I would always like to see for skill lines added to give options and variety that some players and playstyles in and of themselves seem to squeeze out of the game.

Whether they will add them or not is another question.

Warden needs another DPS skill line to give variety to their playstyle.

Sorcs need a Healing skill line and potentially a more tank oriented skill line, even though sorc tanks are currently in a decent'ish position.
Some more stamina DPS options would be welcome too.

NB healers and tanks need some love with recent changes badly affecting them in order to curb the magblade DOS healing power.

DK healers need some love with a skill line and maybe a more stamina oriented DPS line to make it not just lots of weapon skills (generic for most stam classes i think)

Templars need a mostly stamina oriented DPS line and some more tanking utility. The options for maim and chaining/pulling in ranged are better than they used to be, but many other factors need improvements.

Meta will be the same

Not until ZOS is balancing PvE and PvP separately (and not basing the whole of the PvE content balancing on the circa 1% who do trials).

Weapons.

I would love new skill lines in general as they generate a lot more build flexibility, but there's about a 0% chance ZOS would balance them well considering what a mess the current balance is like with class skills that have been around since 2014...

I would like to be rid of classes. Let us build our own character from every skill line just as we have been able to in TES games. Failing that, when more skill lines are added to the game I would like them to available to characters of every class, like the Psijiic skill line is.

more of anything is Allways better

Depends... if they also add the needed skill points to be able to max it, maybe.

Ultimately, it depends on many factors... like, I don't want existing classes/skills nerfed to foster the need to have this new skills, nor would want for them to be "expansion only", i.e. behind a paywall.

Also, it'd depend on the "theme" of the skills... there are some things I'm not interested (like necromancy, or summoning.)

All in all, they'd have to be well designed and thought through... which means, in practice, there's zero chance for that happening with this team

No, I prefer more classes and races instead and also a better racial passive system

Add a new class skill line which is dedicated to stamina abilities and ultimate. And also add a new weapon skill line which focus on magicka abilities and ultimate (like magicka tanking, then we can really just remove ice staff taunt.)

Hell no, they need to do the opposite.

They need to strip a class line from each and merge those trees into the main game. That is the only way to make balancing between classes easier.

For instance

Nightblade - Loses Siphon and it merges with Soul magic
DK - Loses Earthen Heart and it merges with Fighters Guild (Earth Forge themed)
Sorc - Loses Dark Magic and it merges with Mages Guild (make it less dark to match theme)
Templar - Loses Azura and have it rewarded at the end of the main quest
Warden - Loses Ice skill line and have it a fleshed out Ice Staff 'Defensive Staff' tree.

After that is done, ZOS only needs to balance 2 trees on each class. All classes get the benefits from all trees listed above. Adding a new class to the game in the future would only be 2 trees so therefore won't be a monumental balance issue either.

As it stands, 3 is hard to balance, 2 might be easily manageable. 4, and I'd envision it would just be the biggest IMBA can of worms imaginable.

They could then go a step further and do it with another class tree, then another class tree and boom, ESO is now class'less.

For instance
NB - Assassination merges with Dark Brotherhood (Have an NPC give the tree as 'initiate' for those without DLC, have that tree limited to not include perks that resemble the DLC perks, without making the tree nerfed in combat)
NB - Shadow merges with Thieves Guild and Legerdemain - Same NPC treatment as assassination.

The NB is effectively destroyed at that point. Can do the same with other classes. Could even have it so you cannot have one particular guild tree active, while having another. So you can't be running a positive tree (Azura / Animal Compassion) and an negative tree (Assassination / 'Necromancy' (it'll happen)) So you can technically have access to all, but you cannot make a conflicting class.

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Keep the dream alive, nercomancer!

You want a necromancer with 4+ skill trees?

You can still have a necromancer, with 2 skill trees. Most of my toons only use two trees primarily and maybe 1 skill and passives from the third tree. A 4+ skill tree class would just be clutter, and have so many balance issues in the game.