet?

It's the one thing I am personally most looking forward to.... more than housing or even Thieve's Guild or DB.

I totally agree! spellcrafting is the No.1 of my wishlist + of course with removed AOE caps, with it, it has no sense. So first, Cyrodill lag should be fixed. Then we can get spellcrafting. I damn want those green lightning which that elf woman uses in the Tree Fates trailer! Jumping from target to target, chained lightning would kill 20 players at once. I would totally be for including like 10 new skill lines and many new skills. And then spellcrafting with awesome huge new spells!!

now!!

Desommettor · December 2015

Spell crafting is only viable for solo games, it would break an mmo.

PBpsy · December 2015

It is more on the later/never side of SOON.

Alucardo · December 2015

As long as they keep that crap out of PVP and fix the current skills they can bring it in tomorrow for all I care

Iselin · December 2015

Desommettor wrote: »

Spell crafting is only viable for solo games, it would break an mmo.

Yes because all skills should be handed to you on a silver platter with no effort required to get them

tinythinker · December 2015

The latest news and status update on spellcrafting:

Jura23 · December 2015

Like you can make your own skills? Good luck balancing the game then.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · December 2015

Am I the only one that thinks spellcrafting will completely dissolve what little balance is left in the force?

Happy New Years!

Tryxus · December 2015

Jura23 wrote: »

Like you can make your own skills? Good luck balancing the game then.

Little example from TES 2 Daggerfall:

- if your Destruction skill is over 100 (enchanted items from the item maker), then every Destruction spell costs only 5 Magicka (max 300 = 60 spells)
- Daggerfall had a Destruction effect called Disintegrate where you could set a % of OHKO. The Higher you set that %, the more Magicka the spell would need to be fired (I think you know where I'm heading to)
- Through the Spellmaker, I created a Disintegrate AoE spell (think Firestorm from Skyrim) with a 100% chance of OHKO
- And thanks to my Magic Items, that spell (called it "Aura of Overkill"); firing that spell costed only 5 Magicka

And then there's the Spellmaker from Morrowind and Oblivion, where you could create OP spells like the Aura of Overkill as well.

Point being: if they added this feature to ESO... all Oblivion's gonna break loose

And I'm gonna act like a man... and hide under my bed with mah Teddybear Mr. Fluffbelly

Vaoh · December 2015

@Tryxus It sounds pretty balanced so far actually.

Lots of information has been datamined (https://m.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/2xpn39/data_mining_spellcrafting_what_is_it_and_what_are/) and some stuff such as UI, a few summoning spells and Ice Armor displayed a long time ago by Nick Konkle. Old ideas/code is definitely still there, but when Konkle left is was delayed.

Personally, I believe they will first balance the current skills with the Thieves Guild update, refine with the Dark Brotherhood, and then tease it again to be released sometime in late 2016. Absolutely not a trashed concept, just put on hold for now to fix major issues or imbalances. After all, those next two DLCs more than likely will add new skill lines, so ZOS may hopefully look to add spellcrafting sooner rather than later as well to add to the list.

If it's not already part of the game, expect news by late 2016 :-)

Just my thoughts. So much excitement!

DirtySmeegs33 · December 2015

ZOS_RichLambert
It's in good hands. Don't worry.

(yes that is a tease... sorry hehe)
2 messages August 19

That is a direct message from Rich Lambert this past August.

SmalltalkJava · January 2016

An elder scrolls game without spellcrafting, just isn't an elder scrolls game.

danno8 · January 2016

How many "spells" will be usable by "stamina"? Or will all spells be Magicka only?

The games already makes no sense with stamina "spells", and adding spellcrafting will either cause a huge imbalance between stamina and Magicka, or make the game even more nonsensical with stamina based fireballs.

Iselin · January 2016

SmalltalkJava wrote: »

An elder scrolls game without spellcrafting, just isn't an elder scrolls game.

I feel the same way... hated that it totally went away in Skyrim.

Vaoh · January 2016

@danno8
They're called stamina "abilities", not spells. You can see this on the descriptions for cost reduction glyphs.
Glyph of Reduce Spell Cost: Reduce Magicka cost of spells by x%
Glyph of Reduce Feat Cost: Reduce Stamina cost of abilities by x%

Apparently they have some other thing planned for Stamina abilities as well. Who knows how that would work though. Nick Konkle mentioned this when he presented spellcrafting.

Aoife32001 · January 2016

I'll believe it's coming when it happens. I'm not holding my breathe.

Even if it is coming, I'm not overly impressed with being told something is in the works and then waiting two years for it to happen.

danno8 · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

@danno8
They're called stamina "abilities", not spells. You can see this on the descriptions for cost reduction glyphs.

They can call them whatever they wish. Breathing fire (Burning Breath) and summoning an Aedric Spear (Biting Jabs) are clearly magical in execution and are only in the game because of a lack of vision for what stamina would be like at launch.

That said, I am glad they will limit spell-crafting to magicka only, but I do wonder just how fleshed out the secret stamina counterpart will be.

I really hope they keep the stamina "abilities" more physical in theme, since this is an opportunity to do it right from the start.

Vaoh · January 2016

@danno8

I hate the stamina abilities being called spells, although you are right about some stamina morphs being purely magicka based by their animations.

Hopefully they add new weapon swinging animations. I'd be dumbfounded if they stick to only spellcrafting in the future though. Would give magicka hundreds of different viable builds, but stamina characters comparitively close to nothing. Only time will tell! I'm pretty optimistic about the future of ESO though.

DannyLV702 · January 2016

If they do add any of this spell crafting, I hope it's limited to only pve and stays out of PvP.

Sausage · January 2016

Maybe Q4 2016 is my guess, I think Housing is coming after Dark Brotherhood, Thief is before it. So whats the last quarter DLC of 2016, is still a mystery to me.

DannyLV702 wrote: »

If they do add any of this spell crafting, I hope it's limited to only pve and stays out of PvP.

I think exactly the opposite. People would whine less, if they just can do whatever they want. I think Spell Crafting should open everything for all classes.

Vaoh · January 2016

@DannyLV702 The week spell crafting is introduced into PvP is the week you will finally see new viable builds emerge. Sounds great to me. The fall of the cookie cutter builds. Wanna be a frost mage and not suck? Now you can!

shugg · January 2016

Mmmm inner beast aoe taunt , drool hope with this i can finally make me nb necromacer tank ( or just a blood death knight)

But i would expect this Q4 or 2017 , hope they take there time so it won't break the game