6th Skill slot....

TheHsN · March 2016

What do you think about 6th skill slot... It shloud be or not. There are many good Skill abilities that we can not use ...I thıink 5 is not enough right now..It is just my opinion:)..

Tnx for reading...

greylox · March 2016

I'd love more slots but the game struggles at balancing as it is without adding more 'problems'.

Agobi · March 2016

What a new and unique thread...wonder why noone thought of this before....?

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/search?Search=more+skill+slots

/endsarcasm o.O

Turelus · March 2016

This was debated a lot in the early months or release, most people would be happy for more skills because who doesn't want to be stronger?

However the game seems to work find with the 5 only and I doubt ZOS have any plans to change this.

olsborg · March 2016

I was supportive of this a while ago, but latest months or year, I think 5 skills is quite sufficient

NinjaMyk · March 2016

A small concern but I don't think this is possible as its a console game and there are no buttons left for a 6th ability

Lolssi · March 2016

I could do with less. Like in other ES games.

kuro-dono · March 2016

all those superb folks need all their buffs etc which leaves them with one skill to use in fight, and thats usually the one which deals most dmg. adding 6th skill slot is like giving them even better chance at wrecking casuals/noobs.

baratron · March 2016

We already have six skills per bar. The sixth skill is called an "Ultimate".

(Apologies for snark.)

starkerealm · March 2016

TheHsN wrote: »

What do you think about 6th skill slot... It shloud be or not. There are many good Skill abilities that we can not use ...I thıink 5 is not enough right now..It is just my opinion:)..

Tnx for reading...

I love keeping Flawless Dawnbreaker in my sixth slot, it's fantastic. Though, on some of my alts, I use stuff like Soul Shred, which is also amazing, or Summon Storm Attronach.

Did you maybe mean to say a 7th skill slot?

Forestd16b14_ESO · March 2016

No.

Aquanova · March 2016

I was always in favor of allowing us to put a skill in the ultimate slot since you'd be without 1 ultimate. It seems fair and doesn't bring the game out of balance.

Kublakan · March 2016

You must be a sorcerer, ahah.

newtinmpls · March 2016

What with trying to get the hang of bar flipping while running many characters (altoholic here) I have not fully mastered using more than 4-5 skills on "both" bars. So no. '

Not yet.

aLi3nZ · March 2016

Yes, would love this. I want to run either magelight or endless fury on my main bar and just can't find the room

starkerealm · March 2016

Aquanova wrote: »

I was always in favor of allowing us to put a skill in the ultimate slot since you'd be without 1 ultimate. It seems fair and doesn't bring the game out of balance.

Stray thought, you know what would be really neat? If every skill in the game had a normal and ultimate version. Slot it into the normal bar, and you can use it as a normal magicka or stamina ability, kick over to the ultimate slot and the skill changes into a much more powerful version that's metered by ultimate consumption.

Also, probably not a legitimate option because inevitably, one of those ultimates would break the game horrifically, but still.

Egonieser · March 2016

No, because having 5 active abilities and 1 ultimate creates a competitive feel to it. Devs gave us loads of skills to choose from, but can only use 6 at any given time (not counting weapon swap obviously, I mean with a single loadout).

It's a more Shooter type approach in contrast to standard MMO approach which has 5 skillbars with 10 skills on each one with cooldowns.

The way it plays in ESO it feels more like I play for example, call of duty (don't worry, I hate call of duty, but for the lack of a better analogy I use this). Your weapon is just that, your skills are your weapon attachments which you can only have so few so you have to choose wisely - can't have it all. And your resources is your ammo which you have to manage well, and then there's the absence of Tab-targetting which is common in other MMO's, we have free aim, makes it even more like a shooter with spells than a traditional MMO, that's why I love ESO combat system - I have grown tired of WoW-like MMOs with 30 skills to manage, cooldowns and and static tab-target pacing. ESO Is more twictch and reflex based, with resource management being the added difficulty.

Artis · March 2016

Why not 7 or 4? or 8?

You ask for 1 more now, then you want to equip something else for your build and will ask for another one? Why do we all need more slots and why would it be better for the game?

Annalyse · March 2016

As much as I would like to have access to more skills, I think 5 + ultimate is enough.

That said, I would like for there to be a second skill bar you can swap to (like some addons allow, but we shouldn't have to use addons) if only so that my sorcerer can stow her pets with ease again.

GeertKarel · March 2016

Would be quite nice if you had actually 2 extra slots for the passive skills what you will not use anyway in the fight. lets say if you would have like bound aegis and mage light you could put it in your bar. There are a lot of good skills in the game what possible could make us play a bit better like having good amount of offensive skills on the bar and some defensive as wel like shields.

sorcerers only use 3 skills or less per bar since they need the magicka from bound eagis and mage light and if they use pets they have even less abillities to play with.

