Would you like races to have active abilities?

EvilCroc · June 2017

No, too many abilities already.

In current state of game balance we need removing all racial skills, not adding more of them.
Adding new racial active skills will cause even less racial choice for character builds.

subtlezeroub17_ESO · June 2017

No, too many abilities already.

Absolutely NOT.

You know what's already bad about races in this game ? The fact that they are such a huge deciding factor on meta when they should be an aesthetic choice first and foremost. Racials should only give "affinity" towards a playstyle, not a concrete bonus towards a playstyle. Meaning, I should be able to play an Altmer stamina warrior and only be maybe 0.5-1% behind a red guard in terms of effectiveness. Yet, we all know very damn well that's not the case. What about a more extreme case with Dunmer and Magicka Dragon knights ? Now a days, being a magicka DK and not Dunmer is laughed at simply because the bonus the Dunmer has for flame damage is too damn high !

Now, of course I'm gonna get scrubs who say, "a 9-10% bonus is nothing serious and doesn't impact the game" and yet the only moderately difficult content they do are vet dungeons and struggle with VMA.

Racial passives need to be leveled down or made to be less of an impact. Adding active abilities, which will only widen the gap, will make the situation worse. You know it. I know it. We all know it.

Countcalorie · June 2017

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Argonian behemoth ultimate.nuff said

theher0not · June 2017

No, too many abilities already.

Race already matter too much IMHO.

IMHO they should be even less impactfull than they are today (preferably they shouldn't even give any combat benefit).

But I do not think there are too many active skills in the game

Rohamad_Ali · June 2017

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

This one should be able to stun his enemies for 3 seconds by hacking up a Furball .

Ghettokid · June 2017

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Dracindo wrote: »

Ghettokid wrote: »

All those no-votes are from non-orcs cause they know that after racial active abilities there would only be green rulers.

You know, it's racist to think that all Argonians are green.
#ArgonianMasterRace

Well played matey. Well played.

LordSkyKnight · June 2017

Neither yes or no. Please explain.

No. I hate how the races have passives and force people into pigeon hole builds. People should be able to pick which ever race they like rather than forced to use certain races to min / max everything.

victorhrpereira · June 2017

Neither yes or no. Please explain.

No, because they can't even balance the passives, imagine balancing active abilities.

ofSunhold · June 2017

Neither yes or no. Please explain.

No. Race choice is already way more important than it should be.

Unless every one of the abilities is trivial - swim speed! In which case, why bother.

ofSunhold · June 2017

Neither yes or no. Please explain.

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

This one should be able to stun his enemies for 3 seconds by hacking up a Furball .

ewwwwww

red_emu · June 2017

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Now just to clarify. I myself absolutely hate the idea of racial passives. This poll is basically to prove that it was a bad idea in the first place in the game that's meant to be "play as you like".

When I first started the game, I played an Altmer stamblade not realising how much race means for your class in ESO. I seen all those cool warriors and eyes of the queen with two handed weapons and bows and that was my idea for a main. Now with the sustain nerfed to the level of the Dead Sea picking a race that has opposite passives to your class choice isn't just non-meta, it's crippling (or how ZOS likes to put it - inspires for more new, more interesting builds)