Huh? Extra skill??? And how would that work exactly - them rewriting their whole game system to add a special skill slot that only exists when you equip one specific weapon set?

Not to mention, the game system is set up for blocking heavy attacks, in some fights, being unable to block can mean an instant loss...

Also, what tradeoff?
You mean perhaps the one where you use an two-handed weapon to cast your castyness, and thus have to loose your offhand slot for the range you gain?
That's already balanced!

Of course... the basic "one handed and magic" idea is not a bad one, and one that had been considered for a long time... my take on it is known I suppose: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/259011/additional-weapon-skill-ideas/p1
...and something along those lines could really improve our ESO experience by giving every character, old or new, more skills to play with, to master, to pursue and to enjoy...

And if they make a different weapon line... they could balance the additional offhand slot by other means, like making the skills damage output a bit less then what casters who grab a staff can have... which would require no rewriting of the game system at all, just adding some skills. And it -would- be rather nifty for casters to have some sort of additional optiopns for their castyness...

Remove blocking? Never going to happen. You need block for certain attacks or you're just dead, and the same button is also used as part of the bash to interrupt and roll dodge(for those of us who want reliable and not accidental dodging with a gamepad).

They definitely sold themselves short by not having "wands and orbs and focuses" like in the single player TEs games through mods and like their mementos such as "Lena's Wand of Finding", which they named a wand but isn't one(go figure).

It's taking them far too long to do that considering dual wield and 1hand+shield get 2 full 5 piece set bonuses and the monster helm full set. That should be considered over-powered and nerfed so that the off-hand doesn't count for any set.
If they don't want to nerf the off-hand then they need to give magicka a dual wield or 1hand/off-hand option.

I still think, replacing block with an additional skill for one lone weapon setup would need way too much code rewite to ever happen.

Its far better to think about suggestions that are -additions- to the existing system rather then -changes- whenever possible...

So I would suggest giving it up and thinking again.


The "one-handed and magic" skill line idea is a valid idea, just without "extra skill instead of block" shennannigans.

The 5+U skill setup in ESO is nifty enough, it actually adds flavor to the game to have to pick and choose your skills carefully for the fights you get into, instead of staring at two dozend cooldown timers to manage your "perfect rotation" like in some other games I disliked...
Here, you gotta make your choices, and then play with them, or redo them in between battles.
I like that.

What -could- be talked about would be a "passive skill slot" that is for a toggleable for example... though with how they seem to be redoing toggleables to have an active effect instead, that one may soon be completely redundant...

RPGplayer13579 wrote: »

One can dream. The reason why I have been pushing this idea is that right there are six weapon skill sets and I have six characters/avatars. And each of them use on of the six weapon skill lines.

If a new class can be added, then why not a new weapon skill? I am open to any ideas. Spears? There can still be blocking. Now that I think about it. Spears would be cool! Any other weapon skill lines you can think of?

Oh, I definitely would want way more weapon skills to be added, that is why I made the thread I mentioned before (note to self - maybe update that someday with more ideas...) - because i really would love to see those skill lines I dreamt up... Polearms, 1H&Ranged, 1H&Magic, Unarmed... all of those would make great additions to ESO methinks!

Also, more weapon choices for existing skills!
Like i also mentioned there, I'd love to have mor then "bows" for my marksmen characters, and more then "staff" for my casters... even if it wouldn't be a new skill line, new weapon options like crossbows or spell foci would be so very much appreciated for character diversity...