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Your Favourite Skills, Visually

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There's a lot of discussion about which skills are the most efficient, and rightfully so, but which skills are your favourites for making you feel/look like a badass? Let's show some love for the skills with the most impressive animations, visual feedback, and sense of awe.

Personally, I've always been a big fan of Destructive Touch in the Destro Staff tree. Especially the fire variant whipping up a spinning wheel of flame, and for the knock back making it look like it packs a bigger punch. Overload's heavy attack is also pretty hard to beat for how it makes you feel >:)
  • FlyLionel
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    Dragon leap...always forever. I remember my first pvp experience; some dude leaped up into a keep and wrecking blowed everyone off..the sound of it as well is beastly.
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  • Lynx7386
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    Overload is up there, also always liked the dk's lava whip.

    Nova for the templar used to be awesome but I guess they changed it. The old version had rocks and debris floating around the "sun".

    Also really like the siphoning ultimate for nightblades, the little jump into the air and blast everything around you animation looks pretty boss.

    For non class abilities, I really like the fighters guild crossbow, though I hardly ever use it. I miss the old inner light morph for mages that gave you glowing blue eyes and hands.
    Necrotic orb and it's morphs are pretty cool looking too, reminds me of diablo arcane orb wizards.

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    Oh and the new warden skills are looking pretty cool from what we've seen so far.
    PS4 / NA
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    Pakhet - Khajiit Dragonknight - Tank
    Raksha - Khajiit Sorcerer - Stamina DPS
    Bastet - Khajiit Templar - Healer
    Leonin - Khajiit Warden - Tank
  • GrumpyDuckling
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    My favorite looking skills:

    Dragon Leap - Undeniably my favorite skill to use. It's a shame it's an ultimate. I would love it to be a gap closer if the CC was removed.

    Soul Tether - Looks beautiful to me. Very ballet-like.

    Fiery Breath - On an Argonian I look like a fire breathing dragon.

    Power of the Light - Something about lighting up an enemy (literally) is awesome.
  • psychotic13
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    Best looking is easily dragon leap, I made a DK just so I could use it.

    Templars javelin is pretty cool, also like nightblades impale.

    I main a sorc though, I don't really find any of there abilities truly great to look at, especially the pets. I even use the pets as part of my build but I wish I could put a skin on them
  • Ghettokid
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    War horn
  • Saoirse_Siobhan
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    I love Piercing Javelin. I've always thought is was a shame that "spear and shield" wasn't an option in-game, so this skill is super cool!
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    I main a sorc though, I don't really find any of there abilities truly great to look at, especially the pets. I even use the pets as part of my build but I wish I could put a skin on them

    Really? I think my Sorc looks AMAZING with Lightning Form active. Bolt Escape matches that aesthetic really well too :smile: I agree about the pets though. They look fairly mundane except for the Storm Atronach ult, and that one is temporary.

    Oooo, I forgot to mention the passive ability that comes from the Morkuldin crafted set before as well. With every light and heavy attack it has a chance to summon a magic sword that floats by your side and attacks enemies on its own. Looks so awesome I had to PM the guy I first saw using it to ask which skill it was. I love the rarer abilities like that, since you don't see them everywhere they feel more special.
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    FlyLionel wrote: »
    Dragon leap...always forever. I remember my first pvp experience; some dude leaped up into a keep and wrecking blowed everyone off..the sound of it as well is beastly.

    Mi first kill in PvP was with Dragon Leap. It was a bow build. I sniped the guy, then I jumped when he came with crit rush.

    Other skills I like visualy are tele strike, and whip
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    Lynx7386 wrote: »
    Also really like the siphoning ultimate for nightblades, the little jump into the air and blast everything around you animation looks pretty boss.


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  • Artis
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    Lightning form looks awesome!

    Also DK's fiery breath and standard are nice.
  • TheStealthDude
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    Cleave. Nothing more satisfying than watching that greatsword swing across your body at the enemies in front of you!
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    Power lash (the followup to flame lash on an off-balance target)
  • alephthiago
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    Soul Tether, unmatched imo.

    All nightblade and dragonknight skills look awesome.
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  • RavenSworn
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    I think visually, the animations for the soul harvest ultimate is awesome. In terms of spell animations however I prefer the drop of the storm atronach. That initial stun just looks awesome to me.
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  • greylox
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    Meteor, soul tether, dragon leap and ballista
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  • Didaco
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    Dragon leap.

    I have to say that DKs have the best looking skills in the game imho, from the basic fire claw, to fire breath and even chains is awesome to see. Too bad flappy wings has that short animation.

    Then there's Templar's javelin that looks so savage, not to mention Focused Charge.

    I also really love the jumping spin from Soul Harvest animation, if only it could occur every single effing time.

    Almost 2 years in this game and I have yet to understand how to trigger it properly. If there's any way at all, I mean.

    I just realized how all of this is useless beacause of animation cancelling.
    Edited by Didaco on March 29, 2017 8:25AM
  • Magdalina
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    Templar skills look really cool imo. Allthat shiny holy magic power...BoL - raising the health from my allies from near 0 to full with just an elegant twirl of my hand; healing ulti - teh power of my prayer...also did I mention shiny? Rune for moar shiny-ness. Repentance - shiny for free :p

    DK leap is op too. As is whip imo, and dat sound with it x_x
  • Turelus
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    Any of the charges really, the moving forward with speed is awesome and most look pretty solid as hits when they connect.

    Also it's always fun to ping-pong yourself around when the LoS is messed up a little on stairs.
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  • RapidUrsa
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    Green dragon blood for the cool heart effect
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  • Vildebill
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    DK wings or leap looks awesome :)
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  • Liofa
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    Scales and leap . I have wings ! Other than those , Deep Breath explosion looks very nice .
  • akl77
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    Breath of life, saved countless lives.
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  • DocFrost72
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    I love using equilibrium and watching people scream "What move is that, I've never seen it!"

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  • Arthg
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    Nothing beats the D-leap.
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  • Izaki
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    Dragon Leap and Whip

    Soul Tether and Mirage (that red bubble looks so cool)

    Frags and Storm Atro

    Meteor
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  • kewl
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    Turn up the sound and try not to crack a smile.

    https://youtu.be/WfWz8ByMdFM
  • Father_X_Zombie
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    Streak looks pretty bada**
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