phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

They won't add active abilities to DLC skill lines, it's always going to be passives so it doesn't feel like a necessary purchase to be competitive in base game content. The only time I see them adding new active abilities is when they do a full on expansion or when updating a base game skill lines like Vampirism or giving weapon lines Ultimate abilities.

The Dev response to adding more active abilities is since the present array of abilities have proven so hard to balance, they will not add more variables to the mix. This is also why new passives effect almost exclusively non-combat PvE.


In regards to the OP, the Fighters Guild already uses the Silver Dawn's crossbow, so another incentive must be added. Perhaps crossbows as a weapon type? But at the very least alternate ammo types for Silver Bolt and morphs. These could be a separate skill line with an individual ability for each ammo type or a modification directly to the Silver Bolt ability, similar to a morph. This is also a prime DLC for PvP, giving players two opposing factions.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

They won't add active abilities to DLC skill lines, it's always going to be passives so it doesn't feel like a necessary purchase to be competitive in base game content. The only time I see them adding new active abilities is when they do a full on expansion or when updating a base game skill lines like Vampirism or giving weapon lines Ultimate abilities.

This could be an expansion to the base game, itself. It could be more then a dlc, which would be fine.
But, sooner or later they need to do this, they need to add more abilties to the game. People are wanting to see necromancy and other things. I do think they need to expand some of the skilllines. I would like to see a nature class, where we can summon nature magic, transform into wolves and other creatures like the wyrresses in daggerfall.

There main problem is some of the coding they put into place that is straining the server, they are going to have to remove some of it. Enough to where the game would be able to handle the strain. Once they can release the strain that makes the server caulations so bad, and laggy it would at least make the game more playable for some players. This would give them the abilty to add more skills and skill lines without adding to server strain problem. I do want to see a crossbow skill line as well as a spear skill line with those added as in game weapons.

I doubt I would mind something like this. AFAIK we're in the right timeframe for a cameo from Serana, Harkon and the rest of our Volkihar 'friends'; having a DLC for werebeasts would balance out the equation if they ever decide to do the Dawnguard.

Yea man! I would LOVE this. In my profile there is a couple of bulletpoints of concepts I haven't posted. one is the idea of the Nightguard , which would be a guild/world skill dedicated to the destruction of Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, Daedra.. pretty much anything that goes "bump" in the night. My original concept had PVP, which was pretty much the reason I never posted it. I didn't feel like having that conversation with a horde of players who would just scream "NO OPEN WORLD PVP!" or "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR MY CHOICES!!" or "ONLY IF THERE'S A TOGGLE!!!"

I don't care for the idea of the Silver Dawn/Nightguard being able to be transform into one of these beasts though. They should hate the things that prey on the mortals of Nirn.