Reykice · March 2016

Its because consoles have room for only so much plus a bar swap button. No more room and for pc they just don't care enough about what people want.

starkerealm · March 2016

GeertKarel wrote: »

Would be quite nice if you had actually 2 extra slots for the passive skills what you will not use anyway in the fight. lets say if you would have like bound aegis and mage light you could put it in your bar. There are a lot of good skills in the game what possible could make us play a bit better like having good amount of offensive skills on the bar and some defensive as wel like shields.

sorcerers only use 3 skills or less per bar since they need the magicka from bound eagis and mage light and if they use pets they have even less abillities to play with.

Having come out of a game with an 7+1+1 skill select system (7 normal, 1 elite, 1 auxiliary), where there was a completely separate collection of passives? (With the same 7+1+1 setup.) Not so much. It sounds cool, but over time the passives become more restrictive, as you consider your build.

GeertKarel · March 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

GeertKarel wrote: »

Would be quite nice if you had actually 2 extra slots for the passive skills what you will not use anyway in the fight. lets say if you would have like bound aegis and mage light you could put it in your bar. There are a lot of good skills in the game what possible could make us play a bit better like having good amount of offensive skills on the bar and some defensive as wel like shields.

sorcerers only use 3 skills or less per bar since they need the magicka from bound eagis and mage light and if they use pets they have even less abillities to play with.

Having come out of a game with an 7+1+1 skill select system (7 normal, 1 elite, 1 auxiliary), where there was a completely separate collection of passives? (With the same 7+1+1 setup.) Not so much. It sounds cool, but over time the passives become more restrictive, as you consider your build.

There are certain calculations that you can do which shows if it worth it to use a certain skill above a toggle or not and simply some passives are way better then some damage abilities there are in the game.

Also this game is kind of strange because you you could have pets on your second bar but when you switch to your first bar and you don't have pets in there all your pets will disappear so if you want to use pets you got to have it on both bars.

starkerealm · March 2016

GeertKarel wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

GeertKarel wrote: »

Would be quite nice if you had actually 2 extra slots for the passive skills what you will not use anyway in the fight. lets say if you would have like bound aegis and mage light you could put it in your bar. There are a lot of good skills in the game what possible could make us play a bit better like having good amount of offensive skills on the bar and some defensive as wel like shields.

sorcerers only use 3 skills or less per bar since they need the magicka from bound eagis and mage light and if they use pets they have even less abillities to play with.

Having come out of a game with an 7+1+1 skill select system (7 normal, 1 elite, 1 auxiliary), where there was a completely separate collection of passives? (With the same 7+1+1 setup.) Not so much. It sounds cool, but over time the passives become more restrictive, as you consider your build.

There are certain calculations that you can do which shows if it worth it to use a certain skill above a toggle or not and simply some passives are way better then some damage abilities there are in the game.

Also this game is kind of strange because you you could have pets on your second bar but when you switch to your first bar and you don't have pets in there all your pets will disappear so if you want to use pets you got to have it on both bars.

Yeah, no, the problem with selecting and equipping passives is, it pushes a game out of being about gameplay, and harder into being about math. Which... isn't nearly as fun as it sounds at first. Granted, ESO could go another route there... but still.

phaneub17_ESO · March 2016

Maybe an extra skill slot for a single Toggle ability that remains on all weapon swaps, that's about it.

starkerealm · March 2016

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Maybe an extra skill slot for a single Toggle ability that remains on all weapon swaps, that's about it.

An Aura skill slot could be neat. Especially if it added a visual effect, which caused further lag in Cyrodiil... waitaminute...

GeertKarel · March 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Maybe an extra skill slot for a single Toggle ability that remains on all weapon swaps, that's about it.

An Aura skill slot could be neat. Especially if it added a visual effect, which caused further lag in Cyrodiil... waitaminute...

Cyrodil is already laggy people won't notice it anyway.
Just kidding

starkerealm · March 2016

GeertKarel wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Maybe an extra skill slot for a single Toggle ability that remains on all weapon swaps, that's about it.

An Aura skill slot could be neat. Especially if it added a visual effect, which caused further lag in Cyrodiil... waitaminute...

Cyrodil is already laggy people won't notice it anyway.
Just kidding

I mean, I actually like the idea. Champions Online used to have something like this, where you could get a single equipped passive, and it would have a visual effect on your character... but then they went and fully revised the system so the visual effect was unrelated.

Dagonthir · March 2016

What I'd really like is a couple extra shortcut keys for mapping potions and other consumables.

starkerealm · March 2016

Dagonthir wrote: »

What I'd really like is a couple extra shortcut keys for mapping potions and other consumables.

Yeah... being able to hot key all eight quick slots should be in the game.

Krycek89 · March 2016

Agobi wrote: »

What a new and unique thread...wonder why noone thought of this before....?

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/search?Search=more+skill+slots

/endsarcasm o.O

what a unique and intuitive counter argument - never seen one of these before

/endsarcasm.
If you had looked at the list; Most of these are from 2014 to present - early on in the year--you would see that it would be most inappropriate for the OP to necro a dead thread - But alas i'm sure that if he did, you would have also attacked him over that point too